1949-50 in Scottish football Totally Explained

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Season 1949-1950 was the 53rd season of Scottish league football.

Scottish League Division A

Rangers won the league with a 2-2 draw in their last match, away to Third Lanark, a game in which Rangers took a 2-0 lead before Thirds fought back to 2-2. Another goal for Third Lanark would have handed the title to Hibernian.
A few days previously, Rangers had drawn 0-0 with Hibs at Ibrox before a crowd of 101,000, the largest crowd to watch a League match in Britain since the war, a record that still stands. Had Hibs won this match they would have become champions.

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Rangers	30	22	6	2	58	26	32	50
2	Hibernian	30	22	5	3	86	34	52	49
3	Hearts	30	20	3	7	86	40	46	43
4	East Fife	30	15	7	8	58	43	15	37
5	Celtic	30	14	7	9	51	50	1	35
6	Dundee	30	12	7	11	49	46	3	31
7	Partick Thistle	30	13	3	14	55	45	10	29
8	Aberdeen	30	11	4	15	48	56	-8	26
9	Raith Rovers	30	9	8	13	45	54	-9	26
10	Motherwell	30	10	5	15	53	58	-5	25
11	St. Mirren	30	8	9	13	42	49	-7	25
12	Third Lanark	30	11	3	16	44	62	-18	25
13	Clyde	30	10	4	16	56	73	-17	24
14	Falkirk	30	7	10	13	48	72	-24	24
15	Queen of the South	30	5	6	19	31	63	-32	16
16	Stirling Albion	30	6	3	21	38	77	-39	15

Champions: Rangers
Relegated: Queen Of the South, Stirling Albion

Scottish League Division B

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Morton	30	20	7	3	77	33	44	47
2	Airdrieonians	30	19	6	5	79	40	39	44
3	Dunfermline Athletic	30	16	4	10	71	57	14	36
4	St. Johnstone	30	15	6	9	64	56	8	36
5	Cowdenbeath	30	16	3	11	63	56	7	35
6	Hamilton Academical	30	14	6	10	57	44	13	34
7	Dundee United	30	14	5	11	74	56	18	33
8	Kilmarnock	30	14	5	11	50	43	7	33
9	Queen's Park	30	12	7	11	63	59	4	31
10	Forfar Athletic	30	11	8	11	53	56	-3	30
11	Albion Rovers	30	10	7	13	49	61	-12	27
12	Stenhousemuir	30	8	8	14	54	72	-18	24
13	Ayr United	30	8	6	16	53	80	-27	22
14	Arbroath	30	5	9	16	47	69	-22	19
15	Dumbarton	30	6	4	20	39	62	-23	16
16	Alloa Athletic	30	5	3	22	47	96	-49	13

Promoted: Morton, Airdrie

Cup Honours

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Details
Scottish Cup	Rangers	3-0	East Fife	Scottish Cup 1949-50
League Cup	East Fife	3-0	Dunfermline Athletic
Junior Cup	Blantyre Victoria	3-0	Cumnock Juniors

Scotland national team

Note that scores are written Scotland first

Date	Venue	Score	Competition	Scotland scorers
October 1, 1949	Windsor Park, Belfast	8-2	BHC	Henry Morris (3), Willie Waddell (2), Billy Steel, Lawrie Reilly, Jimmy Mason
November 9 1949	Hampden Park, Glasgow	2-0	BHC	John McPhail, Alec Linwood
April 15, 1950	Hampden Park, Glasgow	0-1	BHC	-
April 26 1950	Hampden Park, Glasgow	3-1	F	Willie Bauld, Robert Campbell, Allan Brown
May 21 1950	Estádio Nacional, Lisbon	2-2	F	Willie Bauld, Allan Brown
May 27 1950	Stade de Colombes, Paris	1-0	F	Allan Brown

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