1936–37 Scottish Division One

38th season of top-tier football league in Scotland Football league season

Scottish Division One
Season	1936–37
Champions	Rangers
Relegated	Dunfermline Athletic Albion Rovers
← 1935–36 1937–38 →

The 1936–37 Scottish Division One season was won by Rangers by seven points over nearest rival Aberdeen. Dunfermline Athletic and Albion Rovers finished 19th and 20th respectively and were relegated to the 1937–38 Scottish Division Two.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Rangers	38	26	9	3	88	32	+56	61
2	Aberdeen	38	23	8	7	89	44	+45	54
3	Celtic	38	22	8	8	89	58	+31	52
4	Motherwell	38	22	7	9	96	54	+42	51
5	Heart of Midlothian	38	24	3	11	99	60	+39	51
6	Third Lanark	38	20	6	12	79	61	+18	46
7	Falkirk	38	19	6	13	98	66	+32	44
8	Hamilton Academical	38	18	5	15	91	96	−5	41
9	Dundee	38	12	15	11	58	69	−11	39
10	Clyde	38	16	6	16	59	70	−11	38
11	Kilmarnock	38	14	9	15	60	70	−10	37
12	St Johnstone	38	14	8	16	74	68	+6	36
13	Partick Thistle	38	11	12	15	73	68	+5	34
14	Arbroath	38	13	5	20	57	84	−27	31
15	Queen's Park	38	9	12	17	51	77	−26	30
16	St Mirren	38	11	7	20	68	81	−13	29
17	Hibernian	38	6	13	19	54	83	−29	25
18	Queen of the South	38	8	8	22	49	95	−46	24
19	Dunfermline Athletic	38	5	11	22	65	98	−33	21
20	Albion Rovers	38	5	6	27	53	116	−63	16

Source: RSSSF

Results

Home \ Away	ABE	ALB	ARB	CEL	CLY	DND	DNF	FAL	HAM	HOM	HIB	KIL	MOT	PAR	QOS	QPA	RAN	STJ	STM	THI
Aberdeen		4–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–1	4–0	3–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	5–4	2–2
Albion Rovers	1–5		2–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–4	2–3	1–3	4–0	1–3	1–4	2–4	4–0	2–3	2–3	0–4	2–6	0–4
Arbroath	1–4	4–2		2–3	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–3	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–2	4–1
Celtic	3–2	4–0	5–1		3–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	3–3	3–2	5–1	2–4	3–2	1–1	5–0	4–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	6–3
Clyde	0–0	4–1	4–2	1–1		1–2	2–1	2–2	4–3	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–2	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–4
Dundee	2–2	1–0	6–1	0–0	2–2		2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–3	2–2	0–0	3–1	4–0	3–2
Dunfermline Athletic	2–2	3–3	1–4	3–4	1–3	3–4		0–2	4–2	2–5	2–3	0–5	2–2	1–1	5–0	2–2	2–3	0–0	1–0	0–0
Falkirk	0–2	3–2	0–1	0–3	6–0	5–0	6–4		3–2	3–0	4–1	5–0	1–1	4–1	5–2	1–2	0–2	3–0	5–1	5–2
Hamilton Academical	3–2	2–3	1–4	1–2	2–1	5–1	4–2	3–2		5–1	4–1	2–2	2–3	3–2	1–1	5–2	1–5	5–2	2–1	3–1
Heart of Midlothian	2–0	5–0	4–1	0–1	2–1	4–0	3–2	3–1	6–0		3–2	5–0	3–4	5–1	4–2	3–1	4–2	3–1	2–1	5–2
Hibernian	1–3	1–1	4–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	5–4	3–3		0–0	1–2	2–2	2–2	2–3	1–4	3–3	0–0	0–1
Kilmarnock	1–2	3–1	2–0	3–3	3–1	1–1	3–3	3–2	2–2	3–0	3–2		0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	4–2	2–1	0–3
Motherwell	1–0	9–1	3–1	8–0	4–1	2–1	6–0	4–2	5–2	1–3	3–4	2–1		4–2	4–1	3–1	1–4	2–2	4–1	1–2
Partick Thistle	0–2	6–1	3–1	1–1	6–0	1–1	0–4	2–2	2–3	2–2	3–1	4–0	1–0		3–1	5–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–3
Queen of the South	2–3	5–2	2–3	1–0	1–2	2–3	2–1	1–4	3–3	0–4	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–3		1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–0
Queen's Park	1–1	3–3	2–1	0–2	1–3	0–2	0–2	3–6	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–3		1–1	2–2	2–2	1–2
Rangers	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	5–3	3–0	4–0	0–1	4–0	8–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	1–1		0–0	2–0	3–1
St Johnstone	2–1	4–0	6–1	2–1	2–1	3–3	1–0	1–0	6–1	3–0	3–1	1–3	1–3	0–2	4–0	4–1	1–2		4–2	2–3
St Mirren	1–4	3–0	5–0	1–2	1–3	4–0	2–1	3–3	1–2	2–2	1–3	3–2	3–0	1–3	6–2	1–2	1–4	2–1		2–1
Third Lanark	2–0	0–0	3–2	4–2	0–2	4–0	6–3	2–3	3–2	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	3–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

Scottish Football Archive

v t e Top division football seasons in Scotland
Football League	1890–91 1891–92 1892–93
Division One	1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15
Football League	1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21
Division One / A	1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75
Premier Division	1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98
Premier League	1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13
Premiership	2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Winners	List of champions Winning managers

v t e 1936–37 in Scottish football
« 1935–36 1937–38 »
Domestic leagues	Football League Division One Division Two Highland League
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) Junior Cup
Related to national team	Results British Home Championship
Club seasons
Division One	Aberdeen Albion Rovers Arbroath Celtic Clyde Dundee Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Motherwell Partick Thistle Queen of the South Queen's Park Rangers St. Johnstone St. Mirren Third Lanark
Division Two	Airdrieonians Alloa Athletic Ayr United Brechin City Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Dundee United East Fife East Stirlingshire Edinburgh City Forfar Athletic King's Park Leith Athletic Montrose Morton Raith Rovers St Bernard's Stenhousemuir

v t e 1936–37 in European football
« 1935–36 1937–38 »
Domestic leagues	Albania '36 '37 Austria Belgium Bulgaria '36 '37 Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Estonia Finland '36 '37 France Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary Iceland '36 '37 Italy Latvia '36 '37–'38 Lithuania '36 '37 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Palestine Poland '36 '37 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '36 '37 Sweden Switzerland Turkey (National Division '37) Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Austria England France Germany '36 '37 Italy Latvia '36 '37 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '36 '37 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Spain '36 Soviet Union '36 '37 Switzerland Wales
International competitions	Mitropa Cup '36 '37

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