Cowdenbeath FC Scottish is a league team from the small mining down of Cowdenbeath, Fife. Formed in 1881 as Cowdenbeath Thistle, the club soon became the strongest team in Fife and in 1905 they were elected to the Scottish Second Division. They went on to win the championship in 1914 and 1915 but were denied a place in the First Division. (This was before automatic promotion and relegation – clubs had to apply for election to the top level.) The Second Division was then suspended for the duration of the Great War and Cowdenbeath joined the Eastern League. Cowdenbeath joined the reformed Central League in 1920-21 and then the reinstated Scottish League in 1923.  In 1924 the club won promotion and enjoyed ten seasons in the top flight before being relegated in 1934. In 1939 they ran away with the Second Division championship by a margin of 12 points and made a triumphant return to the First Division. With half of the 1939-40 season played, Cowdenbeath failed to fulfil one of their fixtures (many of their players had joined the armed forces) and were fined £5,000. Unable to pay, the club was forced to resign but shortly afterwards all competition was suspended and their resignation was later waived. In 1946, rather than simply resume the pre-war league programme, the Scottish League decided to restructure and Cowdenbeath were one of the unfortunate clubs who, having expected to play in the First Division, were placed in Division B (second tier). After finishing bottom they should have been relegated to the new Division C but it was decided to expand Division B from 14 to 16 clubs and Cowdenbeath were reprieved. For the next 30 years, little of note was achieved although they did beat Rangers 3-2 in 1949 in a League Cup tie at Ibrox, the first time the Glasgow club had been lost to a side from the lower division. (Rangers won the second leg and the tie on aggregate). In 1970 Cowdenbeath returned briefly to the First Division only to be relegated the following season. When the league was restructured in 1975 with the formation of the Premier Division, Cowdenbeath remained in Division Two, now the third tier. In 1992 the club won promotion but two disastrous seasons followed: 38 consecutive home matches without a win took them down to the Third Division (fourth tier). They have moved between the lowest two divisions for most of their history ever since, winning the Third Division title in 2006, their first championship since 1939. They won the title again in 2011-12.  Having narrowly avoided regulation during the first season in third tier of Scottish football they suffered successive relegations. Cowdenbeath were relegated to the Lowland Football League, the fifth tier of Scottish football on 14 May 2022