2018–19 Scottish League Two

The 2018–19 Scottish League Two (known as Ladbrokes League Two for sponsorship reasons) was the 25th season in the current format of 10 teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The fixtures were published on 15 June 2018 and the season began on 4 August 2018.^[3]

Scottish League Two

Season	2018–19
Dates	4 August 2018 – 4 May 2019
Champions	Peterhead
Promoted	Peterhead Clyde
Relegated	Berwick Rangers
Matches played	180
Goals scored	501 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorer	Blair Henderson (30 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Queen's Park 7–1 Berwick Rangers[2] (26 January 2019) Annan Athletic 6–0 Berwick Rangers[2] (6 April 2019)
Biggest away win	Berwick Rangers 0–5 Peterhead[2] (8 December 2018) Albion Rovers 0–5 Stirling Albion[2] (26 January 2019)
Highest scoring	Albion Rovers 3–5 Berwick Rangers[2] (1 September 2018) Queen's Park 7–1 Berwick Rangers[2] (26 January 2019)
Longest winning run	8 matches:[2] Edinburgh City
Longest unbeaten run	16 matches:[2] Clyde
Longest winless run	19 matches:[2] Albion Rovers
Longest losing run	8 matches:[2] Albion Rovers
Highest attendance	1,371 Peterhead 1–1 Stirling Albion[2] (27 April 2019)
Lowest attendance	145 Albion Rovers 1–1 Annan Athletic[2] (29 December 2018)
Total attendance	90,826[2]
Average attendance	504[2] (12)
← 2017–18 2019–20 → All statistics correct as of 4 May 2019.

The bottom team entered a two-legged play-off against the winners of the Pyramid play-off between the Highland League and Lowland League champions, to determine which team competes in League Two in the 2019–20 season.^[4]

Ten teams contested the league: Albion Rovers, Annan Athletic, Berwick Rangers, Clyde, Cowdenbeath, Edinburgh City, Elgin City, Peterhead, Queen's Park and Stirling Albion.

Peterhead lifted the title after a 2–0 win at Queen's Park on the final day.

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2017–18 season.

To League Two Relegated from Scottish League One Queen's Park Albion Rovers

From League Two Promoted to Scottish League One Montrose Stenhousemuir

Stadia and locations

Albion Rovers	Annan Athletic	Berwick Rangers	Clyde
Cliftonhill	Galabank	Shielfield Park	Broadwood Stadium
Capacity: 1,238[5]	Capacity: 2,504[6]	Capacity: 4,099[7]	Capacity: 8,086[8]
Cowdenbeath	Albion Rovers Annan Athletic Berwick Rangers Clyde Cowdenbeath Edinburgh City Elgin City Peterhead Queen's Park Stirling Albion Location of teams in 2018–19 Scottish League Two		Edinburgh City
Central Park			Ainslie Park[9]
Capacity: 4,309[10]			Capacity: 3,000
Elgin City	Peterhead	Queen's Park	Stirling Albion
Borough Briggs	Balmoor	Hampden Park	Forthbank Stadium
Capacity: 4,520[11]	Capacity: 3,150[12]	Capacity: 51,866[13]	Capacity: 3,798[14]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Albion Rovers	Kevin Harper	Bryan Wharton	Joma	Reigart Demolition
Annan Athletic	Peter Murphy	Scott Hooper	Halbro[15]	M&S Engineering Ltd[15][16]
Berwick Rangers	John Brownlie	Robert Wilson	Mitre[17]	Northern Soul Kitchen
Clyde	Danny Lennon	Kevin Nicoll	Kappa	Advance Construction Group (H)[18] Rock Regen (A)[19]
Cowdenbeath	Gary Bollan	Kyle Miller	Errea	Subsea Pressure Controls[20]
Edinburgh City	James McDonaugh	Josh Walker[21]	Joma[22]	CMC Property[23]
Elgin City	Gavin Price	Darryl McHardy	EV2 Sportswear[24]	McDonald & Munro[25]
Peterhead	Jim McInally	Rory McAllister	Adidas	Independent Oilfield Services
Queen's Park	Mark Roberts	Scott Gibson	Under Armour	Irn-Bru
Stirling Albion	Kevin Rutkiewicz	Ross McGeachie	Macron	Prudential

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Albion Rovers	Brian Kerr	Resigned	7 May 2018[26]	Pre-season	John Brogan	22 May 2018[27]
Queen's Park	Gus MacPherson	Left for St Mirren	18 September 2018[28]	6th	Mark Roberts (interim)	20 September 2018[29]
Queen's Park	Mark Roberts (interim)	End of interim	12 October 2018[30]	6th	Mark Roberts	12 October 2018[30]
Stirling Albion	Dave Mackay	Sacked	29 September 2018[31]	7th	Kevin Rutkiewicz	22 October 2018[32]
Berwick Rangers	Robbie Horn	Resigned	6 October 2018[33]	9th	Johnny Harvey	16 October 2018[34]
Albion Rovers	John Brogan	Resigned	21 October 2018[35]	10th	Kevin Harper	6 November 2018[36]
Berwick Rangers	Johnny Harvey	Sacked	2 May 2019[37]	10th	John Brownlie	2 May 2019[37]

League summary

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Peterhead (C, P)	36	24	7	5	65	29	+36	79	Promotion to League One
2	Clyde[a] (O, P)	36	23	5	8	63	35	+28	74	Qualification for the League One play-offs
3	Edinburgh City	36	20	7	9	58	31	+27	67
4	Annan Athletic	36	20	6	10	70	39	+31	66
5	Stirling Albion	36	13	8	15	44	45	−1	47
6	Cowdenbeath	36	12	7	17	46	46	0	43
7	Queen's Park[a]	36	11	10	15	44	47	−3	43
8	Elgin City	36	13	4	19	52	67	−15	43
9	Albion Rovers[a]	36	7	6	23	32	71	−39	27
10	Berwick Rangers (R)	36	5	4	27	27	91	−64	19	Qualification for the League Two play-off final

Source: SPFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Albion Rovers and Queen's Park were awarded 3–0 technical victories against Clyde in February 2019 after Clyde fielded an ineligible player. The original matches had finished 1–0 to Clyde and 1–1 respectively.^[38][39]

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

	Leader - Promotion to 2019–20 League One
	Qualification for League One play-offs
	Qualification for League Two play-off final

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
Peterhead	6	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Clyde	2	1	5	6	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
Edinburgh City	1	6	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
Annan Athletic	4	3	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Stirling Albion	8	9	9	9	9	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	6	5	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Cowdenbeath	9	8	7	7	8	9	9	9	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	6
Queen's Park	7	5	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	7
Elgin City	5	4	3	4	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	6	7	6	6	6	6	5	6	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	8
Albion Rovers	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Berwick Rangers	3	7	8	8	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Source: Scottish League Two - Table
Updated: 4 May 2019

Results

Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 180 games, with each team playing 36.

First half of season

Home \ Away	ALB	ANN	BER	CLY	COW	EDC	ELG	PET	QUE	STI
Albion Rovers	—	1–1	3–5	0–3	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–4	0–3	3–1
Annan Athletic	3–1	—	4–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–3	3–1	2–2
Berwick Rangers	2–0	0–3	—	2–3	0–3	2–2	0–3	0–5	1–2	1–0
Clyde	1–0	1–0	3–3	—	2–0	0–2	4–1	1–3	2–0	1–1
Cowdenbeath	1–1	1–2	4–0	1–1	—	0–2	1–2	2–4	2–0	1–0
Edinburgh City	4–0	2–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	—	4–1	1–1	2–0	3–1
Elgin City	4–2	0–1	2–4	1–3	3–1	1–0	—	0–3	2–1	0–3
Peterhead	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	—	1–1	4–1
Queen's Park	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–4	2–0	—	1–1
Stirling Albion	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–3	2–1	0–1	5–2	0–2	1–0	—

Source: Scottish League Two
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home \ Away	ALB	ANN	BER	CLY	COW	EDC	ELG	PET	QUE	STI
Albion Rovers	—	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–2	0–3	0–2	0–4	0–5
Annan Athletic	4–0	—	6–0	1–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–2
Berwick Rangers	0–3	1–2	—	0–3	1–1	0–2	0–3	2–0	0–3	1–2
Clyde	0–3	2–1	5–0	—	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–3	3–0	3–1
Cowdenbeath	1–0	2–4	2–0	2–1	—	4–1	2–1	1–3	0–0	1–2
Edinburgh City	3–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	—	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1
Elgin City	0–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–4	3–3	—	1–2	2–2	3–2
Peterhead	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	2–1	1–1
Queen's Park	2–2	0–3	7–1	3–0	1–1	0–4	4–1	0–2	—	0–0
Stirling Albion	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	—

Source: Scottish League Two
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of 4 May 2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Blair Henderson	Edinburgh City	30
2	David Goodwillie	Clyde	17
3	Rory McAllister	Peterhead	15
4	Shane Sutherland	Elgin City & Peterhead	13
5	Tommy Muir	Annan Athletic	12
	Tony Wallace	Annan Athletic

Source:^[40]

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Scottish Professional Football League hat-tricks § Scottish League Two

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Blair Henderson	Edinburgh City	Albion Rovers	4–0 (H)	4 August 2018	[41]
Blair Henderson	Edinburgh City	Elgin City	4–1 (H)	15 December 2018	[42]
Peter MacDonald	Stirling Albion	Albion Rovers	0–5 (A)	26 January 2019	[43]
Darryl McHardy	Elgin City	Albion Rovers	0–3 (A)	9 February 2019	[44]
David Galt	Queen's Park	Elgin City	4–1 (H)	16 March 2019	[45]
Jordan Allan	Cowdenbeath	Edinburgh City	4–1 (H)	6 April 2019	[46]

Note

(H) = Home, (A) = Away;

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Peterhead	12,021	1,371	522	667	+9.2%†
2	Clyde	11,485	1,012	408	638	+29.7%†
3	Elgin City	11,211	929	485	622	+2.5%†
4	Queen's Park	11,001	1,076	404	611	−11.1%†
5	Stirling Albion	10,583	802	413	587	−10.7%†
6	Berwick Rangers	8,599	975	293	477	+10.2%†
7	Edinburgh City	7,223	1,057	247	401	+24.9%†
8	Annan Athletic	7,168	569	317	398	+15.0%†
9	Cowdenbeath	6,384	1,007	250	354	+11.0%†
10	Albion Rovers	5,151	560	145	286	−37.3%†
	League total	90,826	1,371	145	504	+2.4%†

Updated to games played on 4 May 2019
Source: ^{[2] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56]}

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Ref.
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Peter Murphy	Annan Athletic	Rory McAllister	Peterhead	[57]
September	James McDonaugh	Edinburgh City	Conrad Balatoni	Edinburgh City
October	Mark Roberts	Queen's Park	Blair Henderson	Edinburgh City
November	Danny Lennon	Clyde	Dylan Cogill	Clyde
December	Jim McInally	Peterhead	Blair Henderson	Edinburgh City
January	Danny Lennon	Clyde	Peter MacDonald	Stirling Albion
February	Peter Murphy	Annan Athletic	Chris Johnston	Annan Athletic
March	Kevin Harper	Albion Rovers	Peter Morrison	Albion Rovers
April	Danny Lennon	Clyde	Smart Osadolor	Albion Rovers

League Two play-offs

The Pyramid play-off was contested between the champions of the 2018–19 Highland Football League (Cove Rangers) and the 2018–19 Lowland Football League (East Kilbride).^[58] Cove were victorious 5–1 on aggregate and faced the bottom club (Berwick Rangers) in the League Two play-off final, being promoted to League Two for the 2019–20 season after a 7–0 aggregate win. As Berwick Rangers lost the play-off, they were relegated to the Lowland League since they were an England-based club (they were based in Berwick-upon-Tweed), and England is south of 56.4513N latitude (middle of the Tay Road Bridge).^[4]

Pyramid play-off

First leg

East Kilbride v Cove Rangers

27 April 2019	East Kilbride	1–2	Cove Rangers	East Kilbride
15:00	Longworth 90+3'	Report	Milne 3' Ross 35'	Stadium: K-Park Training Academy Referee: Grant Irvine

Second leg

Cove Rangers v East Kilbride

4 May 2019	Cove Rangers	3–0 (5–1 agg.)	East Kilbride	Aberdeen
15:00	Megginson 29', 42' Masson 80'	Report		Stadium: Balmoral Stadium Referee: Mike Roncone

Final

First leg

Cove Rangers v Berwick Rangers

11 May 2019	Cove Rangers	4–0	Berwick Rangers	Aberdeen
15:00	Burnett 23' Megginson 38' Brown 79' Masson 83'	Report		Stadium: Balmoral Stadium Attendance: 1,955 Referee: David Lowe

Second leg

Berwick Rangers v Cove Rangers

18 May 2019	Berwick Rangers	0–3 (0–7 agg.)	Cove Rangers	Berwick-upon-Tweed
15:00		Report	Masson 9' Brown 47' McManus 75'	Stadium: Shielfield Park Attendance: 1,314 Referee: John McKendrick