| Founded | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Abolished | 1957 |
| Region |  Scotland |
The Perthshire League was a league association football tournament for teams in Perthshire, Scotland.
| Founded | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Abolished | 1957 |
| Region | Scotland |
The Perthshire League was a league association football tournament for teams in Perthshire, Scotland.
The League was set up on 8 January 1898 at a meeting at the White Horse Hotel in Perth, by representatives of five of the senior clubs, plus two junior, clubs in the county: [1]
Having helped to set up the League, Duncrub Park decided not to take part, although it did finally join the League in 1901. [2] The competition was aimed at clubs in the county, rather than urban areas, so clubs from Perth were not included.
The first champion, in 1897–98, was Scone, which won every one of its 10 matches. [3] Luncarty withdrew after three games of the 1898–99 season [4] and was replaced the following year by Bridge of Earn.
Clubs from Perth were able to join from the 1901–1902 season, but the two Perth clubs which did join - Fair City Athletic and Perth West End - did not finish the season; both were expelled, the former for non-fulfilment of fixtures, the latter for an infringement in the Second XI Cup. [5]
The League struggled for membership in the 1920s, inviting the St Johnstone reserve side, and also casting its net into Angus, as the new Arbroath Athletic club needed to play in a league competition. [6] However its one-season - 1923–24 - caused problems as the increased travel expenses meant that the Athletic only played five matches out of a possible 16, winning them all; the title, originally withheld, was eventually awarded to Dunkeld & Birnam, [7] who had a negative goal difference after 7 wins and 4 defeats - one of the latter being 7–3 to Athletic. [8]
The competition eventually came to a halt after the 1956–57 season, the final championship going to Breadalbane.
The competition was not finished in 1899–1900, 1912–13, 1932–33, 1939–40, and 1954–55, and was not played for from 1914 to 1919, 1921 to 1923, 1940–41, and from 1943 to 1945. The 1941–42 and 1945–46 Perthshire Leagues were junior competitions using the name and both were won by Army teams - Black Watch and the 8th ITCC C Company.
Perthshire, officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south; it borders the counties of Inverness-shire and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus to the east, Fife, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire to the south and Argyllshire to the west. It was a local government county from 1890 to 1930.
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Dalguise is a settlement in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is situated on the western side of the River Tay on the B898 road, 5 miles north of Dunkeld. Located there is Dalguise House, a place where, from the age of four, Beatrix Potter stayed annually with her family throughout the summer, from May till the end of the salmon season.
Gowrie is a region in central Scotland and one of the original provinces of the Kingdom of Alba. It covered the eastern part of what became Perthshire. It was located to the immediate east of Atholl, and originally included the area around Perth, though that was later detached as Perthia.
Stanley Football Club was an association football club from the town of Stanley in Perthshire.
Duncrub Park Football Club was a football club from the village of Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland.
Huntingtower Football Club was a football club from the village of Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield, Perthshire, Scotland.
Breadalbane Football Club is an association football club from Aberfeldy in Scotland.
Crieff Morrisonians Football Club was a football club from the village of Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.
Fair City Athletic Football Club was a football club from Perth in Scotland. It was one of the top two clubs in Perth in the 1890s but a disastrous ground move led to the club's dissolution in 1902.
Vale of Teith Football Club was an association football club from Doune in Perthshire, Scotland.
The Perthshire Cup was an association football cup competition for clubs in the county of Perthshire, Scotland. The competition was founded in 1884 and was last competed for in the 1974–75 season.
Blairgowrie Amateurs Football Club, known as Blairgowrie from 1923, was a football club from Blairgowrie in Perthshire, Scotland.
Our Boys (Blairgowrie), also known as Blairgowrie Our Boys, was a football club from Blairgowrie in Perthshire, Scotland.
Scone Football Club was an association football club from Scone, Perthshire.
Dunkeld and Birnam F.C. was an association football club from Dunkeld, in Perthshire.
Tulloch Football Club was an association football club from the village of Tulloch in Perthshire.
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