East Fife F.C.

Formation and early years

Local demand for the establishment of a senior football team led to a public meeting being held in January 1903 and resulted in the formation of East Fife Football Club. After spending its first season competing in the Fife League and the Scottish Qualifying Cup, as well as playing in a number of challenge matches, the club joined the Eastern League for season 1904–05. The following season East Fife joined the Northern League, which included clubs such as Dunfermline Athletic and St Johnstone. The club remained in the Northern League until the 1908–09 season. In 1909, East Fife joined the Central League, which consisted of many of the teams who had played in the Northern League, with the addition of Alloa Athletic, Stenhousemuir and King's Park from Stirling.

1920s and 30s

East Fife remained in the Central League until 1921, apart from a period during the First World War when the Eastern League was reformed. In the period following the war, the clubs competing for the Central League were mainly from the coal and shale mining communities of Fife and West Lothian. As the mining towns thrived with the growth of the mining industry and its associated influx of miners and their families, so did the local football clubs. The result of this was that by the end of the decade, the Central League clubs could afford to pay their players higher wages than they would receive in the Scottish Football League. In an effort to stop the migration of…

Scottish Cup: Winners (1): 1937–38 Runners-up (2): 1926–27, 1949–50 Scottish League Cup: Winners (3): 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54 Scottish Division Two (second tier): Winners (1): 1947–48 Scottish Third Division / Scottish League Two (fourth tier): Winners (2): 2007–08, 2015–16 Scottish B Division Supplementary Cup Winners (2): 1946–47, 1947–48 Scottish Qualifying Cup: Winners (1): 1921 Wemyss Cup: Winners (6): 1912, 1913, 1918, 1935, 1936, 1937 Penman Cup: Winners (4): 1910, 1917, 1939, 1962