2009–10 Scottish Second Division

Scottish Second Division

Season	2009–10
Champions	Stirling Albion
Promoted	Stirling Albion Cowdenbeath
Relegated	Arbroath Clyde
Top goalscorer	Rory McAllister (21)
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 Scottish Second Division will be the fifteenth season of the Second Division in its current format of ten teams.

Promotion and relegation from 2008–09

Stirling Albion

Brechin City

Dumbarton

East Fife

Arbroath

Clyde

Peterhead

Alloa Athletic

Cowdenbeath

Stenhousemuir

Location of teams in Scottish Second Division 2009–10

First & Second Divisions

Relegated from First Division to Second Division

• Clyde

Promoted from Second Division to First Division

• Raith Rovers
• Ayr United

Second & Third Divisions

Relegated from Second Division to Third Division

• Queen's Park
• Stranraer

Promoted from Third Division to Second Division

• Dumbarton
• Stenhousemuir
• Cowdenbeath

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Stirling Albion (C) (P)	36	18	11	7	68	48	+20	65	First Division
2	Alloa Athletic	36	19	8	9	49	35	+14	65	First Division Play-offs
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	Second Division Play-offs
10	Clyde (R)	36	8	7	21	37	57	−20	31	Third Division

Updated to games played on 1 May 2010.
Source: Scottish Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
First Division Play-offs:The 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed teams will be entered into a play-off with the First Division's 9th placed team. The winning team will be awarded a place in the 2010–11 First Division.
Second Division Play-offs:The 9th place team will be entered into a play-off with the 2nd,3rd and 4th places of the Third Division. The winner gete a place in the 2010-11 Second Division
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Each team plays every other team four times during the season, twice at home and twice away, for a total of 36 matches.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	ALO	ARB	BRE	CLY	COW	DUM	EFI	PET	STE	STI
Alloa Athletic		0–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	0–0	1–0	1–4	1–0
Arbroath	2–2		1–4	0–3	0–1	3–1	0–1	0–1	0–3	3–4
Brechin City	2–1	0–0		2–2	3–1	3–1	3–2	3–0	1–0	1–0
Clyde	0–1	1–0	1–0		0–1	0–2	1–3	1–3	2–1	0–1
Cowdenbeath	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–0		2–1	2–1	5–0	2–1	1–2
Dumbarton	1–3	1–0	0–0	3–3	0–3		0–3	1–0	0–0	2–3
East Fife	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–1		1–2	2–1	1–2
Peterhead	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–2	1–1		2–2	3–2
Stenhousemuir	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–3	1–1	2–0		1–2
Stirling Albion	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	3–0	2–1	0–0

Updated to games played on 9 February 2010.
Source: Scottish Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of the season

Home ╲ Away	ALO	ARB	BRE	CLY	COW	DUM	EFI	PET	STE	STI
Alloa Athletic		1–0	2–3	2–2	3–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–1
Arbroath	0–0		1–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–4	1–1	2–4
Brechin City	1–1	0–2		3–1	3–3	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–1
Clyde	0–2	0–2	0–3		1–2	4–2	2–1	3–1	0–2	1–2
Cowdenbeath	1–1	2–1	4–0	3–1		0–0	6–2	1–3	1–0	3–3
Dumbarton	3–1	0–2	0–1	3–3	2–1		0–1	1–2	2–1	2–4
East Fife	0–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–3		3–0	1–1	0–3
Peterhead	2–0	3–0	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–1		0–1	1–1
Stenhousemuir	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1		1–3
Stirling Albion	0–3	2–2	6–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	3–3	2–0	1–1

Updated to games played on 1 May 2010.
Source: Scottish Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second Division Play-offs

Times are BST (UTC+1)

Semi-Finals

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
Queen's Park	2–6	Arbroath	0–4	2–2
East Stirlingshire	2–3	Forfar Athletic	0–1	2–2

First legs

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Queen's Park v Arbroath

5 May 2010 7:45pm

Queen's Park	0–4	Arbroath
	BBC Sport	Ross  24' Redman  45' Nimmo  53' Moyes  68'

Hampden Park Attendance: 651

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East Stirlingshire v Forfar Athletic

5 May 2010 7:45pm

East Stirlingshire	0–1	Forfar Athletic
	BBC Sport	Campbell  68' (pen)

Ochilview Park Attendance: 487

Second legs

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Arbroath v Queen's Park

8 May 3:00pm

Arbroath	2–2	Queen's Park
McCulloch  3' Megginson  15'	BBC Sport	Daly  57' Rattray  82' (o.g)

Gayfield Park Attendance: 588

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Forfar Athletic v East Stirlingshire

8 May 3:00pm

Forfar Athletic	2–2	East Stirlingshire
Bishop  4' Tulloch  82'	BBC Sport	Andy Rodgers  49', 76'

Station Park, Forfar Attendance: 745

Final

The two semi-final winners played each other over two legs. The winning team was awarded a place in the 2010–11 Second Division.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Arbroath	0–2	Forfar Athletic	0–0	0–2

First leg

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Arbroath v Forfar Athletic

12 May 2010 7:45pm

Arbroath	0–0	Forfar Athletic
	BBC Sport

Gayfield Park Attendance: 1027

Second leg

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Forfar Athletic v Arbroath

16 May 2010 3:00pm

Forfar Athletic	2–0	Arbroath
Fotheringham  5' Deasley 90+3'	BBC Sport

Station Park, Forfar Attendance: 2207