2024–25 Scottish League One

The 2024–25 Scottish League One (known as William Hill League One for sponsorship reasons) was the twelfth season of Scottish League One, the third tier of Scottish football. The season began on 3 August 2024 and concluded on 3 May 2025.^[1]

Scottish League One

Season	2024–25
Dates	3 August 2024 – 3 May 2025
Champions	Arbroath
Promoted	Arbroath
Relegated	Annan Athletic Dumbarton
Matches played	180
Goals scored	486 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ross Cunningham Mitch Megginson (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Alloa Athletic 5–0 Annan Athletic (2 November 2024)
Biggest away win	Kelty Hearts 0–6 Dumbarton (5 April 2025)
Highest scoring	Annan Athletic 3–4 Alloa Athletic (22 February 2025)
Longest winning run	Queen of the South Stenhousemuir (5 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Arbroath (9 games)
Longest winless run	Dumbarton (11 games)
Longest losing run	Dumbarton (6 games)
Highest attendance	2,714 Arbroath 3–0 Montrose (28 December 2024)
Lowest attendance	176 Cove Rangers 0–3 Stenhousemuir (3 December 2024)
Total attendance	152,518
Average attendance	847
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 3 May 2025.

Ten teams contested the league: Alloa Athletic, Annan Athletic, Arbroath, Cove Rangers, Dumbarton, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Kelty Hearts, Montrose, Queen of the South and Stenhousemuir.

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2023–24 season.

To League One Promoted from League Two Stenhousemuir Dumbarton Relegated from the Championship Arbroath Inverness Caledonian Thistle

From League One Relegated to League Two Edinburgh City Stirling Albion Promoted to the Championship Falkirk Hamilton Academical

Stadia and locations

Alloa Athletic	Annan Athletic	Arbroath	Cove Rangers
Recreation Park	Galabank	Gayfield Park	Balmoral Stadium
Capacity: 3,100[2]	Capacity: 2,504[3]	Capacity: 6,600[4]	Capacity: 2,602[5]
Dumbarton	Alloa Annan Athletic Arbroath Cove Rangers Dumbarton Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kelty Hearts Montrose Queen of the South Stenhousemuir Location of teams in 2024–25 Scottish League One		Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Dumbarton Football Stadium			Caledonian Stadium
Capacity: 2,020[6]			Capacity: 7,512[7]
Kelty Hearts	Montrose	Queen of the South	Stenhousemuir
New Central Park	Links Park	Palmerston Park	Ochilview Park
Capacity: 2,181[8]	Capacity: 4,936[9]	Capacity: 8,690[10]	Capacity: 3,746[11]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alloa Athletic	Andy Graham	Scott Taggart	Pendle	Northern Gas and Power
Annan Athletic	Willie Gibson	Tommy Muir	EV2 Sportswear	M & S Engineering
Arbroath	David Gold Colin Hamilton	Thomas O'Brien	Macron	Megatech
Cove Rangers	Paul Hartley	Mitch Megginson	Adidas	KR Group
Dumbarton	Stephen Farrell	Mark Durnan	Macron	JJR Print (Home) C&G Systems (Away)
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Scott Kellacher	Danny Devine	Puma	ILI Group
Kelty Hearts	Thomas O'Ware	Thomas O'Ware	Adidas	I-Scaff Access Solutions
Montrose	Stewart Petrie	Paul Watson	Uhlsport	Montrose Port Authority (Home) InterMoor (Away)
Queen of the South	Peter Murphy	Matty Douglas	Macron	Galloway Controls
Stenhousemuir	Gary Naysmith	Gregor Buchanan	Uhlsport	LOC Hire

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Queen of the South	Marvin Bartley	Mutual consent	4 May 2024[12]	Pre-season	Peter Murphy	9 May 2024[13]
Annan Athletic	Peter Murphy	Signed by Queen of the South	9 May 2024[13]		Willie Gibson	16 May 2024[14]
Arbroath	Jim McIntyre	Sacked	17 August 2024	10th	David Gold and Colin Hamilton	17 August 2024
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Duncan Ferguson	Sacked after club entered administration	23 October 2024		Scott Kellacher	23 October 2024
Kelty Hearts	Michael Tidser	Signed by Dunfermline Athletic	17 January 2025	3rd	Charlie Mulgrew	17 January 2025
	Charlie Mulgrew	Resigned	8 April 2025	7th	Thomas O'Ware	11 April 2025

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Arbroath (C, P)	36	19	7	10	58	42	+16	64	Promotion to the Championship
2	Cove Rangers	36	16	9	11	62	44	+18	57	Qualification for the Championship play-offs
3	Queen of the South	36	16	7	13	46	41	+5	55
4	Stenhousemuir	36	15	8	13	48	45	+3	53
5	Alloa Athletic	36	13	12	11	55	47	+8	51
6	Kelty Hearts	36	11	11	14	40	46	−6	44
7	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	36	16	10	10	45	38	+7	43[a]
8	Montrose	36	9	13	14	40	49	−9	40
9	Annan Athletic (R)	36	10	6	20	41	68	−27	36	Qualification for the League One play-offs
10	Dumbarton (R)	36	8	11	17	51	66	−15	20[b]	Relegation to League Two

Source: ^[17]
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).^[18]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Inverness Caledonian Thistle were deducted 15 points for entering administration.^[15]
2. Dumbarton were deducted 15 points for entering administration.^[16]

Results

Teams played 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 (Matches 1–18)

Home \ Away	ALO	ANN	ARB	COV	DUM	ICT	KEL	MON	QOS	STE
Alloa Athletic	—	5–0	0–1	0–2	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–0
Annan Athletic	0–1	—	0–4	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1
Arbroath	0–0	2–0	—	2–1	1–3	1–0	0–3	0–0	2–1	1–0
Cove Rangers	2–0	1–3	2–4	—	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–3
Dumbarton	3–3	1–5	2–2	0–3	—	3–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–3
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0
Kelty Hearts	0–2	3–0	3–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	—	0–2	2–0	2–0
Montrose	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–3	1–1	—	1–0	3–0
Queen of the South	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	3–2	1–5	1–0	—	2–1
Stenhousemuir	0–1	5–1	2–1	3–2	4–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	—

Source: ^[19]
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.

Second half of season (Matches 19–36)

Home \ Away	ALO	ANN	ARB	COV	DUM	ICT	KEL	MON	QOS	STE
Alloa Athletic	—	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–3	1–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–3
Annan Athletic	3–4	—	5–1	2–4	2–1	0–3	2–1	2–2	0–2	0–2
Arbroath	1–3	3–0	—	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	4–0
Cove Rangers	1–1	3–1	2–1	—	2–1	0–3	2–2	1–1	3–1	0–0
Dumbarton	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–3	—	0–1	2–0	2–3	0–0	1–3
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–4	2–0	—	0–2	1–1	1–0	4–1
Kelty Hearts	2–1	1–3	1–1	0–4	0–6	0–1	—	0–0	1–3	0–0
Montrose	2–2	3–1	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–2	0–0	—	0–3	0–3
Queen of the South	3–2	1–1	0–3	1–0	3–1	4–1	0–1	2–1	—	2–0
Stenhousemuir	1–4	1–1	2–0	0–4	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–3	2–1	—

Source: ^[19]
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.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mitch Megginson	Cove Rangers	13
	Ross Cunningham	Kelty Hearts
3	Adam Emslie	Cove Rangers	12
4	Luke Rankin	Alloa Athletic	10
	Tommy Muir	Annan Athletic
	Keith Bray	Inverness CT
	Adam Brooks	Queen of the South

Awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Michael Tidser	Kelty Hearts	Ross Cunningham	Kelty Hearts
September	Stewart Petrie	Montrose	Reece Lyon	Queen of the South
October	Paul Hartley	Cove Rangers	Mitch Megginson	Cove Rangers
November	Scott Kellacher	Inverness CT	Scott Williamson	Kelty Hearts
December	David Gold Colin Hamilton	Arbroath	Gavin Reilly	Arbroath
January	Peter Murphy	Queen of the South	Adam Brooks	Queen of the South
February	Gary Naysmith	Stenhousemuir	Owen Stirton	Montrose
March	David Gold Colin Hamilton	Arbroath	Blair Lyons
April	Peter Murphy	Queen of the South	Jordan Allan	Queen of the South

League One play-offs

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	1	Annan Athletic	4	1	5
	4	Elgin City	2	2	4
								Annan Athletic		2	1	3
								East Fife		3	1	4
	3	East Fife	0	3	3
	2	Edinburgh City	1	0	1

Semi-finals

First leg

Elgin City v Annan Athletic

6 May 2025	Elgin City	2–4	Annan Athletic	Elgin
19:45	Sargent 22' Murray 45'	[20]	Goss 17' Kilsby 23' Muir 26', 36'	Stadium: Borough Briggs Attendance: 1,104 Referee: Duncan Nicolson

Edinburgh City v East Fife

6 May 2025	Edinburgh City	1–0	East Fife	Edinburgh
19:45	Zaid 76'	[21]		Stadium: Meadowbank Stadium Attendance: 723 Referee: Graham Grainger

Second leg

Annan Athletic v Elgin City

10 May 2025	Annan Athletic	1–2 (5–4 agg.)	Elgin City	Annan
15:00	Muir 1'	[22]	Sargent 22' McDonald 59'	Stadium: Galabank Attendance: 671 Referee: Euan Anderson

East Fife v Edinburgh City

10 May 2025	East Fife	3–0 (3–1 agg.)	Edinburgh City	Methil
15:00	Laaref 26' McKenna 55' Trouten 58'	[23]		Stadium: Bayview Stadium Attendance: 1,070 Referee: Lloyd Wilson

Final

First leg

East Fife v Annan Athletic

13 May 2025	East Fife	3–2	Annan Athletic	Methil
19:30	Trouten 5' Munro 33', 80'	[24]	McKenna 43' (o.g.) A.Smith 49'	Stadium: Bayview Stadium Attendance: 1,327 Referee: Ross Hardie

Second leg

Annan Athletic v East Fife

16 May 2025	Annan Athletic	1–1 (3–4 agg.)	East Fife	Annan
19:30	Goss 6'	[25]	Laaref 37'	Stadium: Galabank Attendance: 1,304 Referee: Colin Steven