Glasgow Football League
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The Glasgow Football League was formed in 1896Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in Scotland as one of several supplementary football leagues that were created in order to increase the number of fixtures for Scottish Football League clubs.[1] In 1899 a number of clubs who played in the Edinburgh / East of Scotland Football League joined and the league was renamed the Inter City Football League.[1] The Glasgow Football League was briefly reformed in its own right in 1904Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[1][2]
In general, attendances were disappointing (for example only 3,000 watched Celtic v Rangers in May 1902 and only 2,500 were at Hampden Park for Queen's Park v Third Lanark in the League decider in 1905). Several Scottish Football League fixtures also doubled up as Glasgow League matches, including the 1904–05 title play-off on 6 May 1905 between Rangers and Celtic.[3][4][5]
Membership
- Celtic 1895–1899, 1904–1906
- Clyde 1896–1899, 1905–1906
- Partick Thistle 1898–1899, 1904–1906
- Queen's Park 1895–1899, 1904–1906
- Rangers 1895–1899, 1904–1906
- Third Lanark 1895–1899, 1904–1906
Champions
- 1895–96 Rangers
- 1896–97 Queen's Park
- 1897–98 Rangers
- 1898–99 Celtic
- 1899–1904 - replaced by the Inter City Football League
- 1904–05 Third Lanark
- 1905–06 Third Lanark
See also
References
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- ↑ a b c d e Inter-City League | including the Glasgow League, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 5 August 2020
- ↑ Chapter XLVII.—the Glasgow League, History of the Queen's Park Football Club 1867 - 1917, Richard Robinson, 1920; via Electric Scotland
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