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2011–12 East Stirlingshire F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4623590 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2011–12 season was East Stirlingshire's eighteenth consecutive season in the Scottish Third Division, having been relegated from the Scottish Second Division at the end of the 1993–94 season, following league reconstruction. East Stirlingshire also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Summary

East Stirlingshire finished tenth in the Third Division. They reached the first round of the Challenge Cup, the first round of the League Cup and the third round of the Scottish Cup.

Results & fixtures

Win

Draw

Loss

Postponed

Third Division

Challenge Cup

League Cup

Scottish Cup

Player statistics

Squad

Last updated 5 May 2012

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.

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“2011–12 East Stirlingshire F.C. season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what East, Stirlingshire and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2011–12 East Stirlingshire F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.