Junior football had been played in the region since the 1890s, but it was not until a restructuring across Scotland in the late 1960s that all teams in the territory were brought together under one umbrella - previously they had been competing in the local leagues in
Angus,
Perthshire and
Dundee, though the membership of these was not always rigidly dependent on geography, and another
Midland League also existed from the 1920s to the 1940s involving clubs from all three territories. when the Tayside leagues were merged with the
Fife League and the
East (Lothians) league to form a new
Scottish Junior Football Association, East Region Superleague. Despite the challenge of facing the strongest clubs from these other two areas, Tayport continued to be among the leading teams for the first six years; Dundee side
Lochee United also finished as East Region champions twice in that period. Tayside's setup was retained as a feeder division to the Superleague along with the other historic districts until 2006, when they were fully integrated into the East Region; Tayside's section (minus the Perthshire teams which were placed with the Fife sides) became the
North Division below the Super League and a new Premier Division. In 2018, a large group of East Junior clubs joined the
East of Scotland Football League, aspiring to gain entry to the senior
Scottish Professional Football League in future years; however, on Tayside the only ones to do so were the
Perth teams
Jeanfield Swifts and
Kinnoull. This led to a North-South reorganisation of the remaining members of the region, with the
2019–20 Superleague North composed entirely of former Tayside clubs; it evolved into the
Midlands Football League in 2021. ==Champions==