2021–22 Scottish League One

Scottish League One
Season	2021–22
Dates	31 July 2021 – 30 April 2022
Matches played	112
Goals scored	329 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	David Goodwillie; 15 goals
Biggest home win	Queen's Park 6–0 Falkirk; (4 December 2021)
Biggest away win	Clyde 0–5 Montrose; (16 October 2021)
Highest scoring	Falkirk 6–2 Dumbarton; (8 January 2022)
Longest winning run	Cove Rangers; 9 games
Longest unbeaten run	Montrose; 14 games
Longest winless run	East Fife; 11 games
Longest losing run	Dumbarton; East Fife; 5 games
Highest attendance	4,043; Falkirk 0–1 Queen's Park (28 August 2021)
Lowest attendance	193; Montrose 2–1 Airdrieonians (7 December 2021)
	← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 29 January 2022.

The 2021–22 Scottish League One (known as cinch League One for sponsorship reasons) is the ninth season of Scottish League One, the third tier of Scottish football. The season began on 31 July.

Ten teams contest the league: Airdrieonians, Alloa Athletic, Clyde, Cove Rangers, Dumbarton, East Fife, Falkirk, Montrose, Peterhead and Queen's Park.

Teams[]

The following teams changed division after the 2020–21 season.

To League One[]

Promoted from League Two

Queen's Park

Relegated from the Championship

Alloa Athletic

From League One[]

Relegated to League Two

Forfar Athletic

Promoted to the Championship

Partick Thistle

Stadia and locations[]

Airdrieonians	Alloa Athletic	Clyde	Cove Rangers
Excelsior Stadium	Recreation Park	Broadwood Stadium	Balmoral Stadium
Capacity: 10,101^[1]	Capacity: 3,100^[2]	Capacity: 8,086^[3]	Capacity: 2,602^[4]

Dumbarton	Airdrie Alloa Athletic Clyde Cove Rangers Dumbarton East Fife Falkirk Montrose Peterhead Queen's Park Location of teams in 2020–21 Scottish League One		East Fife
Dumbarton Football Stadium			Bayview Stadium
Capacity: 2,020^[5]			Capacity: 1,980^[6]

Falkirk	Montrose	Peterhead	Queen's Park
Falkirk Stadium	Links Park	Balmoor	Firhill Stadium^[7]
Capacity: 7,937^[8]	Capacity: 4,936^[9]	Capacity: 3,150^[10]	Capacity: 10,102^[11]

Personnel and kits[]

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Airdrieonians	Ian Murray	Callum Fordyce	Umbro	Holemasters^[12]
Alloa Athletic	Barry Ferguson	Andy Graham^[13]	Pendle	Northern Gas and Power
Clyde	Danny Lennon	Vacant	Puma	HomesBook Factoring (Home) Whitemoss Dental (Away)
Cove Rangers	Paul Hartley	Mitch Megginson	Adidas	ACE Group
Dumbarton	Stephen Farrell	Stuart Carswell	Joma^[14]	Moreroom Extensions Ltd (Home) Four Architects (Away)
East Fife	Stevie Crawford	Kevin Smith	Joma	BW Technology
Falkirk	Martin Rennie	Steven Hetherington	Puma^[15]	Clarke ePOS (UK) Ltd
Montrose	Stewart Petrie	Paul Watson	Hummel	Carnegie Fuels Ltd
Peterhead	Jim McInally	Scott Brown	Adidas	The Score Group
Queen's Park	Gardner Speirs (interim)	Michael Doyle	Admiral	Irn-Bru

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Alloa Athletic	Peter Grant	Sacked	1 May 2021	Pre-season	Barry Ferguson	27 May 2021
Falkirk	Gary Holt	End of interim spell	6 May 2021		Paul Sheerin	28 May 2021
Queen's Park	Ray McKinnon	Mutual consent	10 May 2021		Laurie Ellis	22 May 2021
Dumbarton	Jim Duffy	End of contract	24 May 2021		Stephen Farrell	29 May 2021
East Fife	Darren Young	Sacked	21 November 2021	10th	Stevie Crawford	30 November 2021
Falkirk	Paul Sheerin		5 December 2021	5th	Martin Rennie	10 December 2021
Queen's Park	Laurie Ellis		31 December 2021	4th	Gardner Speirs (interim)	31 December 2021

League summary[]

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Cove Rangers	23	15	5	3	46	21	+25	50	Promotion to the Championship
2	Airdrieonians	23	13	4	6	39	27	+12	43	Qualification for the Championship play-offs
3	Montrose	23	11	9	3	38	19	+19	42
4	Queen's Park	21	6	12	3	35	22	+13	30
5	Clyde	23	7	8	8	29	39	−10	29
6	Falkirk	22	8	4	10	32	35	−3	28
7	Peterhead	22	6	6	10	29	33	−4	24
8	Alloa Athletic	22	5	7	10	29	37	−8	22
9	Dumbarton	22	6	4	12	31	46	−15	22	Qualification for the League One play-offs
10	East Fife	23	3	5	15	21	50	−29	14	Relegation to League Two

Updated to match(es) played on 29 January 2022. Source: ^[16]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-to head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only for deciding promotion, play-off participation and relegation).^[17]

Results[]

Matches 1–18[]

Teams play each other twice, once at home and once away.

Home \ Away	AIR	ALO	CLY	COV	DUM	EFI	FAL	MON	PET	QPA
Airdrieonians	—	2–1	2–1	0–2	3–2	3–0	1–2	0–3	3–1	1–0
Alloa Athletic	2–1	—	0–1	1–3	1–2	3–1	2–0	2–2	2–4	1–1
Clyde	2–2	2–1	—	2–1	0–3	3–1	1–3	0–5	2–2	2–2
Cove Rangers	1–0	3–0	3–0	—	2–0	5–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	3–3
Dumbarton	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	—	5–0	0–3	1–3	2–3	0–3
East Fife	0–1	1–1	0–2	4–2	2–1	—	0–2	0–2	3–0	1–1
Falkirk	0–3	1–1	3–0	0–3	1–2	2–1	—	0–1	2–1	0–1
Montrose	2–1	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–2	4–1	2–2	—	1–0	1–1
Peterhead	2–3	2–0	3–2	0–1	5–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	—	2–1
Queen's Park	0–0	3–4	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	6–0	1–1	3–2	—

Source: ^[18]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 19–36[]

Teams play each other twice, once at home and once away.

Home \ Away	AIR	ALO	CLY	COV	DUM	EFI	FAL	MON	PET	QPA
Airdrieonians	—	3–1				3–0	3–2
Alloa Athletic		—								1–1
Clyde		2–1	—	0–1						1–1
Cove Rangers				—		4–2		1–0
Dumbarton	0–1			2–2	—	2–0
East Fife						—		0–2	0–0
Falkirk			1–2		6–2		—
Montrose		1–1					2–1	—	2–0
Peterhead			1–1	0–1					—
Queen's Park	1–1									—

Updated to match(es) played on 29 January 2022. Source: ^[18]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Awards[]

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Laurie Ellis	Queen's Park	Simon Murray	Queen's Park
September	Stephen Farrell	Dumbarton	Callum Wilson	Dumbarton
October	Stewart Petrie	Montrose	Rory McAllister	Cove Rangers
November	Paul Hartley	Cove Rangers	Mitch Megginson	Cove Rangers
December	Paul Hartley	Cove Rangers	Blair Yule	Cove Rangers

References[]

^ "Airdrieonians Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Alloa Athletic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Clyde Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Cove Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
^ "Dumbarton Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "East Fife Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Queen's Park To Play Home Games At Firhill". Queen's Park FC. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^ "Falkirk Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Montrose Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Peterhead Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Queen's Park Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Holemasters announced as new club sponsor". Airdrieonians FC. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
^ Hall, Jamie (27 June 2017). "Goodwin's delight in landing midfielder Thomas Grant". Alloa Advertiser. Newsquest. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
^ Findlay, Alan (28 June 2017). "The 'Big Reveal' - New home kit 2017/2018". Dumbarton FC. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
^ "New strips on sale now!". Falkirk F.C. 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
^ "cinch League One Table". Scottish Prefessional Football League. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ "The Rules of the Scottish Professional Football League" (PDF). SPFL. pp. 38–39. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
^ ^a ^b "cinch League One Results". SPFL. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

External links[]

Official website

[1] "Airdrieonians Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[2] "Alloa Athletic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[3] "Clyde Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[4] "Cove Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 17 April 2020.

[5] "Dumbarton Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[6] "East Fife Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[7] "Queen's Park To Play Home Games At Firhill". Queen's Park FC. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

[8] "Falkirk Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[9] "Montrose Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[10] "Peterhead Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[11] "Queen's Park Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[12] "Holemasters announced as new club sponsor". Airdrieonians FC. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

[13] Hall, Jamie (27 June 2017). "Goodwin's delight in landing midfielder Thomas Grant". Alloa Advertiser. Newsquest. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

[Dumbarton-14] Findlay, Alan (28 June 2017). "The 'Big Reveal' - New home kit 2017/2018". Dumbarton FC. Retrieved 9 July 2017.

[Falkirk-15] "New strips on sale now!". Falkirk F.C. 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

[16] "cinch League One Table". Scottish Prefessional Football League. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[17] "The Rules of the Scottish Professional Football League" (PDF). SPFL. pp. 38–39. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

[results-18] "cinch League One Results". SPFL. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

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