Scottish Top Division Reconstruction - Championships

A blog post entitled 'The trouble with Scottish football...' by Inside Left called for people to blog about the issues raised in the post, so having already started a series of posts on attendances in Scottish Football, we thought we'd post on the subject of top division reconstruction.

First to get out the way some facts about the Old Firm dominance:

• the Old Firm have won 83% of league championships (94 of 113)
• if the Old Firm win this year's championship, it will be the 25th in a row
• the longest period of domination was 27 years, between 1904-05 and 1930-31

During the last period of domination, the league was reconstructed 6 times, although it wasn't reconstruction that ended the dominance, it was stability in the league format that possibly contributed - 1931-32 was the 10th year of a 20 team format, the longest stretch since the league started in 1890 - Motherwell's championship came after 5 successive years in the top 3, with two runners-up spots and three third place finishes.

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