1915–16 Scottish Football League

Scottish Football League
Season	1915–16
Champions	Celtic
Relegated	N/A
← 1914–15 (Div 1) ← 1914–15 (Div 2) 1916–17 →

Statistics of the Scottish Football League in season 1915–16. The competition was won by Celtic by eleven points over nearest rival Rangers. Division Two was abandoned due to the outbreak of World War I.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic (C)	38	32	3	3	116	32	+84	67
2	Rangers	38	25	6	7	87	39	+48	56
3	Morton	37	22	7	8	86	35	+51	51
4	Ayr United	38	20	8	10	72	45	+27	48
5	Heart of Midlothian	37	20	6	11	66	45	+21	46
6	Partick Thistle	38	19	8	11	65	41	+24	46
7	Hamilton Academical	38	19	3	16	68	76	−8	41
8	Dundee	38	18	4	16	56	49	+7	40
9	Dumbarton	38	13	11	14	54	64	−10	37
10	Kilmarnock	38	12	11	15	46	49	−3	35
11	Aberdeen	38	11	12	15	51	64	−13	34
12	Falkirk	38	12	9	17	45	61	−16	33
13	St Mirren	38	13	4	21	50	67	−17	30
14	Motherwell	38	11	8	19	55	82	−27	30
15	Airdrieonians	38	11	8	19	44	74	−30	30
16	Third Lanark	38	9	11	18	40	56	−16	29
17	Clyde	38	11	7	20	49	71	−22	29
18	Queen's Park	38	11	6	21	53	100	−47	28
19	Hibernian	38	9	7	22	44	71	−27	25
20	Raith Rovers	38	9	5	24	30	65	−35	23

Source: "1915-1916 SFL - SPFL Archive". SPFL. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
(C) Champions

Results

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Home \ Away	ABE	AIR	AYR	CEL	CLY	DUM	DND	FAL	HAM	HOM	HIB	KIL	MOR	MOT	PAR	QPA	RAI	RAN	STM	THI
Aberdeen		2–1	1–1	0–4	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	5–0	1–1	5–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1
Airdrieonians	1–1		3–1	0–5	4–1	2–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	4–0	0–2	3–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0
Ayr United	2–1	2–0		0–4	2–0	3–1	1–2	4–1	1–0	3–1	2–3	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	6–0
Celtic	3–1	6–0	3–1		5–0	6–0	3–0	2–1	5–1	0–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	5–0	6–2	6–0	2–2	0–2	4–1
Clyde	3–2	1–2	1–3	1–3		3–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	1–4	2–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–2	4–1	2–2
Dumbarton	2–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	2–1		1–1	3–1	7–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–4	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–1
Dundee	1–1	4–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	0–1		3–3	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–3	3–0	7–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0
Falkirk	0–3	3–2	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–0		2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Hamilton Academical	2–0	2–1	2–3	2–3	3–1	1–1	4–4	0–1		3–2	3–2	5–2	5–2	3–1	1–0	5–2	2–0	0–1	4–1	2–1
Heart of Midlothian	1–2	1–1	0–5	2–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	3–0		1–3	0–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	5–3	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–0
Hibernian	0–0	3–0	3–1	0–4	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–3	1–2		1–0	0–2	1–2	0–4	3–0	1–0	2–3	2–1	0–1
Kilmarnock	5–0	4–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	5–1	2–0	1–3	3–0	3–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–0	0–3	1–1	1–1
Morton	3–0	8–2	0–1	0–1	3–0	3–1	3–1	6–0	8–1		5–1	2–0		1–0	0–1	5–0	4–0	2–0	3–0	2–0
Motherwell	2–2	3–2	0–3	1–3	2–2	4–2	3–0	1–1	0–3	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–3		2–2	2–1	1–4	2–2	3–1	3–4
Partick Thistle	3–0	4–1	1–1	0–4	2–3	0–0	2–0	5–2	0–1	0–2	4–1	4–0	3–2	3–1		5–0	2–0	5–2	4–0	1–0
Queen's Park	0–1	3–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–3	4–2	1–2	4–4	1–4	1–1		4–1	0–6	2–1	0–0
Raith Rovers	3–1	1–1	0–4	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–3		1–3	0–1	0–1
Rangers	4–0	3–0	5–2	3–0	2–2	2–2	3–2	1–0	3–0	0–4	4–2	3–1	1–0	4–1	0–1	6–0	3–0		4–0	4–0
St Mirren	3–2	2–4	1–0	0–5	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	5–0	4–1	3–1	3–0	1–3	5–0	0–2	1–2	2–0	1–1		1–0
Third Lanark	6–2	0–1	1–1	0–4	1–1	4–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–3	3–0	1–2	1–3	1–3	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	3–0

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Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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v t e 1915–16 in Scottish football
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Domestic leagues	Football League Highland League
Domestic cups	Junior Cup
Related to national team	Results
Club seasons
Division One	Aberdeen Airdrieonians Ayr United Celtic Clyde Dumbarton Dundee Falkirk Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Morton Motherwell Partick Thistle Queen's Park Raith Rovers Rangers St. Mirren Third Lanark

v t e Scottish Football League (1890–2013)
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Football League	1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21
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Premier League	1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13
Premiership	2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Winners	List of champions Winning managers

v t e 1915–16 in European football
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Domestic leagues	Austria Denmark Iceland '15 '16 Ireland Luxembourg Netherlands Romania Scotland Sweden Switzerland
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