The Scottish Football League Premier Division was, from 1975 until 1998, the top division of the Scottish Football League and the entire Scottish football league system. It lay above the Scottish Football League First, Second and (from 1994) Third divisions.
Between the 1994-95 and 1996-97 seasons promotion and relegation between the Premier and First Divisions was: automatic relegation for the Premier's bottom club and its replacement by the First's champion; the second-from bottom in the Premier and the First's runner-up then competed in a playoff series, home and away.
Before the start of the 1998–99 season, the clubs of the Premier Division resigned en masse to form the Scottish Premier League, following the example of English clubs who formed the FA Premier League in 1992. The Scottish Football League did not reform the Premier Division, instead leaving the league with just the First, Second and Third Divisions.
Clubs who competed in the SFL Premier Division but not in the SPL include Ayr United, Airdrieonians, Clydebank, Dumbarton, Morton, and Raith Rovers. Clydebank is now a junior grade club, while Airdrieonians became defunct at the end of 2002 and its successor, Airdrie United, has not experienced SPL football so far.
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