Scottish Championship

The Scottish Championship, also known as the William Hill Championship,^[1] is the second division of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). The League was established in July 2013, after the merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League.^[2] The Scottish Championship was previously known as the Scottish Football League First Division.

Scottish Championship

Founded	2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Country	Scotland
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	10
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	Scottish Premiership
Relegation to	Scottish League One
Domestic cup(s)	Scottish Cup
League cup(s)	Scottish League Cup Scottish Challenge Cup
Current champions	Falkirk (1st title) (2024–25 [en])
Most championships	Dundee Dundee United Heart of Midlothian (2 titles)
TV partners	BBC Scotland BBC ALBA
Website	spfl.co.uk
Current: 2025–26 Scottish Championship [en]

Teams

2025–26 season

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Notes
Airdrieonians	Airdrie	Excelsior Stadium	10,101	[3]
Arbroath	Arbroath [en]	Gayfield Park [en]	6,056	[4]
Ayr United	Ayr	Somerset Park [en]	10,185	[5]
Dunfermline Athletic	Dunfermline	East End Park	11,480	[6]
Greenock Morton	Greenock	Cappielow	11,589	[7]
Partick Thistle	Glasgow	Firhill Stadium	10,887	[8]
Queen's Park	Glasgow	Lesser Hampden [en]	900	[9][10]
Raith Rovers	Kirkcaldy	Stark's Park	8,867	[11]
Ross County	Dingwall	Victoria Park	6,541	[12]
St. Johnstone	Perth	McDiarmid Park	10,696	[13]

Winners

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
2013–14 [en]	Dundee	Hamilton Academical	Falkirk	Queen of the South
2014–15 [en]	Heart of Midlothian	Hibernian	Rangers	Queen of the South
2015–16 [en]	Rangers	Falkirk	Hibernian	Raith Rovers
2016–17 [en]	Hibernian	Falkirk	Dundee United	Greenock Morton
2017–18 [en]	St Mirren	Livingston	Dundee United	Dunfermline Athletic
2018–19 [en]	Ross County	Dundee United	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Ayr United
2019–20 [en][A]	Dundee United	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Dundee	Ayr United
2020–21 [en]	Heart of Midlothian (2)	Dundee	Raith Rovers	Dunfermline Athletic
2021–22 [en]	Kilmarnock	Arbroath	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Partick Thistle
2022–23 [en]	Dundee (2)	Ayr United	Queen's Park	Partick Thistle
2023–24 [en]	Dundee United (2)	Raith Rovers	Partick Thistle	Airdrieonians
2024–25 [en]	Falkirk	Livingston	Ayr United	Partick Thistle
2025–26 [en]

Notes

1. The 2019–20 Scottish Championship was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland. The season was subsequently curtailed on 15 April 2020 and a points per game average was used to calculate a final table.^[14]