2023–24 Scottish Premiership

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Scottish Premiership 2023-24
Season information
Dates	5 August 2023–19 May 2024
Winners	Celtic 10th Premiership title 54th Scottish title
Relegated	Livingston
Domestic cup winners
Scottish Cup	Celtic
Scottish League Cup	Rangers
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Celtic Rangers
Europa League	Heart of Midlothian Kilmarnock
Conference League	St Mirren
Season statistics
Matches played	228
Goals scored	629
Average	(2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lawrence Shankland (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Celtic 6–0 Aberdeen (12 November 2023) Celtic 7–1 Dundee (28 February 2024)
Biggest away win	Dundee 0–5 Rangers (1 November 2023) Kilmarnock 0–5 Celtic (15 May 2024)
Highest scoring	Celtic 7–1 Dundee (28 February 2024)
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The 2023–24 Scottish Premiership (known as the cinch Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football, and the 127th edition overall of the top national league competition, not including one cancelled due to World War II. The season began on 5 August 2023.

Twelve teams contest the league. As of 22 April 2023, six teams have secured their Premiership status: Aberdeen, Celtic, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Rangers and St Mirren.

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2022–23 season.

Promoted from the Championship

• Dundee

Relegated to the Championship

• Dundee United

Stadia and locations

Aberdeen	Celtic	Dundee	Heart of Midlothian
Pittodrie Stadium	Celtic Park	Dens Park	Tynecastle Park
Capacity: 20,866	Capacity: 60,411	Capacity: 11,775	Capacity: 19,852
Hibernian			Kilmarnock
Easter Road			Rugby Park
Capacity: 20,421			Capacity: 15,003
Livingston			Motherwell
Almondvale Stadium			Fir Park
Capacity: 9,713			Capacity: 13,677
Rangers	Ross County	St Johnstone	St Mirren
Ibrox Stadium	Victoria Park	McDiarmid Park	St Mirren Park
Capacity: 50,987	Capacity: 6,541	Capacity: 10,696	Capacity: 7,937

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aberdeen	Robson, BarryBarry Robson	Shinnie, GraemeGraeme Shinnie	Adidas	TEXO
Celtic	Rodgers, BrendanBrendan Rodgers	McGregor, CallumCallum McGregor	Adidas	Dafabet
Dundee	Docherty, TonyTony Docherty	Shaughnessy, JoeJoe Shaughnessy	Macron	Crown Engineering Services
Heart of Midlothian	Naismith, StevenSteven Naismith	Gordon, CraigCraig Gordon	Umbro	MND Scotland (Home) Stellar Omada (Away)
Hibernian	Montgomery, NickNick Montgomery	Hanlon, PaulPaul Hanlon	Joma	Bevvy.com
Kilmarnock	McInnes, DerekDerek McInnes	Vassell, KyleKyle Vassell	Hummel	James Frew Ltd
Livingston	Martindale, DavidDavid Martindale	Devlin, MikeyMikey Devlin	Joma	Emptez
Motherwell	Kettlewell, StuartStuart Kettlewell	Kelly, LiamLiam Kelly	Macron	G4 Claims
Rangers	Clement, PhilippePhilippe Clement	Tavernier, JamesJames Tavernier	Castore	Unibet
Ross County	Adams, DerekDerek Adams	Baldwin, JackJack Baldwin	Joma	Ross-shire Engineering
St Johnstone	Levein, CraigCraig Levein	Gordon, LiamLiam Gordon	Macron	GS Brown Construction
St Mirren	Robinson, StephenStephen Robinson	O'Hara, MarkMark O'Hara	Macron	Digby Brown

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Dundee	Gary Bowyer	End of contract	10 May 2023	Pre-season	Tony Docherty	29 May 2023
Celtic	Ange Postecoglou	Signed by Tottenham Hotspur	6 June 2023		Brendan Rodgers	19 June 2023
Hibernian	Lee Johnson	Sacked	27 August 2023	12th	Nick Montgomery	11 September 2023
Rangers	Michael Beale		1 October 2023	3rd	Philippe Clement	15 October 2023
St Johnstone	Steven MacLean		29 October 2023	12th	Craig Levein	5 November 2023
Ross County	Malky Mackay		15 November 2023	11th	Derek Adams	20 November 2023
Aberdeen	Barry Robson		31 January 2024	8th	Neil Warnock	5 February 2024
Ross County	Derek Adams	Resigned	7 February 2024	11th	Don Cowie (Interim)	8 February 2024
Aberdeen	Neil Warnock		9 March 2024	10th	Peter Leven (Interim)	9 March 2024

Format

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Celtic (C)	38	29	6	3	95	30	+65	93	Qualification for the Champions League league stage
2	Rangers	38	27	4	7	87	32	+55	85	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Heart of Midlothian	38	20	8	10	54	42	+12	68	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
4	Kilmarnock	38	14	14	10	46	44	+2	56	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
5	St Mirren	38	13	8	17	46	52	−6	47	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
6	Dundee	38	10	12	16	49	68	−19	42
7	Aberdeen	38	12	12	14	48	52	−4	48
8	Hibernian	38	11	13	14	52	59	−7	46
9	Motherwell	38	10	13	15	56	59	−3	43
10	St Johnstone	38	8	11	19	29	54	−25	35
11	Ross County (Q)	38	8	11	19	38	67	−29	35	Qualification for the Premiership play-off final
12	Livingston (R)	38	5	10	23	29	70	−41	25	Relegation to the Championship

Source: BBC
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).
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Premiership play-offs

The quarter-final was contested by the teams placed third and fourth in the 2023–24 Scottish Championship, Partick Thistle and Airdrieonians. Partick Thistle advanced to the semi-final to face the team placed second in the Championship, Raith Rovers. The final will be contested by Raith Rovers and the team placed eleventh in the Premiership, Ross County, with the winners securing a place in the 2024–25 Scottish Premiership.

Qualified teams

Team	Rank
Ross County	1
Raith Rovers	2
Partick Thistle	3
Airdrieonians	4

Quarter-final

First leg

7 May 2024	Airdrieonians	2–2	Partick Thistle	Airdrie
19:45	Todorov  5' McGill  50'	Report	McBeth  29' Robinson  45'	Stadium: Excelsior Stadium Attendance: 3,163 Referee: Grant Irvine

Second leg

10 May 2024	Partick Thistle	2–1 (4–3 agg.)	Airdrieonians	Glasgow
19:45	Graham  18', 47'	Report	Lyall  55'	Stadium: Firhill Stadium Attendance: 6,531 Referee: Colin Steven

Semi-final

First leg

14 May 2024	Partick Thistle	1–2	Raith Rovers	Glasgow
19:45	Alston  73'	Report	Brown  22' Vaughan  40'	Stadium: Firhill Stadium Attendance: 5,497 Referee: Chris Graham

Second leg

17 May 2024	Raith Rovers	1–2 (3–3 agg.) (4–3 pen)	Partick Thistle	Kirkcaldy
19:45	Matthews  30'	Report	Alston  16', 45+1'	Stadium: Stark's Park Attendance: 6,070 Referee: Steven McLean
		Penalties
	Brown Turner Hamilton Easton Vaughan		Stanway McBeth Graham McMillan Diack

Final

First leg

23 May 2024	Raith Rovers	1–2	Ross County	Kirkcaldy
20:00	Stanton  82'	Report	Dhanda  53' (pen.) Baldwin  71'	Stadium: Stark's Park Attendance: 6,216 Referee: John Beaton

Second leg

26 May 2024	Ross County	v	Raith Rovers	Dingwall
12:00				Stadium: Victoria Park

Results

Matches 1–22 Teams play each other twice, once at home and once away. Home \ Away ABE CEL DND HOM HIB KIL LIV MOT RAN ROS STJ STM Aberdeen — 1–3 1–1 2–1 0–2 0–1 2–1 3–3 1–1 4–0 0–0 0–3 Celtic 6–0 — 3–0 0–2 4–1 3–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 4–2 0–0 2–1 Dundee 1–0 0–3 — 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–1 0–5 0–0 2–1 4–0 Heart of Midlothian 2–0 1–4 3–2 — 2–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 Hibernian 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 — 1–0 2–3 2–2 0–3 2–2 2–0 2–3 Kilmarnock 2–0 2–1 2–2 0–1 2–2 — 3–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 Livingston 0–0 0–3 0–2 1–2 0–1 0–0 — 2–0 0–2 2–2 0–0 1–1 Motherwell 2–4 1–2 3–3 1–2 2–1 2–1 3–1 — 0–2 3–3 1–1 0–1 Rangers 1–3 0–1 3–1 2–1 4–0 3–1 4–0 1–0 — 3–1 2–0 2–0 Ross County 0–3 0–3 0–1 0–1 2–2 0–0 1–1 3–0 0–2 — 2–0 1–0 St Johnstone 1–1 1–3 2–2 0–2 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–2 0–2 1–0 — 1–0 St Mirren 2–2 0–3 2–1 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–0 0–0 0–3 2–0 4–0 — Source: BBC Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 23–33 Teams play each other once, either home or away. Home \ Away ABE CEL DND HOM HIB KIL LIV MOT RAN ROS STJ STM Aberdeen — 1–1 0–0 — 2–2 — — — — 2–1 0–2 — Celtic — — 7–1 — — 1–1 — — — 1–0 3–1 3–0 Dundee — — — 2–3 — 2–2 — 2–3 0–0 2–0 — — Heart of Midlothian 2–0 2–0 — — 1–1 1–1 4–2 2–0 — — — — Hibernian — 1–2 2–1 — — — 3–0 — — 2–0 1–2 0–3 Kilmarnock 2–0 — — — 2–2 — 1–0 — 1–2 1–0 — 5–2 Livingston 0–0 0–3 1–4 — — — — 1–3 — — — 1–0 Motherwell 0–1 1–3 — — 1–1 1–1 — — — 5–0 — 1–1 Rangers 2–1 3–3 — 5–0 3–1 — 3–0 1–2 — — — — Ross County — — — 2–1 — — 3–2 — 3–2 — 0–1 1–1 St Johnstone — — 1–2 0–1 — 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–3 — — — St Mirren 2–1 — 2–0 1–2 — — — — 0–1 — 2–0 — Source: BBC Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 34–38

After 33 matches, the league splits into two sections of six teams i.e. the top six and the bottom six, with the teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches are determined by the position of the teams in the league table at the time of the split.

Top six Home \ Away CEL DND HOM KIL RAN STM Celtic — — 3–0 — 2–1 3–2 Dundee 1–2 — — 1–1 — 1–3 Heart of Midlothian — 3–0 — — 3–3 — Kilmarnock 0–5 — 0–0 — — — Rangers — 5–2 — 4–1 — — St Mirren — — 2–2 0–1 1–2 — Source: BBC Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Bottom six Home \ Away ABE HIB LIV MOT ROS STJ Aberdeen — — 5–1 1–0 — 1–0 Hibernian 0–4 — — 3–0 — — Livingston — 1–1 — — 2–0 2–1 Motherwell — — 4–1 — — 1–2 Ross County 2–2 2–1 — 1–5 — — St Johnstone — 1–3 — — 1–1 — Source: BBC Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lawrence Shankland	Heart of Midlothian	24
2	Matt O'Riley	Celtic	18
3	James Tavernier	Rangers	17
4	Bojan Miovski	Aberdeen	16
	Cyriel Dessers	Rangers
6	Theo Bair	Motherwell	15
7	Kyogo Furuhashi	Celtic	14
	Simon Murray	Ross County
9	Abdallah Sima	Rangers	11
10	Luke McCowan	Dundee	10
	Myziane Maolida	Hibernian

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Jack Butland	Rangers	18
2	Joe Hart	Celtic	15
	Zander Clark	Heart of Midlothian
4	Will Dennis	Kilmarnock	14
5	Kelle Roos	Aberdeen	10
	Zach Hemming	St Mirren
7	David Marshall	Hibernian	9
8	Trevor Carson	Dundee	8
	Dimitar Mitov	St Johnstone
10	Shamal George	Livingston	7

Awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Stephen Robinson	St Mirren	Ryan Strain	St Mirren
September	Brendan Rodgers	Celtic	Matt O'Riley	Celtic
October	Derek McInnes	Kilmarnock	Abdallah Sima	Rangers
November	Steven Naismith	Heart of Midlothian	Lawrence Shankland	Heart of Midlothian
December	Derek McInnes	Kilmarnock
January	Philippe Clement	Rangers	Alan Forrest
February			Blair Spittal	Motherwell
March	Tony Docherty	Dundee	Myziane Maolida	Hibernian
April	Brendan Rodgers	Celtic	Luke McCowan	Dundee

External links

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