The 2010–11 Scottish Football League Third Division (also known as the 2010–11 Irn-Bru Scottish Football League Third Division for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th season in the format of ten teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The season started on 7 August 2011 and ended on 7 May 2011. Arbroath F.C. sealed the title, their first honour in their 133-year history, after a 4-1 win over local rivals Montrose on 23 April 2011.
Teams
Promotion and relegation from 2009–10
Livingston as champions of the 2009–10 season were directly promoted to the 2010–11 Scottish Second Division. Thus completing only a one-year stay in the bottom tier of the Scottish Football League. They were replaced by Clyde who finished bottom of the 2009–10 Scottish Second Division.
A second promotion place was available via a play-off tournament between the ninth-placed team of the 2009–10 Scottish Second Division, Arbroath, and the sides ranked second, third and fourth in the 2009–10 Scottish Third Division, Forfar Athletic, East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park respectively. The play off was won by Forfar Athletic who defeated Arbroath in the final. Arbroath were therefore relegated.
Relegated from Second Division to Third Division
Clyde Arbroath (via play-offs)
Promoted from Third Division to Second Division
Livingston Forfar Athletic (via play-offs)
Stadia and locations
Team Location Stadium Capacity Albion Rovers Coatbridge Cliftonhill 2,496 Annan Athletic Annan Galabank 3,000 Arbroath Arbroath Gayfield Park 4,153 Berwick Rangers Berwick-upon-Tweed Shielfield Park 4,065 Clyde Cumbernauld Broadwood 8,006 East Stirlingshire Stenhousemuir Ochilview Park 3,746 Elgin City Elgin Borough Briggs 3,716 Montrose Montrose Links Park 3,292 Queen's Park Glasgow Hampden Park 52,025 Stranraer Stranraer Stair Park 6,250
A.East Stirlingshire ground shared with Stenhousemuir., www.eaststirlingshirefc.com Retrieved 2011-05-25.
League table
Results Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season, for a total of 36 games
First half of season
Second half of season
Statistics
Top goalscorers
21 goals Gavin Swankie (Arbroath)
17 goals Darren Gribben (Berwick Rangers) Armand One (Stranraer)
16 goals Steven Doris (Arbroath)
14 goals Craig Malcolm (Stranraer) Ian Harty (Annan Athletic)
13 goals Scott Agnew (Stranraer)
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Berwick Rangers Elgin City 6–2 Berwick Rangers Arbroath 4–1 Montrose Clyde 8–1 Arbroath Montrose 4–0 Arbroath Stranraer 4–3 Stranraer East Stirlingshire 4–1 Berwick Rangers Elgin City 4–0 Albion Rovers Berwick Rangers 6–1 Arbroath East Stirlingshire 5–2 Queen's Park Montrose 4–1 Elgin City Arbroath 5–3
See also Scottish football referee strike
References
External links 2010–11 Scottish Third Division at Soccerway
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