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2017–18 Scottish Premiership

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The 2017–18 Scottish Premiership (known as the Ladbrokes Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the fifth season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football. The fixtures were published on 23 June 2017.[4] The season began on 5 August 2017.[5] Celtic were the defending champions.

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Twelve teams contested the league: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Hamilton Academical, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Rangers, Ross County and St Johnstone.

The season's average attendance was 15,932, the highest level since 2006–07.[3]

On 29 April 2018, Celtic won their seventh consecutive title and 49th overall after a 50 win at home to Rangers.[6]

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Teams

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The following teams have changed division since the 2016–17 season.

Stadia and locations

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Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

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Format

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.

Prize money

In April 2018, the SPFL confirmed the prize money to be allocated to the league members at the conclusion of the competitions. The Premiership winners would receive £3.176 million, with a total pot of £24.5m to be distributed across the four divisions.[35]

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League summary

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League table

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Source: Soccerway BBC
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).[36]
(C) Champions; (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).
  2. Since the winners of the 2017–18 Scottish Cup, Celtic, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the Scottish Cup winners (Europa League second qualifying round) was passed to the second-placed team and the spot awarded to the second-placed team (Europa League first qualifying round) was passed to the fourth-placed team.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Leader – Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
Qualification to Premiership play-off final
Relegation to 2018–19 Scottish Championship
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Source: BBC Sport

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Results

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Matches 1–22

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

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Source: Scottish Premiership
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 23–33

Teams play every other team once (either at home or away).

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Source: Scottish Premiership
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

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.[37]

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Season statistics

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Top scorers

As of matches played on 13 May 2018
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Source:[1][2][38]

Hat-tricks

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Discipline

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Club

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Attendances

These are the average attendances of the teams.

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Updated to games played on 13 May 2018
Source: [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]

Awards

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Premiership play-offs

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The quarter-final will be contested between the third and fourth-placed teams (Dundee United and Dunfermline Athletic) in the Scottish Championship, with the winners advancing to the semi-final to face the second-placed Championship side (Livingston). The last remaining Championship team will play-off against the eleventh-placed Premiership team in the final, with the winners securing the last place in the 2018–19 Scottish Premiership.

Quarter-final

First leg

Second leg

4 May 2018 Dundee United 2–1
(2–1 agg.)
Dunfermline Athletic Dundee
19:45 McDonald 57'
Stanton 70'
BBC Report McManus 14' Stadium: Tannadice Park
Attendance: 7,994
Referee: Willie Collum

Semi-final

First leg

7 May 2018 Dundee United 2–3 Livingston Dundee
19:45 Mikkelsen 3'
Ralston 28'
BBC Report De Vita 2'
Mullin 77'
Pittman 80'
Stadium: Tannadice Park
Attendance: 5,610
Referee: Nick Walsh

Second leg

11 May 2018 Livingston 1–1
(4–3 agg.)
Dundee United Livingston
19:45 Lithgow 6' BBC Report Fraser 21' Stadium: Almondvale Stadium
Attendance: 4,508
Referee: Don Robertson

Final

First leg

17 May 2018 Livingston 2–1 Partick Thistle Livingston
19:45 Jacobs 13'
Pittman 74'
BBC Report Doolan 10' Stadium: Almondvale Stadium
Attendance: 5,469
Referee: Craig Thomson

Second leg

20 May 2018 Partick Thistle 0–1
(1–3 agg.)
Livingston Glasgow
15:30 Report Jacobs 46' Stadium: Firhill Stadium
Attendance: 7,122
Referee: John Beaton

Livingston were promoted to the Premiership.

Broadcasting

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Live Matches

The SPFL permits Sky Sports and BT Sport to show up to six live home matches between the broadcasters from each club - although this is only four for Rangers and Celtic. Sky Sports and BT Sport's deal allows them to broadcast 30 games each (and the play-offs for BT). The deal roughly provides £21m to SPFL per season.[62]

Highlights

Sky Sports hold the rights to Saturday night highlights - however, they do not broadcast a dedicated programme and instead merely show the goals of the Premiership matches on Sky Sports News in their Goals Express programme - which primarily is focused on goals from the English Football League. Gaelic-language channel BBC Alba has the rights to broadcast the repeat in full of 38 Saturday 3pm matches "as live" at 5.30pm. The main Premiership highlights programme is BBC Scotland's Sportscene programme hosted on a Sunday which shows in depth highlights of all six Premiership matches every weekend. STV show the goals the weekend matches on Monday nights during the Sport section of their News at Six programme as well as during their weeknight football-debate show on STV2. The SPFL also uploads the goals from every Premiership match onto its YouTube channel - available from 6pm on a Sunday for UK and Ireland viewers and 10pm on a Saturday for those worldwide.

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