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{{Use British English|date=January 2013}}
{{Infobox football league
| name            = Scottish Football League First Division
| country         = {{SCO}}
| founded         = 1975<br />1893–1946 ''(as Division Two)''<br />1946–1956 ''(as Division B)''<br />1956–1975 ''(as Division Two)''
| folded          = 2013
| divisions       = 
| teams           = 10
| promotion       = [[Scottish Premier League]]
| relegation      = [[Scottish Football League Second Division|Scottish Second Division]]
| levels          = 2
| domest_cup      = [[Scottish Cup|SFA Cup]]<br />[[Scottish League Cup|SFL Cup]]<br />[[Scottish Challenge Cup|SFL Challenge Cup]]
| champions       = [[Partick Thistle F.C.|Partick Thistle]]
| season          = [[2012–13 Scottish First Division|2012–13]]
| most_champs     = [[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]] (7)<br />[[St Johnstone F.C.|St Johnstone]] (7)<br />(since 1893)
| website         = [http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/football/first/ Official site]
| current         = 
}}

The '''Scottish Football League First Division''' was the second tier in the [[Scottish football league system]] between 1975 and 2013. It was replaced by the [[Scottish Championship]].

==History==
The First Division was introduced in [[1975–76 in Scottish football|1975–76]] to replace the old '''Scottish Football League Division Two''', as the top flight of the [[Scottish Football League]] was renamed from Division One to [[Scottish Football League Premier Division|Premier Division]].

In 1998, the Premier Division clubs broke away from the Scottish Football League to form the [[Scottish Premier League]]. The First Division remained the second tier of the Scottish league system, but was now the top tier of the Scottish Football League. In July 2013, the Scottish Football League and Scottish Premier League merged to form the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). The SPFL named its second tier as the [[Scottish Championship]], which effectively replaced the First Division.

==Competition==
From 1994 until 2013, the First Division consisted of ten teams. From 1998, only the winner of the First Division was promoted to the [[Scottish Premier League]] (SPL), subject to that club meeting the SPL stadium criteria. From 2007, the bottom club in the First Division was automatically relegated to the [[Scottish Football League Second Division|Second Division]] and the second bottom club went into an end of season [[play-off]] with the second, third and fourth placed clubs in the Second Division.

The ten teams in the First Division played each other four times with three points for a victory and one point each for a drawn game.

==Winners of the First Division==
{{main|List of winners of the Scottish First Division and predecessors}}
{{incomplete list|date=February 2014}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! width=105|Season
! width=180|Winner
! width=180|Runner-up
|-
| [[1998–99 Scottish First Division|1998–99]]
| '''[[Hibernian F.C.|Hibernian]]'''
| [[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]]
|-
| [[1999–00 Scottish First Division|1999–00]]
| '''[[St Mirren F.C.|St Mirren]]'''
| [[Dunfermline Athletic F.C.|Dunfermline Athletic]]
|-
| [[2000–01 Scottish First Division|2000–01]]
| '''[[Livingston F.C.|Livingston]]'''
| [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]]
|-
| [[2001–02 Scottish First Division|2001–02]]
| '''[[Partick Thistle F.C.|Partick Thistle]]'''
| [[Airdrieonians F.C. (1878)|Airdrieonians]]
|-
| [[2002–03 Scottish First Division|2002–03]]
| '''[[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]]'''
| [[Clyde F.C.|Clyde]]
|-
| [[2003–04 Scottish First Division|2003–04]]
| '''[[Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.|Inverness Caledonian Thistle]]'''
| [[Clyde F.C.|Clyde]]
|-
| [[2004–05 Scottish First Division|2004–05]]
| '''[[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]]''' (2)
| [[St Mirren F.C.|St Mirren]]
|-
| [[2005–06 Scottish First Division|2005–06]]
| '''[[St Mirren F.C.|St Mirren]]''' (2)
| [[St Johnstone F.C.|St Johnstone]]
|-
| [[2006–07 Scottish First Division|2006–07]]
| '''[[Gretna F.C.|Gretna]]'''
| [[St Johnstone F.C.|St Johnstone]]
|-
| [[2007–08 Scottish First Division|2007–08]]
| '''[[Hamilton Academical F.C.|Hamilton Academical]]'''
| [[Dundee F.C.|Dundee]]
|-
| [[2008–09 Scottish First Division|2008–09]]
| '''[[St Johnstone F.C.|St Johnstone]]'''
| [[Partick Thistle F.C.|Partick Thistle]]
|-
| [[2009–10 Scottish First Division|2009–10]]
| '''[[Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.|Inverness Caledonian Thistle]]''' (2)
| [[Dundee F.C.|Dundee]]
|-
| [[2010–11 Scottish First Division|2010–11]]
| '''[[Dunfermline Athletic F.C.|Dunfermline Athletic]]'''
| [[Raith Rovers F.C.|Raith Rovers]]
|-
| [[2011–12 Scottish First Division|2011–12]]
| '''[[Ross County F.C.|Ross County]]'''
| [[Dundee F.C.|Dundee]]
|-
| [[2012–13 Scottish First Division|2012–13]]
| '''[[Partick Thistle F.C.|Partick Thistle]]''' (2)
| [[Greenock Morton F.C.|Greenock Morton]]
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Sports league attendances]]
*[[Scottish Championship]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120130062021/http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/football/first/ SFL First Division Official Site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071016213624/http://footballclubs.dyndns.org/?co=scotland&league=2 Scottish Football League First Division clubs' locations]

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