East Fife to begin next William Hill League One football season away to Alloa
East Fife will begin their next William Hill League One football season on the road at Alloa Athletic.
Next term’s opening round is on Saturday, August 1, and that’s a 3pm kick-off at the Clackmannanshire club’s Indodrill Stadium as manager Dick Campbell’s team bid to improve on their third-from-bottom finish last time round, on 36 points from as many fixtures.
They’ll be hoping to get off to a better start than they managed last season, losing 4-1 away to Peterhead, followed up by a 1-0 defeat hosting Alloa.
That result last August was one of three defeats for the Methil men against the Wasps last term, with ones by 2-0 following at home in February and away in April.
David Devine got the only goal of the game last summer, with Callum Burnside and Charlie Dewar netting in February and Calum Waters and Luke Donnelly two months later.
East Fife did manage to pick up one point against last season’s fourth-placed finishers, with 53 points from 36 games, by holding them to a 1-1 draw on the road last October, however.
Luke Rankin put the hosts in front on 56 minutes but Michael McKenna, now back at Arbroath after one season in Methil, equalised from the penalty spot four minutes later to avert a season-long whitewash.
The point earned by that spot-kick was the Fifers’ first versus Alloa since a 3-1 League One win back in February 2022, with a seven-match winless streak in all competitions following.
August 2’s opening-round away-day is one of five fixtures that month for Campbell’s squad, the others, all Saturday 3pm kick-offs too, being at home at Bayview Stadium to Aberdeen’s Cove Rangers seven days later and Hamilton Academical on the 22nd and away to Peterhead on the 15th and Airdrieonians on the 29th.
September is less busy league-wise, with three fixtures scheduled, again all on Saturdays – at home to Ross County on the 5th and Montrose on the 19th, sandwiching an away-day in Dumfries against Queen of the South on the 12th.
The Fifers’ festive season fixture list consists of a visit from Cove on Saturday, December 19, and a Boxing Day outing to Alloa a week later and they begin 2027 at home to Hamilton on Saturday, January 2, followed by a visit from Montrose seven days later.
As things stand, East Fife are scheduled to conclude their next league season away to Ross County – newcomers to Scottish football’s third tier after back-to-back relegations – in the Highlands on Saturday, May 1.