2024–25 Scottish Championship

The 2024–25 Scottish Championship (known as the William Hill Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the twelfth season of the Scottish Championship, the second tier of Scottish football. The season began on 2 August 2024 and concluded on 2 May 2025.^[1]

Scottish Championship

Season	2024–25
Dates	2 August 2024 – 2 May 2025
Champions	Falkirk
Promoted	Falkirk Livingston
Relegated	Hamilton Academical
Matches played	180
Goals scored	452 (2.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Brian Graham 15 goals
Biggest home win	Falkirk 6–0 Greenock Morton (2 November 2024)
Biggest away win	Queen's Park 0–5 Airdrieonians (2 April 2025)
Highest scoring	Ayr United 5–2 Falkirk (14 December 2024) Falkirk 5–2 Partick Thistle (8 February 2025)
Longest winning run	Falkirk 5 games
Longest unbeaten run	Greenock Morton 11 games
Longest winless run	Airdrieonians 19 games
Longest losing run	Airdrieonians Queen's Park 7 games
Highest attendance	8,558 Dunfermline Athletic 3–3 Falkirk (27 December 2024)
Lowest attendance	881 Queen's Park 1–1 Livingston (9 August 2024)
Total attendance	570,667
Average attendance	3,170
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 2 May 2025.

Ten teams contested the league: Airdrieonians, Ayr United, Dunfermline Athletic, Falkirk, Greenock Morton, Hamilton Academical, Livingston, Partick Thistle, Queen's Park and Raith Rovers.

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2023–24 season.

To Championship Promoted from League One Falkirk Hamilton Academical Relegated from the Premiership Livingston

From Championship Relegated to League One Arbroath Inverness Caledonian Thistle Promoted to the Premiership Dundee United

Stadia and locations

Airdrieonians	Ayr United	Dunfermline Athletic	Falkirk
Excelsior Stadium	Somerset Park	East End Park	Falkirk Stadium
Capacity: 10,101[2]	Capacity: 10,185[3]	Capacity: 11,480[4]	Capacity: 7,937[5]
Greenock Morton	Glasgow Lanarkshire Ayr United Dunfermline Falkirk Morton Livingston Raith Rovers Glasgow teams: Partick Thistle Queen's Park Lanarkshire teams: Airdrieonians Hamilton Academical Location of teams in 2024–25 Scottish Championship		Hamilton Academical
Cappielow			New Douglas Park
Capacity: 11,589[6]			Capacity: 6,018[7]
Livingston	Partick Thistle	Queen's Park	Raith Rovers
Almondvale Stadium	Firhill Stadium	Hampden Park	Stark's Park
Capacity: 9,713[8]	Capacity: 10,887[9]	Capacity: 51,866[10]	Capacity: 8,867[11]

Partick Thistle

Queen's Park

Championship football clubs in Glasgow

Airdrieonians

Hamilton Academical

Championship football clubs in Lanarkshire

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Airdrieonians	Rhys McCabe	Adam Frizzell	Joma	Holemasters
Ayr United	Scott Brown	Ben Dempsey	O'Neills	Jewson (Home) MKM Building Supplies (Away)
Dunfermline Athletic	Neil Lennon	Kyle Benedictus	Erreà	SRJ Windows
Falkirk	John McGlynn	Coll Donaldson	O'Neills	Crunchy Carrots
Greenock Morton	Dougie Imrie	Grant Gillespie	Joma	Dalrada Technology
Hamilton Academical	John Rankin	Sean McGinty	Kurt	None
Livingston	David Martindale	Jamie Brandon	Joma	Livi Self Storage
Partick Thistle	Brian Graham (interim)	Brian Graham	O'Neills	Clydebuilt Home Improvements
Queen's Park	Steven MacLean (interim)	Calum Ferrie	Adidas	City Facilities Management
Raith Rovers	Barry Robson	Scott Brown	Joma	Dean Park Hotel

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Raith Rovers	Ian Murray	Sacked	4 August 2024[12]	8th	Neill Collins	3 September 2024
	Neill Collins	Signed by Sacramento Republic FC	21 December 2024	6th	Barry Robson	29 December 2024
Dunfermline Athletic	James McPake	Sacked	23 December 2024	9th	Michael Tidser	17 January 2025
Partick Thistle	Kris Doolan		18 February 2025	4th	Brian Graham (interim)	18 February 2025
Queen's Park	Callum Davidson		15 March 2025	7th	Steven MacLean (interim)	16 March 2025
Dunfermline Athletic	Michael Tidser		17 March 2025	9th	Neil Lennon	21 March 2025

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Falkirk (C, P)	36	22	7	7	72	33	+39	73	Promotion to the Premiership
2	Livingston (O, P)	36	20	10	6	55	27	+28	70	Qualification for the Premiership play-off semi-final
3	Ayr United	36	18	9	9	57	39	+18	63	Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final
4	Partick Thistle	36	15	10	11	43	38	+5	55
5	Raith Rovers	36	15	8	13	47	43	+4	53
6	Greenock Morton	36	12	12	12	42	48	−6	48
7	Dunfermline Athletic	36	9	8	19	28	43	−15	35
8	Queen's Park	36	9	8	19	36	55	−19	35
9	Airdrieonians (O)	36	7	8	21	34	62	−28	29	Qualification for the Championship play-offs
10	Hamilton Academical (R)	36	10	6	20	38	64	−26	21[a]	Relegation to League One

Source: ^[14]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-to head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only for deciding promotion, play-off participation and relegation).^[15]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Hamilton Academical were deducted 15 points for breaching multiple SPFL Rules.^[13]

Results

Teams played each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 180 games, with each team playing 36.

First half of season (Matches 1–18)

Home \ Away	AIR	AYR	DNF	FAL	GMO	HAM	LIV	PAR	QPA	RAI
Airdrieonians	—	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	0–4	0–3	0–2	0–2	1–0
Ayr United	5–0	—	1–0	5–2	1–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–0
Dunfermline Athletic	1–0	1–1	—	0–2	0–0	3–2	3–0	0–1	1–2	2–0
Falkirk	2–0	2–0	2–1	—	6–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–0
Greenock Morton	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–3	—	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0
Hamilton Academical	2–2	0–2	1–0	1–3	3–0	—	1–3	1–0	2–1	0–3
Livingston	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	—	2–0	1–1	2–1
Partick Thistle	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	5–1	0–0	—	3–0	1–1
Queen's Park	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	—	1–2
Raith Rovers	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–3	3–3	0–1	1–0	1–1	—

Source: ^[16]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season (Matches 19–36)

Home \ Away	AIR	AYR	DNF	FAL	GMO	HAM	LIV	PAR	QPA	RAI
Airdrieonians	—	0–1	3–0	0–3	0–1	2–1	3–3	2–1	2–1	1–0
Ayr United	4–1	—	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–0
Dunfermline Athletic	0–0	0–2	—	3–3	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–1
Falkirk	2–0	2–2	1–0	—	5–0	3–1	1–2	5–2	0–0	1–3
Greenock Morton	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–2	—	2–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	3–3
Hamilton Academical	3–2	0–2	1–0	2–2	0–2	—	0–3	1–2	0–0	0–3
Livingston	2–1	5–0	0–0	1–0	3–2	3–0	—	0–1	3–0	0–0
Partick Thistle	1–1	2–0	1–4	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	—	2–1	0–0
Queen's Park	0–5	2–3	0–1	0–4	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–2	—	1–5
Raith Rovers	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–4	—

Source: ^[16]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Brian Graham	Partick Thistle	15
2	George Oakley	Ayr United	13
	Robbie Muirhead	Livingston
	Dylan Easton	Raith Rovers
5	Chris Kane	Dunfermline Athletic	11
	Oli Shaw	Hamilton Academical
7	Calvin Miller	Falkirk	10

Awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	John McGlynn	Falkirk	Anton Dowds	Ayr United
September	Callum Davidson	Queen's Park	Cammy Kerr	Queen's Park
October	John McGlynn	Falkirk	Ethan Ross	Falkirk
November	David Martindale	Livingston	Scott Robinson	Partick Thistle
December	Dougie Imrie	Greenock Morton	Cameron Blues	Greenock Morton
January	Scott Brown	Ayr United	George Oakley	Ayr United
February	David Martindale	Livingston	Scott Arfield	Falkirk
March	Brian Graham Mark Wilson	Partick Thistle	Calvin Miller	Falkirk
April	David Martindale	Livingston	Robbie Muirhead	Livingston

Championship play-offs

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	1	Airdrieonians	3	2	5
	4	Stenhousemuir	1	1	2
								Airdrieonians		2	0	2
								Cove Rangers		1	0	1
	3	Queen of the South	0	1	1
	2	Cove Rangers	0	2	2

Semi-finals

First leg

Stenhousemuir v Airdrieonians

6 May 2025	Stenhousemuir	1–3	Airdrieonians	Stenhousemuir
19:45	Aitken 89' (pen.)	[17]	McGrattan 21', 29' Mochrie 51'	Stadium: Ochilview Park Attendance: 1,458 Referee: Grant Irvine

Queen of the South v Cove Rangers

6 May 2025	Queen of the South	0–0	Cove Rangers	Dumfries
19:45		[18]		Stadium: Palmerston Park Attendance: 1,784 Referee: Ryan Lee

Second leg

Airdrieonians v Stenhousemuir

10 May 2025	Airdrieonians	2–1 (5–2 agg.)	Stenhousemuir	Airdrie
15:00	Bannon 38' B.Wilson 52'	[19]	Yates 58'	Stadium: Excelsior Stadium Attendance: 1,350 Referee: Matthew MacDermid

Cove Rangers v Queen of the South

10 May 2025	Cove Rangers	2–1 (2–1 agg.)	Queen of the South	Aberdeen
15:00	Megginson 8' (pen.) Yule 47'	[20]	Kennedy 77'	Stadium: Balmoral Stadium Attendance: 1,065 Referee: Calum Scott

Final

First leg

Cove Rangers v Airdrieonians

14 May 2025	Cove Rangers	1–2	Airdrieonians	Aberdeen
20:10	McGrattan 35' (o.g.)	[21]	MacDonald 16' Strapp 63'	Stadium: Balmoral Stadium Attendance: 811 Referee: Lloyd Wilson

Second leg

Airdrieonians v Cove Rangers

17 May 2025	Airdrieonians	0–0 (2–1 agg.)	Cove Rangers	Airdrie
17:30		[22]		Stadium: Excelsior Stadium Attendance: 1,904 Referee: Ross Hardie