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The Royals were 1959-60 EPHL champions.

The Eastern Professional Hockey League was a minor pro hockey league that operated for four seasons from 1959 to 1963 and served as a farm system for the NHL. During its first three seasons the league was made up of six teams, all of them in Canada. The Hull-Ottawa Canadiens were a Montreal Canadiens farm club. They played at both the Arena de Hull and the Ottawa Auditorium, hence the club’s hyphenated name. They had been part of the OHA Senior A league for three years before the creation of the EPHL, coached by such future luminaries as Sam Pollock and Scotty Bowman. Many Montreal Canadiens players of the 1960s came up through Hull-Ottawa. The Royals were the offspring of the venerable Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the original Stanley Cup champions. By the early 1930s the MAAA could no longer support all its sporting departments, so the men in charge of the hockey team spun it off under the name Royal Montreal Hockey Club. They played in the Montreal Senior Group from 1932 to 1937, the Quebec Senior Hockey League from 1937 to 1953, the Quebec Hockey League from 1953 to 1959, and were founding members of the EPHL in 1959. The Royals roster was also loaded with future Montreal Canadians. Like the NHL the EPHL played a 210-game schedule, or 70 games per team, spread over five-and-a-half months, followed by about a month of playoff games. The EPHL’s championship trophy (see it above) was the Tom Foley Memorial Trophy, named after an Ottawa broadcaster who was killed in a car crash in 1959.
October 6th was the 1960-61 season opener. The Royals visited the Hull-Ottawa at the Hull Arena.
First period: goals by Rousseau (Hull), G. Tremblay (Hull);
Second period: goals by Gray (Hull), Connelly (Royals);
Third period: goals by Skov (Hull), Pennington (Hull), O’Ree (Hull), Grigg (Royals), G. Tremblay (Hull).
Final score 7 – 2. Attendance 2,367.
Referee: Matt Pavelich.

Celtic’s latest Japanese import, defender Hayato Inamura, made 17 appearances for Albirex Niigata in 2025. BBC.

Morton visit Airdrieonians. Morton are seventh with 7 points, Airdrie tenth with 3.

Morton have more draws this season than any other team in Scotland or possibly the world.

Cammy Ballantyne played for Airdrie from 2022 ’til 2024, as did Aaron Lyall in 2024. David Hutton played for Morton in 2012-13, as did Charlie Telfer in 2018-19, and Sean McGinty in 2020-21. Lewis Strapp played for Morton most of his life.

The last Morton player to score against Airdrie was Tomi Adeloye, on April 19th.

[Morton win 1 – 2 on goals by Adeloye and Longridge.]

The other Championship matches:
Queen’s Park 0 – 1 Partick Thistle (September 30)
Dunfermline Athletic (6th) [0 – 0] Queen’s Park (8th)
Partick Thistle (2nd) [1 – 1] Arbroath (4th)
Ross County (9th) [2 – 0] Raith Rovers (3rd)
St Johnstone (1st) [0 – 0] Ayr United (5th)

Other matches:
Odd 1 – 0 Aalesund (September 29)
Samtredia 1 – 1 Meshtakhe (October 1)
Halifax Tides 2 – 2 Montreal Roses (October 2) Two goals by Miller.
Wexford [0 – 3] UCD (tomorrow)
Ehime FC [1 – 3] Mito HollyHock (tomorrow)
Elfen Saitama [1 – 3] Mynavi Sendai
Shizuoka Bonita [3 – 1] Sfida Setagaya
Stabaek [2 – 2] Odd (tomorrow)
Haugesund [4 – 0] Odd Kvinner
Fortuna Dusseldorf [2 – 3] 1.FC Nurnberg
Clydebank [4 – 2] Albion Rovers
Keith vs Wick Academy [postponed]
Orkney vs Golspie Sutherland [postponed]
Coldstream [3 – 4] Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts
HFX Wanderers [1 – 1] York United [HFX goal by Mekideche]
Meshtakhe [1 – 3] Rustavi (tomorrow)
Armadale Thistle [2 – 3] Morton Women (tomorrow)

West of Scotland League Cup, R1:
Bonnyton Thistle vs Finnart [postponed]
BSC Glasgow vs Petershill [postponed]
Caledonian Locomotive [1 – 4] Irvine Meadow XI
Cambuslang Rangers vs Glasgow University [postponed]
Cumnock [4 – 1] Ardrossan Winton Rovers
Glenafton Athletic [3 – 2] Kilbirnie Ladeside
Kello Rovers vs Vale of Clyde [postponed]
Knightswood [0 – 1] Dalry Thistle
Lanark United [3 – 3] Port Glasgow [Lanark win on PK]
Larkhall Thistle [1 – 3] Bellshill Athletic
Muirkirk vs Rossvale [postponed]
Pollok [2 – 3] Beith
Kilwinning Rangers vs Renfrew [postponed]
Thornliewood United vs Ashfield [postponed]
Threave Rovers vs Darvel (postponed)
Vale of Leven [3 – 0] Forth Wanderers Upset

West of Scotland League Cup, R2:
Carluke Rovers vs St Roch’s [postponed]
Cumbernauld United [5 – 2] Maryhill
East Kilbride Thistle vs St Peter’s [postponed]
Arthurlie vs Eglinton [postponed]
Glasgow United vs Drumchapel United [postponed]
Glenvale [3 – 2] Lugar Boswell Thistle
Kilsyth Athletic [3 – 3] Kirkintilloch Rob Roy [Rob Roy win on PK]
Largs Thistle [0 – 1] Greenock Upset
Lesmahagow vs Ardeer Thistle [postponed]
Royal Albert vs Campbeltown Pupils (postponed)
Rutherglen Glencairn vs Easterhouse [postponed]
Saltcoats Victoria [1 – 3] Neilston
Shotts Bon Accord vs Irvine Victoria [postponed]
St Cadoc’s [7 – 1] Newmains United
St Anthony’s [0 – 4] Hurlford United
Thorn Athletic vs Maybole [postponed]
West Park United vs Benburb (postponed)
Wishaw vs Glasgow Perthshire [postponed]

Canadian Championship final (October 1):
Vancouver Whitecaps 4 – 2 Vancouver FC

US Open Cup final (October 1):
Austin 1 – 2 Nashville

2025-26 UEFA Europa League, matchday 2 (October 2):
Celtic 0 – 2 Braga
Sturm Graz 2 – 1 Rangers

2025-26 UEFA Conference League, matchday 1 (October 2):
Aberdeen 2 – 3 Shakhtar Donetsk
Sparta Prague 4 – 1 Shamrock Rovers
Shelbourne 0 – 0 BK Häcken

2025-26 AFC Champions League Elite, matchday 2:
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1 – 1 Shanghai Port (September 30)
Johor Darul Ta’zim 0 – 0 Machida Zelvia (September 30)
Vissel Kobe 1 – 0 Melbourne City (October 1)

2025-26 AFC Champions League Two, matchday 2:
Ratchaburi 0 – 2 Gamba Osaka (October 2)

Historical matches:
1890/10/4 2nd Morton 4 – 3 2nd Port Glasgow Athletic (2nd XI Cup R2)
1890/10/4 Linthouse 4 – 1 Morton
1930/10/4 Celtic 4 – 1 Morton
1952/10/4 St Johnstone 3 – 1 Morton
1980/9/30 Morton 1 – 1 Notts County (Anglo-Scot Cup QF leg 2)
1980/10/4 Morton 2 – 2 Rangers

SFL 1890-91 results:
1890/10/4 Rangers 8 – 2 St Mirren
1890/10/4 Abercorn 2 – 4 Third Lanark
1890/10/4 Vale of Leven 1 – 3 Dumbarton
1890/10/4 Carfin Shamrock 1 – 3 Celtic (ScCup R2 replay)
Renton were turfed out of the SFL as a result of having played a friendly against the openly professional Edinburgh Saints (a.k.a. St Bernard’s) on September 27th. The following league matches were expunged:
1890/8/16 Celtic 1 – 4 Renton
1890/8/23 Renton 2 – 2 St Mirren
1890/8/30 Rangers 4 – 1 Renton
1890/9/13 Abercorn 4 – 2 Renton
1890/9/20 Renton 1 – 2 Vale of Leven