Scottish Premiership

Scottish Premiership
Association	Scottish Football Association
First edition	2013/14
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	12 teams
master	Celtic Glasgow
Record champions	Scottish Premiership: Celtic Glasgow  (7) Overall: Glasgow Rangers  (54)
Current season	2019/20
Website	spfl.co.uk
Qualification for	Champions League Europa League
↓ Championship (II)

The Scottish Premiership (sponsored name Ladbrokes Premiership ) has been the top football league in Scotland and a division of the Scottish Professional Football League since 2013 . It was founded in July 2013 as the successor to the Scottish Premier League . The record champions of the Scottish Premiership are Celtic Glasgow , which won all seven events. The record champions of the Scottish championship are the Glasgow Rangers (most recently in 2011 ) with a total of 54 titles, followed by the reigning champions Celtic Glasgow with 51 championships.

Competition mode

The twelve teams in the league play 38 game days per season: After 33 game days, in which all teams compete against each other three times, the league is divided into two groups with the six best and worst teams. Now the teams of the respective groups play against each other once either for the championship (group of the six best teams) or against relegation (group of the six bad teams). After these five more match days, the season is over. Thus, at the end of the season, for example, the seventh placed can have more points than the sixth placed.

The first in the group with the six best clubs is the Scottish champions . The bottom of the table in the group with the six bad clubs is relegated and is replaced by the master of the Scottish Championship , provided that he meets certain economic criteria (e.g. full profitability) and requirements for his stadium (purely seated stadium, etc.). The bottom of the table plays in playoffs with the second to fourth placed from the championship for his place in the Premiership.

Members of the Scottish Premiership

Glasgow Hamilton Motherwell Perth Edinburgh Aberdeen Kilmarnock Livingston Paisley Dingwall

Location of the clubs of the Scottish Premiership 2019/20

The following twelve teams will play in the Scottish Premiership in the 2019/20 season .

• Aberdeen FC
• Celtic Glasgow
• Hamilton Academical
• Heart of Midlothian
• Hibernian Edinburgh
• FC Kilmarnock
• Livingston FC
• Motherwell FC
• Glasgow Rangers
• Ross County
• St. Johnstone FC
• FC St. Mirren

Stages

Aberdeen FC	Celtic Glasgow	Hamilton Academical	Heart of Midlothian	Hibernian Edinburgh	FC Kilmarnock
Pittodrie Stadium	Celtic Park	New Douglas Park	Tynecastle Park	Easter Road	Rugby park
Places: 20,866	Places: 60,411	Seats: 5,510	Places: 20,099	Places: 20,421	Places: 8,023

Livingston FC	Motherwell FC	Glasgow Rangers	Ross County	St. Johnstone FC	FC St. Mirren
Tony Macaroni Arena	Fir Park	Ibrox Stadium	Victoria Park	McDiarmid Park	The Paisley 2021 Stadium
Places: 17,889	Places: 8,716	Places: 50,817	Places: 8,000	Places: 6.541	Places: 10,696

statistics

season	Scottish Champion  (total / SPC)	Top scorer	Player election of the footballer of the year	Journalists' election for Footballer of the Year
2013/14	Celtic Glasgow  (45/1)	Kris Commons 27 (Celtic Glasgow)	Kris Commons (Celtic Glasgow)	Kris Commons (Celtic Glasgow)
2014/15	Celtic Glasgow  (46/2)	Adam Rooney 18 (Aberdeen FC)	Stefan Johansen (Celtic Glasgow)	Craig Gordon (Celtic Glasgow)
2015/16	Celtic Glasgow  (47/3)	Leigh Griffiths 31 (Celtic Glasgow)	Leigh Griffiths (Celtic Glasgow)	Leigh Griffiths (Celtic Glasgow)
2016/17	Celtic Glasgow  (48/4)	Liam Boyce 23 (Ross County)	Scott Sinclair (Celtic Glasgow)	Scott Sinclair (Celtic Glasgow)
2017/18	Celtic Glasgow  (49/5)	Kris Boyd 18 (Kilmarnock FC)	Scott Brown (Celtic Glasgow)	Scott Brown (Celtic Glasgow)
2018/19	Celtic Glasgow  (50/6)	Alfredo Morelos 18 (Glasgow Rangers)	James Forrest (Celtic Glasgow)	James Forrest (Celtic Glasgow)
2019/20 *	Celtic Glasgow  (51/7)	Odsonne Édouard 22 (Celtic Glasgow)

^*The 2019/20 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and championship leaders Celtic Glasgow were declared champions.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

• 18. ( 19 ) Cyprus ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 24.925 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 19. ( 25 ) Serbia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 22,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 20. ( 26 ) Scotland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 22,125 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 21. ( 27 ) Belarus ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 21.875 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 22. ( 22 ) Sweden ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 20,900 - CL: 1, EL: 3 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Audience numbers

In the regular 2017/18 season (excluding playoffs), the average attendance was 15,896 people per game. Celtic Glasgow (57,588) and the Glasgow Rangers (49,254) had the highest average attendance figures. In terms of audience interest, there is a huge gap between the two big clubs in the league and the rest.

season	cut	Games	total
2013/14	10.183	228	2,331,965
2014/15	8,806	228	2,007,768
2015/16	9,644	228	2,237,437
2016/17	13,969	228	3,184,955
2017/18	15,932	228	3,632,642
2018/19	15,973	228	3,641,850
2019/20	15,317	179 *	2,741,726

^*The 2019/20 season was terminated prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Awards

Since the 2013/14 season, coaches and players have received the Manager of the Month and Player of the Month awards during the season .

See also

• List of Scottish football champions
• List of top scorer in the Scottish Premiership
• List of the highest national soccer divisions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SPFL: New Scottish league brands unveiled BBC Sport (English)
2. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Premiership 2017/2018 - spectators. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .