
Vancouver Whitecaps goalie Yohei Takaoka has played for Yokohama FC, Sagan Tosu, and Yokohama F. Marinos, and was named to the J. League Best XI in 2022. Source.
Premiership playoff semi-final, first leg:
Partick Thistle 3 - 0 Ayr United (May 19)
Championship playoff final:
Airdrieonians 1 - 0 Hamilton Academical (May 17)
Hamilton Academical [2 - 1] Airdrieonians (May 20)
[Airdrieonians win on PK. They are promoted to the Championship. Hamilton go down to League One.]
League One playoff final:
Annan Athletic 3 - 1 Clyde (May 16)
Clyde 1 - 2 Annan Athletic (May 19)
Annan Athletic make it up to League One for the first time.
League Two playoff, second leg (May 20):
Albion Rovers [0 - 1] The Spartans
[Albion Rovers go down. The Spartans enter the SPFL.]
Lowland League Cup final (tomorrow):
East Kilbride [2 - 2] Bo'ness United [EK win on PK.]
Other matches:
Thespakusatsu Gunma 2 - 1 Mito HollyHock (May 17)
Derry City 4 - 1 UCD (yesterday)
Helmond Sport 2 - 3 PEC Zwolle (yesterday)
NPL2 Vic: Pascoe Vale 0 - 1 Preston Lions (yesterday)
Winterthur [0 - 1] Servette
Chornomorets Odesa [0 - 1] Minaj
HFX Wanderers [0 - 3] York United
The Concacaf rankings are out and HFX Wanderers are in 82nd place between Herrera FC of Panama and CDS Vida of Honduras. Source.
Former Wanderer Iida Kodai has a new vlog up. It's mainly in Japanese, but you get a sense of how his season is going when you see he has his arm in a sling.
Montedio Yamagata [2 - 1] Blaublitz Akita (tomorrow)
Mito HollyHock [0 - 3] Roasso Kumatmoto (tomorrow)
Elfen Saitama [0 - 2] Kobe Leonessa (tomorrow)
Alliance United [1 - 2] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)
Dryburgh [3 - 1] Morton Women (tomorrow)
This ends the 2022-23 SWF Championship. [Morton finish 8th.]
Mortonalia
Reckoning that climate change will bring Greenock even more rain than the too much it already receives the club is installing drainage pipes under the main stand side of the pitch. Picture.
Andrew Barrowman (Morton 2014-15) is the new CEO of Raith Rovers.
SPFL Conference League
The powers that be have been pushing a proposal to insert a new league between League Two and the fifth tier, to be made up of four Premiership reserve squads and six lower league clubs. Almost everyone below League Two hates this idea because it puts another league between them and the SPFL. And almost everyone in the SPFL hates it because it's the next step toward B teams playing in League One and the Championship, which might fly in Germany but no in Scotland.
Aberdeen, who were previously floated as one of four Premiership clubs to participate, have opted out. (They didn't have a reserve team this year.) There is talk that Queen's Park will take the fourth B-team spot.
Which Scottish clubs had reserve teams in 2022-23?
In the Lowland League: Celtic, Hearts, Rangers
In the Reserve League: Ayr Utd, Dundee, Dundee Utd, Hamilton, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Motherwell, Queen of the South, Queen's Park
In the South of Scotland League: Caledonian Braves, Stranraer
In the East of Scotland League 2nd Division: Stirling University
In the North Caledonian League: Clachnacuddin, Nairn County
In the North Region Championship: Banks O'Dee
League Two playoffs to date:
2015 Montrose W/L Brora Rangers
2016 East Stirlingshire L/W Edinburgh City
2017 Cowdenbeath W/L East Kilbride
2018 Cowdenbeath W/L Cove Rangers
2019 Berwick Rangers L/W Cove Rangers
2020 not played
2021 Brechin City L/W Kelty Hearts
2022 Cowdenbeath L/W Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic
Renfrew FC in the Scottish Cup:
1876/9/30 R1 Busby 2 - 0 Renfrew
1877/9/29 R1 Renfrew 0 - 0 Pollokshaws Athletic
1877/10/6 R1 Pollokshaws Athletic 0 - 2 Renfrew
1877/10/27 R2 Glenkilloch 0 - 4 Renfrew
1877/11/10 R3 Renfrew 1 - 2 Barrhead
(Some kind of wrangle resulted in Renfrew reappearing in R5.)
1877/1/5 R5 Renfrew 0 - 2 Mauchline
1878/9/28 R1 Renfrew 1 - 1 17th Renfrewshire RV
1878/10/5 R1 17th Renfrewshire RV 1 - 2 Renfrew
1878/10/19 R2 Levern 1 - 2 Renfrew
1878/11/9 R3 bye
1878/11/30 R4 Renfrew 0 - 4 3rd LRV
1879/9/20 R1 Barrhead 0 - 5 Renfrew
1879/10/11 R2 bye
1879/11/1 R3 Arthurlie 1 - 2 Renfrew
1879/11/22 R4 Pollokshields Athletic 2 - 1 Renfrew
1880/9/18 R1 Thornliebank 3 - 0 Renfrew
1881/9/17 R1 Cartvale 4 - 2 Renfrew
1882/9/16 R1 Pollock 3 - 2 Renfrew
1883/9/8 R1 Morton 1 - 0 Renfrew
1884/9/13 R1 Renfrew 1 - 0 Johnstone Rovers
1884/10/4 R2 Clippens 1 - 7 Renfrew
1884/10/25 R3 St Mirren 1 - 0 Renfrew (protested)
1884/11/8 R3 St Mirren 3 - 0 Renfrew (protested)
1884/11/13 R3 St Mirren 6 - 3 Renfrew
1885/9/12 R1 Renfrew 1 - 0 Greenock Northern
1885/10/3 R2 Renfrew 0 - 3 Abercorn
1886/9/11 R1 Renfrew 3 - 3 Abercorn
1886/9/18 R1 Abercorn 9 - 0 Renfrew
1887/9/3 R1 1st RRV 1 - 8 Renfrew
1887/9/24 R2 Renfrew 3 - 3 Port Glasgow Athletic
1887/10/1 R2 Port Glasgow Athletic 5 - 3 Renfrew
1888/9/1 R1 Renfrew 0 - 0 Arthurlie
1888/9/8 R1 Arthurlie 3 - 1 Renfrew
1889/9/7 R1 Renfrew scr/wo Greenock Abstainers
(Source: The Beautiful Dribbling Game)
Made Up Cups:
2022-23 Plenty of Nothing Championship League Cup:
R1 Cove Rangers 1 - 2 Ayr Aug 20
R2 Partick Thistle 2 - 1 Raith Rovers Aug 27
R1 Queen's Park 1 - 2 Morton Oct 4
R2 Dundee 2 - 1 Ayr Oct 15
R2 Inverness CT 0 - 1 Hamilton Accies Oct 18
R2 Arbroath 1 - 1 Morton Dec 3 Arbroath advance on the yellow card rule.
SF Hamilton 1 - 1 Dundee February 4 Dundee advance on the yellow card rule.
SF Arbroath 0 - 0 Partick Thistle February 25 Arbroath advance on the yellow card rule.
F Arbroath 0 - 0 Dundee April 8 Dundee win on the corner kicks rule.
Consolation Cup:
R1 Queen's Park 2 - 1 ICT March 18
R1 Cove Rangers 0 - 5 Partick Thistle April 1
SF Partick Thistle 4 - 0 Queen's Park April 8
R1 Morton 2 - 0 Hamilton April 11
R1 Ayr 1 - 0 Raith April 29
SF Ayr vs Morton no fixture available
F Partick vs Ayr or Morton no fixture available
Championship League Cup winners so far:
2019-20 no winner
2020-21 no winner
2021-22 Arbroath
2022-23 Dundee
Consolation Cup winners:
2021-22 no winner
2022-23 no winner