The 2009–10 Scottish Football League Third Division (also known as the 2009–10

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Scottish Football League Third Division for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th season in the format of ten teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The season started on 8 August 2009 and ended on 1 May 2010.

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finished top and were promoted alongside

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as play-off winners.

Teams

Promotion and relegation from 2008–09

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as champions of the 2008–09 season were directly promoted to the

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. They were replaced by

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who finished bottom of the

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. A second promotion place was available via a play-off tournament between the ninth-placed team of the 2008–09 Scottish Second Division, Queen's Park, and the sides ranked second, third and fourth in the 2008–09 Scottish Third Division,

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and

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respectively. The play off was won by Stenhousemuir who defeated Cowdenbeath in the final. Queen's Park were therefore relegated. However, Livingston F.C. were demoted to the Third Division, leading to an extra promotion being awarded. Cowdenbeath as runners-up of the play-off final were therefore promoted. Relegated from First Division to

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Livi lose appeal against the drop
BBC Sport. 2009-09-07. Relegated from

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* Queen's Park (via playoffs) Promoted from

(via playoffs) *

(losing play-off finalists, promoted due to Livingston's demotion to the

)

Stadia and locations

A.East Stirlingshire ground shared with

.East Stirlingshire FC
, www.eaststirlingshirefc.com Retrieved 2011-05-25.

League table

Results

Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season.

First half of season

Second half of season

References

External links

2009-2010 Scottish Third Division at Soccerway
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