Chris Aitken

Chris Aitken appeared for Morton in the early Aughties. He later played for Stranraer and is now their manager. Source.

Morton host Stranraer in a preseason friendly at Cappielow Park. These two teams have met only once in a competitive match this decade: Morton won 3 – 0 on July 18th, 2023 in the League Cup group stage. But Stranraer were awarded a 3 – 0 win on July 10th, 2021 in that year’s League Cup group stage after Morton forfeited due to Covid.

Since 1994, when the four-division structure arrived, Stranraer have appeared in the second tier three times: 1994-95, 1998-99 and 2005-06. They have been in the fourth tier all this decade. Morton’s biggest win against Stranraer was 8 – 0 in the first round of the 2011-12 Challenge Cup.

Jackson Longridge played for Stranraer in 2014-15, as did Cammy MacPherson in 2017-18. Both Morton and Stranraer have a player named McLuckie.

Morton have signed 20-year-old midfielder Callum Sandilands on loan from Hearts.

[Morton 0 – 0 Stranraer.]

The World Cup continues:

Round of 32:
South Africa 0 – 1 Canada (June 28) Goal by Eustaquio.
Brazil 2 – 1 Japan (June 29)
Mexico 2 – 0 Ecuador (June 30)

Round of 16:
Canada [0 – 3] Morocco (today)
Reminder: Morocco beat Canada 2 – 1 in the last World Cup.
Mexico [2 – 3] England (tomorrow)

Other matches:
Carluke Rovers 0 – 4 Gartcairn (friendly) (June 29)
Ayr United 3 – 0 Dumbarton (friendly) (June 30)
Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Hibs (friendly) (June 30)
Altona 93 2 – 6 St Pauli (friendly) (July 1)
[East End United 2 – 2 Greenock HS FPs AFC]
HFX Wanderers 1 – 3 Atlético Ottawa (July 1) Goal by Ciccarelli.
Kickers Emden [1 – 3] St Pauli (friendly)
Clydebank [4 – 0] Musselburgh Athletic (Blackburn Legacy Shield)
Carluke Rovers [1 – 1] Kilsyth Rangers (friendly)
Largs Thistle [1 – 2] Knightswood (friendly)
Port Glasgow [5 – 1] Lesmahagow (friendly)
Greenock Juniors vs Drumchapel United (friendly)
[Greenock HS FPs 5 – 3 AFC Rutherglen Glencairn AFC]
Invergordon [1 – 9] Aberdeen XI (friendly)
Queen of the South [1 – 2] Crusaders (friendly)
These two met in the 2018-19 Challenge Cup, R2, and QoS won 4 – 3.
Clydebank [2 – 0] Cumbernauld Colts (Blackburn Legacy Shield) (tomorrow)
Göteborg [1 – 2] AIK (tomorrow)
Blue Bombers [14 – 13] Ti-Cats (tomorrow)
Pacific [1 – 2] HFX Wanderers (tomorrow) [Goals by Ciccarelli and Callegari.]
Halifax Tides [0 – 1] AFC Toronto (tomorrow)
Vaughan Azzurri [1 – 1] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)

Recommended sites: Scottish Football Fixtures, FitbaStats, Scottish Football Historical Archive, Pie and Bovril

1942 Summer Cup final:
1942/7/4 Rangers 4 – 4 Hibs (2 – 2 on corners, Rangers won on a coin toss.)

Scott McTominay

Scott McTominay’s bicycle kick propelled Scotland into this World Cup, and now the Bank of Scotland has put it on a banknote. Story.

World Cup:

Group A:
Czech Republic 0 – 3 Mexico (June 24)

Group B:
Switzerland 2 – 1 Canada (June 24)

Group C:
Scotland 0 – 3 Brazil (June 24)

Group F:
Japan 1 – 1 Sweden (June 25)

Mexico, Canada and Japan advance.

Mortonalia: Morton were scheduled to play a friendly against Civil Service Strollers today, but it has been cancelled.

Michael Garrity has signed on for another year. He’s now the longest-serving member of the squad, having started in 2021. Aaron Comrie and Owen Moffat have left the club. 21-year-old defender Laiith Fairnie has signed up. And midfielder Harry Cochrane, formerly of Hearts, Dunfermline, Montrose, Queen of the South and Arbroath.

Other matches:
HFX Wanderers 5 – 3 Pacific (yesterday) Halifax goals by Arilla, Johnston and Ciccarelli, plus two own goals. Pacific are having a dreadful season.
St Pauli vs AFC Bournemouth (training match) (yesterday)
Invergordon [0 – 7] Ross County XI (friendly)
Queen of the South [0 – 1] Connah’s Quay Nomads (friendly)
Sauchie Juniors [2 – 3] Port Glasgow Juniors (friendly)
Calgary Wild [0 – 1] Halifax Tides [Goal by Miller.]
Sapporo University Goal Plunderers [0 – 6] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Sigma [3 – 3] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)

Seventeen J1 matches and one J2 match will be held at the Japan National Stadium this season, but none of them involve Mito HollyHock.

Stirlingshire Cup, group stage, Group A:
Stenhousemuir [3 – 0] Stirling Albion (10 am)
Stenhousemuir [2 – 0] Dumbarton (noon)
Dumbarton [0 – 0] Stirling Albion (2 pm) [Binos win on PK]
These are 60-minute games.

1942 Summer Cup, SF:
1942/6/27 Hibs 3 – 1 Motherwell
1942/6/27 Rangers 3 – 2 Albion Rovers

Japan in the 2022 World Cup:
2022/11/23 Germany 1 – 2 Japan
2022/11/27 Japan 0 – 1 Costa Rica
2022/12/1 Japan 2 – 1 Spain
2022/12/5 Japan 1 – 1 Croatia (Croatia won on PK) (Round of 16)

More World Cup

Vancouver’s Science World rebranded. Source.

Group A:
Mexico 1 – 0 South Korea (June 18)
Video: Duck wearing a Mexico jersey goes viral.
Most Mexico players play in the Mexican league, but their top scorer Raúl Jiménez plays for Wolverhampton.

Group B:
Canada 6 – 0 Qatar (June 18) Hat-trick for Jonathan David.
Video: How many empty seats were there at Toronto’s first World Cup match?
Jacob Shaffelburg (on at 70′) is from Kings County, Nova Scotia.

Group C:
Scotland 0 – 1 Morocco (June 19)
Video: Are Scottish fans drinking all of the beer in Boston? And BBC Scotland reporter on what it’s like
Lyndon Dykes played for Queen of the South from 2016 to 2019 while they were in the Morton’s division.

Group F:
Tunisia [0 – 4] Japan (June 20)
Video: The Japanese dressing room.
Daizen Maeda played for Mito HollyHock ten years ago.

Other matches:
Simcoe County Rovers 1 – 4 Scrosoppi (June 16)
Halifax Tides 1 – 1 Vancouver Rise (June 18) Goal by Vallerand.
BC Lions 27 – 41 Tiger-Cats (June 19)
Linlithgow Rose [4 – 3] Dumbarton (friendly)
ASC Hokkaido [1 – 1] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Scrosoppi [3 – 0] Oakville (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Zak Delaney has left the club.

Goalkeeper Leif Nielsen (Morton 1969-70) has died at 84.

The 2026-27 SPFL schedule is out.

1942 Summer Cup, R2, leg 2:
1942/6/20 Third Lanark 1 – 5 Hibs
1942/6/20 Hearts 2 – 0 Albion Rovers
1942/6/20 Motherwell 2 – 1 Celtic
1942/6/20 Rangers 3 – 0 Falkirk

Scotland in the 1998 World Cup:
1998/6/10 Brazil 2 – 1 Scotland
1998/6/16 Scotland 1 – 1 Norway
1998/6/23 Scotland 0 – 3 Morocco

2026 World Cup

Source.

It’s the World Cup. Let’s follow Canada, Mexico, Scotland and Japan.

Group A
Mexico 2 – 0 South Africa (June 11)
Video: How a women from Veracruz won Mexico’s top World Cup ticket.

Group B
Canada 1 – 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 12)
Video: I attended Canada’s last match before the World Cup.

Group C
Haiti [0 – 1] Scotland (June 13)
Video: Ewen McGregor introduces the Scotland squad. (And takes back everything he said about Scotland in Trainspotting.)

Group F
Netherlands [2 – 2] Japan (June 14)
Video: Can the Japanese national team reach the quarterfinals?

Other matches:
Forge 1 – 0 HFX Wanderers (June 10)
Tiger-Cats 37 – 27 Blue Bombers (June 11)
Halifax Tides [2 – 0] Calgary Wild [Goals by Benati and Miller.]
Scrosoppi vs Vaughan Azzurri (moved to August 11)
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [6 – 0] Hokushukai Iwamizawa (tomorrow)
Mito HollyHock [6 – 8] Koji All-Stars (Koji Homma tribute match) (tomorrow)

Video: Canada is essentially three mining companies in a trenchcoat.

Mortonalia: The club has announced it will have a smaller player budget this year. They’ve signed midfielder Grant Savoury, formerly of Celtic B, Edinburgh City, Peterhead and Queen’s Park. [Cameron Blues has left the club. He was the last remaining Morton player who was signed before the pandemic.]

1942 Summer Cup, R2, leg 1:
1942/6/13 Hibs 8 – 2 Third Lanark
1942/6/13 Albion Rovers 3 – 0 Hearts
1942/6/13 Celtic 1 – 2 Motherwell
1942/6/13 Falkirk 1 – 0 Rangers

Canada in the 1986 World Cup:
1986/6/1 Canada 0 – 1 France
1986/6/6 Hungary 2 – 0 Canada
1986/6/9 Soviet Unon 2 – 0 Canada

Canada in the 2022 World Cup:
2022/11/23 Belgium 1 – 0 Canada
2022/11/27 Croatia 4 – 1 Canada
2022/12/1 Canada 1 – 2 Morocco

Mario Carducci

HFX Wanderers’ 2026 goalkeeper strip is modelled on moon mist ice cream. Source.

The first weekend in June has got to be the slowest part of the soccer calendar.

HFX Wanderers visit Calgary. Cavalry are second with 17 points, HFX Wanderers sixth with 9 points. Since 2019 HFX Wanderers have beaten Cavalry only 3 times in 26 attempts.

Halifax’s Isaiah Johnston and Calgary’s Tobias Warschewski are joint league leaders with four goals each.

This is Mario Carducci’s first game against his old teammates.

Cavalry [2 – 0] HFX Wanderers

Other matches:
Canada 2 – 0 Uzbekistan (friendly) (June 1)
Alouettes 30 – 27 Tiger-Cats (June 4)
Mexico 5 – 1 Serbia (friendly) (June 4)
Canada 1 – 1 Ireland (friendly) (yesterday)
Bolivia [0 – 4] Scotland (friendly) [Two for Shankland.]
Oakville [3 – 2] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Morton have signed 19-year-old Bobby McLuckie, previously of Hearts, Stenny, Hamilton Accies and East Kilbride. Grant Gillespie has signed on for another year. Also signed is goalkeeper Brian Kinnear, formerly of Rangers B, Camelon, Annan Athletic, West Ham U23, Falkirk and Clyde. Sam Murdoch has been loaned out to Annan Athletic.

[The 2026-27 Morton primary kit is out. The blue hoops are tartan.]

The Challenge Cup has been reformatted, as it is every year. This time the league phase will include League One, League Two, ten Premiership B teams, plus Banks o’ Dee, Clachnacuddin, Formartine United, Fraserburgh, Berwick Rangers, Bonnyrigg Rose, Cowdenbeath, Gala Fairydean Rovers, Clydebank and Cumbernauld Colts, or four from the Highland League, four from the Lowland League East and two from the Lowland League West. Clach, new Clydebank and Gala have never been in the Challenge Cup before.

J League 100 Year Vision League playoffs, leg 2 (selected matches):
Kashima Antlers [2 – 0] Vissel Kobe [Vissel finish first on aggregate.]
Mito HollyHock [0 – 1] V-Varen Nagasaki [Mito finish 18th.]
JEF United [1 – 2] Avispa Fukuoka [JEF finish 20th.]

JFL Cup final, leg 2 (tomorrow):
Okinawa SV [4 – 1] ReinMeer Aomori [Okinawa win the cup.]

Cup games of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1891/6/6 Dumbarton 5 – 1 Morton (Greenock Charity Cup final)
1891/6/10 Dumbarton 3 – 0 Celtic (SFL Charity Cup final)

1942 Summer Cup, R1, leg 2:
1942/6/6 Queen’s Park 4 – 3 Albion Rovers
1942/6/6 Partick Thistle 0 – 2 Celtic
1942/6/6 Motherwell 4 – 2 Dumbarton
1942/6/6 Morton 1 – 0 Falkirk (3 – 3 on aggregate. Falkirk won on a coin toss.)
1942/6/6 Rangers vs Hamilton Academical (not played)
1942/6/6 Clyde 0 – 2 Hibs
1942/6/6 Hearts 4 – 1 St Mirren
1942/6/6 Airdrieonians 1 – 4 Third Lanark

2025-26 Scottish Communities Cup Final

Largs Thistle, 1994 victors. Source.

Largs Thistle and Auchinleck Talbot meet in the final of the Scottish Communities Cup, formerly the Scottish Junior Cup. Auchinleck have won this cup 14 times, Largs once. Auchinleck beat Largs in the 2018-19 final.

Both clubs will be playing in the new Lowland League West next season.

Auchinleck Talbot [2 – 1] Largs Thistle (tomorrow)

Other matches:
Göteborg 1 – 1 Mjallby (May 25)
Halifax Tides 1 – 2 Ottawa Rapid (yesterday) Halifax goal by Benati.
Scrosoppi 2 – 1 Sigma (yesterday)
Ti-Cats 20 – 14 Argos (pre-season) (yesterday)
Lipno Stęszew [4 – 3] Unia Swarzędz
This ends the Polish III Liga, Group II season. Lipno Stęszew finish midtable fourth.
HFX Wanderers [1 – 0] Vancouver FC [Goal by Ciccarelli.]
Scotland [4 – 1] Curaçao (friendly) [Two goals for Shankland.]
Mexico [1 – 0] Australia (friendly)
Norbritz Hokkaido [0 – 2] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Västerås SK [4 – 5] Göteborg (tomorrow)
Japan [1 – 0] Iceland (friendly) (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Players not returning are: Fergus Owens, Ali Crawford, Kian Taylor, Nathan Shaw, Zak McKay, James Storer, Aaron Lyall, Reuben Lopata-White, Curtis Main and Murray Johnson.

Iain (“Shug”) Wilson has signed on for another year.

Former Morton throw-in specialist Lewis Strapp has signed with Ross County. Lawrence Shankland has signed with Rangers. Josh McPake has joined Hearts.

The draw for the League Cup group stage was held Wednesday. Morton are in the same group as St Johnstone, Inverness CT, East Fife and Linlithgow Rose. Three of them are league champions.

The 2026-27 Highland League schedule is already out. That is the best organized league.

J League 100 Year Vision League playoffs, leg 1 (selected matches):
Vissel Kobe [5 – 0] Kashima Antlers (for 1st place)
V-Varen Nagasaki [1 – 0] Mito HollyHock (for 17th place)
Although there will be no relegation at the end of the 100 Year Vision League, the 18th team would be relegated in a regular J1 season, which makes V-Varen vs HollyHock important for both teams.
Avispa Fukuoka [2 – 2] JEF United (for 19th place)

JFL Cup final, leg 1 (tomorrow):
ReinMeer Aomori [0 – 0] Okinawa SV

2025-26 UEFA Conference League final (May 27):
Crystal Palace 1 – 0 Rayo Vallecano

2025-26 UEFA Champions League final:
Paris Saint-Germain [1 – 1] Arsenal [PSG win on PK]

Cup games of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1891/5/30 Celtic 6 – 1 Third Lanark (SFL Charity Cup SF)

1942 Summer Cup, R1, leg 1:
1942/5/30 Albion Rovers 2 – 0 Queen’s Park
1942/5/30 Celtic 2 – 1 Partick Thistle
1942/5/30 Dumbarton 1 – 0 Motherwell
1942/5/30 Falkirk 3 – 2 Morton
1942/5/30 Hamilton Academical 1 – 7 Rangers
1942/5/30 Hibs 2 – 1 Clyde
1942/5/30 St Mirren 3 – 3 Hearts
1942/5/30 Third Lanark 4 – 2 Airdrieonians

2025-26 Scottish Cup Final

The 1961 Pars show off their Scottish Cup. Source.

It’s the Scottish Cup final: Celtic versus Dunfermline Athletic. Celtic have won the cup 42 times, Dunfermline twice, including 1961 when they beat Celtic. These two clubs met in the final three other times, in 1965, 2004 and 2007, and Celtic won each time.

Celtic snapped up the Championship title last weekend after trailing all season. 1985 was the last time the Old Firm did not win the title. Winning the Scottish Cup is easy in comparison; since 1985 non-Old Firm clubs have won it 15 times.

Dunfermline manager Neil Lennon has won the Scottish Cup four times as a player and four times as a manager. Celtic manager Martin O’Neill has won the cup three times as a manager.

Celtic [3 – 1] Dunfermline Athletic

Premiership playoff finals:
Partick Thistle 1 – 1 St Mirren (May 21)
St Mirren [1 – 0] Partick Thistle (May 25) [St Mirren stay up.]

Other matches:
Halifax Tides 1 – 2 Vancouver Rise (May 18)
Września [1 – 3] Lipno Stęszew
HFX Wanderers [1 – 1] Inter Toronto [Halifax goal by Johnston.]
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [6 – 2] Sabas FC (tomorrow)
Calgary Wild [0 – 4] Halifax Tides (tomorrow) [Two for Miller, two for Vallerand.]
Burlington [0 – 3] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)
Argonauts [20 – 10] Tiger-Cats (pre-season) (tomorrow)

Derek Gaston has moved from Stirling Albion to East Fife.

Cristóbal Fernández, who played Dani Rojas in Ted Lasso, has been signed by El Paso Locomotive of the USL Championship.

Coupe de France final (May 22):
Lens 3 – 1 Nice

DFB-Pokal final:
Bayern Munich [3 – 0] VfB Stuttgart

2025-26 UEFA Europa Cup final (May 20):
SC Freiburg 0 – 3 Aston Villa

2025-26 Concacaf Women’s Champions Cup, SF (May 20):
Club América 4 – 1 Gotham FC
Washington Spirit 1 – 0 Pachuca
Final (May 23):
Club América [5 – 3] Washington Spirit

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 18:
Machida Zelvia (3rd) 1 – 0 Urawa Red Diamonds (5th) (yesterday)
Kashima Antlers (1st) [1 – 0] FC Tokyo (2nd)
Kashiwa Reysol (8th) [4 – 2] JEF United (10th)
Mito HollyHock (7th) [1 – 3] Kawasaki Frontale (6th) (tomorrow)
Tokyo Verdy (4th) [0 – 6] Yokohama F Marinos (9th) (tomorrow)
This ends the double round robin. [Mito finish ninth.] Next, each team will play off against the team with the same position in the West table to determine the order of the combined table.

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/5/21 Rangers 2 – 2 Dumbarton
Rangers and Dumbarton finished the 1890-91 SFL tied for first. This match was a tiebreaker, but it ended in a draw so they were declared joint champions. Under today’s rules Dumbarton, with the superior goal difference, would have been declared sole champion.

Cho So-hyun

Korean veteran midfielder Cho So-hyun joined the Halifax Tides this year. She has played for Suwon, Hyundai Steel, Kobe Leonessa, Avaldsnes, West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur, and Birmingham City. Here she is at Gyeongbokgung Palace. Source.

Premiership playoff semi-finals:
Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 1 Partick Thistle (May 12)
Partick Thistle 2 – 1 Dunfermline Athletic (yesterday) Partick advance.
Championship playoff finals:
Alloa 1 – 3 Stenhousemuir (May 13)
Stenhousemuir [0 – 1] Alloa [Stenny are promoted.]
League 1 playoff finals:
Clyde 1 – 1 Hamilton Academical (May 12)
Hamilton Academical 4 – 3 Clyde (yesterday) Accies stay up.
League 2 playoff final, leg 2:
Edinburgh City [2 – 0] Brora Rangers [Edinburgh City stay up.]

Other matches:
Lesmahagow 4 – 2 Greenock (May 12)
Kluczevia Stargard 0 – 3 Lipno Stęszew (May 13)
Ottawa Rapids 2 – 0 Halifax Tides (May 13)
Scrosoppi 4 – 0 Unionville Milliken (yesterday)
Mynavi Sendai [2 – 3] Elfen Saitama
This ends the 2025-26 WE League. Elfen Saitama finish eleventh.
Celtic [3 – 1] Hearts
Hearts [had to] win or draw to finish atop the Premiership.
Kilwinning Rangers [1 – 2] Largs Thistle
This ends the WoS Premier Division season. Largs are promoted to the new Lowland League West.
Cambuslang Rangers [1 – 7] Greenock [Greenock finish eleventh.]
This ends the WoS 2nd Division season.
Finnart [2 – 2] Port Glasgow
This ends the WoS 3rd Division season. Port Glasgow are promoted.
Coldstream [4 – 3] Kennoway Star Hearts
This ends the EoS 2nd Division season. Coldstream are promoted.
Lipno Stęszew [0 – 5] Luzino (tomorrow)
Armadale Thistle [1 – 2] Morton Women (tomorrow)
This ends the Scottish Women’s Championship season. [Morton stay up.]
Atlético Ottawa [1 – 0] HFX Wanderers (tomorrow)

The Vancouver Whitecaps will use 5,000-seat Swangard Stadium in Burnaby for their Canadian Championship quarter-final against Cavalry FC. The Whitecaps are out of BC Place until August due to the World Cup.

Mortonalia: Michael O’Halloran has signed on for another year.

The Hokkaido Soccer League starts this weekend. Let’s follow Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth:
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [3 – 0] Sapporo FC (tomorrow)

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 12 (May 13):
Machida Zelvia (3rd) 0 – 0 Tokyo Verdy (5th) (Zelvia win on PK)

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 17:
Mito HollyHock (7th) [0 – 1] Tokyo Verdy (4th)
Urawa Red Diamonds (5th) [0 – 0] FC Tokyo (2nd) [FC Tokyo win on PK]
Yokohama F Marinos (8th) [0 – 1] Kashiwa Reysol (9th)
JEF United (10th) [0 – 2] Kashima Antlers (1st) (tomorrow)
Kawasaki Frontale (6th) [1 – 1] Machida Zelvia (3rd) (tomorrow) [Frontale win on PK]

2026 Canadian Championship, Preliminary Round

HFX Wanderers versus Forge FC in last year’s cup. Source.

HFX Wanderers visit Forge in the preliminary round of the Canadian Championship. They played the same cup fixture last year and Forge won 3 – 1. They also met in league play last weekend in Halifax and Forge won 3 – 1.

Former Wanderers assistant coach Derek King has been appointed head of the Trinidad and Tobago national men’s team.

[Forge 4 – 0 HFX Wanderers.]

The other Canadian Championship matches:
Toronto FC 1 – 3 Atlético Ottawa (May 5) Upset
CF Montréal 5 – 0 Calgary Blizzard (May 6)
Supra 3 – 1 Woodbridge Strikers (yesterday)
Pacific [1 – 3] Cavalry
Vancouver FC [2 – 0] Langley United (tomorrow)
Inter Toronto [0 – 1] CS Saint-Laurent (tomorrow) Upset

It’s the SPFL playoffs:
Premiership playoffs, QF:
Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 0 Arboath (May 5)
Arbroath 0 – 0 Dunfermline Athletic (yesterday) Pars advance.
Championship playoffs, semi-finals:
Alloa Athletic 1 – 0 Airdrieonians (May 5)
Queen of the South 1 – 1 Stenhousemuir (May 5)
Airdrieonians [1 – 2] Alloa Athletic (May 9) [Airdrie are relegated.]
Stenhousemuir [2 – 2] Queen of the South (May 9) [Stenny win on PK.]
League 1 playoffs, SF:
Forfar 1 – 3 Hamilton Academical (May 5)
Clyde 2 – 0 Spartans (May 5)
Hamilton Academical [2 – 1] Forfar (May 9)
Spartans [1 – 1] Clyde (May 9) [Hamilton and Clyde advance.]
League 2 playoff final, leg 1:
Brora Rangers [1 – 1] Edinburgh City

Airdrieonians are in the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year, once (2023-24) in the Premiership playoffs and five times in the Championship playoffs.

Dumbarton are replacing their grass with a plastic pitch. Story.

Mortonalia: James Storer has returned to Wolverhampton. Cammy Ballantyne has signed on for another year.

Other matches:
Djurgården 6 – 0 Göteborg (May 4)
Beith 2 – 1 Largs Thistle (May 5)
Pogoń Nowe Skalmierzyce [2 – 0] Lipno Stęszew
Göteborg 0 – 1 Hammarby
Stirling University EoS [0 – 5] Coldstream
Hurlford United [2 – 2] Largs Thistle
Thorn Athletic [4 – 2] Greenock
International FC [1 – 3] Scrosoppi
Elfen Saitama [0 – 1] Kobe Leonessa (tomorrow)
Fortuna Düsseldorf [3 – 1] SV Elversberg (tomorrow)
Forfar Farmington [0 – 4] Morton Women (tomorrow)

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 15 (May 6):
FC Tokyo (2nd) 0 – 3 JEF United (10th)
Machida Zelvia (3rd) 2 – 0 Yokohama F Marinos (8th)
Kashima Antlers (1st) 3 – 0 Mito HollyHock (7th)
Kawasaki Frontale (5th) 1 – 0 Tokyo Verdy (4th)
Kashiwa Reysol (9th) 0 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds (6th)

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 16:
Mito HollyHock (7th) [1 – 4] Urawa Red Diamonds (6th)
Yokohama F Marinos (8th) [1 – 1] Kashima Antlers (1st) [Kashima win on PK] (tomorrow)
FC Tokyo (2nd) [2 – 1] Tokyo Verdy (4th) (tomorrow)
Kashiwa Reysol (10th) [1 – 0] Kawasaki Frontale (5th) (tomorrow)
JEF United (9th) [0 – 2] Machida Zelvia (3rd) (tomorrow)

2026 HKFA 8th Hokkaido Football Championship:
SF #1: BTOP Hokkaido [3 – 0] Tokai University Sapporo (May 9)
SF #2: Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [1 – 1] Sapporo University [Sapporo University win on PK] (May 9)
Final: [BTOP Hokkaido 0 – 1 Sapporo University] (May 10)

Video: How Hearts Are DESTROYING the Entire Scottish System

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/5/5 Celtic 9 – 1 Vale of Leven
1891/5/6 Third Lanark 3 – 0 Cowlairs
1891/5/9 Vale of Leven 2 – 4 Hearts
1891/5/9 Rangers 4 – 1 Third Lanark

Who scored the most goals against Morton in 2025-26?
4 Jamie Gullan (St Johnstone)
3 Josh McPake (St Johnstone)
2 Tawanda Maswanhise (Motherwell); Matthew Aitken (Stenhousemuir); Aidan Connolly (Queen’s Park); Dom Thomas (Airdrieonians); Ben Stanway (Partick Thistle); Alex Samuel (Partick Thistle); Findlay Marshall (Arbroath); Euan Henderson (Airdrieonians)

Permutations

Source.

It’s the last day of the season. Morton host Airdrieonians. Morton are eighth in the division with 37 points. Airdrie are ninth with 35. Morton can finish the day anywhere from sixth place to tenth.

If Morton beat Airdrie, and Queen’s Park and Ayr United both lose, and Morton make up a 3-goal deficit with Queen’s Park, Morton will finish sixth.

If Morton win and only one of Queen’s Park and Ayr United draw or win, Morton will finish seventh.

If Morton, Queen’s Park and Ayr United all win, Morton will finish eighth. If Morton and Airdrie play to a draw, Morton will finish eighth.

If Airdrie beat Morton, and Ross County lose, Morton will finish ninth and go into a playoff against either Alloa or Queen of the South.

If Airdrie beat Morton, and Ross County win and make up a 4-goal deficit, Morton will finish tenth and be relegated.

The last time Morton went into the final weekend not knowing their fate was 2021. They finished ninth and had to beat Montrose and Airdrie in the playoffs to stay up.

Morton have met New Airdrieonians on the last day of the season only once before, on May 15th, 2004. Airdrie won 2 – 0.

[Morton 1 – 1 Airdrieonians. Goal by Curtis Main. Morton finish eighth.]

The other Championship matches:
Ayr United (7th) [0 – 1] St Johnstone (1st)
Partick Thistle (2nd) [1 – 1] Queen’s Park (6th)
Raith Rovers (5th) [3 – 2] Ross County (10th)
Dunfermline Athletic (4th) [0 – 0] Arbroath (3rd)
This match is a preview of the Premiership playoff quarter-final. It is also the A Ton of Snow Consolation Cup final. [Arbroath win on the corner kicks rule.]

Other matches:
FC Schalke 04 [1 – 0] Fortuna Düsseldorf (tomorrow)
Lipno Stęszew [1 – 0] Noteć Czarnków
Nojima Stella [1 – 2] Elfen Saitama (tomorrow)
Largs Thistle [1 – 0] Renfrew (tomorrow)
Greenock [3 – 0] Maybole (tomorrow)
Kilsyth Rangers [6 – 1] Kilsyth Athletic (tomorrow)
Port Glasgow [6 – 0] Glasgow Perthshire (tomorrow)
HFX Wanderers [1 – 3] Forge FC (tomorrow) [On the upside Johnston’s goal for Halifax was the first goal conceded by Forge this season.]
ReinMeer Aomori [3 – 1] Vonds Ichihara (May 3)
AFC Toronto [0 – 0] Halifax Tides (May 3)
Woodbridge Strikers [5 – 1] Scrosoppi (May 3)

West of Scotland League Cup final (May 3):
Auchinleck Talbot [0 – 1] Troon

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 13 (April 29):
Tokyo Verdy (5th) 2 – 1 Kashima Antlers (1st)
JEF United (10th) 2 – 3 Yokohama F Marinos (8th)
Urawa Red Diamonds (7th) 2 – 0 Kawasaki Frontale (4th)
Kashiwa Reysol (9th) 1 – 3 FC Tokyo (2nd)
Mito HollyHock (6th) 2 – 2 Machida Zelvia (3rd) (Zelvia win on PK)

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 14:
Yokohama F Marinos (8th) [1 – 1] Mito HollyHock (6th) [Mito win on PK] (May 2)
FC Tokyo (2nd) [2 – 0] Kawasaki Frontale (5th) (May 2)
Urawa Red Diamonds (7th) [2 – 0] JEF United (10th) (May 2)
Tokyo Verdy (4th) [1 – 0] Kashiwa Reysol (9th) (May 3)
Kashima Antlers (1st) [1 – 1] Machida Zelvia (3rd) [Kashima win on PK] (May 3)

Polish Cup final (May 2):
Górnik Zabrze [2 – 0] Raków Częstochowa

Vancouver Whitecaps are poised to do a Quebec Nordiques.

Historical matches:
1981/5/2 Airdrieonians 3 – 2 Morton

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/4/28 Third Lanark 2 – 1 Abercorn
1891/4/29 Cowlairs 0 – 5 Celtic
1891/5/2 Rangers 1 – 2 Celtic
1891/5/2 St Mirren 2 – 4 Dumbarton
1891/5/2 Cambuslang 2 – 0 Hearts
1891/5/2 Vale of Leven 1 – 2 Third Lanark