From 1958 until 1967, Northern Ireland were Scotland's only opponents, while in the 1970s there was an eight-year gap between the two sides meeting. The SJFA was formed in Glasgow on 2 October 1886 and the first season's Junior Cup saw 39 clubs take part. The club, 44 pages. Scottish Junior League War Fund Cup Winners 1917/18 Smyllum (Smyllum-Langbank*) Charity Cup Winners 1925/26, 1933/34, 1935/36*, 1936/37*, 1951/52, 1955/56 Stuart Black Memorial Trophy Winners 2008/09, 2012/13. Scottish Junior FA Scottish Junior Cup Fixtures Results Macron proud sponsors Dundee have also won the Scottish Cup once, in 1910.Hibernian Football Club were founded in 1875. This new national association acted as an umbrella for these local junior associations, as well as establishing the Scottish Junior Cup, a national cup competition. These six regions — Ayrshire, Central, East, Fife, Tayside and North — still exist, to a certain extent, as divisions in the national league structure and as operators of certain cup competitions.The main league structure is organised on a geographical basis, with the 63 member clubs being split into two regions:In the intervening years, Junior clubs have had reasonable success with several clubs defeating Scottish Football League opposition.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Currently, games against England and Wales are in abeyance and the team contest the biannual Quadrangular Tournament with friendly and testimonial matches arranged intermittently in the intervening seasons. and they won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1983.
They play in the Scottish capital of Edinburugh at Easter Road Stadium. History. It was based in the west of Scotland and largely consisted of Junior clubs that were not considered good enough for the major leagues of the time i.e. The Scottish Lowland Football League (SLFL) is the fifth tier of Scottish football, made up of teams competing to gain promotion to SPFL League 2. Currently, games against England and Wales are in abeyance, and the team contest the biannual Quadrangular Tournament with friendly and testimonial matches arranged intermittently in the intervening seasons.The local associations continued to run their leagues until 1968, when the SJFA instituted major reforms. From 2013–14, the Premier League was expanded to sixteen clubs and was fed by two expanded North and South divisions. They play at the Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen. Dundee became the Champions of Scotland on 28th April 1962 for the first and only time to date. Junior football had existed since the early 1880s, initially as separate local associations across Scotland for clubs not in membership of the SFA. The first three winners of the Scottish Junior Cup all joined the SFA and stepped up to seni… Its main problems were its inability to attract any of the major sides – these clubs aspired to be in the GJL – and its high turnover in membership. In all the league lasted only four years. It was founded in 1903. In June 1893, Dundee Football Club was formed by an amalgamation of two city teams, Our Boys and East End. This is a remnant of the pre–2002 system in which there were six district committee setups that comprised the leagues. They play at Celtic Park in Glasgow. The Fife Junior Football League was a football league competition under the jurisdiction of the Scottish Junior Football Association, which operated as the top league in Fife until a merger in 2002; it existed for a further four years as a second-tier league before the name was discontinued in 2006. The club, 44 pages. All rights reserved. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The Scottish Junior Football Association ("SJFA" for short) is an affiliated national association of the Scottish Football Association and is the governing body for the Junior grade of football in Scotland.The term "Junior" refers to the level of football played.