2016–17 Scottish Premiership

Scottish Premiership

Season	2016–17
← 2015–16

The 2016–17 Scottish Premiership (known as the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership for sponsorship reasons) will be the fourth season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football. The season will begin on 6 August 2016.^[1]

Twelve teams will contest the league. As of 2 May 2016, Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Heart of Midlothian, Inverness CT, Motherwell, Rangers, Ross County and St Johnstone are the only teams to have confirmed their place in the league.

Teams

The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.

To Premiership Promoted from Scottish Championship Rangers

From Premiership Relegated to Scottish Championship Dundee United

Stadia and locations

Aberdeen	Celtic	Dundee	Heart of Midlothian
Pittodrie Stadium	Celtic Park	Dens Park	Tynecastle Stadium
Capacity: 20,897[2]	Capacity: 60,355[3]	Capacity: 11,506[4]	Capacity: 17,529[5]
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Aberdeen Dundee Heart of Midlothian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Rangers Ross County St. Johnstone Celtic Motherwell Location of teams in 2015–16 Scottish Premiership		Motherwell
Caledonian Stadium			Fir Park
Capacity: 7,800[6]			Capacity: 13,677[7]
Rangers			Ross County
Ibrox Stadium			Victoria Park
Capacity: 50,817[8]			Capacity: 6,541[9]
St Johnstone	TBC1	TBC2	TBC3
McDiarmid Park
Capacity: 10,696[10]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aberdeen	McInnes, DerekDerek McInnes	Jack, RyanRyan Jack	Adidas	Saltire Energy
Celtic	Vacant	Brown, ScottScott Brown	New Balance	Dafabet
Dundee	Hartley, PaulPaul Hartley	McPake, JamesJames McPake	Puma	McEwan Fraser Legal
Heart of Midlothian	Neilson, RobbieRobbie Neilson	Öztürk, AlimAlim Öztürk	Puma	Save the Children
Inverness CT	Hughes, JohnJohn Hughes	Foran, RichieRichie Foran	Carbrini	McEwan Fraser Legal
Motherwell	McGhee, MarkMark McGhee	Lasley, KeithKeith Lasley	Macron	Cash Converters
Rangers	Warburton, MarkMark Warburton	Wallace, LeeLee Wallace	Puma	32Red
Ross County	McIntyre, JimJim McIntyre	Davies, AndrewAndrew Davies	Macron	Stanley CRC Evans Offshore
St Johnstone	Wright, TommyTommy Wright	Mackay, DaveDave Mackay	Joma	Invest in Perth

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment

Tournament format and regulations

Basic

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[lower-alpha 1]
1	Aberdeen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Celtic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	Dundee	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Heart of Midlothian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Motherwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Rangers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Ross County	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	St Johnstone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Premiership play-off finals
12		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to Scottish Championship

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification and second stage group allocation).
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).

Results

Matches 1–22

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

Home ╲ Away	ABE	CEL	DND	HOM	INV	MOT	RAN	ROS	STJ
Aberdeen
Celtic							a
Dundee
Heart of Midlothian
Inverness Caledonian Thistle								a
Motherwell
Rangers		a
Ross County					a
St Johnstone

Source: Scottish Premiership
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	DND	HOM	INV	MOT	RAN	ROS	STJ
Aberdeen
Celtic							a
Dundee
Heart of Midlothian
Inverness Caledonian Thistle								a
Motherwell
Rangers		a
Ross County					a
St Johnstone

Source: Scottish Premiership
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 splits 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 are determined upon the league table at the time of the split.

References

1. "Start date for 2016/17 league season". SPFL. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
2. "Aberdeen Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
3. "Celtic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
4. "Dundee Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
5. "Heart of Midlothian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
6. "Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
7. "Motherwell Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
8. "Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
9. "Ross County Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
10. "St Johnstone Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

External links

• Official website