Ayrshire Football League

First version 1891-1895

See also Main index Club directory Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire League Ayrshire Cup Scottish Federation South of Scotland League

Formed in 1891 by Annbank, Ayr Parkhouse, Beith, Galston, Irvine, Kilwinning Monkcastle, Mauchline, Newmilns, Saltcoats Victoria and Stevenston Thistle. By 1893 the Ayrshire League had increased to 16 clubs. For some clubs this was too many and the likelihood of playing to small crowds was irksome. Therefore seven clubs broke away to form the Ayrshire Football Combination. The Ayrshire League continued with a weaker membership and finally disbanded in 1895.

Ayrshire League champions

1891-92 Annbank

1892-93 Annbank

1893-94 Saltcoats Victoria

1894-95 Dalry

Ayrshire League membership	Seasons	Came from	Left for
Annbank Ayr Parkhouse Beith Dalry Galston Hurlford Irvine Kilbirnie Kilmarnock Athletic Kilwinning Eglinton Kilwinning Monkcastle Mauchline Newmilns Saltcoats Victoria Stevenston Thistle	1891-1893 1891-1893 1891-1895 1893-1895 1891-1895 1892-93 1891-1895 1892-93, 1894-95 1892-1894 1893-1895 1891-1894 1891-92 1891-1894 1891-1894 1891-1893	Scottish Federation Ayrshire Combination Scottish Federation	Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination South of Scotland League Ayrshire Combination Ayrshire Combination

Final tables

	1891-92	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Annbank Ayr Parkhouse Galston Kilwinning Monkcastle Stevenston Thistle Newmilns Beith Mauchline Irvine Saltcoats Victoria	18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18	12 11 12 8 10 7 9 5 4 2	2 1 1 2 1 3 0 4 2 4	4 6 5 8 7 8 9 9 12 12	80 61 47 56 55 54 49 40 39 39	31 46 33 40 49 55 58 61 81 66	26 23 21 18 17 17 16 14 6 3

Saltcoats Victoria – 5 points deducted

Galston, Stevenston Thistle and Irvine – 4 points deducted

Beith – 2 points deducted

All for rule infringements

	1892-93	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	Annbank Saltcoats Victoria Ay Parkhouse Hurlford Kilbirnie Irvine Beith Kilwinning Monkcastle Galston Stevenston Thistle Kilmarnock Athletic Newmilns	22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22	18 13 11 11 11 10 9 10 6 7 7 6	1 2 2 2 2 2 3 0 6 2 2 2	3 7 9 9 9 10 10 12 10 13 13 14	143 88 77 71 72 46 75 62 62 57 57 57	55 56 62 66 72 82 69 72 75 76 87 98	37 28 24 24 24 22 21 20 18 16 16 14

	1893-94	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	Saltcoats Victoria Kilmarnock Athletic Galston Irvine Beith Kilwinning Eglinton Dalry Newmilns Kilwinning Monkcastle	16 16 16 16 16 16 14 13 13	12 11 11 9 8 6 3 2 1	0 1 1 2 3 0 2 0 1	4 4 4 5 5 10 9 11 11	69 76 74 60 53 41 40 23 18	39 29 41 62 32 67 61 50 73	24 23 23 20 19 12 8 4 3

This is likely to be the final table as the games between Dalry, Newmilns and Kilwinning Monkcastle were probably not played

	1894-95	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6	Dalry Beith Galston Kilwinning Eglinton Irvine Kilbirnie	10 10 10 10 10 10	6 6 5 5 3 3	2 0 0 0 1 1	2 4 5 5 6 6	41 32 39 28 26 27	26 32 31 32 34 38	14 12 10 10 7 7

Sources for final tables: Tom Cockburn, Forbes Brown, Stuart Robertson