Scotland - Outer Hebrides - List of Champions


Lewis & Harris League

Year      Winners          Runners-Up       Third
1908-1934:  Athletic consistently won the league except for 1933 (Unionists)
1935      Sandwick
1936      Rovers
1937      Rovers           Point            Westside         [Stornoway Football Association League]
1938      School
1939-45     not contested
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
1963-64     not known
1965      Athletic         Lochs
1966      Athletic  
1967-69     not known
1970      Point            Lochs
1971      Point            Lochs
1972      Back
1973      Point
1974-75     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

Number of Wins (44; 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- 6] Point FC              [their 2022 league win was in fact their 20th (a
                                  record), so they won 10 titles prior to 1980]
 9 [ 4- 6] Lochs FC              [did not win league before 1995]

 4 [ 8- 7] Stornoway Athletic FC

 3 [ 1- 9] Westside FC  

 2 [12- 2] Back 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.

Uist & Barra League

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  

Number of Known Wins (30)

15 Southend 

 7 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)
   North Uist United (in their first ever season, so 1997 or 1998)

About this document

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

Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Karel Stokkermans
Last updated: 20 Dec 2024

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