North Region Junior Football League

The North Region Junior Football League is a football league based in the north east of Scotland. The league sits at levels 6–7 on the Scottish football league system, acting as a feeder to the Highland Football League.

North Region Junior Football League

Founded	2001 (23 years ago) (2001)
Country	Scotland
Number of teams	30
Level on pyramid	6–7
Promotion to	Highland League
Domestic cup(s)	Scottish Cup (SFA licensed clubs and Premier League winners) Scottish Junior Cup
Current champions	Culter (9th title) (2023–24)
Most championships	Culter (9 titles)
Website	SJFA North Region
Current: 2024–25 North Region Junior Football League

Geographically, the league covers Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

The winners take part in an end of season promotion play-off with the Midlands Football League and North Caledonian Football League champions, subject to clubs meeting the required licensing criteria.

From 2018 to 2022, the league consisted of three divisions at Tiers 6 to 8. The 2018 league was essentially a continuation of a two division system which operated from 2003. It was split into two geographical sections at Tier 7 from 2011, with the lower (Tier 8) Division Two disbanded two years later. After five seasons of that setup, a three-division model was restored. The league currently consists of two divisions, a Premier League and a Championship.

Member clubs for the 2023–24 season

The current system sees two clubs automatically relegated from the Premier League, who are replaced by two clubs from the Championship. The third-bottom club in the Premier League enters a play-off with the clubs who finish between third and fifth in the Championship. In the semi-finals, the Premier League side plays the fifth-placed Championship side, and the fourth and fifth-placed teams play each other, both games over two legs. The winners then progress to a single-leg final.

Premier League

Club	Location	Ground	Finishing position 2022–23
Bridge of Don Thistle	Aberdeen	Aberdeen Sports Village	5th
Buchanhaven Hearts	Peterhead	Raemoss Park	4th in Championship
Colony Park	Inverurie	Colony Park	11th
Culter	Peterculter	Crombie Park	1st
Dyce	Dyce	Ian Mair Park	3rd
East End	Aberdeen	New Advocates Park	7th
Ellon United	Ellon	The Meadows	8th
Fraserburgh United	Fraserburgh	College Park	2nd in Championship
Hermes	Bridge of Don	Lochside Park	2nd
Maud	Maud	Maud Pleasure Park	10th
Nairn St Ninian	Nairn	Showfield Park	12th
Newmachar United	Newmachar	Charles Gordon Park	5th in Championship
Stoneywood Parkvale	Aberdeen	Clark Commercial Park	6th
Sunnybank	Aberdeen	Heathryfold Park	1st in Championship
Stonehaven	Stonehaven	Glenury Park	4th
Rothie Rovers	Rothienorman	Forgue Road	3rd in Championship

Championship

Club	Location	Ground	Finishing position 2022–23
Banchory St Ternan	Banchory	Milton Park	13th in Premier League
Banks o' Dee Juniors	Aberdeen	Spain Park	7th
Burghead Thistle	Burghead	Forest Park	10th
Cruden Bay	Cruden Bay	Watson Park	14th
Deveronside	Banff	Myrus Centre	12th
Dufftown	Dufftown	Westburn Park	14th in Premier League
Forres Thistle	Forres	Logie Park	6th
Glentanar	Woodside	Woodside Sports Complex	11th
Hall Russell United	Bridge of Don	Denmore Park	In abeyance
Islavale	Keith	Simpson Park	8th
Longside	Longside	Davidson Park	9th
Lossiemouth United	Lossiemouth	Phoenix Park	15th
New Elgin	Elgin	Nicol-Togneri Park	16th
Whitehills	Whitehills	Daniel Morgan Arena	In abeyance

Champions and season summaries

For champions of the system in place prior to 2001, see North Junior Football League.

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 (2)	Glentanar	East End Maud	Parkvale Fraserburgh United	N/A
2005–06	Culter (3)	Formartine United	Fraserburgh United FC Stoneywood	Dyce Islavale	N/A
2006–07	Culter (4)	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 (2)	Sunnybank	Hillhead Stonehaven	Buchanhaven Hearts FC Stoneywood	2nd Round 2009–10
2009–10	Sunnybank (2)	Culter	East End Buchanhaven Hearts	Fraserburgh United Stonehaven	3rd Round 2010–11
2010–11	Culter (5)	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 (6)	Dyce	Lewis United Fraserburgh United	New Elgin East End	3rd Round 2013–14
2013–14	Culter (7)	Banks o' Dee	East End Longside	Inverness City Cruden Bay	2nd Round 2014–15
2014–15	Hermes (2)	Maud	New Elgin Cruden Bay	Bridge of Don Thistle Dufftown	2nd Preliminary round 2015–16
2015–16	Banks o' Dee (3)	Hermes	Ellon United FC Stoneywood	Buckie Rovers Colony Park	2nd Round 2016–17
2016–17	Banks o' Dee (4)	Dyce	Buckie Rovers Deveronside	Ellon United Montrose Roselea	3rd Round 2017–18
2017–18	Banks o' Dee (5)	Hermes	Banchory St Ternan Inverness City	East End Nairn St Ninian	1st Preliminary round 2018–19
2018–19[1]	Banks o' Dee (6)	Bridge of Don Thistle	Dufftown Stonehaven	Banchory St Ternan Deveronside	2nd Round 2019–20
2019–20[2]	Season declared Null and void on 2 May 2020 after vote among SJFA North clubs, no champion was declared and no relegation applied.[3][lower-alpha 1]				N/A
2020–21	Season declared Null and void by SJFA on 16 Mar 2021, no champion was declared and no relegation applied.[4]				N/A
2021–22	Banks o' Dee (7)	Bridge of Don Thistle	Deveronside	Stonehaven Stoneywood Parkvale Dufftown	1st Round 2022–23
2022–23	Culter (8)	Hermes	Dufftown Banchory St Ternan	Sunnybank Fraserburgh United Rothie Rovers Buchanhaven Hearts Newmachar United	1st Round 2023–24
2023–24	Culter (9)	Bridge of Don Thistle	Stoneywood Parkvale Nairn St Ninian	Islavale Banks o' Dee Juniors	TBD

1. Using a 'points per game' algorithm applied in other leagues, Banks o' Dee (who were leading the table by a big margin) would have been nominal champions.

References

1. McBookie.Com Superleague Table 18/19, North Region Junior Football League
2. McBookie.Com Superleague Table 19/20, North Region Junior Football League
3. Clark, Will (2 May 2020). "North junior football season is declared null and void as season over for Nairn St Ninian". Inverness Courier. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
4. "SEASON 2020/21 ENDED". Scottish Junior FA. Retrieved 5 July 2021.