Scottish Junior Football North Premier League

Scottish Junior Football North Premier League

Country	Scotland
Founded	2001
Number of teams	14
Promotion to	no promotion
Relegation to	North First Division (West)/(East)
Domestic cup(s)	Scottish Junior Cup
Current champions	Hermes (2014–15)
Website	SJFA North Region
2015–16 North Superleague

The Scottish Junior Football North Premier League (also known as the McBookie.com Superleague) is the highest division of the North Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association. It was established in 2001 and from 2007, the league champions have qualified for the following season's Scottish Cup.^[1]

Member clubs for the 2015–16 season

From the 2013–14 season, relegated clubs drop into one of two regional divisions below the North Superleague.^[2]

North Division One (West) champions Grantown were denied promotion to the North Superleague due to ground criteria.^[3]

Club	Location	Home Ground	Finishing position 2014–15
Banchory St. Ternan	Crathes	Milton Park	10th
Banks O' Dee	Aberdeen	Spain Park	3rd
Bridge of Don Thistle	Newburgh	Gallowshill Park	North Division One (East), 1st
Culter	Peterculter	Crombie Park	4th
Deveronside	Banff	Canal Park	5th
Dyce Juniors	Aberdeen	Ian Mair Park	8th
Ellon United	Ellon	The Meadows	12th
Hall Russell United	Aberdeen	Denmore Park	11th
Hermes	Aberdeen	Uniconn Park	Champions
Inverness City	Inverness	Lister Park	7th
Maud	Maud	Maud Pleasure Park	2nd
Dufftown	Dufftown	Westburn Park	North Division One (West), 2nd
Stonehaven	Stonehaven	Glenury Park	9th
Stoneywood	Aberdeen	Market Street	6th

Champions and season summaries

Year	Winner	Runners-up	Relegated	Promoted	Champions' progression in Scottish Cup
2001–02	Formartine United	Culter	Buchanhaven Hearts	Aberdeen Lads Club	N/A
2002–03	Sunnybank	Culter	Deveronside	Turriff United	N/A
2003–04	Culter	Sunnybank	Cruden Bay Aberdeen Lads Club	Maud Ellon United	N/A
2004–05	Culter	Glentanar	East End Maud	Parkvale Fraserburgh United	N/A
2005–06	Culter	Formartine United	Fraserburgh United FC Stoneywood	Dyce Juniors Islavale	N/A
2006–07	Culter	Sunnybank	Islavale Glentanar	East End Maud	3rd Round 2007–08
2007–08	Banks O' Dee	Sunnybank	Formartine United Parkvale	Banchory St. Ternan Lewis United	2nd Round 2008–09
2008–09	Banks O' Dee	Sunnybank	Hillhead Stonehaven	Buchanhaven Hearts FC Stoneywood	2nd Round 2009–10
2009–10	Sunnybank	Culter	East End Buchanhaven Hearts	Fraserburgh United Stonehaven	3rd Round 2010–11
2010–11	Culter	Hall Russell United	Fraserburgh United	Forres Thistle	3rd Round 2011–12
2011–12	Hermes	Stonehaven	Forres Thistle Sunnybank	Fraserburgh United Deveronside	1st Round 2012–13
2012–13	Culter	Dyce Juniors	Lewis United Fraserburgh United	New Elgin East End	3rd Round 2013–14
2013–14	Culter	Banks O' Dee	East End Longside	Inverness City Cruden Bay	2nd Round 2014–15
2014–15	Hermes	Maud	New Elgin Cruden Bay	Bridge of Don Thistle Dufftown	2nd Preliminary round 2015–16

All-time Superleague table

This table is a cumulative record of matches played in the North Superleague since its inception in 2001. The table is accurate from the 2001–02 season to the end of the 2011–12 season, inclusive.^[4] Teams highlighted in bold are members of the 2012–13 North Superleague.

Aberdeen Lads Club withdrew from Junior football on the eve of the 2008–09 season.^[5] Formartine United and Turriff United joined the Highland Football League in 2009.^[6]

P	Club	Ssn	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	PPG	1st	2nd	Rel
1	Culter	11	286	189	40	57	764	355	+409	607	2.12	5	3
2	Banks O' Dee	11	286	151	57	88	602	398	+204	510	1.78	2
3	Sunnybank	11	286	158	42	86	653	431	+224	507 ^1	1.77	2	4	1
4	Hermes	11	286	121	43	122	542	517	+25	406	1.42	1
5	Longside	11	286^†	85	41	69	309	278	−119	365	1.28
6	Stonehaven	10	260	102	53	104	469	470	-1	358	1.38		1	1
7	Formartine United	7	182	90	34	58	391	328	+63	304	1.67	1	1	1
8	Ellon United	8	208	70	49	89	300	352	-52	259	1.25
9	F.C. Stoneywood	8	208	75	28	105	359	425	-66	256 ^2	1.23			1
10	Turriff United	6	156	73	28	55	280	250	+30	245	1.57
11	Wilson's XI/Hillhead	8	208	67	42	99	312	390	−78	240 ^3	1.15			1
12	Dyce Juniors	5	130	72	32	37	238	173	+65	237	1.82
13	Glentanar	6	156	64	24	68	313	287	+26	216	1.39		1	1
14	East End	7	182	62	28	92	276	342	−66	214	1.18			2
15	Maud	6	156	56	23	77	303	332	−29	191	1.22			1
16	Banchory St. Ternan	4	104	49	16	39	198	200	−2	163	1.57
17	Lewis United	4	104	35	16	53	169	243	−74	121	1.16
18	Hall Russell United	3	78	31	12	146	129	56	+17	105	1.35		1
19	Cruden Bay	3	78	24	12	115	169	40	−54	84	1.08			1
20	Parkvale	3	78	17	10	102	247	60	−145	61	0.78			1
21	Aberdeen Lads Club	2	52	16	8	28	70	121	−51	56	1.08			1
22	Fraserburgh United	2	52	8	13	31	70	132	−62	37	0.71			2
23	Buchanhaven Hearts	2	52	8	10	34	58	152	−94	34	0.65			2
24	Deveronside	2	52	6	4	42	56	169	−113	22	0.42			1
25	Islavale	1	26	5	5	16	34	60	−26	20	0.77			1
26	Forres Thistle	1	26	5	1	20	21	70	−49	16	0.62			1
27	Dufftown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			1
28	Bridge of Don Thistle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			1

P = Position; Ssn = Number of seasons; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; PPG = Points per game; Rel = Relegated
¹ Sunnybank deducted nine points in 2003–04.
² Wilson's XI deducted three points in 2003–04.
³ FC Stoneywood awarded three points in 2003–04.

References

1. "Junior clubs enter Scottish Cup". BBC. 1 June 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
2. Easton, Richard (9 June 2013). "Clubs agree to league reconstruction". SJFA, North Region. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
3. Easton, Richard. "Superleague play off to take place at Colony Park". North Region SJFA. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
4. Richard Easton (14 March 2013). "Culter top all time Superleague table". North Region SJFA. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
5. Ross McTavish (15 July 2008). "Lads Club to take a break from Junior football". Evening Express. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
6. Dave Edwards (26 February 2009). "Turriff United, Formartine and Strathspey in". The Press and Journal. Retrieved 16 March 2013.