1958–59 in Scottish football

The 1958–59 season was the 86th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 62nd season of the Scottish Football League. ^[1]

1958–59 in Scottish football
Division One champions
Rangers
Division Two champions
Ayr United
Scottish Cup winners
St Mirren
League Cup winners
Heart of Midlothian
Junior Cup winners
Irvine Meadow
Teams in Europe
Heart of Midlothian
Scotland national team
1959 BHC

Scottish League Division One

Main article: 1958–59 Scottish Division One

The last day of the season saw Rangers holding a two-point lead over Hearts, with the clubs having an identical goal average. Rangers lost 1–2 at home to Aberdeen, only for Hearts also to lose, 2–1 away to Celtic. Had Hearts won by any score they would have won the title.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
1	Rangers	34	21	8	5	92	51	1.804	50
2	Heart of Midlothian	34	21	6	7	92	51	1.804	48
3	Motherwell	34	18	8	8	83	50	1.660	44
4	Dundee	34	16	9	9	61	51	1.196	41
5	Airdrieonians	34	15	7	12	64	62	1.032	37
6	Celtic	34	14	8	12	70	53	1.321	36
7	St Mirren	34	14	7	13	71	74	0.959	35
8	Kilmarnock	34	13	8	13	58	51	1.137	34
9	Partick Thistle	34	14	6	14	59	66	0.894	34
10	Hibernian	34	13	6	15	68	70	0.971	32
11	Third Lanark	34	11	10	13	74	83	0.892	32
12	Stirling Albion	34	11	8	15	54	64	0.844	30
13	Aberdeen	34	12	5	17	63	66	0.955	29
14	Raith Rovers	34	10	9	15	60	70	0.857	29
15	Clyde	34	12	4	18	62	66	0.939	28
16	Dunfermline Athletic	34	10	8	16	68	87	0.782	28
17	Falkirk	34	10	7	17	58	79	0.734	27
18	Queen of the South	34	6	6	22	38	101	0.376	18

Source: RSSSF^{[dead link]}

Champions: Rangers
Relegated: Falkirk, Queen of the South

Scottish League Division Two

Main article: 1958–59 Scottish Division Two

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Ayr United	36	28	4	4	115	48	+67	60	Promotion to the 1959–60 First Division
2	Arbroath	36	23	5	8	86	59	+27	51
3	Stenhousemuir	36	20	6	10	87	68	+19	46
4	Dumbarton	36	19	7	10	94	61	+33	45
5	Brechin City	36	16	10	10	79	65	+14	42
6	St Johnstone	36	15	10	11	54	44	+10	40
7	Hamilton Academical	36	15	8	13	76	62	+14	38
8	East Fife	36	15	8	13	83	81	+2	38
9	Berwick Rangers	36	16	6	14	63	66	−3	38
10	Albion Rovers	36	14	7	15	84	79	+5	35
11	Morton	36	13	8	15	68	85	−17	34
12	Forfar Athletic	36	12	9	15	73	87	−14	33
13	Alloa Athletic	36	12	7	17	76	81	−5	31
14	Cowdenbeath	36	13	5	18	67	79	−12	31
15	East Stirlingshire	36	10	8	18	50	79	−29	28
16	Stranraer	36	8	11	17	63	76	−13	27
17	Dundee United	36	9	7	20	62	86	−24	25
18	Queen's Park	36	9	6	21	53	80	−27	24
19	Montrose	36	6	6	24	49	96	−47	18

Source: "1958-1959 Second Division - SPFL Archive". SPFL. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

Promoted: Ayr United, Arbroath

Cup honours

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Scottish Cup 1958–59	St Mirren	3 – 1	Aberdeen
League Cup 1958–59	Heart of Midlothian	5 – 1	Partick Thistle
Junior Cup	Irvine Meadow XI	2 – 1	Shettleston

Other honours

National

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Scottish Qualifying Cup – North	Elgin City	6 – 4 *	Rothes
Scottish Qualifying Cup – South	Eyemouth United	6 – 1 *	Peebles Rovers

County

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Aberdeenshire Cup	Peterhead
Ayrshire Cup	Ayr United	4 – 4 * ‡	Kilmarnock
East of Scotland Shield	Hibernian	2 – 0	Hearts
Fife Cup	Dunfermline Athletic	7 – 6 *	East Fife
Forfarshire Cup	Brechin City	6 – 0	Dundee United
Glasgow Cup	Clyde	1 – 0 †	Rangers
Lanarkshire Cup	Motherwell	4 – 2	Airdrie
Renfrewshire Cup	St Mirren	7 – 5 *	Morton
Stirlingshire Cup	Stirling Albion	4 – 0	Stenhousemuir

^* – aggregate over two legs
† – replay
‡ – trophy shared

Highland League

Top Three

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Rothes^[2]	28	18	5	5	87	49	+38	41
2	Fraserburgh	28	18	5	5	93	41	+52	41
3	Elgin City	28	15	6	7	85	49	+36	36

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Scotland national team

Main article: Scotland national football team 1940–59 results

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score^[3]	Competition	Scotland scorer(s)
18 November 1958	Ninian Park, Cardiff (A)	Wales	3–0	BHC	Graham Leggat, Denis Law, Bobby Collins
5 November 1958	Hampden Park, Glasgow (H)	Northern Ireland	2–2	BHC	David Herd, Bobby Collins
11 April 1959	Wembley Stadium, London (A)	England	0–1	BHC
6 May 1959	Hampden Park, Glasgow (H)	West Germany	3–2	Friendly	John White, Andy Weir, Graham Leggat
27 May 1959	Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam (A)	Netherlands	2–1	Friendly	Bobby Collins, Graham Leggat
3 June 1959	Estadio da Luz, Lisbon (A)	Portugal	0–1	Friendly

Key:

• (H) = Home match
• (A) = Away match
• BHC = British Home Championship

Notes and references

1. "1958/59 - the Scottish Football League". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012.
2. won on play-off
3. Scotland's score is shown first.

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