The 2010–11 Scottish Football League Third Division (also known as the 2010–11

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Scottish Football League Third Division for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th season in the format of ten teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The season started on 7 August 2011 and ended on 7 May 2011.

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sealed the title, their first honour in their 133-year history, after a 4-1 win over local rivals Montrose on 23 April 2011.

Teams

Promotion and relegation from 2009–10

Livingston as champions of the 2009–10 season were directly promoted to the

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. Thus completing only a one-year stay in the bottom tier of the

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. They were replaced by Clyde 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 2009–10 Scottish Second Division,

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, and the sides ranked second, third and fourth in the 2009–10 Scottish Third Division, Forfar Athletic, East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park respectively. The play off was won by Forfar Athletic who defeated Arbroath in the final. Arbroath were therefore relegated. Relegated from Second Division to Third Division * Clyde *

(via play-offs) Promoted from Third Division to Second Division * Livingston * Forfar Athletic (via play-offs)

Stadia and locations

A.East Stirlingshire ground shared with

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., 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, for a total of 36 games

First half of season

Second half of season

Statistics

Top goalscorers

;21 goals * Gavin Swankie ''(

)'' ;17 goals * Darren Gribben ''(

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)'' * Armand One ''(

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)'' ;16 goals * Steven Doris ''(

)'' ;14 goals * Craig Malcolm ''(

)'' * Ian Harty ''( Annan Athletic)'' ;13 goals * Scott Agnew ''(

)''

Hat-tricks

References

External links

2010–11 Scottish Third Division at Soccerway
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