The 2019–20 Scottish League One (known as Ladbrokes League One for sponsorship reasons) was the 26th season in the current format of 10 teams in the third-tier of Scottish football. The fixtures were published in June 2019 and the season began on 3 August 2019.
Ten teams contested the league: Airdrieonians, Clyde, Dumbarton, East Fife, Falkirk, Forfar Athletic, Montrose, Peterhead, Raith Rovers and Stranraer.
On 13 March 2020 all SPFL leagues were indefinitely suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 8 April, with the pandemic continuing, the SPFL board proposed to curtail the 2019–20 League One season and use the points per game earned by each team to date as the final standings. The plan was approved on 15 April, meaning the league was declared over and Raith Rovers were crowned champions and Stranraer relegated to League 2.
Teams The following teams have changed division since the 2018–19 season.
To League One Promoted from League Two Peterhead Clyde
Relegated from the Championship Falkirk
From League One Relegated to League Two Stenhousemuir Brechin City
Promoted to the Championship Arbroath
Stadia and locations Airdrieonians Clyde Dumbarton East Fife Excelsior Stadium Broadwood Stadium Dumbarton Football Stadium Bayview Stadium Capacity: 10,101 Capacity: 8,086 Capacity: 2,020 Capacity: 1,980 Falkirk Forfar Athletic Falkirk Stadium Station Park Capacity: 7,937 Capacity: 6,777 Montrose Peterhead Raith Rovers Stranraer Links Park Balmoor Stark's Park Stair Park Capacity: 4,936 Capacity: 3,150 Capacity: 8,867 Capacity: 4,178
Personnel and kits
Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor Airdrieonians Joma Holemasters Clyde Kappa North Lanarkshire Leisure (Home)Advance Construction (Away) Dumbarton Joma Turnberry Homes East Fife Joma East Fife Supporters Club Falkirk and Puma Central Demolition Forfar Athletic Pendle Orchard Timber Products Montrose Hummel Carnegie Fuels Ltd Peterhead Adidas Prime Seafoods Raith Rovers Puma valmcdermid.com (Home)Tag Games (Away) Stranraer Joma Stena Line
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment Forfar Athletic Jim Weir Resigned 3 November 2019 10th Stuart Malcolm 10 November 2019 Falkirk Ray McKinnon Sacked 16 November 2019 4th and (interim) 19 November 2019 Falkirk and (interim) End of interim 13 December 2019 4th and 13 December 2019
League summary
League table
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
Second half of season
Season statistics Scoring
Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 David GoodwillieClyde202 Declan McManusFalkirk193 Dale CarrickAirdrieonians124 Calum GallagherAirdrieonians115 Blair LyonsMontrose106 Scott AgnewEast Fife9 Graham WebsterMontrose Jamie GullanRaith Rovers9 Isaac LayneDumbarton8 Scott BrownPeterhead
Hat-tricks
PlayerForAgainstResultDateRef Declan McManusFalkirkDumbarton6–0 (H)10 August 2019 David Goodwillie5ClydeStranraer6–1 (H)14 September 2019 David GoodwillieClydeStranraer3–3 (H)4 January 2020 Declan McManusFalkirkPeterhead3–1 (A)11 January 2020
Note
5 Player scored five goals
Attendances
Awards
Monthly awards MonthManager of the MonthPlayer of the MonthRef.ManagerClubPlayerClub August Darren Young East Fife Marc McCallum Forfar Athletic September John McGlynn Raith Rovers Steven Anderson Raith Rovers October Stewart Petrie Montrose Graham Webster Montrose November Ian Murray Airdrieonians Dale Carrick Airdrieonians December Stewart Petrie Montrose Andrew Steeves Montrose January David McCracken Lee Miller Falkirk Declan McManus Falkirk February Darren Young East Fife Scott Agnew East Fife
References