Glasgow Football League

First version 1895-1899

See also Main index Club directory Edinburgh League East of Scotland League Glasgow League overview Inter City League

Formed in 1895 this was one of several 'supplementary leagues' that were created in order to increase the number of fixtures for Scottish Football League clubs. Although it disbanded in 1899 when the member clubs joined with Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian to form the Inter City League, it was reformed in 1904 but this lasted for only two seasons.

Champions

1895-96 Rangers

1896-97 Queen's Park

1897-98 Rangers

1898-99 Celtic

Membership Celtic Clyde Partick Thistle Queen's Park Rangers Third Lanark

Seasons 1895-99 1898-99 1896-99 1895-99 1895-99 1895-99

1895-96	Celtic	QP	Rangers	T Lanark
Celtic	X	Apr 25 0-3	Mar 21 3-2	Apr 11 1-2
Queen’s Park	Feb 1 1-2	X	Apr 18 1-2	Apr 11 0-2
Rangers	Apr 11 2-2	Mar 28 7-2	X	Mar 14 6-2
Third Lanark	Mar 28 1-4	Mar 21 4-1	Apr 6 1-3	X

	1895-96	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4	Rangers Celtic Third Lanark Queen’s Park	6 6 6 6	4 3 3 1	1 1 0 0	1 2 3 5	22 12 12 8	11 11 15 17	9 7 6 2

1896-97	Celtic	Clyde	QP	Rangers	T Lanark
Celtic	X	Jan 16 2-0	May 3 0-4	May 1 1-1	Apr 18 3-1
Clyde	Mar 20 0-8	X	Nov21 5-0	May 8 0-7	Jan 2 2-2
Queen’s Park	Apr 17 2-0	Apr 3 3-1	X	Feb 27 1-1	Apr 11 4-2
Rangers	Jan 2 3-0	Apr 28 4-0	Apr 10 0-3	X	May 12 4-1
Third Lanark	Mar 27 0-1	Mar 13 7-2	Nov 16 1-6	May 4 4-3	X

	1896-97	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5	Queen’s Park Rangers Celtic Third Lanark Clyde	8 8 8 8 8	6 4 4 2 1	1 2 1 1 1	1 2 3 5 6	23 23 15 18 10	10 10 11 25 33	13 10 9 5 3

1897-98	Celtic	Clyde	QP	Rangers	T Lanark
Celtic	X	Apr 9 3-0	Apr 23 3-4	Apr 20 3-2	Mar 19 4-3
Clyde	Apr 27 3-1	X	Feb 12 0-4	Apr 4 3-2	Mar 26 3-1
Queen’s Park	Feb 19 4-2	Mar 19 4-3	X	Apr 27 2-4	Apr 18 1-1
Rangers	Apr 30 4-3	Jan 29 5-3	Apr 16 2-0	X	Apr 23 3-1
Third Lanark	Apr 25 2-2	Apr 16 4-1	Apr 30 2-4	Apr 13 0-5	X

Notes:

Clyde v Queen’s Park on 12 February was abandoned but the result stood.

	1897-98	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5	Rangers Queen’s Park Celtic Clyde Third Lanark	8 8 8 8 8	6 5 3 3 1	0 1 1 0 2	2 2 4 5 5	27 23 21 16 14	15 17 22 24 23	12 11 7 6 4

1898-99	Celtic	Clyde	Partick	QP	Rangers	T Lanark
Celtic	X	Jan 3 2-1	Apr 26 3-0	Jan 21 2-2	May 6 4-1	Apr 3 2-1
Clyde	Feb 11 2-5	X	Jan 21 3-4	Mar 18 1-2	Apr 8 1-3	Mar 4 5-2
Partick Thistle	Apr 29 1-3	Mar 11 5-1	X	Apr 1 1-3	Jan 3 2-8	Apr 8 0-3
Queen’s Park	May 10 1-5	May 6 0-1	May 3 4-0	X	May 15 3-4	Apr 15 2-0
Rangers	May 13 1-1	May 9 4-1	Mar 18 4-1	Apr 29 1-1	X	Mar 11 0-0
Third Lanark	Mar 18 2-3	Apr 29 3-1	May 13 1-0	Jan 7 2-1	Jan 21 1-2	X

	1898-99	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6	Celtic Rangers Queen’s Park Third Lanark Clyde Partick Thistle	10 10 10 10 10 10	8 6 4 4 2 2	2 3 2 1 0 0	0 1 4 5 8 8	30 28 19 15 17 14	12 15 17 16 30 33	18 15 10 9 4 4

Sources: Stuart Robertson (results 1895-1899), Frank Hannaway, Forrest Robertson (both with additional dates and results)