Scottish Reserve League

Third version 1938-39

See also Main index Club directory Scottish Reserve League overview Reserve Cup competitions Reserve football overview Scottish Alliance

After the War, a number of First Division clubs decided to form a new reserve competition. This was called the Scottish Alliance and like its immediate predecessor also contained a small number of a number of non-League sides within its membership. However their involvement ended at the Alliance’s AGM in 1938. A motion by Hamilton Academical to remove the two remaining non-League sides – Beith and Galston – for financial reasons was approved by 15 votes to 5. The Alliance was then effectively reformed as the Scottish Reserve League, and was to be an exclusively First Division reserve body. This version only lasted for one full season as the 1939-40 campaign was abandoned when war was declared in September 1939 after only five rounds of fixtures were played.

Scottish Reserve League champions

1938-39 Rangers ‘A’

	Scottish Reserve League 1938-39	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 20	Rangers ‘A’ St Johnstone ‘A’ Celtic ‘A’ Aberdeen ‘A’ Falkirk ‘A’ Heart of Midlothian ‘A’ Clyde ‘A’ Third Lanark ‘A’ Motherwell ‘A’ Ayr United ‘A’ Hibernian ‘A’ Partick Thistle ‘A’ St Mirren ‘A’ Raith Rovers ‘A’ Arbroath ‘A’ Queen’s Park Strollers Kilmarnock ‘A’ Hamilton Academical ‘A’ Queen of the South ‘A’ Albion Rovers ‘A’	38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38	28 23 25 21 19 19 16 16 16 17 16 15 15 13 14 13 12 11 6 6	5 8 4 6 5 5 9 9 7 4 5 5 5 8 6 4 4 5 8 3	5 7 9 11 14 14 13 13 15 17 17 18 18 17 18 21 22 22 24 28	132 110 113 112 107 82 90 94 111 105 95 79 99 76 72 65 76 83 64 56	48 53 58 66 75 84 70 100 85 108 103 76 105 100 117 95 123 111 117 127	61 54 54 48 43 43 41 41 39 38 37 35 35 34 34 30 28 27 20 15