The Scottish Premiership is the top division of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for professional football clubs in Scotland.
The Scottish Premiership 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.
The top flight of Scottish football has contained 12 clubs since the 2000–01 season, during this period the SPL and now the SPFL have operated a "split"
format. This is done to prevent the need for a 44-game schedule, based
on playing each other four times. That format was used in the Scottish Premier Division, but is now considered to be too high a number of games in a league season.
A season, which runs from August until May, is divided into two
phases. During the first phase, each club plays three games against
every other team, either once at home and twice away or vice-versa.
After this first phase of matches, by which time all clubs have played
33 games, the league splits into a 'top six' and a 'bottom six'. Each
club then plays a further five matches against the other five teams in
their own section. Points achieved during the first phase of 33 matches
are carried forward to the second phase, but the teams compete only
within their own sections during the second phase. After the first phase
is completed, clubs cannot move out of their own section in the league,
even if they achieve more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked
team, respectively.
The bottom placed Premiership club at the end of the season is relegated, and swaps places with the winner of the Scottish Championship, provided that the winner satisfies Premiership entry criteria. With the creation of the SPFL, promotion and relegation playoffs involving the top flight were introduced for the first time in 17 years.That now means the Premiership club in 11th place face the Championship play-off winners over two legs. The winner of those play-offs will earn the right to play in the Scottish Premiership the following season along with the winners of the Scottish Championship. The Scottish Football League had used playoffs between its three divisions since 2007.
The 2014–15 Scottish Premiership is the second season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football. The season began on 9 August 2014. Celtic are the defending champions.
Twelve teams contest the league: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Hamilton Academical, Inverness CT, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Ross County, St. Johnstone and St. Mirren.
The bottom placed Premiership club at the end of the season is relegated, and swaps places with the winner of the Scottish Championship, provided that the winner satisfies Premiership entry criteria. With the creation of the SPFL, promotion and relegation playoffs involving the top flight were introduced for the first time in 17 years.That now means the Premiership club in 11th place face the Championship play-off winners over two legs. The winner of those play-offs will earn the right to play in the Scottish Premiership the following season along with the winners of the Scottish Championship. The Scottish Football League had used playoffs between its three divisions since 2007.
The 2014–15 Scottish Premiership is the second season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football. The season began on 9 August 2014. Celtic are the defending champions.
Twelve teams contest the league: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Hamilton Academical, Inverness CT, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Ross County, St. Johnstone and St. Mirren.
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