Year Winners Runners-Up Third
Stornoway Football Association League
NB: the 1903 edition was the first ever.
1903 Athletic
1904 Athletic
1908-1932: Athletic consistently won the league (presumably in all seasons 1908-1914 and 1919-1932);
they were undefeated in all competitions until a loss to Caberfeidh in 1911.
1933 Unionists
1934 Athletic
1935 Sandwick
1936 Rovers
1937 Rovers Point Westside
1938 School
1939 league abandoned
1940-45 not contested
Lewis & Harris League
1946 Back
1947 Back
1948 Athletic
1949 Athletic Lochs
1950 Athletic
1951 Point
1952 Point
1953 Athletic
1954 Point United
1955 School
1956-57 not known
1958 United
1959 United
1960 United
1961 United
1962 United
1963 not known
1964 not known
1965 Athletic Lochs
1966 Athletic
1967 not known
1968 not known
1969 not known
1970 Point Lochs
1971 Point Lochs
1972 Back Rovers
1973 Point
1974 not known
1975 not known
1976 Harris Rovers
1977 not known
1978 Harris
1979 Ness
1980 Ness Point Rovers
1981 Point Ness Athletic
1982 Ness Athletic Tolsta
1983 Harris Point Ness
1984 Ness Back Athletic
1985 Ness Point Athletic
1986 Ness Point Athletic
1987 Ness Athletic Lochs
1988 Athletic Ness Lochs
1989 Ness Lochs Athletic
1990 Ness Athletic Rovers
1991 Ness Athletic Lochs
1992 Ness Point Athletic
1993 Point Ness Harris
1994 Ness Back Point
1995 Lochs Back Ness
1996 Point Ness Harris
1997 Point Athletic Harris
1998 Point Athletic Harris
1999 Ness Point Harris
2000 Back Harris Point
2001 Harris Ness Lochs
2002 Point Harris Back
2003 Lochs Back Point
2004 Point Back Lochs
2005 Lochs Athletic Back
2006 Athletic Lochs Point
2007 Lochs Back Athletic
2008 Lochs Back Carloway
2009 Lochs Back Carloway
2010 Lochs Back Westside
2011 Back Carloway Westside
2012 Athletic Back Lochs
2013 Carloway Athletic Westside
2014 Westside Lochs Carloway
2015 Lochs Point Westside
2016 Lochs Point Westside
2017 Carloway Westside Point
2018 Point Lochs Westside
2019 Westside Point Carloway
2020 cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
2021 Point Back Westside
2022 Point Ness Westside
2023 Westside Back Point
2024 Athletic Point Westside
2025 Back Westside Point
Number of Wins (45; since 1980; runners-up and third place finishes between square brackets)
12 [ 6- 2] Ness FC [also won in 1979, claiming 13 titles 1979-1999]
10 [10- 7] Point FC [their 2022 league win was in fact their 20th (a record), so
they won 10 titles prior to 1980 (of which 6 are known)]
9 [ 4- 6] Lochs FC [did not win league before 1995]
4 [ 8- 7] Stornoway Athletic FC
3 [12- 2] Back FC
3 [ 2- 9] Westside FC
2 [ 2- 5] Harris FC [won league twice before 1980: in 1976 and 1978]
2 [ 1- 4] Carloway FC [did not win league before 2013]
[ 2] Stornoway Rovers FC
[ 1] Tolsta FC [their third place finish in 1982 was their best ever]
NB: Stornoway United FC won five titles in a row between 1958 and 1962 but no others;
assuming Point's 20 titles are indeed a record, the league presumably was not played
in all seasons prior to 1932 in which Athletic supposedly won "consistently".
Year Winners
1971 Southend
1972 Southend
1973-85 not known
1986 Southend
1987 Southend
1988-93 not known
1994 Lochmaddy United
1995 Southend
1996 Southend
1997-98 not known
1999 Southend
2000 Southend
2001-02 not known
2003 Southend
2004 Southend
2005 Southend
2006 Southend
2007 Southend
2008 not known
2009 Southend
2010 Southend
2011 Iochdar Saints
2012 Iochdar Saints
2013 Iochdar Saints
2014 Iochdar Saints
2015 Barra
2016 Barra
2017 Iochdar Saints
2018 Barra
2019 Iochdar Saints
2020 cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
2021 Barra
2022 Barra
2023 Barra
2024 Barra
2025 Barra
Number of Known Wins (30, as listed above; the 1971 edition was the first ever)
15 Southend (won no other titles)
8 Barra (their 2015 title was their first in forty years)
6 Iochdar Saints
1 Lochmaddy United (merged 1997 with North Uist into North Uist United)
NB: reportedly, both Lochmaddy United and North Uist United (first in their
first ever season, so 1997 or 1998) won the league twice and Benbecula once.
NB: format of competition not known (possibly playoff between the champions of the
Lewis & Harris League and the Uist & Barra League); only six wins by Ness are known:
1983 Ness
1985 Ness
1986 Ness
1989 Ness
1991 Ness
1992 Ness
Sources included: (Lewis and Harris): wikipedia, Lewis and Harris FA, Stornoway Gazette, Carloway FC, Lochs FC, Stornoway United (through Wayback Machine); (Barra and Uist): Southend FCC, Iochdar Saints FC
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