The Football League - Lowland League is a men’s league competition in Scotland, established in 2013. This page brings together live scores, fixtures, results and standings, alongside player and team statistics, so visitors can follow matches and review league performance across available recorded seasons. It offers a clear reference point for tracking the competition over time.
Upcoming matches, Football League - Lowland League
Regular Season
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- Regular Season
Newton Stewart
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- Regular Season
Newton Stewart
Dalbeattie Star
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- Regular Season
Clydebank
Pollok
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- Regular Season
Gretna 2008
Celtic II
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- Regular Season
Dunipace
Civil Service Strollers
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- Regular Season
Tranent Juniors
Gala Fairydean Rovers
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- Regular Season
Kilwinning Rangers
Auchinleck Talbot
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- Regular Season
Brechin
Hill Of Beath Hawthorn
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- Regular Season
Albion Rovers
Cumbernauld Colts
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- Regular Season
Broxburn Athletic
Linlithgow Rose
Latest played matches, Football League - Lowland League
Regular Season
Football League - Lowland League Standings
Regular Season
| Rank | Club | MP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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Kilwinning Rangers | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 13 | 15 | 21 | WWLWW |
| 2 |
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Tranent Juniors | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 21 | WWWWW |
| 3 |
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Auchinleck Talbot | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 8 | 23 | 19 | WDWWL |
| 4 |
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Clydebank | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 19 | WWWWD |
| 5 |
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Pollok | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 19 | WWWDW |
| 6 |
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Broxburn Athletic | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 19 | WWDWW |
| 7 |
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Hill Of Beath Hawthorn | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 18 | WWWWW |
| 8 |
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Celtic II | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 17 | WLDWW |
| 9 |
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Linlithgow Rose | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 16 | WWWLW |
| 10 |
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Brechin | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 16 | WWWWW |
| 11 |
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Caledonian Braves | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 16 | LLWWD |
| 12 | Largs Thistle | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 16 | LWLDW | |
| 13 |
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Lochee United | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 13 | LWWWL |
| 14 |
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Civil Service Strollers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 13 | WWLLL |
| 15 |
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Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 12 | LLWWL |
| 16 |
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Johnstone Burgh | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 12 | DWWLD |
| 17 | Troon FC | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 12 | WLWWL | |
| 18 |
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Cumnock Juniors | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 11 | WWLDL |
| 19 |
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Bo'ness United | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 10 | LWDWW |
| 20 |
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Cumbernauld Colts | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 21 | -2 | 10 | WDWDD |
| 21 |
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East Stirlingshire | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -4 | 10 | LLWLL |
| 22 |
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Beith | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 22 | -9 | 8 | DLLLL |
| 23 |
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Musselburgh Athletic | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -5 | 7 | LWLDL |
| 24 |
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Cowdenbeath | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 14 | -4 | 6 | WLLWL |
| 25 |
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Albion Rovers | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 5 | LDLLW |
| 26 |
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Berwick Rangers | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -8 | 4 | LLLLW |
| 27 |
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Gretna 2008 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 31 | -14 | 4 | LLLLD |
| 28 |
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Stirling University | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 3 | WLLLL |
| 29 |
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Gala Fairydean Rovers | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -11 | 3 | LLLLL |
| 30 |
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Dunipace | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 16 | -12 | 1 | LLLDL |
| 31 | Renfrew | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 25 | -15 | 1 | LLLLD | |
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Newton Stewart | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 31 | -24 | 1 | LLLDL |
| 33 |
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Dalbeattie Star | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 28 | -24 | 1 | LLLDL |
Football League - Lowland League Statistics
Top scorers 2026
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Top assists 2026
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Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
Football League - Lowland League teams participation since 2020
History
| Team | Nb participations |
|---|---|
| Berwick Rangers | 6 |
| Caledonian Braves | 6 |
| Civil Service Strollers | 6 |
| Cumbernauld Colts | 6 |
| East Stirlingshire | 6 |
| Gala Fairydean Rovers | 6 |
| Gretna 2008 | 6 |
| Stirling University | 6 |
| Bo'ness United | 6 |
| BSC Glasgow | 5 |
| East Kilbride | 5 |
| Celtic II | 5 |
| Cowdenbeath | 4 |
| Hearts U21 | 4 |
| Edinburgh University | 4 |
| Tranent Juniors | 4 |
| Linlithgow Rose | 3 |
| Albion Rovers | 3 |
| Spartans | 3 |
| Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic | 3 |
| Dalbeattie Star | 3 |
| Broxburn Athletic | 2 |
| Vale of Leithen | 2 |
| Kelty Hearts | 1 |
| Rangers U21 | 1 |
| Rangers II | 1 |
| Clydebank | 1 |
Football League - Lowland League top scorer teams
Football League - Lowland League About
Football League - Lowland League is the Scottish Lowland Football League, commonly known as the Scottish Lowland League, a men’s league competition in Scotland. Established in 2013, it occupies Step 5 of the Scottish football pyramid alongside the Highland League, providing a bridge between regional football and the professional Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL).
Identity and purpose
The league was created as part of the modernisation of Scottish football’s pyramid. Its role is to give ambitious clubs in southern Scotland a structured, merit-based route towards the national professional game, replacing the idea of a largely closed system with a clearer pathway based on sporting achievement, licensing and competitive performance.
Membership is focused on clubs from the Lowland area, broadly covering territory south of the Tay Bridge. The competition is governed by its own Board of Directors under the auspices of the Scottish Football Association (SFA). This arrangement gives the league its own operational identity while placing it within the wider national football framework.
All participating clubs must hold an SFA Club Licence. Licensing requirements are intended to ensure that grounds and club operations meet the standards expected of a national-level competition, including provisions relating to stadium safety, capacity and floodlighting. The licence requirement is therefore an important part of the league’s function as a gateway to higher levels of Scottish football.
How clubs enter and progress
Promotion into the Scottish Lowland League is primarily linked to the regional leagues below it. Champions from the East of Scotland, West of Scotland and South of Scotland leagues can compete in an inter-regional play-off, with the successful club gaining a route into the Lowland League subject to the relevant eligibility and licensing requirements.
At the top of the table, the Lowland champion earns the opportunity to enter the SPFL Pyramid Play-off. The champion faces the Highland League champion in a two-legged semi-final. The winner then plays the bottom club in SPFL League Two, with victory in that final offering promotion into Scotland’s professional national leagues. This pathway gives the title significance beyond domestic league prestige: sustained success can provide a genuine route from non-league football to the SPFL.
At the other end of the table, the bottom-placed club may face relegation to its appropriate regional feeder league. The exact outcome depends on the applicable promotion and relegation arrangements, including the eligibility of the clubs seeking entry.
Competition format and match rules
The Scottish Lowland League uses a traditional single-table, double round-robin format. Every team plays every other team twice, once at home and once away. There is no seeding system and no group or knockout phase within the regular league programme. The champion is the team that finishes top after the scheduled fixtures, making consistency across the season more important than performance in a short tournament.
The standard football points system applies: three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. When teams finish level on points, positions are separated first by goal difference, then by goals scored and subsequently by head-to-head record. These criteria help determine the title, promotion-play-off places and relegation positions when the table is closely contested.
Regular-season matches last 90 minutes. As a league competition, fixtures that are level after normal time do not proceed to extra time or penalties. Those procedures belong to applicable knockout or play-off matches rather than the ordinary league schedule.
Seasonal calendar and sporting character
The competition generally follows the European autumn-to-spring football calendar, with the season running from late July to April. Saturday afternoons form the core of the fixture programme, while midweek matches are used when necessary to accommodate cup commitments, postponements or scheduling pressures. Completing the league season in spring also allows the promotion play-off pathway to follow after the domestic campaign.
The league’s character comes from the contrast between its non-league status and its professional standards. Clubs compete in a full national pyramid environment, but their ambitions, resources and local identities remain closely connected to the regional game. The result is a competition in which established non-league sides, developing clubs and ambitious regional champions can meet within the same merit-based structure.
For followers of Football League - Lowland League, the key questions are therefore both immediate and long term: which club can maintain the consistency required to win the table, which teams can satisfy the licensing demands of the next level, and whether the champion can progress through the Highland League and SPFL play-off route. Founded in 2013, the competition remains an important part of the Southern Scottish football pathway and one of the clearest bridges between grassroots ambition and the professional game.