Scottish Premiership 2016/17

Scottish Premiership 2016/17
master	Celtic Glasgow
Champions League qualification	Celtic Glasgow
Europa League qualification	Aberdeen FC Glasgow Rangers FC St. Johnstone
Cup winners	Celtic Glasgow
Relegation ↓	Hamilton Academical
Relegated	Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Teams	12
Games	228 + 6 relegation games
Gates	628  (ø 2.75 per game)
spectator	3,209,827  (ø 14,078 per game)
Top scorer	Liam Boyce ( Ross County )
← Premiership 2015/16 Premiership 2017/18 →
Championship 2016/17 (II) ↓

In 2016/17 the Scottish Premiership was the fourth event as the highest Scottish football division for men. The league was officially played as the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership . It was also the 120th edition of the top football division within the Scottish Football League in which the Scottish champions were determined. It began on August 6, 2016 and ended with the 38th matchday on May 21, 2017.

After the regular season, which was referred to as the 1st round and in which all teams competed three times against each other, the final 2nd round began, which was divided into two groups of the championship and relegation play-offs . The eleventh placed in the Premiership then competed in relegation games , in which the second, third and fourth placed of the championship took part. The bottom of the table was relegated directly.

As a climber from last year's championship , the Glasgow Rangers took part in the Premiership . Four years after their forced relegation, the Rangers achieved promotion to the first division in Scotland, which was the first time since the 2011/12 season for the traditional old firm in the league. From the 2016/17 season, Celtic Park was the first stadium in the United Kingdom to have official standing room again.

The championship won for the 48th time in the club's history Celtic Glasgow. It was also the sixth title in a row. With their 5-0 away win on matchday 30 against the Heart of Midlothian , the Bhoys were able to secure the championship before the second round. Celtic qualified as champions for the following Champions League season 2017/18 . The second- and third- and fourth-place finisher of FC Aberdeen to Glasgow Rangers and FC St. Johnstone qualified for the UEFA Europa League 2017/18 . Inverness Caledonian Thistle went straight to the championship.

societies

Glasgow Hamilton Motherwell Dundee Perth Dingwall Edinburgh Aberdeen Inverness Kilmarnock

Location of the clubs of the Scottish Premiership 2016/17

society	city	Stadion	capacity
Aberdeen FC	Aberdeen	Pittodrie Stadium	21,421
Dundee FC	Dundee	Dens Park	12,085
Celtic Glasgow	Glasgow	Celtic Park	60,355
Glasgow Rangers	Glasgow	Ibrox Stadium	50,947
Hamilton Academical	Hamilton	New Douglas Park	06,000
Heart of Midlothian	Edinburgh	Tynecastle Stadium	17,529
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Inverness	Caledonian Stadium	07,800
FC Kilmarnock	Kilmarnock	Rugby park	18,128
Motherwell FC	Motherwell	Fir Park	13,677
Partick Thistle	Glasgow	Firhill Stadium	10.102
Ross County	Dingwall	Global Energy Stadium	06,541
St. Johnstone FC	Perth	McDiarmid Park	10,696

1 round

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Celtic Glasgow (M)	33	29	4th	0	087:220	+65	91
2.	Aberdeen FC	33	21st	4th	8th	063:280	+35	67
3.	Glasgow Rangers (N, C)	33	16	10	7th	048:340	+14	58
4th	St. Johnstone FC	33	14th	7th	12	044:400	+4	49
5.	Heart of Midlothian	33	12	9	12	051:430	+8	45
6th	Partick Thistle	33	10	11	12	035:380	−3	41
7th	FC Kilmarnock	33	7th	14th	12	030:490	−19	35
8th.	Ross County (L)	33	7th	12	14th	037:540	−17	33
9.	Hamilton Academical	33	6th	14th	13	030:480	−18	32
10.	Motherwell FC	33	8th	8th	17th	038:610	−23	32
11.	Dundee FC	33	8th	6th	19th	033:530	−20	30th
12.	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	33	4th	13	16	036:620	−26	25th

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored

Legend
1st round 2016/17:
Participation in the championship play-offs Participation in the relegation play-offs
At the end of the 2015/16 season:
(M)	Champion of the previous year
(L)	League cup winner of the previous year
(C)	Challenge Cup winner of the previous year
(N)	Newcomer from the Scottish Championship 2015/16

2nd round

Championship play-offs

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points	bonus	total
1.	Celtic Glasgow (M)	5	5	0	0	019: 300	+16	15th	91	106
2.	Aberdeen FC	5	3	0	2	011: 600	+5	09	67	76
3.	Glasgow Rangers (N, C)	5	3	0	2	008:100	−2	09	58	67
4th	St. Johnstone FC	5	3	0	2	006: 600	± 0	09	49	58
5.	Heart of Midlothian	5	0	1	4th	004: 900	−5	01	45	46
6th	Partick Thistle	5	0	1	4th	003:160	−13	01	41	42

Legend
2nd round
	Scottish champion and participation in the second qualifying round for the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League
	Participation in the 2nd qualifying round for the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League
	Participation in the 1st qualifying round for the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League
At the end of the 2015/16 season
(M)	Champion of the previous year
(C)	Challenge Cup winner of the previous year
(N)	Newcomer from the Scottish Championship

Relegation play-offs

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points	bonus	total
7th	Ross County (L)	5	4th	1	0	011: 400	+7	13	33	46
8th.	FC Kilmarnock	5	2	0	3	006: 700	−1	06th	35	41
9.	Motherwell FC	5	2	0	3	008: 800	± 0	06th	32	38
10.	Dundee FC	5	2	1	2	005: 900	−4	07th	30th	37
11.	Hamilton Academical	5	1	0	4th	007: 800	−1	03	32	35
12.	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	5	3	0	2	008: 900	−1	09	25th	34

Legend
2nd round
	Participation in the relegation
	Relegated to the Scottish Championship
At the end of the 2015/16 season
(L)	League cup winner of the previous year

Relegation

Participants in the relegation games for a place for the following season 2017/18 are Greenock Morton , FC Falkirk and Dundee United from this year's championship . In addition, there is the penultimate from this year's Premiership. The winner of each round is determined in two games, whereby in the first round the teams that are in 3rd and 4th place at the end of the championship season meet. Then the winner of this game plays in the second round against the second from the championship. The final round will be played between the 11th place from the Premiership and the winner of the second round. The winner of the third round receives a place for the new season in the Premiership.

First round

The games were played on May 9th and 13th, 2017.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Greenock Morton	1: 5	Dundee United	1: 2	0: 3

Second round

The games were played on May 17 and 20, 2017.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dundee United	4: 3	FC Falkirk	2: 2	2: 1

Third round

The games were played on May 25 and 28, 2017.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dundee United	0: 1	Hamilton Academical	0-0	0: 1

Staff and sponsors

society	logo	Trainer	captain	Outfitter	Main sponsor
Aberdeen FC		Derek McInnes	Ryan Jack	Adidas	Saltire Energy
Celtic Glasgow		Brendan Rodgers	Scott Brown	New Balance	Dafabet
Dundee FC		Neil McCann (Interim)	James McPake	puma	McEwan Fraser Legal
Hamilton Academical		Martin Canning	Michael Devlin	Adidas	SuperSeal (H), NetBet (A)
Heart of Midlothian		Ian Cathro	Perry Kitchen	puma	Save the Children
Inverness Caledonian Thistle		Richie Foran	Gary Warren	Carbrini	McEwan Fraser Legal
FC Kilmarnock		Lee McCulloch (Interim)	Steven Smith	Nike	QTS
Motherwell FC		Steve Robinson	Keith Lasley	Macron	Motorpoint
Glasgow Rangers		Pedro Caixinha	Lee Wallace	puma	32Red
Partick Thistle		Alan Archibald	Abdul Osman	Joma	Kingsford Capital Management
Ross County		Jim McIntyre	Paul Quinn	Macron	Stanley CRC Evans Offshore
St. Johnstone FC		Tommy Wright	Steven Anderson	Joma	Alan Storrar Cars

statistics

List of goalscorers

If the number of goals is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically by surname or artist name.

Pl.	Nat.	Surname	logo	team	Gates
01.		Liam Boyce		Ross County	23
02.		Scott Sinclair		Celtic Glasgow	21st
03.		Moussa Dembélé		Celtic Glasgow	17th
04th		Stuart Armstrong		Celtic Glasgow	15th
		Louis Moult		Motherwell FC
06th		Kris Doolan		Partick Thistle	14th
07th		Leigh Griffiths		Celtic Glasgow	12
		Adam Rooney		Aberdeen FC
		Jamie Walker		Heart of Midlothian
10.		Kenny Miller		Glasgow Rangers	11
11.		Niall McGinn		Aberdeen FC	10
		Danny Swanson		St. Johnstone FC
13.		Marcus Haber		Dundee FC	09
		Jonny Hayes		Aberdeen FC
		Steven MacLean		St. Johnstone FC
		Scott McDonald		Motherwell FC
		Patrick Roberts		Celtic Glasgow
18th		Ali Crawford		Hamilton Academical	08th
		Kris Boyd		FC Kilmarnock
		Alex Fisher		Inverness CT
		Souleymane Coulibaly 1		FC Kilmarnock
		Callum Paterson		Heart of Midlothian
Stand: Final stand

¹Souleymane Coulibaly moved to al Ahly Cairo during the season .

Spectator table

The audience table shows the home games attended. The order is sorted by per game.

	society	spectator	per game	Home games
01.	Celtic Glasgow	1,037,864	54,624	19th
02.	Glasgow Rangers	928.774	48,883	19th
03.	Heart of Midlothian	310.192	16,326	19th
04th	Aberdeen FC	240.176	12,641	19th
05.	Dundee FC	122,200	6,432	19th
06th	FC Kilmarnock	94,310	4,964	19th
07th	Motherwell FC	85.229	4,486	19th
08th.	St. Johnstone FC	83,451	4,392	19th
09.	Partick Thistle	85,648	4,282	20th
10.	Ross County	73,860	4,103	18th
11.	Inverness CT	74,968	3,946	19th
12.	Hamilton Academical	48,082	2,531	19th
total		3,184,754	13,968	228
Final score, source: weltfussball.de

Change of coach

society		Trainer	reason	date	Table position	successor
	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	John Hughes	Contract terminated	May 20, 2016	Summer break	Richie Foran
	Celtic Glasgow	Ronny Deila	End of contract	June 30, 2016	Summer break	Brendan Rodgers
	Heart of Midlothian	Robbie Neilson	Moved to Milton Keynes Dons	December 6, 2016	3.	Ian Cathro
	Glasgow Rangers	Mark Warburton	resignation	February 10, 2017	3.	Graeme Murty (Interim)
	FC Kilmarnock	Lee Clark	Switch to Bury FC	15th February 2017	6th	Lee McCulloch (Interim)
	Motherwell FC	Mark McGhee	Dismiss	February 28, 2017	10.	Steve Robinson 1
	Glasgow Rangers	Graeme Murty (Interim)	Interim trainer	March 11, 2017	3.	Pedro Caixinha
	Dundee FC	Paul Hartley	Dismiss	17th April 2017	11.	Neil McCann (Interim)

¹ From February 28, 2017 to March 15, 2017 interim coach, from March 16 new head coach.

referee

Surname	Born	country	Games				annotation
John Beaton	Jan. 29, 1982	Scotland	21st	74	4th	0	FIFA referee
William Collum	Jan. 18, 1979	Scotland	21st	68	3	2	FIFA referee
Andrew Dallas	0Feb. 1, 1983	Scotland	21st	83	2	3
Craig A. Thomson	June 20, 1972	Scotland	20th	66	0	3	FIFA referee
Kevin Clancy	Nov 23, 1983	Scotland	19th	82	0	3	FIFA referee
Steven McLean	0Apr 1, 1981	Scotland	19th	80	4th	2	FIFA referee
Nick Walsh		Scotland	18th	75	1	1
Don Robertson		Scotland	18th	64	0	4th
Bobby Madden	Oct 25, 1978	Scotland	17th	45	1	1	FIFA referee
Alan Muir	May 10, 1975	Scotland	12	55	2	0
Crawford Allan	May 16, 1967	Scotland	11	31	1	1
Euan Anderson	16. Mar. 1983	Scotland	11	51	1	1
Stephen Finnie	Oct 13, 1969	Scotland	9	26th	2	0
Greg Aitken	07th July 1977	Scotland	7th	23	0	0
Barry Cook	0June 6, 1977	Scotland	4th	16	0	0
Mark McLean		Scotland	1	4th	0	0
Total: 228				843	21st	21st
Source: weltfussball.de, final score

Awards during the season

month	Trainer of the month	Player of the month
August 2016	Brendan Rodgers ( Celtic Glasgow )	Liam Boyce ( Ross County )
September 2016	Richie Foran ( Inverness Caledonian Thistle )	Moussa Dembélé (Celtic Glasgow)
October 2016	Brendan Rodgers (Celtic Glasgow)	Adam Barton ( Partick Thistle )
November 2016	Robbie Neilson ( Heart of Midlothian )	Bjørn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian)
December 2016	Brendan Rodgers (Celtic Glasgow)	Stuart Armstrong (Celtic Glasgow)
January 2017	Winter break (no allocation)	Winter break (no allocation)
February 2017	Paul Hartley ( Dundee FC )	Moussa Dembélé (Celtic Glasgow)
March 2017	Derek McInnes ( Aberdeen FC )	Stuart Armstrong (Celtic Glasgow)
April 2017	Brendan Rodgers (Celtic Glasgow)	Liam Boyce (Ross County)

The championship team from Celtic Glasgow

(Players with at least one stake were taken into account; stakes and goals are given in brackets)

Celtic Glasgow

Goal : Dorus de Vries (3/0), Craig Gordon (35/0) Defense : Dedryck Boyata (17/5), Cristian Gamboa (17/0), Emilio Izaguirre (12/0), Saidy Janko (2/0), Mikael Lustig (29/1), Eoghan O'Connell (2/0 ), Tony Ralston (1/0), Jozo Šimunović (25/1), Erik Sviatchenko (28/1), Kieran Tierney (24/1), Kolo Touré (9/0) Midfield : Stuart Armstrong (31/15), Nir Biton (26/1), Scott Brown (33/1), Ryan Christie (5/1), Kouassi Eboue (4/0), James Forrest (28/6), Liam Henderson (10/1), Stefan Johansen (0/0), Gary Mackay-Steven (8/0), Callum McGregor (31/6), Tom Rogić (22/7), Attack : Jack Aitchison (2/0), Nadir Çiftçi (1/0), Moussa Dembélé (29/17), Leigh Griffiths (23/12), Calvin Miller (1/0), Patrick Roberts (32/9), Scott Sinclair (35/21), Michael Johnston (1/0) Coach : Brendan Rodgers

reporting

In Germany, the pay-TV channel Sport1 + broadcasts some games live. Among other things, the Old Firm derby between Celtic Glasgow and the Glasgow Rangers was broadcast on the 5th matchday .

See also

• Old Firm
• Player of the Month
• Manager of the Month
• List of top scorer in the Scottish Premiership

Web links

• Official website of the Scottish Premiership

Individual evidence

1. ^ SPFL announces Ladbrokes as title sponsor. spfl.co.uk/, May 13, 2015, accessed May 1, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Start date for 2016/17 league season. spfl.co.uk, January 25, 2016, accessed May 1, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Glasgow Rangers are back in the Premiership. sportschau.de , April 6, 2016, accessed on April 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Celtic secure green light for rail seating. celticfc.net, June 9, 2015, accessed May 1, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Hearts 0: 5 (0: 2) Celtic. BBC Sport, April 2, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017 . 
6. ↑ List of goalscorers BBC Sport (English)
7. ↑ Scotland Premiership 2016/2017 spectators. weltfussball.de, accessed on May 21, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Motherwell: Stephen Robinson appointed manager at Fir Park. BBC Sport, March 16, 2017, accessed March 16, 2017 . 
9. ^ Referee. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved May 21, 2017 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Awards Season 2016/17. (No longer available online.) Spfl.co.uk, archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.