2006–07 Scottish Second Division

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Scottish Second Division

Season	2006–07
Champions	Greenock Morton
Promoted	Greenock Morton Stirling Albion
Relegated	Forfar Athletic Stranraer
Top goalscorer	Iain Russell (21)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 Second Division season is the twelfth season of the Scottish Second Division in its current format of ten teams.

Greenock Morton were promoted to the First Division as League champions. Stirling Albion, Raith Rovers and Brechin City enter the promotion/relegation play offs for a place in the First Division along with Airdrie United who finished second bottom of the First Division.

Forfar Athletic were relegated to the Third Division while Stranraer enter the promotion/relegation play offs with the second, third and fourth placed teams of the Third Division - Arbroath, Queen's Park and East Fife respectively.

Promotion and Relegation from 2005–06[]

First & Second Divisions[]

Relegated from First Division to Second Division

• Brechin City
• Stranraer (via play-offs)

Promoted from Second Division to First Division

• Gretna
• Partick Thistle (via play-offs)

Second & Third Divisions[]

Relegated from Second Division to Third Division

• Dumbarton

Promoted from Third Division to Second Division

• Cowdenbeath

Table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Greenock Morton	36	24	5	7	76	32	+44	77	Promoted To First Division 2007–08
2	Stirling Albion	36	21	6	9	67	39	+28	69
3	Raith Rovers	36	18	8	10	50	33	+17	62
4	Brechin City	36	18	6	12	61	45	+16	60
5	Ayr United	36	14	8	14	46	47	−1	50
6	Cowdenbeath	36	13	6	17	59	56	+3	45
7	Alloa Athletic	36	11	9	16	47	70	−23	42
8	Peterhead	36	11	8	17	60	62	−2	41
9	Stranraer	36	10	9	17	45	74	−29	39	Relegated to Third Division 2007–08
10	Forfar Athletic	36	4	7	25	37	90	−53	19

Top scorers[]

Scorer	Goals	Team
Iain Russell	21	Brechin City
Liam Buchanan	20	Cowdenbeath
Peter Weatherson	15	Greenock Morton
Colin Cramb	14	Stirling Albion
Pat Clarke	13	Cowdenbeath
Michael Moore		Stranraer
Bobby Linn	12	Greenock Morton
Chris Templeman		Greenock Morton
Martin Bavidge	11	Peterhead
Darren Gribben		Forfar Athletic
Paul McGowan		Greenock Morton

Attendances[]

The average attendances for Second Division clubs for season 2006/07 are shown below:

Club	Average	Highest
Greenock Morton	2,651	5,255
Raith Rovers	1,935	4,327
Ayr United	1,202	2,105
Stirling Albion	947	2,608
Cowdenbeath	683	2,249
Peterhead	636	819
Alloa Athletic	634	1,138
Brechin City	569	909
Forfar Athletic	500	765
Stranraer	418	1,003

Second Division play-offs[]

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 Second Division played the second placed team in the Second 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
East Fife	4 – 2	Stranraer	4–1	0–1
Queen's Park	4 – 1	Arbroath	2–0	2–1

First legs

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Second legs

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Final[]

The two semi-final winners played each other over two legs. The winning team was awarded a place in the 2008–09 Second Division.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Queen's Park	7 – 2	East Fife	4–2	3–0

First leg

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Second leg

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Queen's Park were promoted to the Second Division