The Scottish Amateur Football League is a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 league competition for amateur teams in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It was formally founded in 1909 when Scottish Football League

Scottish Football League

The Scottish Football League is a league of football teams in Scotland, comprising theScottish First Division, Scottish Second Division and Scottish Third Division. From the league's foundation in 1890 until the breakaway Scottish Premier League was formed in 1998, the Scottish Football League...

 club Queen's Park

Queen's Park F.C.

Queen's Park Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland. The club are currently the only amateur club in the Scottish League; their amateur status is reflected by their motto, Ludere Causa Ludendi – to play for the sake of playing.Queen's Park are the oldest...

 decided that their fourth team needed regular competition. Queen's Park were successful in winning the first league title, but Edinburgh Civil Service won the league the following year, so Queen's Park decided to enter their third team for the third season of the competition, indicating a high standard of football was played at this level from an early stage.

Despite being called the Scottish Amateur Football League (SAFL) the league has never included clubs from across the country, although prior to the official formation of the league, it was known that a Scottish Amateur Football League side made at least one foray into Fife for a match. Prior to the Second World War membership stretched across the Scottish Central Belt

Central Belt

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, with a number of clubs from the East of the country participating. However, following the end of the war membership became concentrated in the West of the country. The SAFL has been successful in embracing a number of clubs from the Argyll

Argyll

Argyll , archaically Argyle , is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient Dál Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western coast between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath...

 area which otherwise might not have regular competition.

At its peak in the early 1980s the SAFL contained 12 divisions, but this number has been halved to six. The League is split into a Premier section of three divisions, with three further divisions comprising Section One, so named as it preserves the divisions of the original league.

Executive Members 2010/11

Office Bearers

James Soutar(President), Frank McCann(Vice President and Match Secretary),Mike McLean (Secretary), Brian Pettigrew (Assistant Secretary), Jack Keating (Treasurer), Mike McLean (Minute Secretary), Jack McConnell (Discipline Secretary), Ronnie MacKay(Immediate Past President), Linda Keating ( Registration Secretary)

Executive Members Only

Colin McDonald (Kings Park Rangers and a Past President), Colin Thompson (Rolls Royce EK AFC), Jim McCarthy (Postal Utd), Bert Smith (East Kilbride YMCA), Michael McIlmun (Haldane Utd)

League Membership 2010/11

Premier

Aikenhead Thistle

Arkleston

Cambria

Castlemilk

Greenock HSFP

Inverclyde

Kilpatrick

Oban Saints

Oban Saints F.C.

Oban Saints Amateur Football Club are a football club from the town of Oban, in the Lorne district of Argyll in Scotland. Formed in 1960 they currently play in the Scottish Amateur Football League...

St. Joseph's

Thorn Athletic


Premier 1

Busby

Campbeltown Pupils

Carlton YMCA

Centre

Duncanrig FP

Glencastle Sparta

Kilbowie Union

Kings Park Rangers

Rolls Royce EK

Postal United


Premier 2

Celtic Community Academy

Clydebank College

Dunoon

Eaglesham

Finnart AFC

Haldane United

Port Glasgow OBU

Rutherglen

Shawlands FP

Tarbert


Division 1

Aikenhead Thistle (B)

Auldhouse AFC

Carlton YMCA (B)

Duncanrig FP (B)

Gourock Thistle
Kings Park Rangers (B)

Inverkip Thistle
Lochgilphead Red Star

Lomond Rock

Sporto

Whitehill FP


Division 2

Cambria (B)

Centre (B)

East Kilbride YMCA

Kings Park Rangers B

Millbeg AFC

Paisley Reid Kerr

Port Glasgow Hibs

Rosehill Star

Shawlands FP (B)


Division 3

Alba Thistle

Bothwell and Uddingston Albion

Campbeltown Pupils B

Hamilton FP

Jamestown

Millerston Thistle

Strathaven Dynamo

West Coast Thistle

Past League Winners (Recent)

Year	Premier	Premier 1	Premier 2	Division 1	Division 2
1994	St Patrick's	Fernhill Villa	Oban Saints	Campbeltown Boys	Blairbeth
1995	St Patrick's	Greenock HSFP	Port Glasgow Hibs	Strathclyde Police	Dunoon Ams
1996	Fernhill Villa	Torrance United	Campbeltown Boys	Busby	Glasgow Harp
1997	St Patrick's	Hamilton FP	Port Glasgow OBU	Pollok	Westhill Amateurs
1998	Hamilton FP	Oban Saints	Pollok	Strathclyde Police	Millerston Thistle
1999	Gourock Athletic	Campbeltown Pupils	Gartcosh United	Westhill	Shamrock BC
2000	Campbeltown Pupils	Camphill	Kilbowie Union	Shamrock Boys Club	Leven Valley
2001	Gartcosh United	Kilbowie Union	Shamrock Boys Club	Rothesay Brandane	Glencastle Sparta
2002	St Patrick's	Oban Saints	Busby	Glencastle Sparta	Glasgow Harp (B)
2003	Glasgow Harp	Busby	Cumbernauld Ams	Inverclyde	East Kilbride YMCA
2004	St Patrick's	Kings Park Rangers	Inverclyde	Dunoon	Sandiefield Star
2005	St Patrick's	Kilpatrick	Eaglesham	Sandiefield Star	Leven Valley
2006	St Patrick's	Cambria	Inverclyde	St Patricks FP (B)	Rosehill Star
2007	Greenock HSFP	Busby	Shawlands FP	Castlemilk Ams	Carlton YMCA (B)
2008	St Patrick's	Kilpatrick	Aikenhead Thistle	St Patricks FP (B)	Duncanrig FP (B)
2009	St. Josephs	Castlemilk AFC	Thorn Athletic	Tarbert	Haldane Utd
2010	Oban Saints	Thorn Athletic	Rolls Royce EK	Haldane United	Aikenhead Thistle B

SAFL Cup Competitions(Recent)

Centenary Cup



2009

Cup Winners: Pollok AFC

Runners Up: Rolls Royce EK



2008

Cup Winners: Duncanrig FP

Runners Up: Inverclyde AFC



2007

Cup Winners: Sandiefield Star

Runners Up: Eaglesham