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The Scottish Football League (SFL) is a defunct league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland. [note 2] From its foundation in 1890 until the breakaway Scottish Premier League (SPL) was formed in 1998, the SFL was the top level of football in Scotland.
The early history of games like football in Scotland is uncertain, but it is possible that variations reached Scotland from France or England. [1]Games of "football" were played in Scotland in the Middle Ages, but medieval football bears little resemblance to association football (soccer).
The Scottish Professional Football League is formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. [204] A new Lowland Football League is formed, as part of wider league reconstruction. [205] Celtic sell Victor Wanyama to Southampton for £12.5 million, a record at the time for a fee received by a Scottish club. [206]
The Scottish football league system is a series of generally connected leagues for Scottish football clubs. The Scottish system is more complicated than many other national league systems, consisting of several completely separate systems or 'grades' of leagues and clubs.
The First Division was still the second tier in the Scottish league system, but was the top level of the Scottish Football League rather than the second. The Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League merged in 2013 to form the Scottish Professional Football League, with the second tier becoming known as the Scottish Championship.
In 2013 the two leagues merged to form the new Scottish Professional Football League, ending the 123-year existence of the SFL. For the whole history of the SFL, there was no mechanism in place for club(s) at the bottom of the league to be relegated. [5] A number of clubs who resigned or were expelled from the SFL went on to play in non-league ...
Pages in category "History of football in Scotland" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... List of Scottish Football League clubs; H.
The Scottish Football League, the second oldest football league in the world, was founded in 1890 with 11 founder members. Renton started the 1890–91 season as members of the Scottish Football League, but were expelled for professionalism (the game was still officially amateur at this stage).