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2010–11 Scottish First Division

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Season
  
2010–11

Promoted
  
Dunfermline Athletic

Champion
  
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Champions
  
Dunfermline Athletic

Dates
  
7 Aug 2010 – 22 May 2011

Location
  
Scotland, United Kingdom

Biggest home win
  
Dunfermline Athletic 5–0 Cowdenbeath (29 December 2010) Partick Thistle 6–1 Stirling Albion (15 January 2011) Dunfermline Athletic 6-1 Queen of the South (16 April 2011)

Biggest away win
  
Stirling Albion 0–5 Falkirk (13 November 2010)

Highest scoring
  
Partick Thistle 6–1 Stirling Albion (15 January 2011) Stirling Albion 3–4 Cowdenbeath (5 March 2011) Dunfermline Athletic 6-1 Queen of the South (16 April 2011)

Relegated
  
Cowdenbeath F.C., Stirling Albion F.C.

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The 2010–11 Scottish First Division was the sixteenth season of the First Division in its current format of ten teams. Dunfermline Athletic finished champions, with Cowdenbeath and Stirling Albion being relegated.

Contents

SPL & First Division

Relegated from Premier League to First Division

  • Falkirk
  • Promoted from First Division to Scottish Premier League

  • Inverness Caledonian Thistle
  • First & Second Divisions

    Relegated from First Division to Second Division

  • Ayr United
  • Airdrie United (via play-offs)
  • Promoted from Second Division to First Division

  • Stirling Albion
  • Cowdenbeath (via play-offs)
  • League table

    Updated to games played on 7 May.
    Source: BBC Sport
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    * Dundee were docked 25 points for entering administration. The deduction was temporarily lifted pending an appeal by the club, however the appeal failed and the deduction was reinstated.
    (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

    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

    Updated to games played on 19 April.
    Source: BBC Sport
    ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Second half of season

    Updated to games played on 7 May 2011.
    Source:
    ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Top goalscorers

    15 goals
  • Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle)
  • Mark Stewart (Falkirk)
  • 13 goals
  • John Baird (Raith Rovers)
  • Andy Kirk (Dunfermline Athletic)
  • 12 goals
  • Colin McMenamin (Queen of the South)
  • 11 goals
  • Gordon Smith (Stirling Albion)
  • 9 goals
  • Pat Clarke (Dunfermline Athletic)
  • Martin Hardie (Dunfermline Athletic)
  • Sean Higgins (Dundee)
  • Allan Jenkins (Greenock Morton)
  • Willie McLaren (Queen of the South)
  • Greg Stewart (Cowdenbeath)
  • First Division Play-offs

    Times are BST (UTC+1)

    Semi-Finals

    The fourth placed team in the Second Division (Brechin City) will play the ninth placed team in the First Division (Cowdenbeath) and third placed team in the Second Division (Forfar Athletic) will play the second placed team in the Second Division (Ayr United). The play-offs will be played over two legs on Wednesday 11 May 2011 & Saturday 14 May 2011, the winning team in each semi-final will advance to the final on Wednesday 18 May 2011 & Sunday 22 May 2011.

    First legs

    Second legs

    Final

    The two semi-final winners will play each other over two legs. The winning team will be awarded a place in the 2011–12 First Division.

    First leg

    Second leg

    References

    2010–11 Scottish First Division Wikipedia