# 2021–22 Midlands Football League

The 2021–22 Midlands Football League was the inaugural season of the Midlands Football League, the sixth tier of the Scottish football pyramid system. The season began with nine games on 17 July 2021.
Carnoustie Panmure became the inaugural league champions, winning their last seventeen games of the season to overhaul East Craigie and ultimately win the league by five points.

## Teams

All 17 teams from the 2020–21 East Premiership North joined the league, along with Dundee St James (formerly Fintry AFC) from the Midlands Amateur Football Association and Letham from the Perthshire Amateur Football Association.

### Stadia and locations

| Club | Location | Home Ground | Capacity | Seats | Floodlit |
| Arbroath Victoria | Arbroath | Ogilvy Park | 4,000 | 0 | Yes |
| Blairgowrie | Blairgowrie | Davie Park | 2,500 | 0 | Yes |
| Brechin Victoria | Brechin | Victoria Park | 600 | 100 | Yes |
| Broughty Athletic | Dundee | Whitton Park | 2,500 | 0 | Yes |
| Carnoustie Panmure | Carnoustie | Laing Park | 1,500 | 0 | No |
| Coupar Angus | Coupar Angus | Foxhall Park | 1,800 | 0 | Yes |
| Downfield | Dundee | Downfield Park | 2,500 | 13 | Yes |
| Dundee North End | Dundee | North End Park | 2,000 | 0 | Yes |
| Dundee St James | Dundee | Fairfield Park | TBC | 0 | No |
| Dundee Violet | Dundee | Glenesk Park | 2,000 | 0 | No |
| East Craigie | Dundee | Craigie Park | 3,300 | 0 | No |
| Forfar United | Forfar | Guthrie Park | 2,500 | 0 | No |
| Forfar West End | Forfar | Strathmore Park | 2,500 | 0 | No |
| Kirriemuir Thistle | Kirriemuir | Westview Park | 2,000 | 32 | Yes |
| Letham | Perth | Seven Acres Park | TBC | 0 | Yes |
| Lochee Harp | Dundee | Lochee Community Sports Hub | TBC | 0 | Yes |
| Lochee United | Dundee | Thomson Park | 3,200 | 0 | Yes |
| Scone Thistle | Scone | Farquharson Park | 1,000 | 0 | No |
| Tayport | Tayport | Canniepairt | 2,000 | 0 | Yes |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Carnoustie Panmure (C) | 36 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 153 | 30 | +123 | 98 | Ineligible for the Highland League play-off |
| 2 | East Craigie | 36 | 30 | 3 | 3 | 146 | 31 | +115 | 93 | |
| 3 | Lochee United | 36 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 140 | 28 | +112 | 89 | |
| 4 | Dundee North End | 36 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 103 | 43 | +60 | 78 | |
| 5 | Broughty Athletic | 36 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 146 | 50 | +96 | 77 | |
| 6 | Tayport | 36 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 101 | 47 | +54 | 75 | |
| 7 | Kirriemuir Thistle | 36 | 17 | 4 | 15 | 81 | 81 | 0 | 55 | |
| 8 | Forfar West End | 36 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 55 | 66 | −11 | 49 | |
| 9 | Arbroath Victoria | 36 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 80 | 85 | −5 | 48 | |
| 10 | Brechin Victoria | 36 | 14 | 3 | 19 | 70 | 97 | −27 | 45 | |
| 11 | Dundee Violet | 36 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 50 | 70 | −20 | 44 | |
| 12 | Downfield | 36 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 51 | 84 | −33 | 44 | |
| 13 | Blairgowrie | 36 | 13 | 2 | 21 | 68 | 92 | −24 | 41 | |
| 14 | Lochee Harp | 36 | 13 | 2 | 21 | 69 | 110 | −41 | 41 | |
| 15 | Letham | 36 | 11 | 4 | 21 | 76 | 102 | −26 | 37 | |
| 16 | Dundee St James | 36 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 68 | 106 | −38 | 32 | |
| 17 | Forfar United | 36 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 46 | 128 | −82 | 21 | |
| 18 | Coupar Angus | 36 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 47 | 148 | −101 | 15 | |
| 19 | Scone Thistle | 36 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 39 | 191 | −152 | 5 | |

## Results

Each team will play each other twice, for a total of 36 fixtures.
| Home \ Away | ARB | BLA | BRE | BRO | CAR | COU | DOW | DNE | DSJ | DUV | ECR | FWE | FUN | KIR | LET | LHA | LOU | SCO | TAY |
| Arbroath Victoria | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–8 | 0–7 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–4 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 4–3 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 9–2 | 2–1 |
| Blairgowrie | 1–4 | | 3–1 | 0–1 | 0–6 | 6–3 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 0–5 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 6–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–6 |
| Brechin Victoria | 1–2 | 1–2 | | 2–4 | 1–8 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 0–5 | 0–3 | 6–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–9 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Broughty Athletic | 3–1 | 5–2 | 6–0 | | 1–4 | 2–2 | 9–0 | 1–3 | 10–0 | 6–0 | 2–2 | 3–3 | 7–0 | 13–0 | 6–5 | 6–1 | 1–0 | 10–1 | 0–1 |
| Carnoustie Panmure | 3–0 | 3–0 | 7–0 | 2–0 | | 3–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 8–1 | 3–1 | 5–2 | 2–2 | 5–0 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 6–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 5–0 |
| Coupar Angus | 2–5 | 1–3 | 0–7 | 4–7 | 0–5 | | 1–1 | 0–6 | 1–4 | 0–5 | 0–11 | 0–3 | 6–1 | 0–5 | 2–3 | 0–5 | 2–0 | 6–1 | 1–3 |
| Downfield | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–0 | | 0–5 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 0–3 | 4–0 | 0–5 | 4–0 | 3–2 |
| Dundee North End | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 6–0 | 2–0 | | 6–3 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 6–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 2–2 |
| Dundee St James | 1–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–5 | 6–0 | 2–4 | 1–2 | | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 5–4 | 7–0 | 0–7 | 4–1 | 1–3 |
| Dundee Violet | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 | | 1–5 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 2–0 | 2–2 |
| East Craigie | 5–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 7–1 | 8–0 | 0–1 | 7–1 | 3–0 | | 2–1 | 12–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 9–2 | 1–1 |
| Forfar West End | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–5 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | | 3–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 1–8 | 4–1 | 2–5 |
| Forfar United | 5–3 | 1–4 | 1–5 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 6–2 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–5 | 4–0 | | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 1–5 | 2–3 | 1–1 |
| Kirriemuir Thistle | 4–3 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–4 | 0–2 | 5–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 4–2 | | 6–1 | 4–1 | 0–4 | 7–1 | 1–3 |
| Letham | 0–4 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 2–6 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 6–1 | 1–1 | | 1–3 | 0–6 | 5–0 | 2–3 |
| Lochee Harp | 1–2 | 2–5 | 3–6 | 1–1 | 0–15 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–5 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–6 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–3 | | 0–2 | 8–2 | 1–7 |
| Lochee United | 9–2 | 5–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 9–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 5–0 | 4–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 6–0 | 2–1 | | 8–1 | 0–2 |
| Scone Thistle | 0–7 | 3–3 | 2–6 | 0–10 | 1–4 | 2–4 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 1–5 | 0–4 | 3–7 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–10 | 2–9 | | 1–6 |
| Tayport | 3–1 | 4–0 | 6–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 6–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 6–1 | |
* ↑ Match played at Strathmore Park, Forfar.
* ↑ Match played at Downfield Park.
* ↑ Match played at Station Park.