Scottish Championship

Scottish Championship
Country	Scotland
Confederation	UEFA
Founded	2013
Number of teams	10
Promotion to	Scottish Premiership
Relegation to	Scottish League One
Levels on pyramid	2
Domestic cup(s)	Scottish Cup Scottish League Cup Challenge Cup
Current champions	Dundee (2nd title) (2022–23)
TV	BBC Scotland BBC ALBA
Website	Official website
2023–24

The Scottish Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the Ladbrokes Championship, is the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Championship was established in July 2013, after the Scottish Professional Football League was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League.

Format

Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then goal difference, and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned league champion. If points are equal, the goal difference determines the winner. If this still does not result in a winner, the tied teams must take part in a playoff game at a neutral venue to determine the final placings.

Promotion and relegation

The champions are directly promoted to the Scottish Premiership, swapping places with the bottom club of the Premiership. The clubs finishing 2nd, 3rd and 4th then enter the two-legged Premiership play-off. The 3rd-placed club plays the 4th-placed club, with the winner then playing the 2nd-placed club. The winner of that tie then plays against the 11th-placed Premiership club. If the Championship play-off winner prevails, the club is promoted, with the Premiership club being relegated, otherwise the Premiership club can retain its position in Premiership with the promotion failure of the Championship club.

The Championship play-off system is consistent to its Premiership counterpart, in which the bottom club of Championship is automatically relegated and the 9th-placed club undergoes a play-off with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed clubs from League One.

Teams

Listed below are all the teams competing in the 2022–23 Scottish Championship season, with details of the first season they entered the second tier; the first season of their current spell in the second tier; and the last time they won the second tier.

Team	Position in 2021–22	First season in second tier	First season of current spell in second tier	Last second tier title
Arbroath	&0000000000000014.0000002nd, Scottish Championship	1921–22	2019–20	—
Ayr United	&0000000000000020.0000008th, Scottish Championship	1910–11	2018–19	1965–66
Cove Rangers	&0000000000000023.0000001st, Scottish League One (promoted)	2022–23	2022–23	—
Dundee	&0000000000000012.00000012th, Scottish Premiership (relegated)	1938–39	2022–23	2013–14
Greenock Morton	&0000000000000019.0000007th, Scottish Championship	1893–94	2015–16	1986–87
Hamilton Academical	&0000000000000018.0000006th, Scottish Championship	1897–98	2021–22	2007–08
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	&0000000000000015.0000003rd, Scottish Championship	1999–00	2017–18	2009–10
Partick Thistle	&0000000000000016.0000004th, Scottish Championship	1893–94	2021–22	2012–13
Queen's Park	&0000000000000026.0000004th, Scottish League One (promoted)	1922–23	2022–23	1955–56
Raith Rovers	&0000000000000017.0000005th, Scottish Championship	1902–03	2020–21	1994–95

Stadiums

See also Scottish stadiums

Arbroath	Ayr United	Dunfermline Athletic	Greenock Morton	Hamilton Academical
Gayfield Park	Somerset Park	East End Park	Cappielow Park	New Douglas Park
Capacity: 6,600	Capacity: 10,185	Capacity: 11,480	Capacity: 11,589	Capacity: 6,018

Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Kilmarnock	Partick Thistle	Queen of the South	Raith Rovers
Caledonian Stadium	Rugby Park	Firhill Stadium	Palmerston Park	Stark's Park
Capacity: 7,512	Capacity: 15,003	Capacity: 10,102	Capacity: 8,690	Capacity: 8,867

External links

• Website