2021–22_Scottish_Premiership

2021–22 Scottish Premiership

2021–22 Scottish Premiership

116th season of top-tier football league in Scotland


The 2021–22 Scottish Premiership (known as the cinch Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football, and the 125th edition overall of the top national league competition, not including one cancelled due to World War II. Celtic claimed the league trophy back after an outstanding run with a 1–1 draw with Dundee United on 11 May enough to confirm them as champions.

Quick Facts Season, Dates ...

Twelve teams contested the league: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Livingston, Motherwell, Rangers, Ross County, St Johnstone and St Mirren.

The season began on 31 July 2021.[1] In December, the Scottish Government imposed stadium capacity restrictions as part of its response to the new Omicron variant. As a result, the winter break was brought forward from 4 January to 27 December.[2] The rule of five substitutions per match was also re-introduced (as used the previous season) after the winter break.[3]

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2020–21 season.

Promoted from the Championship

Relegated to the Championship

Stadia and locations

More information Aberdeen, Celtic ...

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Format

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 summary

League table

More information Pos, Team ...
Source: [43][44]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-Head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification, second stage group allocation or relegation).[45]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
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

More information Home \ Away, ABE ...

Matches 34–38

After 33 matches, the league splits into two sections of six teams i.e. the top six and the bottom six, with the teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches are determined by the position of the teams in the league table at the time of the split.

More information Home \ Away, CEL ...

Season statistics

Scoring

As of matches played on 15 May 2022

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

More information Player, For ...

Clean sheets

More information Rank, Player ...

Source:[55]

Attendances

These are the average attendances of the teams. Games with restricted attendances are not included in these figures.

More information Pos, Team ...
  1. Club was playing in the Scottish Championship in the last season with attendances.

Awards

More information Month, Manager of the Month ...

Premiership play-offs

The quarter-finals were contested by the teams placed third and fourth in the 2021–22 Scottish Championship. The winners advanced to the semi-finals to face the team placed second in the Championship. The final was contested by the semi-final winners and the team placed eleventh in the Premiership, with the winners securing a place in the 2022–23 Scottish Premiership.[68]

Qualified teams

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Quarter-finals

First leg

3 May 2022 Partick Thistle 1–2 Inverness Caledonian Thistle Glasgow
19:05 Crawford 54' [69] Sutherland 71'
Samuels 82'
Stadium: Firhill Stadium
Attendance: 2,919
Referee: Steven McLean

Second leg

6 May 2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1–0
(3–1 agg.)
Partick ThistleInverness
19:45 Samuels 29' [70] Stadium: Caledonian Stadium
Attendance: 2,470
Referee: Kevin Clancy

Semi-finals

First leg

10 May 2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 0–0 Arbroath Inverness
19:05 [71] Stadium: Caledonian Stadium
Attendance: 2,201
Referee: Euan Anderson

Second leg

13 May 2022 Arbroath 0–0
(0–0 agg.)
(3–5 p)
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Arbroath
19:45 [72] Stadium: Gayfield Park
Attendance: 5,154
Referee: Willie Collum
Penalties
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Low soccer ball with check mark
Hamilton soccer ball with check mark
Linn soccer ball with red X
Mckay soccer ball with check mark
Hardy soccer ball with check mark
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Final

First leg

20 May 2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2–2 St Johnstone Inverness
19:45 McAlear 73', 80' [73] Rooney 18'
Hallberg 24'
Stadium: Caledonian Stadium
Attendance: 4,811
Referee: Bobby Madden

Second leg

23 May 2022 St Johnstone 4–0
(6–2 agg.)
Inverness Caledonian ThistlePerth
19:45
[74] Stadium: McDiarmid Park
Attendance: 7,355
Referee: Nick Walsh

Broadcasting

Live matches (UK and Ireland)

Sky Sports has exclusive rights to the Scottish Premiership and will show up to 48 matches, and the Premiership play-off final.[75] BBC Scotland will broadcast the Premiership quarter-final and semi-final play-off ties.[76]

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, clubs will continue to stream matches (not broadcast on Sky) to fans on a pay-per-view or "virtual season ticket" basis, whilst capacities in stadia are limited due to social distancing restrictions.[77]

Highlights

Highlights are broadcast on BBC Scotland's flagship Sportscene programme on both Saturdays and Sundays. Sky Sports also show highlights.

Gaelic-language channel BBC Alba has rights to broadcast repeats in full of 38 Saturday 3 pm matches "as live" at 5.30 pm.

The SPFL also uploads the goals from every Premiership match onto its YouTube channel.


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