Scottish Intermediate Football League

1927-1931

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The Intermediate dispute was a major football split which lasted from 1925 to 1931 and concerned the compensation that Junior clubs received when one of their players moved to a Senior Scottish Football League side. On 19 March 1926, 62 clubs formed the Scottish Intermediate Football Association and were immediately outlawed by the Scottish Football Association. In June 1927, the powerful Glasgow Junior Football League (GJL) dissolved itself at its AGM and made way for the formation of the breakaway Scottish Intermediate League while in Ayrshire the Western Junior Football League reformed as the Western Intermediate Football League. When a compromise was reached in 1931, the Scottish Intermediate Association renamed itself the West of Scotland Junior FA. It was also decided not to reform the GJL but to keep the Scottish Intermediate League format as the Central Junior League The Scottish Intermediate Cup was also renamed as the West of Scotland Junior Cup. The accompanying league memberships were researched by the late Jackie Heaney and kindly supplied by Stewart Davidson, with additional information taken from John Aitken’s ‘West of Scotland Juniors 1885-2005’. Robert Watson supplied me with the final table of the 1929-30 Eastern Division table.

Scottish Intermediate League champions 1927-28 Baillieston 1928-29 Ashfield 1929-30 Clydebank Juniors 1930-31 Bridgeton Waverley

Scottish Intermediate Cup Ashfield Ashfield Clydebank Juniors Yoker Athletic

Scottish Intermediate Consolation Cup Irvine Meadow XI Port Glasgow Athletic Ashfield Pollok

Scottish Intermediate League Cup Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Ashfield Clydebank Juniors Pollok

	1927-28 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Clydebank Juniors Ashfield Benburb Camelon Dumbarton Harp Duntocher Hibernian Glasgow Perthshire Helensburgh Johnstone Rovers Maryhill Neilston Victoria Petershill Port Glasgow Athletic Renfrew Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Shawfield St Anthony’s St Roch’s Yoker Athletic

	1927-28 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Baillieston Shotts Battlefield Bellshill Athletic Blantyre Celtic Blantyre Victoria Bridgeton Waverley Cadzow St Anne Cambuslang Rangers Fauldhouse United Lanark United Larkhall Thistle Parkhead Rutherglen Glencairn Shettleston Shettleston Celtic Shieldmuir Celtic Shotts Celtic Shotts United Strathclyde Vale of Clyde Wishaw

Championship – Clydebank Juniors beat Ashfield

	1928-29 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Ashfield Yoker Athletic Benburb Camelon Clydebank Juniors Dumbarton Harp Duntocher Hibernian Glasgow Perthshire Johnstone Rovers Maryhill Neilston Victoria Petershill Pollok Port Glasgow Athletic Renfrew Kirkintilloch Rob Roy St Anthony’s St Roch’s

	1928-29 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Baillieston Parkhead Bellshill Athletic Blantyre Celtic Blantyre Victoria Bridgeton Waverley Cambuslang Rangers Fauldhouse United Lanark United Larkhall Thistle Rutherglen Glencairn Shawfield Shettleston Shettleston Celtic Shieldmuir Celtic Shotts Battlefield Shotts United Strathclyde Vale of Clyde Wishaw

Championship – Ashfield beat Yoker Athletic

	1929-30 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Clydebank Juniors Parkhead Ashfield Benburb Duntocher Hibernian Glasgow Perthshire Maryhill Neilston Victoria Petershill Pollok Renfrew Kirkintilloch Rob Roy St Anthony’s St Roch’s Yoker Athletic

Camelon, Dumbarton Harp and Port Glasgow Athletic all moved to the Scottish Junior League during the season

	1929-30 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19	Bridgeton Waverley Larkhall Thistle Blantyyre Victoria Blantyre Celtic Cambuslang Rangers Strathclyde Rutherglen Glencairn Shotts United Shettleston Fauldhouse United Shieldmuir Celtic Shawfield Shettleston Celtic Wishaw Lanark United Bellshill Athletic Vale of Clyde Baillieston Shotts Battlefield	36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36	26 22 21 19 20 21 19 17 17 16 18 13 13 12 15 11 9 5 2	2 5 4 8 5 2 5 8 6 7 3 6 5 6 0 5 5 5 5	8 9 11 9 11 13 12 11 13 13 15 17 18 18 21 20 22 26 29	97 86 88 86 75 93 56 101 98 93 79 66 60 68 65 60 68 33 22	57 62 68 67 61 74 53 74 77 84 76 80 101 83 86 86 117 46 42	54 49 46 46 45 44 43 42 40 39 39 32 31 30 30 27 23 15 9

Baillieston moved to the Scottish Junior League during the season.

Shotts Battlefield moved to the Lanarkshire Junior League during the season.

The remaining matches of both the above clubs were awarded to their opponents.

Championship – Clydebank Juniors beat Bridgeton Waverley

	1930-31 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16	Yoker Athletic Glasgow Perthshire Ashfield St Roch’s Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Benburb Clydebank Juniors Petershill St Anthony’s Pollok Arthurlie Renfrew Duntocher Hibernian Maryhill Parkhead Neilston Victoria	30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30	19 18 17 17 16 15 11 12 11 13 10 10 8 7 6 6	4 3 4 3 5 6 11 6 7 1 5 4 5 7 8 6	7 9 9 10 9 9 8 12 12 16 15 16 14 16 16 18	88 83 74 77 74 92 45 67 59 64 59 61 48 62 48 47	56 60 55 58 61 63 45 67 59 83 79 63 66 74 78 81	42 39 38 37 37 36 33 30 29 27 25 24 24 21 20 18

	1930-31	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Bridgeton Waverley Strathclyde Bellshill Athletic Blantyre Celtic Blantyre Victoria Cambuslang Rangers Fauldhouse United Lanark United Rutherglen Glencairn Shawfield Shettleston Shettleston Celtic Shotts United Vale of Clyde Wishaw

Larkhall Thistle and Shieldmuir Celtic resigned during the season

Championship – Bridgeton Waverley beat Yoker Athletic

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