1964–65 in Scottish football

1964–65 in Scottish football
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Division One champions
Kilmarnock
Division Two champions
Stirling Albion
Scottish Cup winners
Celtic
League Cup winners
Rangers
Junior Cup winners
Linlithgow Rose
Teams in Europe
Celtic, Dundee, Dunfermline Athletic, Kilmarnock, Rangers
Scotland national team
1965 BHC, 1966 World Cup qualification

The 1964–65 season was the 92nd season of competitive football in Scotland and the 68th season of Scottish league football.

Scottish League Division One

Main article: 1964–65 Scottish First Division

In one of the closest finishes ever seen in a league competition in Britain, Hearts faced Kilmarnock on the last day of the season with a 2-point lead over the Ayrshire club and a slightly better goal average. Kilmarnock had to beat Hearts by 2-0 to win the title. Any other result, including any other 2 goal winning margin for Kilmarnock, e.g. 3-1, 4-2, would have made Hearts Champions, as they would have had the superior goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded). And this is exactly what they did, winning 2–0.

The 1964-65 season is notable for both Celtic and Rangers finishing in mid-table. It was (and remains as of 2014) only the fifth time that neither of them had finished in the top two, and the first time that both of the Old Firm clubs had failed to finish in the top three of the First Division in the same season.

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kilmarnock	34	22	6	6	62	33	29	50
2	Heart of Midlothian	34	22	6	6	90	49	41	50
3	Dunfermline Athletic	34	22	5	7	83	36	47	49
4	Hibernian	34	21	4	9	75	47	28	46
5	Rangers	34	18	8	8	78	35	43	44
6	Dundee	34	15	10	9	86	63	23	40
7	Clyde	34	17	6	11	64	58	6	40
8	Celtic	34	16	5	13	76	57	19	37
9	Dundee United	34	15	6	13	59	51	8	36
10	Morton	34	13	7	14	54	54	0	33
11	Partick Thistle	34	11	10	13	57	58	−1	32
12	Aberdeen	34	12	8	14	59	75	−16	32
13	St. Johnstone	34	9	11	14	57	62	−5	29
14	Motherwell	34	11	8	16	45	54	−9	28
15	St. Mirren	34	9	6	19	38	70	−32	24
16	Falkirk	34	7	7	20	43	85	−42	21
17	Airdrieonians	34	5	4	25	48	110	−62	14
18	Third Lanark	34	3	1	30	22	99	−77	7

Champions: Kilmarnock
Relegated: Airdrieonains, Third Lanark

Scottish League Division Two

Main article: 1964–65 Scottish Second Division

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Stirling Albion	36	26	7	3	84	31	53	59
2	Hamilton Academical	36	21	8	7	86	53	33	50
3	Queen of the South	36	16	13	7	84	50	34	45
4	Queen's Park	36	17	9	10	57	41	16	43
5	E. S. Clydebank	36	15	10	11	64	50	14	40
6	Stranraer	36	17	6	13	74	64	10	40
7	Arbroath	36	13	13	10	56	51	5	39
8	Berwick Rangers	36	15	9	12	73	70	3	39
9	East Fife	36	15	7	14	78	77	1	37
10	Alloa Athletic	36	14	8	14	71	81	−10	36
11	Albion Rovers	36	14	5	17	56	60	−4	33
12	Cowdenbeath	36	11	10	15	55	62	−7	32
13	Raith Rovers	36	9	14	13	54	61	−7	32
14	Dumbarton	36	13	6	17	55	67	−12	32
15	Stenhousemuir	36	11	8	17	49	74	−25	30
16	Montrose	36	10	9	17	80	91	−11	29
17	Forfar Athletic	36	9	7	20	63	89	−26	25
18	Ayr United	36	9	6	21	49	67	−18	24
19	Brechin City	36	6	7	23	53	102	−49	19

Promoted: Stirling Albion, Hamilton Academical

Cup honours

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Scottish Cup 1964–65	Celtic	3 – 2	Dunfermline Athletic
League Cup 1964–65	Rangers	2 – 1	Celtic
Junior Cup	Linlithgow Rose	4 – 1	Baillieston Juniors

Other Honours

National

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Scottish Qualifying Cup - North	Inverness Caledonian	4 – 2 *	Ross County
Scottish Qualifying Cup - South	Gala Fairydean	9 – 5 *	Glasgow University

County

Competition	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Aberdeenshire Cup	Peterhead
Ayrshire Cup	Ayr United	1 – 0	Kilmarnock
East of Scotland Shield	Hearts	3 – 1	Hibernian
Fife Cup	Dunfermline Athletic	9 – 4 *	Raith Rovers
Forfarshire Cup	Dundee United	1 – 0	Dundee
Glasgow Cup	Celtic	5 – 0	Queens Park
Lanarkshire Cup	Airdrie
Renfrewshire Cup	Morton	7 – 4 *	St Mirren
Stirlingshire Cup	Dumbarton	4 – 2 *	Falkirk

* - aggregate over two legs

Highland League

Top Three

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Elgin City	30	21	4	5	109	52	57	46
2	Nairn County	30	21	3	6	99	64	35	45
3	Inverness Caledonian	30	18	5	7	104	68	36	41

Individual honours

Award	Winner	Club
Footballer of the Year	Billy McNeill	Celtic

Scotland national team

Main article: Scotland national football team 1960–79 results

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score	Competition	Scotland scorer(s)
3 October 1964	Ninian Park, Cardiff (A)	Wales	2–3	BHC	Stevie Chalmers, Dave Gibson
21 October 1964	Hampden Park, Glasgow (H)	Finland	3–1	WCQG8	Denis Law, Dave Gibson, Stevie Chalmers
25 November 1964	Hampden Park, Glasgow (H)	Northern Ireland	3–2	BHC	Davie Wilson (2), Alan Gilzean
10 April 1965	Wembley Stadium, London (A)	England	2–2	BHC	Denis Law, Ian St. John
8 May 1965	Hampden Park, Glasgow (H)	Spain	0–0	Friendly
23 May 1965	Silesia Stadium, Chorzów / Katowice (A)	Poland	1–1	WCQG8	Denis Law
27 May 1965	Olympia Stadion, Helsinki (A)	Finland	2–1	WCQG8	Davie Wilson, John Greig

• Scotland came third in the 1965 British Home Championship

Key:

• (H) = Home match
• (A) = Away match
• WCQG8 = World Cup qualifying - Group 8
• BHC = British Home Championship

External links

• Scottish Football Historical Archive