1959-60 in Scottish football

Season 1959-1960 was the 63rd season of Scottish league football.

[edit] Scottish League Division One

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Points
1	Hearts	34	23	8	3	102	51	51	54
2	Kilmarnock	34	24	2	8	67	45	22	50
3	Rangers	34	17	8	9	72	38	34	42
4	Dundee	34	16	10	8	70	49	21	42
5	Motherwell	34	16	8	10	71	61	10	40
6	Clyde	34	15	9	10	77	69	8	39
7	Hibernian	34	14	7	13	106	85	21	35
8	Ayr United	34	14	6	14	65	73	-8	34
9	Celtic	34	12	9	13	73	59	14	33
10	Partick Thistle	34	14	4	16	54	78	-24	32
11	Raith Rovers	34	14	3	17	64	62	2	31
12	Third Lanark	34	13	4	17	75	83	-8	30
13	Dunfermline Athletic	34	10	9	15	72	80	-8	29
14	St Mirren	34	11	6	17	78	86	-8	28
15	Aberdeen	34	11	6	17	54	72	-18	28
16	Airdrie	34	11	6	17	56	80	-24	28
17	Stirling Albion	34	7	8	19	55	72	-17	22
18	Arbroath	34	4	7	23	38	106	-68	15

Champions: Hearts
Relegated: Stirling Albion, Arbroath

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Points
1	St Johnstone	36	24	5	7	87	47	40	53
2	Dundee United	36	22	6	8	90	45	45	50
3	Queen of the South	36	21	7	8	94	52	42	49
4	Hamilton Acad	36	21	6	9	91	62	29	48
5	Stenhousemuir	36	20	4	12	86	67	19	44
6	Dumbarton	36	18	7	11	67	53	14	43
7	Montrose	36	19	5	12	60	52	8	43
8	Falkirk	36	15	9	12	77	43	34	39
9	Berwick Rangers	36	16	5	15	62	55	7	37
10	Albion Rovers	36	14	8	14	71	78	-7	36
11	Queens Park	36	17	2	17	65	79	-14	36
12	Brechin City	36	14	6	16	66	66	0	34
13	Alloa Athletic	36	13	5	18	70	85	-15	31
14	Greenock Morton	36	10	8	18	67	79	-12	28
15	East Stirling	36	10	8	18	68	82	-14	28
16	Forfar Athletic	36	10	8	18	53	84	-31	28
17	Stranraer	36	10	3	23	53	79	-26	23
18	East Fife	36	7	6	23	50	87	-37	20
19	Cowdenbeath	36	6	2	28	42	124	-82	14

Promoted: St Johnstone, Dundee United

Competition	Winner				Runner-Up
Scottish Cup	Rangers	2	•	0	Kilmarnock
Scottish League Cup	Hearts	2	•	1	Third Lanark

Note that scores are written Scotland first

Scotland were joint winners with England and Wales in the 1960 British Home Championship.

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score	Competition	Scotland scorers
October 3, 1959	Windsor Park, Belfast	Northern Ireland	4-0	BHC	Graham Leggat, John Hewie (pen), John White, George Mulhall
November 4, 1959	Hampden Park, Glasgow	Wales	1-1	BHC	Graham Leggat
April 9, 1960	Hampden Park, Glasgow	England	1-1	BHC	Graham Leggat
May 4, 1960	Hampden Park, Glasgow	Poland	2-3	F	Denis Law, Ian St John
May 29, 1960	Prater Stadium, Vienna	Austria	1-4	F	Dave Mackay
June 5, 1960	Népstadion, Budapest	Hungary	3-3	F	William Hunter, George Herd, Alex Young
June 8, 1960	19 Mayis Stadium, Ankara	Turkey	2-4	F	Eric Caldow(pen), Alex Young