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Toggle Clubs in membership of the Scottish Professional Football League subsection. 1.1 Scottish Premiership. 1.2 Scottish Championship. 1.3 Scottish League One.
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is an association football league in Scotland. It comprises the top four divisions of the Scottish football league system. The league was established in 2013, following a merger of the Scottish Premier League (SPL; tier one) and the Scottish Football League (SFL; tiers two to four). The Scottish ...
This structure remained in place until 1998, when the teams then in the Premier Division broke away to form the Scottish Premier League, which supplanted the Premier Division as the highest level of football in Scotland. [4] In 2013 the two leagues merged to form the new Scottish Professional Football League, ending the 123-year existence of ...
The Scottish League Cup is paraded in March 2007. Mowbray left Hibs in October 2006 to manage West Bromwich Albion, [52] and was replaced by former player John Collins. [53] The team won the 2007 Scottish League Cup final under his management, [54] but the club sold Kevin Thomson, Scott Brown and Steven Whittaker for fees totalling more than £ ...
The club has won the Scottish league championship 54 times, most recently in 2023–24, the Scottish Cup a record 42 times and the Scottish League Cup 22 times. The club's greatest season was 1966–67 , when Celtic became the first British team to win the European Cup , also winning the Scottish league championship , the Scottish Cup , the ...
Celtic's first kit consisted of a white shirt with a green collar, black shorts, and emerald green socks. The original club crest was a simple green cross on a red oval background. [11] [12] In 1889 the club adopted a strip of white and green vertical stripes [11] before finally taking up the now famous green and white hoops in 1903. [11]
Association football is one of the national sports of Scotland [1] and the most popular sport in the country. [2] There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of these include carrying the ball and passing by hand, and despite bearing the name "football" bear little resemblance to association football.
The Scottish Football Association operates a roll of honour for every player who has made more than 50 appearances for Scotland. [8] Kenny Dalglish holds the record for Scotland appearances, having played 102 times between 1971 and 1986. [8] Dalglish scored 30 goals for Scotland and shares the record for most goals scored with Denis Law.