Season | 2009β10 |
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Champions | Stirling Albion |
Promoted |
Stirling Albion Cowdenbeath |
Relegated |
Arbroath Clyde |
Top goalscorer | Rory McAllister (21) |
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The 2009β10 Scottish Second Division was the sixteenth season of the Second Division in its current format of ten teams.
Relegated from First Division to Second Division
Promoted from Second Division to First Division
Relegated from Second Division to Third Division
Promoted from Third Division to Second Division
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
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1 | Stirling Albion (C, P) | 36 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 68 | 48 | +20 | 65 | Promotion to the First Division |
2 | Alloa Athletic | 36 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 49 | 35 | +14 | 65 | Qualification for the First Division play-offs [a] |
3 | Cowdenbeath (O, P) | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 60 | 41 | +19 | 59 | |
4 | Brechin City | 36 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 47 | 42 | +5 | 54 | |
5 | Peterhead | 36 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 45 | 49 | −4 | 51 | |
6 | Dumbarton | 36 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 49 | 58 | −9 | 48 | |
7 | East Fife | 36 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 46 | 53 | −7 | 41 | |
8 | Stenhousemuir | 36 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 38 | 42 | −4 | 40 | |
9 | Arbroath (R) | 36 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 41 | 55 | −14 | 40 | Qualification for the Second Division play-offs [b] |
10 | Clyde (R) | 36 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 37 | 57 | −20 | 31 | Relegation to the Third Division |
Each team plays every other team four times during the season, twice at home and twice away, for a total of 36 matches.
The ninth placed team in the Second Division played the fourth placed team in the Third Division and third placed team in the Third Division played the second placed team in the Third Division. The play-offs were played over two legs, the winning team in each semi-final advanced to the final.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Queen's Park | 2β6 | Arbroath | 0β4 | 2β2 |
East Stirlingshire | 2β3 | Forfar Athletic | 0β1 | 2β2 |
First legs
Queen's Park | 0β4 | Arbroath |
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BBC Sport | Ross ![]() Redman ![]() Nimmo ![]() Moyes ![]() |
Second legs
Arbroath | 2β2 | Queen's Park |
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McCulloch ![]() Megginson ![]() |
BBC Sport | Daly ![]() Rattray ![]() |
Forfar Athletic | 2β2 | East Stirlingshire |
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Bishop ![]() Tulloch ![]() |
BBC Sport |
Andy Rodgers ![]() |
The two semi-final winners played each other over two legs. The winning team was awarded a place in the 2010β11 Second Division.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Arbroath | 0β2 | Forfar Athletic | 0β0 | 0β2 |
First leg
Arbroath | 0β0 | Forfar Athletic |
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BBC Sport |
Second leg