2012–13 Scottish Second Division

Irn Bru Scottish Second Division
Season	2012–13
Champions	Queen of the South
Promoted	Queen of the South Alloa Athletic
Relegated	Albion Rovers
Matches played	180
Goals scored	590 (3.28 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nicky Clark (Queen of the South) (32)
Biggest home win	Brechin City 7–2 Stenhousemuir (27 October 2012)
Biggest away win	Brechin City 0–6 Queen of the South (27 March 2013)
Longest unbeaten run	18 games Queen of the South
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Scottish Football League Second Division (also known as the 2012–13 Irn Bru Scottish Football League Second Division for sponsorship reasons) is the 18th season in the current format of 10 teams in the third-tier of Scottish football. Cowdenbeath are the current champions.

Teams

Location of teams in Scottish Second Division 2011–12

Two sides were promoted from the 2011–12 competition. Cowdenbeath as champions, and Dumbarton as winners of the promotion play-offs. They were replaced by Queen of the South, who finished bottom of the First Division, and Ayr United, who were relegated through the first division play-offs. Stirling Albion were relegated from this division after finishing bottom, and they were replaced by Third Division winners Alloa Athletic.

Albion Rovers finished in 9th place, but were able to stay up as a result of winning the promotion play-offs. Stranraer, who had lost to Albion Rovers in the play-off final, were promoted to the Second Division after the decision was made for Rangers to start in the Third Division.^[1] Stranraer replaced Airdrie United, who will take up the space in the First Division.^[1]

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Home ground	Capacity
Albion Rovers	Coatbridge	Cliftonhill	2,496
Alloa Athletic	Alloa	Recreation Park	3,412
Arbroath	Arbroath	Gayfield Park	5,900
Ayr United	Ayr	Somerset Park	10,243
Brechin City	Brechin	Glebe Park	3,960
East Fife	Methil	Bayview Stadium	2,000
Forfar Athletic	Forfar	Station Park	6,777
Queen of the South	Dumfries	Palmerston Park	6,412
Stenhousemuir	Stenhousemuir	Ochilview Park	3,776
Stranraer	Stranraer	Stair Park	5,600

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Queen of the South !Queen of the South (C) (P)	36	29	5	2	92	23	+69	92	Promotion to the 2013–14 Scottish First Division
2	Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic (P)	36	20	7	9	62	35	+27	67	Qualification to the Scottish First Division Play-offs
3	Brechin City !Brechin City	36	19	4	13	72	59	+13	61
4	Forfar Athletic !Forfar Athletic	36	17	3	16	67	74	−7	54
5	Arbroath !Arbroath	36	15	7	14	47	57	−10	52
6	Stenhousemuir !Stenhousemuir	36	12	13	11	59	59	0	49
7	Ayr United !Ayr United	36	12	5	19	53	65	−12	41
8	Stranraer !Stranraer	36	10	7	19	43	71	−28	37
9	East Fife !East Fife (O)	36	8	8	20	50	65	−15	32	Qualification to the Scottish Second Division Play-offs
10	Albion Rovers !Albion Rovers (R)	36	7	3	26	45	82	−37	24	Relegation to the 2013–14 Scottish Third Division

Updated to games played on 19 May 2013.
Source: Scottish Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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

Home ╲ Away	Albion Rovers !ALB	Alloa Athletic !ALO	Arbroath !ARB	Ayr United !AYR	Brechin City !BRE	East Fife !EFI	Forfar Athletic !FOR	Queen of the South !QOS	Stenhousemuir !STE	Stranraer !STR
Albion Rovers !Albion Rovers		0–3	4–0	2–0	1–2	0–3	2–3	0–3	4–4	2–1
Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic	5–1		2–3	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	3–0
Arbroath !Arbroath	2–1	1–2		4–2	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	2–2	2–1
Ayr United !Ayr United	2–1	0–0	2–0		3–0	2–3	2–3	2–4	1–1	2–1
Brechin City !Brechin City	1–0	1–3	3–2	2–1		2–1	4–1	0–3	7–2	3–0
East Fife !East Fife	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–3	2–2		3–0	0–0	3–2	0–1
Forfar Athletic !Forfar Athletic	4–2	2–3	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2		1–5	3–2	4–0
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	1–0	1–0	6–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0		2–2	4–1
Stenhousemuir !Stenhousemuir	1–0	0–2	2–2	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–4	1–3		0–0
Stranraer !Stranraer	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–0	0–2	2–6	4–1	0–2	1–1

Source: BBC Sport
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 season

Home ╲ Away	Albion Rovers !ALB	Alloa Athletic !ALO	Arbroath !ARB	Ayr United !AYR	Brechin City !BRE	East Fife !EFI	Forfar Athletic !FOR	Queen of the South !QOS	Stenhousemuir !STE	Stranraer !STR
Albion Rovers !Albion Rovers		1–5	0–1	1–3	3–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	4–3	2–3
Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic	4–1		0–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	4–1
Arbroath !Arbroath	2–1	0–1		1–4	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0
Ayr United !Ayr United	5–2	0–2	0–1		1–2	2–1	2–1	1–5	1–2	2–1
Brechin City !Brechin City	2–0	3–2	2–0	2–1		6–0	3–4	0–6	1–2	2–2
East Fife !East Fife	2–0	2–1	0–1	3–3	0–3		1–2	2–3	1–2	1–1
Forfar Athletic !Forfar Athletic	4–2	0–1	2–4	2–1	1–4	3–2		0–4	3–3	3–1
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	3–0	0–0	5–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	3–1		2–1	2–0
Stenhousemuir !Stenhousemuir	0–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	3–3	2–1	2–0	2–1		1–2
Stranraer !Stranraer	3–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	3–2	3–1	0–3	0–5	1–1

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: BBC Sport
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 fourth placed team in the Third Division (Berwick Rangers) will play the ninth placed team in the Second Division (East Fife) and third placed team in the Third Division (Peterhead) will play the second placed team in the Third Division (Queen's Park). The play-offs will be played over two legs, the winning team in each semi-final will advance to the final.

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

First legs

Berwick Rangers v East Fife

8 May
8:00 pm

Berwick Rangers	1 – 1	East Fife
Lavery 72'	BBC Sport	Muir 44'

Shielfield Park
Attendance: 732
Referee: Salmond

Queen's Park v Peterhead

8 May
7:30 pm

Queen's Park	0 – 1	Peterhead
	BBC Sport	Rodgers 90' (pen.)

Hampden Park
Attendance: 651
Referee: McKendrick

Second legs

East Fife v Berwick Rangers

11 May
3:00 pm

East Fife	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Berwick Rangers
McDonald 78' (o.g.) Gormley 119'	BBC Sport	Lavery 61' (pen.)

Bayview Stadium
Attendance: 856
Referee: Colvin

Peterhead v Queen's Park

11 May
3:00 pm

Peterhead	3 – 1	Queen's Park
Cox 4', 10' McAllister 64' Strachan 80'	BBC Sport	Shankland 87'

Balmoor Stadium
Attendance: 954
Referee: Robertson

Final

The two semi-final winners will play each other over two legs. The winning team will be awarded a place in the 2013–14 Second Division.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
East Fife	1 – 0	Peterhead	0 – 0	1 – 0

First leg

East Fife v Peterhead

15 May 2013
7:45 pm

East Fife	0 – 0	Peterhead
	BBC Sport

Bayview Stadium
Attendance: 826
Referee: Beaton

Second leg

Peterhead v East Fife

19 May 2013
3:00 pm

Peterhead	0 - 1	East Fife
	BBC Sport	Muir 48'

Balmoor Stadium
Attendance: 1,855
Referee: Clancy

References

1 2 "Rangers: Airdrie United and Stranraer are promoted". BBC Sport (BBC). 16 July 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

2012–13 in Scottish football

« 2011–12 2013–14 »

Domestic leagues	Premier League Football League First Division Second Division Third Division Highland League SJFA West Premier SJFA East Superleague SJFA North Superleague Scottish Premier Under-20 League Women's Premier League '12 '13

Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Challenge Cup (Final) Junior Cup Youth Cup Women's Cup

European competitions	Champions League Europa League

Related to national team	Results 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A

Club seasons

Premier League	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Ross County St Johnstone St. Mirren

First Division	Airdrie United Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Greenock Morton Hamilton Academical Livingston Partick Thistle Raith Rovers

Second Division	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Arbroath Ayr United Brechin City East Fife Forfar Athletic Queen of the South Stenhousemuir Stranraer

Third Division	Annan Athletic Berwick Rangers Clyde East Stirlingshire Elgin City Montrose Peterhead Queen's Park Rangers Stirling Albion

List of Scottish football transfers summer 2012 List of Scottish football transfers winter 2012–13

Third division football seasons in Scotland

Division Three	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

Second 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 1998–99 1999–00 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

Scottish League One	2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

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