2010–11 Scottish Third Division

Irn-Bru Scottish Third Division 2010–11 Arbroath Arbroath, Albion Rovers (via Division 2 Play-offs) n/a 180 555 Gavin Swankie (21) Montrose 8–1 Clyde(25 September 2010) Montrose 0–5 Arbroath(2 January 2011) Berwick Rangers 1–6 Albion Rovers(15 March 2011) Montrose 8–1 Clyde(25 September 2010) 6 gamesQueen's Park 12 gamesQueen's Park 14 gamesClyde 7 gamesClyde 1243: Arbroath 4–1 Montrose(23 April 2011) 178: East Stirlingshire 1–5 Annan Athletic(15 March 2011) 2009–10 2011–12 The 2010–11 Scottish Football League Third Division (also known as the 2010–11 Irn-Bru Scottish Football League Third Division for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th season in the format of ten teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The season started on 7 August 2011 and ended on 7 May 2011. Arbroath F.C. sealed the title, their first honour in their 133-year history, after a 4-1 win over local rivals Montrose on 23 April 2011.http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/298632?cc=5739 Rovers seal title glory 23 April 2011 ESPN Soccernet 16 May 2011 25 October 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121025001647/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/298632?cc=5739 deadhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_div_1/9465306.stm Arbroath 4-1 Montrose 23 April 2011 BBC Sport 16 May 2011 Teams Promotion and relegation from 2009–10 UK Scotland 350 right Location of teams in 2010–11 Scottish Third Division UK Scotland 6 55.860238 -4.011453 Albion Rovers right UK Scotland 6 54.987035 -3.2568200 Annan left UK Scotland 6 55.759333 -2.0153998 Berwick Rangers right UK Scotland 6 55.944682 -4.038363 Clyde left UK Scotland 6 56.028536 -3.814795 East Stirlingshire right UK Scotland 6 57.651538 -3.3200732 Elgin City bottom UK Scotland 6 56.721440 -2.4661846 Montrose right UK Scotland 6 56.552328 -2.591554 Arbroath right UK Scotland 6 55.824419 -4.2514220 Queen's Park left UK Scotland 6 54.903475 -5.0142503 Stranraer left Livingston as champions of the 2009–10 season were directly promoted to the 2010–11 Scottish Second Division. Thus completing only a one-year stay in the bottom tier of the Scottish Football League. They were replaced by Clyde who finished bottom of the 2009–10 Scottish Second Division. A second promotion place was available via a play-off tournament between the ninth-placed team of the 2009–10 Scottish Second Division, Arbroath, and the sides ranked second, third and fourth in the 2009–10 Scottish Third Division, Forfar Athletic, East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park respectively. The play off was won by Forfar Athletic who defeated Arbroath in the final. Arbroath were therefore relegated. Relegated from Second Division to Third Division Clyde Arbroath (via play-offs) Promoted from Third Division to Second Division Livingston Forfar Athletic (via play-offs) Stadia and locations Team Location Stadium Capacity http://sport.scotsman.com/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=76883 Scottish Football League: News From Your Club www.scotsman.com 2011-08-05 Albion Rovers Coatbridge Cliftonhill 2,496 Annan Athletic Annan Galabank 3,000 Arbroath Arbroath Gayfield Park 4,153 Berwick Rangers Berwick-upon-Tweed Shielfield Park 4,065 Clyde Cumbernauld Broadwood 8,006 East Stirlingshire Stenhousemuir Ochilview ParkShare A 3,746 Elgin City Elgin Borough Briggs 3,716 Montrose Montrose Links Park 3,292 Queen's Park Glasgow Hampden Park 52,025 Stranraer Stranraer Stair Park 6,250 A.ShareEast Stirlingshire ground shared with Stenhousemuir.East Stirlingshire FC, www.eaststirlingshirefc.com Retrieved 2011-05-25. League table main WDL PQ 5 ARB Arbroath ALB Albion Rovers QPA Queen's Park ANN Annan Athletic STR Stranraer BER Berwick Rangers ELG Elgin City MON Montrose EST East Stirlingshire CLY Clyde 20 6 10 80 61 C,P 17 10 9 56 40 O,P 18 5 13 57 43 16 11 9 58 45 15 12 9 72 57 12 13 11 62 56 13 6 17 53 63 10 7 19 47 61 10 4 22 33 62 8 8 20 37 67 green1 Promotion to the Second Division P yellow1 Qualification for the Second Division Play-offs PP PP PP 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete SPFL Results Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season, for a total of 36 games First half of season main FBR grey ALB ANN ARB BER CLY EST ELG MON QPA STR Albion Rovers 0–0 0–2 2–2 3–1 1–0 3–1 3–1 2–1 1–2 Annan Athletic 4–1 1–2 1–1 0–2 3–1 0–1 2–2 2–1 2–2 Arbroath 1–1 0–2 3–2 3–2 2–0 2–0 4–0 1–0 0–0 Berwick Rangers 1–6 2–2 4–1 2–1 3–0 6–2 1–0 1–1 2–2 Clyde 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–4 1–2 1–1 1–1 2–3 2–2 East Stirlingshire 0–0 1–5 1–3 0–0 0–0 0–2 2–1 0–1 0–1 Elgin City 2–2 2–0 3–5 1–2 0–1 0–2 3–2 4–2 1–2 Montrose 0–2 1–1 3–0 1–1 8–1 0–2 0–1 1–2 3–3 Queen's Park 0–1 3–0 5–2 0–2 0–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–3 Stranraer 3–2 2–2 4–1 1–1 3–1 4–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 26 April 2011 BBC Sport Second half of season main FBR grey ALB ANN ARB BER CLY EST ELG MON QPA STR Albion Rovers 0–0 3–0 0–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 0–2 1–2 1–0 Annan Athletic 2–2 3–0 2–3 1–0 2–1 2–2 2–1 1–2 2–1 Arbroath 3–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 3–5 3–5 4–1 2–2 2–2 Berwick Rangers 2–2 2–3 0–4 1–1 1–1 4–0 0–1 3–1 3–3 Clyde 0–1 0–2 0–3 2–0 2–0 3–3 2–0 0–2 4–2 East Stirlingshire 1–2 2–0 2–5 1–0 2–0 2–1 1–2 3–2 0–2 Elgin City 1–1 2–3 3–2 3–2 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 Montrose 0–2 0–1 0–5 1–1 3–1 3–0 1–0 0–2 3–2 Queen's Park 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 4–0 2–0 1–0 4–1 3–3 Stranraer 1–3 1–1 3–4 3–1 3–0 2–0 1–2 2–2 2–1 7 May 2011 ESPN soccernet Statistics February 2013 Top goalscorers 21 goals Scotland Gavin Swankie (Arbroath) 17 goals Scotland Darren Gribben (Berwick Rangers) France Armand One (Stranraer) 16 goals Scotland Steven Doris (Arbroath) 14 goals Scotland Craig Malcolm (Stranraer) Scotland Ian Harty (Annan Athletic) 13 goals Scotland Scott Agnew (Stranraer) Hat-tricks Player For Against Result DateSCO Darren Gribben Gribben, Darren 1 Berwick Rangers Elgin City 6–2 dmy 2010 08 14SCO Darren Gribben Gribben, Darren 1 Berwick Rangers Arbroath 4–1 dmy 2010 09 11SCO Paul Tosh Tosh, Paul Montrose Clyde 8–1 dmy 2010 09 25SCO Steven Doris Doris, Steven Arbroath Montrose 4–0 dmy 2010 11 13SCO Gavin Swankie Swankie, Gavin Arbroath Stranraer 4–3 dmy 2011 01 29FRA Armand One Oné, Armand Stranraer East Stirlingshire 4–1 dmy 2011 02 23ENG Damon Gray Gray, Damon Berwick Rangers Elgin City 4–0 dmy 2011 03 05SCO Scott Chaplain Chaplain, Scott Albion Rovers Berwick Rangers 6–1 dmy 2011 03 15SCO Gavin Swankie Swankie, Gavin Arbroath East Stirlingshire 5–2 dmy 2011 03 19SCO Jamie Longworth Longworth, Jamie 1 Queen's Park Montrose 4–1 dmy 2011 05 07SCO David Gormley Gormley, David Elgin City Arbroath 5–3 dmy 2011 05 07 See also Scottish football referee strike References External links 2010–11 Scottish Third Division at Soccerway Category:Scottish Third Division seasons 3 4 Scot sco:2010–11 Scots Thrid Diveesion