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The 2019–20 East of Scotland Football League (known as the Central Taxis East of Scotland League for sponsorship reasons) was the 91st season of the East of Scotland Football League, and the 6th season as the sixth tier of the Scottish football pyramid system. The season began on 27 July 2019. Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic were the reigning champions but could not defend their title after being promoted to the Lowland Football League.
Season | 2019–20 |
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Champions | Bo'ness United |
← 2018–19 2020–21 → |
The league reverted to a two-tier setup for the first time since 2015, featuring a Premier Division of 16 teams and a First Division containing two seeded parallel conferences each with 12 teams.
On 13 March 2020, the league was indefinitely suspended due to the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak[1] before it was officially curtailed on 24 April 2020. Bo'ness United were declared champions of the Premier Division on a 'points per game' method while Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale and Tynecastle were declared winners of their respective First Division conferences.[2]
The following teams changed division after the 2018–19 season.
Relegated from Lowland Football League
Transferred from East Superleague
Transferred from East Premier League North
Promoted to Lowland Football League
Withdrawn
Season | 2019–20 |
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Dates | 27 July 2019 – 24 April 2020 |
Champions | Bo'ness United |
Promoted | Bo'ness United |
Matches played | 156 |
Goals scored | 580 (3.72 per match) |
Biggest home win |
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Biggest away win |
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Highest scoring |
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Longest winning run | 7 matches: Bo'ness United |
Longest unbeaten run | 12 matches: Bo'ness United |
Longest winless run | 8 matches: Newtongrange Star |
Longest losing run | 6 matches: 3 teams |
Highest attendance | 1,150[3] Bo'ness United 2–1 Linlithgow Rose (4 January 2020) |
← 2018–19 2020–21 → |
The Premier Division contains the top five teams from each of the three Conferences in the 2018–19 season, the best 6th-placed team (Sauchie Juniors) and Whitehill Welfare who were relegated from the Lowland League.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Bo'ness United (C, P) | 21 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 42 | 22 | +20 | 47 | 2.24 | Promotion to the Lowland League |
2 | Hill of Beath Hawthorn[lower-alpha 1] | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 45 | 20 | +25 | 37[lower-alpha 2] | 2.06[lower-alpha 2] | |
3 | Broxburn Athletic | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 40 | 29 | +11 | 38 | 2.00 | |
4 | Tranent Juniors | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 37 | 25 | +12 | 34 | 1.70 | |
5 | Camelon Juniors | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 33 | +5 | 34 | 1.70 | |
6 | Jeanfield Swifts | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 28 | +8 | 26[lower-alpha 3] | 1.63[lower-alpha 3] | |
7 | Dundonald Bluebell | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 46 | 35 | +11 | 27 | 1.50 | |
8 | Penicuik Athletic | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 37 | 32 | +5 | 27 | 1.50 | |
9 | Linlithgow Rose | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 24[lower-alpha 4] | 1.41[lower-alpha 4] | |
10 | Musselburgh Athletic | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 27 | 1.29 | |
11 | Dunbar United | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 32 | 39 | −7 | 23 | 1.10 | |
12 | Crossgates Primrose | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 37 | 55 | −18 | 23 | 1.10 | |
13 | Sauchie Juniors[lower-alpha 1] | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 20 | 0.91 | |
14 | Blackburn United | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 44 | −22 | 18 | 0.90 | Spared relegation[lower-alpha 5] |
15 | Whitehill Welfare | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 35 | −15 | 16 | 0.89 | |
16 | Newtongrange Star | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 32 | 60 | −28 | 15 | 0.68 |
Home \ Away | BLU | BNS | BRX | CML | CRS | DNB | DBL | HOB | JFS | LIN | MUS | NGS | PEN | SAU | TRA | WHI |
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Blackburn United | — | 0–4 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 0–4 | ||||
Bo'ness United | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | |||
Broxburn Athletic | 3–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–2 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 5–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |||||
Camelon Juniors | 1–2 | 2–2 | — | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | ||||||
Crossgates Primrose | 3–1 | 1–6 | 2–4 | — | 2–2 | 3–3 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | |||||
Dunbar United | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | — | 3–4 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 5–3 | 1–1 | 4–1 | |||||
Dundonald Bluebell | 2–2 | 2–3 | 6–1 | 0–2 | — | 6–1 | 2–3 | 4–3 | 3–1 | |||||||
Hill of Beath Hawthorn | 1–2 | 5–1 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 6–2 | — | 4–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 6–1 | 2–0 | |||||
Jeanfield Swifts | 0–1 | 7–2 | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | |||||||
Linlithgow Rose | 4–1 | 2–3 | — | 3–3 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 6–0 | ||||||||
Musselburgh Athletic | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–6 | 6–2 | — | 1–3 | 2–1 | 0–0 | |||||
Newtongrange Star | 2–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–4 | — | 0–5 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | |||
Penicuik Athletic | 4–2 | 3–3 | 0–3 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | 2–2 | |||||
Sauchie Juniors | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–4 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–2 | — | 1–4 | 1–1 | |||
Tranent Juniors | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 0–1 | — | 3–3 | ||||||
Whitehill Welfare | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — |
The teams who did not qualify for the Premier Division, along with Glenrothes, were ranked according to their position and points in each Conference before being assigned into two seeded First Division Conferences A and B. Kinnoull later took the place of Eyemouth, who withdrew from the league.[20]
Season | 2019–20 |
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Dates | 27 July 2019 – 24 April 2020 |
Matches played | 175[N 1] |
Goals scored | 759 (4.34 per match)[N 1] |
Biggest home win |
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Biggest away win |
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Highest scoring | |
Longest winning run | 6 matches: Kinnoull & Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale[N 3] |
Longest unbeaten run | 11 matches: Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale[N 4] |
Longest winless run | 25 matches: Craigroyston[N 5] |
Longest losing run | 10 matches: Craigroyston |
← 2018–19 2020–21 → |
Team | Location | Home ground | Capacity | Seats | Floodlit |
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Burntisland Shipyard [SFA] | Burntisland | Recreation Park[21] | 1,000 | 0 | No |
Craigroyston | Edinburgh | St Mark's Park[22] | 2,000 | 0 | No |
Dunipace | Denny | Westfield Park[23] | 2,000 | 0 | Yes |
Haddington Athletic | Haddington | Millfield Park[24] | 1,500 | 0 | Yes |
Heriot-Watt University | Edinburgh | Riccarton Campus[25] | 200 | 0 | Yes |
Kinnoull | Perth | Tulloch Park[26] | 1,200 | 0 | Yes |
Leith Athletic | Edinburgh | Peffermill 3G[27] | 500 | 0 | Yes |
Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale [SFA] | Edinburgh | Saughton Sports Complex[28] | 1,000 | 0 | Yes |
Oakley United | Oakley | Blairwood Park[29] | 2,000 | 0 | No |
Ormiston | Ormiston | New Recreation Park[30] | 1,000 | 0 | No |
Peebles Rovers | Peebles | Whitestone Park[31] | 2,250 | 250 | No |
St Andrews United | St Andrews | Recreation Park[32] | 2,000 | 0 | No |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Promotion or qualification |
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1 | Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale (C, P) | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 66 | 29 | +37 | 54 | 2.25 | Promotion to the Premier Division |
2 | Leith Athletic | 25 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 67 | 29 | +38 | 53 | 2.12 | |
3 | Kinnoull[lower-alpha 1] | 17 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 44 | 11 | +33 | 35[lower-alpha 2] | 2.06[lower-alpha 2] | |
4 | Dunipace | 24 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 67 | 27 | +40 | 48 | 2.00 | |
5 | Heriot-Watt University | 25 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 60 | 37 | +23 | 43 | 1.72 | |
6 | Haddington Athletic | 24 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 65 | 35 | +30 | 41 | 1.71 | |
7 | St Andrews United | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 61 | 37 | +24 | 35 | 1.59 | |
8 | Oakley United | 20 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 31 | 1.55 | |
9 | Burntisland Shipyard | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 59 | 43 | +16 | 29 | 1.45 | |
10 | Ormiston | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 24 | 68 | −44 | 13 | 0.68 | |
11 | Peebles Rovers | 20 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 81 | −69 | 8 | 0.40 | |
12 | Craigroyston | 25 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 24 | 122 | −98 | 3 | 0.12 |
Season | 2019–20 |
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Dates | 27 July 2019 – 24 April 2020 |
Matches played | 178[N 1] |
Goals scored | 860 (4.83 per match)[N 1] |
Biggest home win |
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Biggest away win | |
Highest scoring |
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Longest winning run | 18 matches: Tynecastle[N 6] |
Longest unbeaten run | 23 matches: Tynecastle[N 6] |
Longest winless run | 16 matches: Tweedmouth Rangers[N 7] |
Longest losing run | 10 matches: Easthouses Lily Miners Welfare[N 8] |
← 2018–19 2020–21 → |
Team | Location | Home ground | Capacity | Seats | Floodlit |
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Arniston Rangers | Gorebridge | Newbyres Park[33] | 3,000 | 0 | No |
Coldstream [SFA] | Coldstream | Home Park[34] | 1,000 | 0 | No |
Dalkeith Thistle | Dalkeith | King's Park[35] | 2,000 | 0 | Yes |
Easthouses Lily MW [SFA] | Easthouses | Newbattle Complex[36] | 1,500 | 100 | Yes |
Edinburgh United | Edinburgh | Paties Road Stadium[37] | 2,500 | 200 | No |
Glenrothes | Glenrothes | Warout Stadium [38] | 5,000 | 730 | No |
Hawick Royal Albert United [SFA] | Hawick | Albert Park[39] | 1,000 | 500 | Yes |
Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts | Inverkeithing | Ballast Bank[40] | 1,000 | 0 | No |
Preston Athletic [SFA] | Prestonpans | Pennypit Park[41] | 1,500 | 313 | Yes |
Stirling University Reserves | Stirling | Gannochy Sports Centre[42] | 1,000 | 0 | Yes |
Tweedmouth Rangers | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Old Shielfield[43] | 1,000 | 0 | No |
Tynecastle [SFA] | Edinburgh | Meggetland Sports Complex[44] | 4,388 | 500 | Yes |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Promotion or qualification |
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1 | Tynecastle (C, P) | 23 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 125 | 22 | +103 | 65 | 2.83 | Promotion to the Premier Division |
2 | Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts (P) | 20 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 56 | 30 | +26 | 45 | 2.25 | |
3 | Glenrothes | 21 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 56 | 39 | +17 | 41 | 1.95 | |
4 | Edinburgh United | 20 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 59 | 39 | +20 | 35 | 1.75 | |
5 | Preston Athletic | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 34 | +16 | 34 | 1.62 | |
6 | Dalkeith Thistle | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 46 | 43 | +3 | 33 | 1.50 | |
7 | Coldstream | 22 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 42 | 51 | −9 | 31 | 1.41 | |
8 | Stirling University reserves | 25 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 44 | 83 | −39 | 23 | 0.92 | |
9 | Easthouses Lily Miners Welfare | 18 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 35 | 59 | −24 | 12[lower-alpha 1] | 0.67[lower-alpha 1] | |
10 | Tweedmouth Rangers | 24 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 47 | 94 | −47 | 16 | 0.67 | |
11 | Hawick Royal Albert United | 25 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 37 | 90 | −53 | 15 | 0.60 | |
12 | Arniston Rangers[lower-alpha 2] | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 21 | 66 | −45 | 9 | 0.41 |
Teams in each Conference play each other twice, once at home and once away. Teams also play each team from the other Conference once (six home and six away), for a total of 34 games.
Home \ Away | BUR | CRG | DPC | HAD | HER | KIN | LEI | LTV | OAK | ORM | PEE | STA | ARN | COL | DAL | ELM | EDN | GLE | HAW | IHS | PRE | STI | TWE | TYN |
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Burntisland Shipyard | 7–0 | 3–0 | 1–4 | 5–6 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 9–2 | 5–1 | |||||||||||||||
Craigroyston | 2–6 | 1–8 | 1–6 | 1–5 | 0–11 | 2–5 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 1–4 | 1–7 | 1–1 | 2–5 | 0–4 | ||||||||||
Dunipace | 0–0 | 6–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 7–1 | 5–0 | 7–0 | 8–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | |||||||||||
Haddington Athletic | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 6–0 | 4–0 | 1–3 | ||||||||||
Heriot-Watt University | 5–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 6–0 | 5–3 | 1–3 | ||||||||||||
Kinnoull | 1–2 | 3–2 | 8–0 | 2–1 | 7–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | |||||||||||||||
Leith Athletic | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 7–1 | 0–0 | |||||||||
Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 6–1 | ||||||||||
Oakley United | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 5–0 | |||||||||||||
Ormiston | 2–6 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–1 | ||||||||||||||||
Peebles Rovers | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–6 | 0–1 | 1–1 | ||||||||||||||||
St Andrews United | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2–4 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 0–5 | 6–0 | 8–0 | 5–1 | 1–3 | 8–1 | 4–2 | ||||||||||
Arniston Rangers | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 4–3 | 2–1 | 1–5 | |||||||||||||
Coldstream | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–5 | |||||||||||||||
Dalkeith Thistle | 2–4 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–5 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–6 | ||||||||||||
Easthouses Lily Miners Welfare | 2–6 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 3–4 | 2–3 | 7–2 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 5–1 | ||||||||||||||
Edinburgh United | 3–3 | 10–0 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 6–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 4–1 | ||||||||||||||
Glenrothes | 5–1 | 5–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 6–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–3 | ||||||||||||||
Hawick Royal Albert United | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 1–0 | 6–2 | 1–6 | 0–2 | 2–5 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 1–2 | ||||||||||||
Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts | 0–3 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–5 | ||||||||||||||||
Preston Athletic | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 6–1 | 4–2 | |||||||||||||||||
Stirling University reserves | 1–5 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 5–0 | 2–2 | 4–3 | 5–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–5 | ||||||||||||||
Tweedmouth Rangers | 2–3 | 4–4 | 6–1 | 2–6 | 0–2 | 5–6 | 4–3 | 0–6 | 2–3 | 1–3 | ||||||||||||||
Tynecastle | 2–1 | 2–2 | 10–3 | 13–0 | 4–0 | 5–1 | 7–2 | 9–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 12–0 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 15–1 |
Play-offs were due to be held to decide the overall First Division winner, and if necessary the third team to be promoted to the Premier Division. These were subsequently cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[2]
SFA Club has an SFA Licence (as of July 2019)[45] and are eligible to participate in the Lowland League promotion play-off should they win the Premier Division.
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