1999–2000 Scottish Premier League

Scottish Premier League
Season	1999–2000
Champions	Rangers
Relegated	No relegation
Champions League	Rangers
UEFA Cup	Celtic Heart of Midlothian
Intertoto Cup	None
Goals scored	528
Average goals/game	2.93
Top goalscorer	Mark Viduka (25)
Biggest home win	Celtic 7–0 Aberdeen (16 October)
Biggest away win	Dundee 1–7 Rangers (27 February) Aberdeen 0–6 Celtic (11 December)
Highest attendance	60,253, Celtic 3–0 St Johnstone (7 August)
Lowest attendance	4,039, Dundee 0–0 Kilmarnock (26 January)
Average attendance	17,944
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

The 1999–2000 Scottish Premier League was the second season of the Scottish Premier League. It began in on 31 July 1999.

Rangers, the defending champions, retained their title and became Scottish top flight champions for the 49th time. They also retained the Scottish Cup, while neighbours Celtic (who enduring a disappointing season in the league and suffered a humiliating early exit from the Scottish Cup) won the League Cup which Rangers had won a year earlier.

Overview

The 1999–2000 Scottish Premier League was won by Rangers for the second successive year, finishing 21 points ahead of nearest rivals Celtic. As the SPL was being expanded to 12 teams, the bottom finishing side were to face the second and third finishing sides from the first division, in a three team play-off. However, due to Falkirk's stadium not meeting SPL requirements, the playoff did not take place with Dunfermline being promoted automatically from second position. As champions, Rangers qualified for the Champions League while Celtic and third-placed Hearts qualified for the UEFA Cup.

Celtic entered the season under new management with former Liverpool player John Barnes taking charge in June 1999.^[1] It proved to be a brief and unsuccessful reign, however, after being sacked in February 2000 in the wake of a Scottish Cup defeat to First Division Inverness Caledonian Thistle.^[2]

Promotion and relegation from 1998–99

Promoted from First Division to Premier League

Hibernian

Relegated from Premier League to First Division

Dunfermline Athletic

Events

April 22: Rangers win the SPL title after Celtic are held to a 1–1 draw at home to Hibernian.^[3] It is Rangers' 11th Scottish title in 12 years.

League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rangers	36	28	6	2	96	26	+70	90	2000–01 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Celtic	36	21	6	9	90	38	+52	69	2000–01 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
3	Hearts	36	15	9	12	47	40	+7	54	2000–01 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
4	Motherwell	36	14	10	12	49	63	–14	52
5	St Johnstone	36	10	12	14	36	44	–8	42
6	Hibernian	36	10	11	15	49	61	–12	41
7	Dundee	36	12	5	19	45	64	–19	41
8	Dundee United	36	11	6	19	34	57	–23	39
9	Kilmarnock	36	8	13	15	38	52	–14	37
10	Aberdeen	36	9	6	21	44	83	–39	33	2000–01 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
2000–01 UEFA Cup Qualifying round

Source: SPL official website

Results

Matches 1–18

During matches 1–18 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).

Home ╲ Away	Aberdeen !ABE	Celtic !CEL	Dundee !DND	Dundee United !DUN	Heart of Midlothian !HOM	Hibernian !HIB	Kilmarnock !KIL	Motherwell !MOT	Rangers !RAN	St Johnstone !STJ
Aberdeen !Aberdeen		0–5	0–2	1–2	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–5	0–3
Celtic !Celtic	7–0		6–2	4–1	4–0	4–0	5–1	0–1	1–1	3–0
Dundee !Dundee	1–3	1–2		0–2	1–0	3–4	0–0	0–1	2–3	1–2
Dundee United !Dundee United	3–1	2–1	2–1		0–2	3–1	0–0	0–2	0–4	1–0
Heart of Midlothian !Heart of Midlothian	3–0	1–2	4–0	3–0		0–3	2–2	1–1	0–4	1–1
Hibernian !Hibernian	2–0	0–2	5–2	3–2	1–1		0–3	2–2	0–1	0–1
Kilmarnock !Kilmarnock	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	0–2		0–1	1–1	1–2
Motherwell !Motherwell	5–6	3–2	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–4		1–5	1–0
Rangers !Rangers	3–0	4–2	1–2	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	4–1		3–1
St Johnstone !St Johnstone	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–4	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1

Source: Soccerbase
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.

Matches 19–36

During matches 19–36 each team plays every other team a further two times (home and away).

Home ╲ Away	Aberdeen !ABE	Celtic !CEL	Dundee !DND	Dundee United !DUN	Heart of Midlothian !HOM	Hibernian !HIB	Kilmarnock !KIL	Motherwell !MOT	Rangers !RAN	St Johnstone !STJ
Aberdeen !Aberdeen		0–6	0–1	3–1	1–2	4–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	2–1
Celtic !Celtic	5–1		2–2	2–0	2–3	1–1	4–2	4–0	0–1	4–1
Dundee !Dundee	0–2	0–3		3–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	4–1	1–7	1–1
Dundee United !Dundee United	1–1	0–1	1–0		0–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–2	0–1
Heart of Midlothian !Heart of Midlothian	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–2		2–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0
Hibernian !Hibernian	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	3–1		2–2	2–2	2–2	3–3
Kilmarnock !Kilmarnock	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–0		0–2	0–2	3–2
Motherwell !Motherwell	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–3	0–2	2–0	2–0		2–0	2–1
Rangers !Rangers	5–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	5–2	1–0	6–2		0–0
St Johnstone !St Johnstone	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–2

Top scorers

Celtic's Mark Viduka was the SPL's top scorer in season 1999-2000.

Player	Club	Goals
Mark Viduka	Celtic	25
Jörg Albertz	Rangers	17
Rod Wallace	Rangers	16
Gary McSwegan	Hearts	13
Willie Falconer	Dundee	12
Mark Burchill	Celtic	11
Kenny Miller	Hibernian	11
John Spencer	Motherwell	11
Billy Dodds	Rangers	10
Nathan Lowndes	St Johnstone	10
Michael Mols	Rangers	9
Tommy Johnson	Celtic	9

Source: SPL official website

Attendances

The average attendances for SPL clubs during the 1999/00 season are shown below:

Team	Average
Celtic	54,440
Rangers	48,116
Hearts	14,246
Aberdeen	12,813
Hibernian	11,870
Kilmarnock	9,419
Dundee United	8,186
Motherwell	7,297
Dundee	6,938
St Johnstone	6,117

Source: SPL official website

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Aberdeen	Paul Hegarty		May 1999	Ebbe Skovdahl	June 1999
Celtic	Jozef Vengloš	Mutual consent	May 1999	John Barnes	10 June 1999
Celtic	John Barnes	Sacked	10 February 2000	Kenny Dalglish (Caretaker)	10 February 2000

References

Season Review - ScotPrem.co.uk

↑ "Dalglish back at Parkhead". BBC News. 1999-06-10. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
↑ "Barnes forced out". BBC News. 2000-02-10. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
↑ "Rangers handed Scottish crown". BBC News. 2000-04-24. Retrieved 2008-04-21.

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Domestic leagues	Premier League Football League First Division Second Division Third Division Highland League

Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Challenge Cup (Final)

European competitions	Champions League UEFA Cup

Related to national team	Results Euro 2000 qualifying (Group 9)

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Premier League	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Motherwell Rangers St. Johnstone

First Division	Airdrieonians Ayr United Clydebank Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Greenock Morton Inverness Caledonian Thistle Livingston Raith Rovers St. Mirren

Second Division	Alloa Athletic Arbroath Clyde Hamilton Academical Partick Thistle Queen of the South Ross County Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

Third Division	Albion Rovers Berwick Rangers Brechin City Cowdenbeath Dumbarton East Fife East Stirlingshire Forfar Athletic Montrose Queen's Park

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Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '99 '00 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '99 '00 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '99 '00 Faroe Islands '99 '00 Finland '99 '00 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '99 '00 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '99 '00 Latvia '99 '00 Lithuania '99 '00 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '99 '00 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '99 '00 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '99 '00 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '99 '00 Finland '99 '00 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '99 '00 Israel Italy Latvia '99 '00 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '99 '00 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '99 '00 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia

League cups	England Finland '99 '00 France Germany Iceland '99 '00 Israel Northern Ireland Poland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales

UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, Group stage, 2nd group stage, knockout stage, Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

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