The 2023–24 Highland Football League (known as the Breedon Highland League for sponsorship reasons) was the 121st season of the
Highland Football League
The Scottish Highland Football League (SHFL, commonly known as the Highland League) is a senior football league based in the north of Scotland. The league sits at level 5 on the Scottish football league system
The Scottish football league syst ...
, and the 10th season as part of the fifth tier of the
Scottish football pyramid system
The Scottish football league system is a series of generally connected leagues for Scottish football clubs.
The Scottish system is more complicated than many other national league systems, consisting of several completely separate systems or 'gra ...
.
Brechin City
Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the townDespite the name of the football club, Brechin is not an official city. Brechin was historically known as a city because it has a cathedral. of Brechin in Angus. The club w ...
were the reigning champions, and were one of three teams that could have won the title in the final round of games, along with
Buckie Thistle and
Fraserburgh
Fraserburgh (; sco, The Broch or ; gd, A' Bhruaich) is a town in Aberdeenshire (unitary), Aberdeenshire, Scotland with a population recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census at 13,100. It lies at the far northeast corner of Aber ...
.
Buckie Thistle's 1–0 win – a sixth consecutive win to finish the season – over
Keith
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gave them their 12th Highland League title on goal difference from Brechin City, with Fraserburgh three points behind in third, having won their last ten games. However, Buckie Thistle were not eligible for the pyramid play-off as they did not hold a bronze-level club licence.
Teams
Stadia and locations
All grounds are equipped with floodlights as required by league regulations.
League table
Results
Highland League play-off
Subject to the tier 6 champion clubs meeting the required licensing criteria for promotion,
a play-off was scheduled to take place between the winners of the
2023–24 Midlands Football League,
2023–24 North Caledonian Football League
The 2023–24 North Caledonian Football League (known for sponsorship reasons as the Macleod & MacCallum North Caledonian League) was the 115th season of the North Caledonian Football League, and the third season as part of the sixth tier of the Sc ...
and the
2023–24 North Region Junior Football League, with the winners then playing
Strathspey Thistle, who finished bottom of the Highland League. However, none of the tier 6 champions had the required SFA licence and as such there was no promotion to, or relegation from, the Highland League.
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