Glasgow & West of Scotland Football League

1898-1907

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In the late 1890s, the Scottish League fixture list ran to only 18 games. Because of this several clubs banded together to form supplementary competitions. One of these was the Glasgow & West of Scotland League. Formed in April 1898, its original line-up consisted of St Mirren (the first champions), Ayr, Kilmarnock, Morton, Port Glasgow Athletic, Abercorn, Linthouse as well as a non-League member, Ayr Parkhouse. The latter three all left at the end of the season, and were replace by Clyde. 1899-1900 saw the only time the title was shared, when Morton and Kilmarnock finished equal on points. Morton won it outright the following season, but they had to fight to get it. Only two points separated the top five clubs as the table below shows. In 1902-03, Motherwell and Airdrieonians replaced St Mirren and Partick Thistle, both of whom left to join another supplementary competition, the Inter City League. At the end of that season, the former both finished top with 13 points but it was Motherwell who triumphed on goal average. Airdrieonians left after this season, being replaced by Hamilton Academical – the last change in the league’s membership until it disbanded in 1906. The steady expansion of the Scottish League after 1902 made it increasingly difficult for clubs to fulfil their fixtures, with the result that many games either had to be held over until the following season or double up as Scottish League matches with points counting towards both competitions. The final blow for the league eventually fell after the Scottish League’s AGM on 23 May 1906. Hamilton Academical and Clyde were both elected into an expanded 18-club First Division. With all six Western League clubs in the top flight, this would have made it near impossible to fit in ten extra fixtures on top of a heavy League and Cup programme. Although the Glasgow & West of Scotland League was to disband, its final games were actually played in the August of the following season. In January 1907, a tournament was held to decide which club would retain the championship shield. It was perhaps fitting that Clyde, who won most outright championships, won that competition. The accompanying results grids were researched and compiled by Stuart Robertson ©, with some final tables supplied by Stewart Davidson.

Champions

1898-99 St Mirren

1899-00 Morton & Kilmarnock

1900-01 Morton

1901-02 Port Glasgow Athletic

1902-03 Motherwell

1903-04

1904-05 Clyde

1905-06 Kilmarnock

Shield

1906-07 Clyde

Membership Abercorn Airdrieonians Ayr Ayr Parkhouse Clyde Hamilton Academical Kilmarnock Linthouse Morton Motherwell Partick Thistle Port Glasgow Athletic St Mirren

Seasons 1898-99 1902-03 1898-99 1898-99 1899-1906 1903-1906 1898-1906 1898-99 1898-1906 1902-1906 1899-1902 1898-1906 1898-1902

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1898-99

Results:

	Abercorn	Ayr	Ayr Parkhouse	Linthouse	Morton	Port Glasgow Athletic	St. Mirren
Abercorn	X	May 15 4-1	May 8 5-0		May 13 2-6	Mar 4 2-3	Sep 17 0-6
Ayr	Apr 29 3-3	X	May 3 2-3		May 9 0-3	May 5 3-2	Jan 3 2-3
Ayr Parkhouse	Feb 18 2-0	May 7 0-3	X	Mar 4 5-3	Apr 15 2-2	Apr 26 4-2	May 15 1-4
Linthouse	Jan 14 2-1		May 5 2-1	X	Mar 11 1-2	Feb 18 0-1	May 1 3-5
Morton	Apr 26 9-2	Mar 18 2-0	Apr 22 2-1	Feb 25 9-3 %	X	Nov12 2-2	May 7 1-1
Port Glasgow Athletic	Apr 15 0-0	May 13 9-3	Apr 29 12-2	Apr 22 3-1	May 15 3-1	X	Jan 21 3-3
St. Mirren	Sep 17 3-0		Feb 25 5-2	May 13 3-2	Jan 7 1-1		X

Notes:

May 10 – Morton 3 Ayr 1, May 13 – Morton 6 Abercorn 2,

% also noted as 9-1 and 3-3.

Kilmarnock withdrew from this league without playing a game.

Table based on available results

1898-99	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Morton St Mirren Port Glasgow Athletic Ayr Parkhouse Abercorn Ayr Linthouse	12 10 11 12 11 9 9	7 7 6 3 2 2 2	4 3 3 2 2 1 0	1 0 2 7 6 6 7	40 34 40 23 19 17 17	18 15 21 42 35 29 30	18 17 15 8 6 5 4

Kilmarnock withdrew from this league without playing a game.

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1899-1900

Results:

	Clyde	Kilmarnock	Morton	Partick Thistle	Port Glasgow Athletic	St. Mirren
Clyde	X	Apr 28 1-2	Feb 24 2-2	Mar 17 0-4	May 7 4-1	Oct 28 3-1
Kilmarnock	Mar 31 2-1	X	May 5 1-0	Apr 7 4-2	4-2	Apr 21 1-1
Morton	Nov11 3-0	May 12 3-1	X	Apr 14 3-0	Dec 30 3-1	Feb 3 1-0
Partick Thistle	Apr 21 3-0	Mar 3 1-4	May 9 2-1	X	Nov18 4-0	Dec 23 4-1
Port Glasgow Athletic	Apr 7 3-0	Apr 14 3-1	Dec 30 1-3	May 5 3-2	X	Mar 24 4-2
St. Mirren	Apr 14 5-0	Mar 10 2-1	May 1 2-1	Jan 6 4-3	May 12 5-1	X

Notes:

Clyde 1 Morton 2 on Jan 6 ???

	1899-1900	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6	Morton Kilmarnock St Mirren Partick Thistle Port Glasgow Athletic Clyde	10 10 10 10 10 10	6 6 5 5 4 2	1 1 1 0 0 1	3 3 4 5 6 7	20 21 23 26 19 12	12 16 19 20 28 26	13 13 11 10 8 5

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1900-01

Results:

	Clyde	Kilmarnock	Morton	Partick Thistle	Port Glasgow Athletic	St. Mirren
Clyde	X	Mar 23 2-0	May 11 0-1	Apr 20 3-0	Mar 9 4-1	May 14 2-5
Kilmarnock	May 4 5-3	X	Feb 23 4-1	Mar 9 1-0	Jan 5 1-1	Apr 20 2-2
Morton	May 1 4-1	Apr 6 1-0	X	Apr 13 1-0	Apr 15 2-3	7-1
Partick Thistle	Mar 2 2-3	Feb 16 2-0	Mar 23 3-3	X	Apr 6 1-0	Apr 30 0-2
Port Glasgow Athletic	Apr 27 2-0	Mar 2 2-1	May 15 4-2	Feb 23 2-1	X	Apr 13 4-4
St. Mirren	May 7 1-3	Apr 13 1-3	Dec 31 6-1	Mar 16 1-0	0-0	X

Notes:

St. Mirren 4 Partick Thistle 1 on May 11 – both games already played.

Port Glasgow Athletic 3 Morton 3 on Sep 8 – both games played later.

Morton v St. Mirren on Sep 29 – also noted as 7-1 for Morton.

	1900-01	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6	Morton St Mirren Clyde Port Glasgow Athletic Kilmarnock Partick Thistle	10 10 10 10 10 10	5 4 5 4 4 2	2 3 1 3 2 1	3 3 4 3 4 7	23 25 21 20 20 10	22 13 19 19 18 19	12 11 11 11 10 5

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1901-02

Results:

	Clyde	Kilmarnock	Morton	Partick Thistle	Port Glasgow Athletic	St. Mirren
Clyde	X	Apr 12 0-0		Apr 26 1-3	Apr 19 1-2	May 12 2-1
Kilmarnock	Apr 5 3-1	X	Jan 4 1-2	Apr 19 2-1	Apr 26 1-3	Mar 8 4-1
Morton		May 13 1-3	X	May 10 0-1	Jan 1 1-2	Feb 22 2-3
Partick Thistle	Mar 29 3-2	Mar 1 4-1	Mar 15 2-1	X	May 13 1-0	Mar 31 2-1
Port Glasgow Athletic	May 3 4-0	Mar 22 6-4	Dec 21 2-2	Apr 12 5-3	X	Apr 5 4-2
St. Mirren	2-2	May 10 1-2	Mar 1 3-1	May 8 2-0	Apr 21 2-1	X

Notes:

Port Glasgow 2 Clyde 0 on Mar 8 – was game abandoned?

Kilmarnock v Partick Thistle on Apr 19 – also noted as 1-0.

	1901-02	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6	Port Glasgow Athletic Partick Thistle Kilmarnock St Mirren Clyde Morton	10 10 10 10 10 10	7 7 5 4 3 1	1 0 1 1 2 1	2 3 4 5 5 8	29 20 21 18 15 11	17 15 20 20 19 23	15 14 11 9 8 3

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1902-03

Results:

	Airdrieonians	Clyde	Kilmarnock	Morton	Motherwell	Port Glasgow Athletic
Airdrieonians	X	Apr 25 4-1	Apr 4 5-3		May 6 0-0	Apr 18 2-1
Clyde		X	Mar 28 0-2	Apr 11 0-1		May 2
Kilmarnock	Mar 21 1-1	Feb 21 0-2	X	% 0-1	Apr 25 2-5
Morton	Feb 21 3-1	Jan 31 3-1	Apr 18 3-2	X	May 4 2-3	May 11 0-2
Motherwell	May 2 2-1		May 9 2-0		X
Port Glasgow Athletic	Apr 11 1-1	Apr 4 5-0	Mar 14 2-1	Jan 24 3-2		X

Notes:

% - played before Feb 2

Morton 0 Kilmarnock 3 - Feb 28 - game stopped after 75 mminutes due to storm.

Kilmarnock 2 Clyde 0 - Mar 7 - game void – should have been played at Shawfield Stadium, Glasgow.

Port Glasgow Athletic v Clyde on Apr was also noted as 2-0.

Kilmarnock v Clyde on Feb 21 was also noted as 1-2.

Airdrieonians v Morton on Apr 29 was abandoned after 82 minutes due to darkness with Airdrieonians

leading 2-0.

	1902-03	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6	Morton Motherwell Port Glasgow Athletic Airdrieonians Clyde Kilmarnock	9 7 7 9 9 9	5 4 4 3 4 1	1 2 1 3 9 1	3 1 2 3 5 7	15 12 12 15 13 11	12 6 10 17 13 21	11 10 9 9 8 3

Motherwell were eventual champions

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1903-04

Results:

	Clyde	Hamilton Academical	Kilmarnock	Morton	Motherwell	Port Glasgow Athletic
Clyde	X	Apr 2 2-1		Apr 4 0-1	May 7 3-0
Hamilton Academical	May14 6-1	X			Apr 9 2-0
Kilmarnock	Apr 9 1-1		X	May 9 1-1	Mar19 0-0	May 7 1-0
Morton	Apr 26		May14 2-0	X	Feb13 7-1	May11 1-2
Motherwell	Apr 16 2-1	Feb20 2-6	Apr 30 1-0		X	May 7 0-1
Port Glasgow Athletic	Apr 30 4-1	Mar12 1-0	Apr 16 0-1	Feb27 2-2	Apr 23 1-0	X

Notes:

Motherwell 0 Clyde 0 – was this from the 1902/03 season ?

Motherwell 2 Kilmarnock 0 Apr 2 – stopped due to the weather

Clyde 2 Hamilton Academical 1 Apr 2 – stopped due to the weather

Motherwell 2 Port Glasgow Athletic 2 May 14 ??

1903-04

Clyde

Hamilton Academical

Kilmarnock

Morton

Motherwell

Port Glasgow Athletic

Glasgow and West of Scotland League –1904-05

Results:

	Clyde	Hamilton Academical	Kil,marnock	Morton	Motherwell	Port Glasgow Athletic
Clyde	X	Apr 1 2-2	Apr 15 1-0	May 13 1-0		Apr 29 2-1
Hamilton Academical	Apr 22 1-3	X	Mar 18 0-6	Mar 25 3-1		Apr 8 5-1
Kilmarnock	Mar 25 0-0	Mar 4 1-4	X		Apr 24 4-1	Apr 22 1-1
Morton	Mar 18 2-3			X		May 6 3-1
Motherwell			Feb 25 2-2	Oct 22 1-1	X
Port Glasgow Athletic		Apr 15 1-2	Apr 1 3-3	Feb 25 2-2		X

Notes:

Hamilton Academicals v Clyde on Apr 22 also noted as 1-2.

Kilmarnock 4 Port Glasgow Athletic 2 on Aug 19 noted as Glasgow and West of Scotland League game.

Airdrieonians(?) v Morton on Aug 28 was noted as Glasgow and West of Scotland League game but was

abandoned.

	1904-05	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5	Clyde Hamilton Academical Morton Kilmarnock Port Glasgow Athletic	8 8 8 8 8	6 4 3 1 0	2 2 2 3 3	0 2 3 4 5	15 19 15 14 10	6 16 15 14 22	14 10 8 5 3

Motherwell retired

Glasgow and West of Scotland League – 1905-06

Results:

	Clyde	Hamilton Academical	Kilmarnock	Morton	Motherwell	Port Glasgow A.
Clyde	X	May 5 4-2	Aug 22 1-0			Aug 20 1-0 **
Hamilton Academical	May12 2-0	X	Apr 30 0-0	Aug 20 4-2 **	Apr 21 1-0
Kilmarnock	Apr 21 4-0	Aug 22 3-1 **	X	Aug 17 1-1	May 5 1-0
Morton				X		Apr 9 1-3
Motherwell	Mar 31 2-0		Aug 15 0-4 **		X
Port Glasgow A.						X

Notes:

During the latter seasons of the competition some fixtures doubled up with Scottish League fixtures and

the points counted towards both competitions.

** played in season 1906/07

Possible Scottish League fixtures that doubled up as Glasgow and West of Scotland League games:

Kilmarnock 3 Port Glasgoe Athletic 2 on Apr 28

Morton 3 Kilmarnock 0 on Apr 7

Port Glasgow Athletic 1 Motherwell 2 on Apr 7

1905-06

Kilmarnock

Clyde

Hamilton Academical

Morton

Motherwell

Port Glasgow Athletic

Glasgow and West of Scotland Shield 1906-07

1st round

2 January 1907 Port Glasgow Athletic 0 Motherwell 0

29 April 1907 Motherwell 1 Port Glasgow Athletic 0 (Replay)

1 April 1907 Clyde 3 Kilmarnock 0

Semi-final

8 May 1907 Clyde 2 Motherwell 1

9 May 1907 Hamilton Academical 3 Morton 2

Final (1st leg) at Douglas Park

12 May 1907 Hamilton Academical 2 Clyde 0

Final (2nd leg) at Shawfield Stadium

14 May 1907 Clyde 3 Hamilton Academical 0

(Clyde won 3-2 on aggregate)