2010–11 Scottish Premier League

Scottish Premier League

Season	2010–11
Champions	Rangers 7th Premier League title 54th Scottish title overall
Relegated	Hamilton Academical
Champions League	Rangers
Europa League	Celtic Heart of Midlothian Dundee United
Matches played	228
Goals scored	584 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kenny Miller (21)
Biggest home win	Celtic 9–0 Aberdeen (6 November 2010)
Biggest away win	Motherwell 0–5 Rangers (30 April 2011)
Highest scoring	Celtic 9–0 Aberdeen (6 November 2010)
Longest winning run	9 games Rangers
Longest unbeaten run	14 games Celtic
Longest winless run	22 games Hamilton Academical
Longest losing run	7 games Aberdeen
Highest attendance	58,874 Celtic v Rangers (24 October 2010)
Lowest attendance	2,019 Hamilton Academical v Inverness Caledonian Thistle (13 November 2010)
Average attendance	13,677
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Scottish Premier League was the thirteenth season of the Scottish Premier League, the highest division of Scottish football. It commenced on 14 August 2010 and ended on 15 May 2011. The defending champions were Rangers, who retained their championship with a 5–1 win at Kilmarnock on the final day of the season.^[1][2]

Teams

Aberdeen

Dundee Utd

Hamilton

Hearts

Hibernian

Inverness

Kilmarnock

Celtic

Motherwell

Rangers

St Johnstone

St Mirren

Location of teams in Scottish Premier League 2010–11

Twelve teams participated in the 2010–11 season, eleven of which competed in the 2009–10 season. Inverness Caledonian Thistle was promoted from the 2009–10 First Division.

Team changes

Promoted from First Division to Premier League

• Inverness Caledonian Thistle

Relegated from Premier League to First Division

• Falkirk

Kits and shirt sponsors

Team	Kit manufacturer	Kit sponsor	Notes
Aberdeen	Nike	Team Recruitment	New home and away kits
Celtic	Nike	Tennent's Lager	Tennent's replaced Carling as shirt sponsors New home and away kits
Dundee United	Nike	Calor Gas	Calor Gas replaced Cabrini as shirt sponsors
Hamilton Academical	Nike	Reid Furniture
Heart of Midlothian	Umbro	Ūkio bankas	New home and away kits
Hibernian	Puma	McEwan Fraser	Puma replaced Le Coq Sportif as kit manufacturer New home and away kits
Inverness CT	Errea	Orion Group	New home and away kits
Kilmarnock	1869	Verve.net	New home and away kits
Motherwell	Puma[3]	Commsworld	Puma replaced Canterbury as kit manufacturer New home and away kits
Rangers	Umbro	Tennent's Lager	Tennent's replaced Carling as shirt sponsors New home, away and third kits
St Johnstone	Joma	Taylor Wimpey	Joma replaced Surridge as kit manufacturer New home and away kits
St Mirren	Hummel	Braehead Shopping Centre	New home and away kits

Stadia and attendances

As of 15:08, 7 April 2012 (UTC)^[4]

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Total	Highest	Lowest	Average
Aberdeen	Pittodrie Stadium	22,199	173,460	15,307	5,955	9,129
Celtic	Celtic Park	60,355	930,395	58,874	40,750	48,968
Dundee United	Tannadice Park	14,209	140,391	11,790	4,918	7,389
Hamilton Academical	New Douglas Park	6,096	55,056	5,356	2,011	2,898
Heart of Midlothian	Tynecastle Stadium	17,420	269,506	17,420	12,009	14,185
Hibernian	Easter Road[note 1]	020,250	223,360	17,793	7,238	11,756
Inverness CT	Caledonian Stadium	7,500	85,998	7,547	3,241	4,526
Kilmarnock	Rugby Park	18,128	122,106	16,173	4,214	6,427
Motherwell	Fir Park	13,742	99,838	9,716	3,324	5,255
Rangers	Ibrox Stadium	51,082	860,793	50,248	41,514	45,305
St Johnstone	McDiarmid Park	10,673	72,982	6,866	2,253	3,841
St Mirren	St Mirren Park	8,016	84,545	6,118	2,701	4,450

Events

• 6 November – Celtic set a new SPL record for margin of victory in a single match with a 9–0 win against Aberdeen.^[5]
• 10 November – Edinburgh derby rivals Hearts and Hibs beat the Old Firm of Celtic and Rangers on the same day.^[6] Hearts beat Celtic 2–0 at Tynecastle, while Hibs produced a 3–0 win against Rangers at Ibrox.^[6] The Scotsman newspaper reported that this last happened in April 1972.^[6]

Referee strike

• 21 November – Scottish football referees vote to take strike action, threatening the fixtures scheduled for the weekend of 27 and 28 November.^[7] The Scottish Football Association sourced referees from other UEFA associations to cover the SPL matches,^[8] but all ten Scottish Football League matches were postponed due to the strike.^[9]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rangers (C)	38	30	3	5	88	29	+59	93	2011–12 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	Celtic	38	29	5	4	85	22	+63	92	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Play-off round ^1
3	Heart of Midlothian	38	18	9	11	53	45	+8	63	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
4	Dundee United	38	17	10	11	55	50	+5	61	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ^1
5	Kilmarnock	38	13	10	15	53	55	−2	49
6	Motherwell	38	13	7	18	40	60	−20	46
7	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	38	14	11	13	52	44	+8	53
8	St Johnstone	38	11	11	16	23	43	−20	44
9	Aberdeen	38	11	5	22	39	59	−20	38
10	Hibernian	38	10	7	21	39	61	−22	37
11	St Mirren	38	8	9	21	33	57	−24	33
12	Hamilton Academical (R)	38	5	11	22	24	59	−35	26	Relegation to 2011–12 Scottish First Division

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Celtic entered the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League as they won the 2011 Scottish Cup Final. Due to this, Heart of Midlothian also moved up to the third qualifying round, whilst fourth-placed team Dundee United received the second qualifying round spot.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Matches 1–22

Teams play each other twice, once at home, once away

Home ╲ Away

ABE

CEL

DUN

HAM

HOM

HIB

INV

KIL

MOT

RAN

STJ

STM

Aberdeen

0–3

1–1

4–0

0–1

4–2

1–2

0–1

1–2

2–3

0–1

2–0

Celtic

9–0

1–1

3–1

3–0

2–1

2–2

1–1

1–0

1–3

2–0

4–0

Dundee United

3–1

1–2

2–1

2–0

1–0

0–4

1–1

2–0

0–4

1–0

1–2

Hamilton Academical

0–1

1–1

0–1

0–4

1–2

1–3

2–2

0–0

1–2

1–2

0–0

Heart of Midlothian

5–0

2–0

1–1

2–0

1–0

1–1

0–3

0–2

1–2

1–1

3–0

Hibernian

1–2

0–3

2–2

1–1

0–2

1–1

2–1

2–1

0–3

0–0

2–0

Inverness Caledonian Thistle

2–0

0–1

0–2

0–1

1–3

4–2

1–3

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–2

Kilmarnock

2–0

1–2

1–2

3–0

1–2

2–1

1–2

0–1

2–3

1–1

2–1

Motherwell

1–1

0–1

2–1

0–1

1–2

2–3

0–0

0–1

1–4

4–0

3–1

Rangers

2–0

0–2

4–0

4–0

1–0

0–3

1–1

2–1

4–1

2–1

2–1

St Johnstone

0–1

0–3

0–0

2–0

0–2

2–0

1–0

0–3

0–2

0–2

2–1

St Mirren

2–1

0–1

1–1

2–2

0–2

1–0

1–2

0–2

1–1

1–3

1–2

Updated to games played on 20:40, 19 April 2011 (UTC).
Source: BBC Sport
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

Teams play every other team once (either at home or away)

Home ╲ Away

ABE

CEL

DUN

HAM

HOM

HIB

INV

KIL

MOT

RAN

STJ

STM

Aberdeen

1–0

0–0

0–1

5–0

0–1

Celtic

1–0

2–0

4–0

3–1

3–0

1–0

Dundee United

3–1

1–3

3–0

1–0

2–0

Hamilton Academical

1–1

0–2

1–1

0–1

0–0

Heart of Midlothian

2–1

0–2

0–0

1–0

1–0

3–2

Hibernian

1–2

2–2

2–0

2–1

0–2

Inverness Caledonian Thistle

0–2

3–2

1–1

1–1

3–0

2–0

Kilmarnock

0–4

1–1

1–1

3–1

2–0

Motherwell

2–1

2–0

2–1

1–0

2–0

0–1

Rangers

2–3

1–0

2–1

6–0

4–0

St Johnstone

0–0

0–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

0–0

St Mirren

3–2

1–1

3–1

0–1

3–3

0–1

Updated to games played on 19:56, 4 May 2011 (UTC).
Source: BBC Sport
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 34–38

After 33 matches, the league split into two sections of six teams each, with teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches were determined upon the league table at the time of the split.

Top six Home ╲ Away CEL DUN HOM KIL MOT RAN Celtic 4–1 4–0 Dundee United 2–1 4–2 4–0 Heart of Midlothian 0–3 3–3 Kilmarnock 0–2 2–2 1–5 Motherwell 1–1 0–5 Rangers 0–0 2–0 4–0 Updated to games played on 20:49, 15 May 2011 (UTC). Source: BBC Sport 1 ^^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Bottom six Home ╲ Away ABE HAM HIB INV STJ STM Aberdeen 1–0 0–2 0–1 Hamilton Academical 1–1 1–0 1–2 Hibernian 1–3 1–2 1–1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2–0 1–0 St Johnstone 1–0 0–3 St Mirren 0–1 0–0 Updated to games played on 16:36, 14 May 2011 (UTC). Source: BBC Sport 1 ^^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics Top scorers As of 18:01, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[10] Rank Scorer Team Goals 1 Kenny Miller[note 2] Rangers 21 2 Gary Hooper Celtic 20 3 David Goodwillie Dundee United 17 4 Nikica Jelavić Rangers 16 5 Adam Rooney Inverness CT 15 Conor Sammon[note 3] Kilmarnock Anthony Stokes[note 4] Celtic 8 Michael Higdon St Mirren 14 9 Rudolf Skácel Heart of Midlothian 13 10 Nick Blackman[note 5] Aberdeen 12 Hat-tricks Scorer For Against Date Paul Hartley Aberdeen Hamilton Academical 14 August 2010[11] Kenny Miller Rangers Hibernian 22 August 2010[12] Rudi Skacel Heart of Midlothian St Mirren 23 October 2010[13] Anthony Stokes Celtic Aberdeen 6 November 2010[14] Gary Hooper Celtic Aberdeen 6 November 2010[14] Nick Blackman Motherwell St Johnstone 10 November 2010[15] Kenny Miller Rangers Kilmarnock 20 November 2010[16] Adam Rooney Inverness CT Hibernian 20 November 2010[17] Nikica Jelavić Rangers Motherwell 12 February 2011[18] Michael Higdon St Mirren Hamilton Academical 2 April 2011[19] Jon Daly Dundee United Motherwell 7 May 2011[20] Kyle Lafferty Rangers Kilmarnock 15 May 2011[21] Awards Monthly awards Month Manager of the Month Player of the Month Young Player of the Month Manager Club Player Club Player Club August Walter Smith[22] Rangers Kenny Miller[22] Rangers James Forrest[23] Celtic September Neil Lennon[24] Celtic Kenny Miller[25] Rangers Chris Maguire[26] Aberdeen October Terry Butcher[27] Inverness CT Steven Naismith[28] Rangers Ki Sung-Yueng[29] Celtic November Jim Jefferies[30] Heart of Midlothian Alexei Eremenko[31] Kilmarnock David Templeton[32] Heart of Midlothian December Mixu Paatelainen[33] Kilmarnock Marius Žaliūkas[34] Heart of Midlothian David Templeton[34] Heart of Midlothian January Neil Lennon[35] Celtic Beram Kayal[36] Celtic Jamie Ness[37] Rangers February Colin Calderwood[38] Hibernian Marián Kello[39] Heart of Midlothian Callum Booth[38] Hibernian March Peter Houston[40] Dundee United David Goodwillie[40] Dundee United Johnny Russell[40] Dundee United April Neil Lennon[41] Celtic Allan McGregor[42] Rangers Jamie Murphy[43] Motherwell Clydesdale Bank Premier League Awards Award Recipient Player of the Season Emilio Izaguirre[44] Manager of the Season Mixu Paatelainen[44] Young Player of the Season David Goodwillie[44] Goal of the Season Derek Riordan[44] Save of the Season Marian Kello[44] Under-19 League Player of the Season Jason Holt[44] Best Club Media Relations Motherwell[44] SPL Family Champions Rangers[44] Best Community Initiative St Mirren[44] Notes The capacity of Easter Road was increased during the 2010 close season as Hibernian opened a new East Stand Miller left Rangers to sign for Turkish club Bursaspor in January 2011 Sammon left Kilmarnock to sign for English club Wigan Athletic in January 2011 Stokes scored 1 goal for Hibernian Blackman scored 10 goals for Motherwell References "Rangers seal SPL title with 5-1 hammering of Kilmarnock". 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