2014–15 Scottish Championship

Scottish Championship

Season	2014–15
Champions	Heart of Midlothian
Promoted	Heart of Midlothian
Relegated	Cowdenbeath
Matches played	180
Goals scored	525 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jason Cummings (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Hearts 10–0 Cowdenbeath (28 February 2015)
Biggest away win	Cowdenbeath 0–5 Queen of the South (21 January 2015)
Highest scoring	Hearts 10–0 Cowdenbeath (28 February 2015)
Longest winning run	9 games^[1] Heart of Midlothian
Longest unbeaten run	20 games^[1] Heart of Midlothian
Longest winless run	12 games^[1] Alloa Athletic
Longest losing run	5 games^[1] Cowdenbeath Livingston
Highest attendance	43,683^[2] Rangers 1–2 Heart of Midlothian (10 August 2014)
Lowest attendance	549^[2] Cowdenbeath 0–3 Alloa Athletic (23 August 2014)
Average attendance	7,532^[2]
← 2013–14 2015–16 → All statistics correct as of 31 March 2015.

The 2014–15 Scottish Championship is the 20th season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football.

Heart of Midlothian won the title on 22 March 2015 and secured their return to the Scottish Premiership with a record seven matches remaining, after Rangers defeated city rivals Hibernian 2–0.^[3] This marked the first time since the 1984-85 season that a side in the same division as an Old Firm club won a league title in Scotland.

Teams

Rangers were promoted as 2013–14 Scottish League One champions, whilst Heart of Midlothian were relegated from the 2013–14 Scottish Premiership. Hibernian finished 11th in the Premiership and were eventually relegated after a play-off against Hamilton Academical, losing a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw on aggregate over two legs.

Stadia and locations

Stadia by capacity and locations

Alloa Athletic	Cowdenbeath	Dumbarton	Falkirk
Recreation Park	Central Park	Dumbarton Football Stadium	Falkirk Stadium
Capacity: 3,100^[4]	Capacity: 4,309^[5]	Capacity: 2,020^[6]	Capacity: 8,750^[7]

Rangers	Alloa Athletic Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers		Heart of Midlothian
Ibrox Stadium			Tynecastle Stadium
Capacity: 50,947^[8]			Capacity: 17,529^[9]

Raith Rovers	Queen of the South	Livingston	Hibernian
Stark's Park	Palmerston Park	Almondvale Stadium	Easter Road
Capacity: 8,473^[10]	Capacity: 8,690^[11]	Capacity: 9,865^[12]	Capacity: 20,421^[13]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alloa Athletic	Danny Lennon	Pendle	Marshall Construction
Cowdenbeath	Jimmy Nicholl	Uhlsport	Subsea Pressure Controls
Dumbarton	Ian Murray	Joma	Baxter Ramsay
Falkirk	Peter Houston	Puma	Central Demolition
Heart of Midlothian	Robbie Neilson	Adidas	Foundation of Hearts (A)
Hibernian	Alan Stubbs	Nike	Marathonbet
Livingston	John McGlynn	Joma	Energy Assets
Queen of the South	James Fowler	Joma	Southwest Mechanical Services
Raith Rovers	Grant Murray	Puma	valmcdermid.com (H, front of shirt), Keytech Electronic Systems (H, back of shirt), D&G Autocare (A)
Rangers	Stuart McCall	Puma	32Red

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Heart of Midlothian	Locke, GaryGary Locke	Mutual Consent	12 May 2014^[14]	Pre-season	Neilson, RobbieRobbie Neilson	12 May 2014^[14]
Falkirk	Holt, GaryGary Holt	Resigned	2 June 2014^[15]	Pre-season	Houston, PeterPeter Houston	12 June 2014^[16]
Hibernian	Butcher, TerryTerry Butcher	Sacked	10 June 2014^[17]	Pre-season	Stubbs, AlanAlan Stubbs	24 June 2014^[18]
Queen of the South	McIntyre, JimJim McIntyre	Appointed by Ross County	9 September 2014^[19]	4th	Fowler, JamesJames Fowler	30 September 2014^[20]
Rangers	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	Resigned	15 December 2014^[21]	2nd	McCall, StuartStuart McCall	12 March 2015^[22]
Livingston	McGlynn, JohnJohn McGlynn	Mutual Consent	16 December 2014^[23]	10th	Burchill, MarkMark Burchill	16 December 2014^[23]
Alloa Athletic	Smith, BarryBarry Smith	Resigned	7 March 2015^[24]	9th	Lennon, DannyDanny Lennon	7 April 2015^[25]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Heart of Midlothian (C, P)	36	29	4	3	96	26	+70	91	Promotion to the 2015–16 Scottish Premiership
2	Hibernian (Q)	36	21	7	8	70	32	+38	70	Qualification to the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs
3	Rangers (Q)	36	19	10	7	69	39	+30	67	Qualification to the quarter-finals of the promotion play-offs
4	Queen of the South (Q)	36	17	9	10	58	41	+17	60
5	Falkirk	36	14	11	11	48	48	0	53
6	Raith	36	12	7	17	42	65	−23	43
7	Dumbarton	36	9	7	20	36	79	−43	34
8	Livingston^{[lower-alpha 1]}	36	8	8	20	41	53	−12	27
9	Alloa Athletic (O)	36	6	9	21	34	56	−22	27	Qualification to the relegation play-off
10	Cowdenbeath (R)	36	7	4	25	31	86	−55	25	Relegation to the 2015–16 Scottish League One

Updated to match(es) played on 2 May 2015. Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

↑ Livingston were deducted 5 points due to failure of tax payments.

Results

Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season, for a total of 36 games.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Alloa Athletic !ALO	Cowdenbeath !COW	Dumbarton !DUM	Falkirk !FAL	Heart of Midlothian !HOM	Hibernian !HIB	Livingston !LIV	Queen of the South !QOS	Raith Rovers !RAI	Rangers !RAN
Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic		2–3	0–1	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1
Cowdenbeath !Cowdenbeath	0–3		1–3	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–3
Dumbarton !Dumbarton	3–1	0–0		0–3	0–0	3–6	1–0	0–4	2–1	0–3
Falkirk !Falkirk	2–1	6–0	1–1		1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–2
Heart of Midlothian !Heart of Midlothian	2–0	5–1	5–1	4–1		2–1	5–0	4–1	1–0	2–0
Hibernian !Hibernian	2–0	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–1		2–1	0–0	1–1	4–0
Livingston !Livingston	4–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–4		2–2	0–1	0–1
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	2–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–0	1–1		2–0	2–0
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	0–4	1–3	1–5	3–4		0–4
Rangers !Rangers	1–1	1–0	4–1	4–0	1–2	1–3	2–0	4–2	6–1

Updated to games played on 27 December 2014.
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.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	Alloa Athletic !ALO	Cowdenbeath !COW	Dumbarton !DUM	Falkirk !FAL	Heart of Midlothian !HOM	Hibernian !HIB	Livingston !LIV	Queen of the South !QOS	Raith Rovers !RAI	Rangers !RAN
Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic		3–0	3–0	1–3	1–4	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–1
Cowdenbeath !Cowdenbeath	0–2		3–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–5	0–1	0–0
Dumbarton !Dumbarton	1–0	1–2		1–0	1–5	1–2	1–5	0–0	2–2	1–3
Falkirk !Falkirk	1–0	1–0	3–3		0–3	0–3	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1
Heart of Midlothian !Heart of Midlothian	3–0	10–0	4–0	2–3		1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–2
Hibernian !Hibernian	4–1	5–0	3–0	3–3	2–0		2–1	0–1	1–1	0–2
Livingston !Livingston	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–3	1–3		1–0	0–2	1–1
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	3–1		2–1	3–0
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	2–1	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	0–4	3–0		1–2
Rangers !Rangers	2–2	4–1	3–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	4–0

Updated to games played on 2 May 2015.
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.

Play-offs

The second bottom team in the Championship enters into a 4 team playoff with the teams from 2nd to 4th from League One

Semi-Finals

All times British Summer Time (UTC+1)

First Leg

Brechin City v Alloa Athletic

6 May 2015
19:45

Brechin City	0–2	Alloa Athletic
	Report	Chopra 56' Benedictus 90'

Glebe Park, Brechin
Attendance: 505
Referee: Brian Colvin

Forfar Athletic v Stranraer

6 May 2015
19:45

Forfar Athletic	3–0	Stranraer
Kader 61' Swankie 87' Hay 90'	Report

Station Park, Forfar
Attendance: 717
Referee: Stephen Finnie

Second Leg

Alloa Athletic v Brechin City

9 May 2015
15:00

Alloa Athletic	0–1	Brechin City
	Report	Trouten 80'

Recreation Park, Alloa
Attendance: 606
Referee: Crawford Allan

Alloa win 2-1 on aggregate

Stranraer v Forfar Athletic

9 May 2015
15:00

Stranraer	1–1	Forfar Athletic
Aitken 41' (pen.)	Report	Swankie 53' (pen.)

Stair Park, Stranraer
Attendance: 519
Referee: Bobby Madden

Forfar win 4-1 on aggregate

Final

The two semi-final winners enter a two-legged play-off, the winner of which is awarded a place in the 2015–16 Scottish Championship.

First Leg

Forfar Athletic v Alloa Athletic

13 May 2015
19:45

Forfar Athletic	3–1	Alloa Athletic
Kader 10' Templeman 57' Travis 90'	Report	Benedictus 82'

Station Park, Forfar
Attendance: 1,212
Referee: Kevin Graham

Second Leg

Alloa Athletic v Forfar Athletic

17 May 2015
17:30

Alloa Athletic	3–0	Forfar Athletic
Chopra 45' Buchanan 67' Holmes 74' Meggatt 84'	Report

Recreation Park, Alloa
Attendance: 1,423
Referee: Willie Collum

Alloa win 4-3 on aggregate

Top scorers

As of 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals^[26]
1	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	18
2	Derek Lyle	Queen of the South	15
3	Liam Buchanan	Alloa Athletic	14
4	Gavin Reilly	Queen of the South	13
4	Dominique Malonga	Hibernian	13
6	Género Zeefuik	Heart of Midlothian	12
7	James Keatings	Heart of Midlothian	11
	Osman Sow	Heart of Midlothian
	Jamie Walker	Heart of Midlothian
	Jordan White	Livingston

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↑ "Livingston Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
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2015–16 Championship teams	Alloa Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Greenock Morton Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers St Mirren

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