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Location	Lanarkshire, Scotland
Teams	Motherwell Airdrieonians Hamilton Academical Albion Rovers
First meeting	8 September 1883 Hamilton Academical 4–1 Airdrieonians 1883–84 Scottish Cup 1st round
Latest meeting	November 30 2025 Airdrieonians 4-0 Hamilton Accies Scottish Cup, Third Round
Statistics
Meetings total	684 (March 2025)
Most wins	Airdrieonians (177)[a]
All-time record	Airdrieonians (177)[a] Motherwell (174) Hamilton Academical (147) Albion Rovers (47) Draw (145)
New Douglas Park Fir Park Cliftonhill Excelsior Stadium Location of the clubs' stadia

TheLanarkshire derby is a football rivalry based inLanarkshire, Scotland, with matches contested between any two fromMotherwell,Airdrieonians,Hamilton Academical,Albion Rovers (based inCoatbridge),East Kilbride,Cumbernauld Colts andCaledonian Braves

• First meeting: 11 August 1894,1894–95 Scottish Division Two
• Next meeting: To be confirmed.

Traditionally known as the 'north-south' derby. The most recent meeting between the two teams was when they met in the NL Cup in 2023, with Airdrie running out 4-0 victors.

The pair memorably met in the semi-final of the1974–75 Scottish Cup, when Motherwell were going through a golden spell under then-managerWillie McLean. Airdrie caused an upset by winning and going through to thecup final.

This match was always a regularity when the now-defunctLanarkshire Cup was evident in Scottish football, and in some instances, this match would be the final. As of the close of the competition in 1996, Airdrie had 33 cup wins compared to Motherwell's 32 in the 127 years of the competition being in place, emphasising at the time how big the two clubs were in Lanarkshire.

Since theoriginal Airdrieonians were dissolved in 2002 and reborn asAirdrie United (now again referred to as Airdrieonians), the clubs have only met once in a competitive match, theScottish Cup Third Round tie on 7 January 2007 atNew Broomfield, with Motherwell winning 1–0 andRichie Foran the scorer. The crowd that day were 5,924, a current record-attendance for a match at New Broomfield involving thenew Airdrieonians.^[1]

Owen Coyle,Alan Gow,Lee Hollis andKenny Black are examples of players that have played for both clubs. Coyle and Black are also part of only a handful of players to have played for both the original Airdrieonians as well as the new Airdrieonians.

The two teams were drawn into the same group in the2020–21 Scottish League Cup, ensuring their first meeting in 14 years. Despite being two divisions below their rivals, Airdrieonians would walk away with the 3 points in an excellent 2–0 win.^[2]

As of: 21 July 2021.^[3][4]

• First meeting: 22 September 1888,1888–89 Scottish Cup
• Next meeting: To be confirmed.

This match is sometimes referred to as theSouth Lanarkshire derby, due to both Motherwell and Hamilton both being the two most-southern clubs of the four although since the 1996 reorganisation of Scotland's Regional Councils, only Hamilton is in theSouth Lanarkshire Council area. This fixture was the most regular of the Lanarkshire derbies since Hamilton's promotion to theScottish Premier League (SPL) in 2008, and relegation in 2011. In the 2013–14 season, Hamilton won promotion via the play-offs to the newly establishedScottish Premiership, so the derby would be re-instated for the next season.

This is a modern derby which has definitely intensified and became more heated over the recent years as coins and flares have been thrown between rival supporters and policing being in large numbers and reports ofpolice brutality have been often made with police using truncheons on some trouble making fans. Seats were ripped out seats and fireworks were thrown at police, in the Motherwell away section during Hamilton's 4–0 over Motherwell in the 2014–15 season.^{[citation needed]}

Fan fights in local pubs and restaurants before and after cause police on horseback to patrol the Motherwell and Hamilton area and surround a one-mile perimeter round each host ground during and for 90 minutes after the match.

Before Hamilton's promotion in 2014, the clubs competed in the Lanarkshire Cup, often the final, and on one occasion 10 fans were taken to hospital after bottles were thrown and fights broke out in the turnstiles as policing was so light before Hamilton resurgence to the SPFL in 2014.

Since the2008–09 season, Motherwell have enjoyed eleven wins to Hamilton's eight, with six draws (25 league fixtures).^[5]

Miodrag Krivokapic,Richard Offiong,Stuart Elliott andSimon Mensing are examples of players that have played for both clubs, with Mensing being transferred directly from Motherwell to Hamilton.

As of: 21 April 2021.^[6]

• First meeting: 8 September 1883,1883–84 Scottish Cup
• Next meeting: To be confirmed.

This fixture is also referred as the North-South Lanarkshire derby. Up until 2007, this match had been a regularity, as both clubs competed in the same division. The divisions that both clubs played in were below the SPL, so this match is not as high-profile than the occasions when one of the teams is playing Motherwell. Hamilton were relegated from the SPL and Airdrie's promotion meant that the fixture was re-instated for the2012–13 First Division season.Ricky Waddell is an example of a player who played for both clubs.

The two clubs would meet in the2022–23 Scottish Championship play-off final in May 2023. Airdrie would win 1–0 in the first leg atExcelsior Stadium,^[7] and despite a 2–1 Hamilton win atNew Douglas Park in the second leg, Airdrie would win the tie 6–5 on penalties and replace Accies in theScottish Championship.^[8]

Their most recent meeting was on 8 March 2025 in a Championship game with both teams in a relegation dogfight, and a dramatic end saw a late goal apiece for both teams, with Airdrie emerging as 2–1 winners through Gavin Gallagher's winner.^[9]

As of: 8 March 2025.^[10][11]

• First meeting: 1 January 1920,1919–20 Scottish Division One
• Next meeting: TBC

Traditionally this fixture is known as theMonklands derby due to the locality betweenCoatbridge andAirdrie (they are neighbouring towns barely two miles apart). This fixture is also sometimes referred to as theMonklands derby after the local Council area that covered both Towns between 1973 and 1994.

Due to both clubs usually being in different divisions, this derby has never been a regularity (and even more so since the demise of the Lanarkshire Cup). The teams competed in July 2010 atCliftonhill stadium, with Airdrie winning 1–0 (the first competitive fixture between the two clubs since the formation of the new Airdrieonians, then referred to as Airdrie United) in front of around 1,000 fans.^[12]

Both teams competed in theSecond Division in 2011–12, with Airdrie winning three times, but Albion Rovers winning the other game 7–2.^[13]

The two teams drew each other in the Third Round of the2019–20 Scottish Cup, where Airdrie won 1–4 in Coatbridge.^[14]

The last meeting between the two sides was in 2025/26 pre-season, with Airdrie defeating Albion Rovers 7-0, with goals from Lewis McGrattan,Sean McGinty, Craig Ross,Chris Mochrie, a Cammy Cooper double & Dylan MacDonald.

Paddy Connolly is an example of a player who has played for both clubs.

Updated 23 November 2019.^[15][16]

• First meeting: 18 October 1919,1919–20 Scottish Division One
• Next meeting: To be confirmed.

Possibly the least celebrated of the Lanarkshire derbies, Rovers have beaten Motherwell several times in Lanarkshire Cup matches, but their most famous victory was on 30 November 2013 when they won 1–0 atNew Douglas Park (The home stadium of Hamilton) in the2013–14 Scottish Cup 4th round.^[17]

As of: end of2017–18 season.^[18]

• First meeting: 9 January 1904,1903–04 Scottish Division Two
• Next meeting: To be confirmed.

Again, due toCoatbridge andHamilton being only seven miles apart, this match is also considered a derby. The most recent match was a league cup group match atCliftonhill on 25 July 2017. The match finished 4-4 and Rovers won the bonus point penalty shoot-out. Hamilton also groundshared with Rovers for a brief period while they were homeless from 1994 to 2001. Since then, there has been no competitive fixture between the two. The two teams were drawn together in the2020–21 Scottish League Cup group stages, marking the first match between the two since 2003.^[19] Unfortunately, Rovers were unable to fulfil the tie due to complications stemming from theCOVID-19 pandemic, and Hamilton were awarded a 3–0 win.^[20]

Updated 24 July 2021.^[21]

As of: 8 March 2025.^{[18][3][4][6][10][11][21][15][16]}

Clyde F.C. are sometimes considered to be a Lanarkshire club. Based inBridgeton, Glasgow at their formation, in the late 19th century they moved toShawfield just inside the boundaries ofRutherglen^[22] which was a burgh in Lanarkshire until 1975 before it was absorbed by Glasgow under theStrathclyde region. However, Clyde played in theGlasgow Cup^[23] and theirmain rivals wereThird Lanark andPartick Thistle within the city^[24][25] rather than the town teams in Lanarkshire.

Clyde leftShawfield Stadium in 1986,^[26] playing as tenants for five seasons at Partick'sFirhill Stadium followed by three atDouglas Park, home of Hamilton Academical (who themselves became homeless thereafter, also sharing with Thistle) before settling at the newBroadwood Stadium inCumbernauld in 1994 – the town (about 5 miles north of Coatbridge and Airdrie) was assigned to theNorth Lanarkshire council area two years later.^[27] After severalBully Wee backroom figures including main investor Ronnie MacDonald, coachAllan Maitland andBilly Reid, as well as several players, made the switch from Clyde toAccies in the early 2000s, leading to considerable bad feeling among the fans.^[28]

For their part, one of Partick Thistle's biggest rivals are Airdrieonians.^[29]

Up to and including season2019–20.

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• Head-to-head Motherwell vs Airdrie
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• Head-to-head Albion Rovers vs Airdrie
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• Head-to-head Albion Rovers vs Hamilton

• Football derbies in Scotland
• Football in North Lanarkshire
• Football in South Lanarkshire
• Motherwell F.C.
• Airdrieonians F.C. (1878)
• Airdrieonians F.C.
• Hamilton Academical F.C.
• Albion Rovers F.C.
• Clyde F.C.
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