2024–25 Scottish Premiership

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Scottish Premiership
Season2024–25
Dates3 August 2024 – 18 May 2025
2025–26 →

The 2024–25 Scottish Premiership will be the twelfth season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football, and the 128th edition overall of the top national league competition, not including one cancelled due to World War II. The season will begin on 3 August 2024.[1]

Twelve teams contest the league. As of 27 April 2024, eight teams have secured their Premiership status: Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Rangers and St Mirren.

Teams[edit]

The following teams changed division after the 2023–24 season.

Promoted from the Championship

Stadia and locations[edit]

Celtic Dundee Dundee United Heart of Midlothian
Celtic Park Dens Park Tannadice Park Tynecastle Park
Capacity: 60,411[2] Capacity: 11,775[3] Capacity: 14,223[4] Capacity: 19,852[5]
Hibernian
Location of teams in the 2024–25 Scottish Premiership
Kilmarnock
Easter Road Rugby Park
Capacity: 20,421[6] Capacity: 15,003[7][8]
Rangers St Mirren
Ibrox Stadium St Mirren Park
Capacity: 50,987[9] Capacity: 7,937[10]
Capacity: Capacity: Capacity: Capacity:
Premiership football clubs in Dundee
Premiership football clubs in Edinburgh
Premiership football clubs in Glasgow

Personnel and kits[edit]

Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Celtic Northern Ireland Brendan Rodgers Scotland Callum McGregor Adidas Dafabet
Dundee Scotland Tony Docherty Republic of Ireland Joe Shaughnessy Macron Crown Engineering Services
Dundee United Republic of Ireland Jim Goodwin Scotland Ross Docherty Erreà Bartercard
Heart of Midlothian Scotland Steven Naismith Scotland Craig Gordon Umbro Stellar Omada
Hibernian Scotland Nick Montgomery Scotland Paul Hanlon Joma Bevvy.com
Kilmarnock Scotland Derek McInnes Northern Ireland Kyle Vassell Hummel James Frew Ltd
Rangers Belgium Philippe Clement England James Tavernier Castore Unibet
St Mirren Northern Ireland Stephen Robinson Scotland Mark O'Hara Macron Digby Brown

Format[edit]

In the initial phase of the season, the 12 teams will play a round-robin tournament whereby each team plays each one of the other teams three times. After 33 games, the league splits into two sections of six teams, with each team playing each other in that section. The league attempts to balance the fixture list so that teams in the same section play each other twice at home and twice away, but sometimes this is impossible. A total of 228 matches will be played, with 38 matches played by each team.

League table[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation[a]
1 Celtic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
2 Dundee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
4 Heart of Midlothian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
5 Hibernian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Kilmarnock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 St Mirren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Premiership play-off final
12 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to Championship
First match(es) will be played: 3 August 2024. Source: [11][12]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-Head points; 5) Head-to-Head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification, second stage group allocation or relegation).[13]
Notes:
  1. ^ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Key dates for Season 2024/25". SPFL. 22 January 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Celtic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Dundee Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Dundee United Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Heart of Midlothian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Hibernian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  7. ^ "Kilmarnock Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 3 May 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  8. ^ "Rugby Park". killiefc.com. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  9. ^ "Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  10. ^ "St Mirren Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Scottish Premiership Table". BBC. 15 April 2024.
  12. ^ "Premiership League Table". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  13. ^ "The Rules of the Scottish Professional Football League (Rule Number C35-C37)" (PDF). SPFL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

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