Season 2016–17 Location Scotland, United Kingdom Matches played 150 | Start date August 6, 2016 Goals scored 415 | |
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Dates 6 August 2016 – 21 May 2017 Top goalscorer Moussa Dembélé (15 goals) Similar 2016–17 Danish Superliga, 2016–17 First Professio, 2016–17 Austrian Football, 2016–17 Scottish League O, 2012–13 Scottish Premier L | ||
The 2016–17 Scottish Premiership (known as the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership for sponsorship reasons) will be the fourth season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football. The season began on 6 August 2016. The fixtures were published on 17 June 2016. Celtic are the defending champions.
Contents
- Teams
- To Premiership
- From Premiership
- Basic
- Positions by round
- Matches 122
- Matches 2333
- Matches 3438
- Top scorers
- Hat tricks
- Premiership play offs
- References
Twelve teams contest the league: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Hamilton Academical, Heart of Midlothian, Inverness CT, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Rangers, Ross County and St Johnstone.
Teams
The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.
To Premiership
Promoted from Scottish Championship
From Premiership
Relegated to Scottish Championship
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.
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.
Source: BBC Sport
Matches 1–22
Teams play each other twice, once at home and once away.
Matches 23–33
Teams play every other team once (either at home or away).
Matches 34–38
After 33 matches, the league splits into two sections of six teams each, with teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches are determined upon the league table at the time of the split.
Top scorers
As of matches played on 25 February 2017Source:
Hat-tricks
Premiership play-offs
The quarter-finals will be contested between the 3rd and 4th placed teams in the Scottish Championship. The winners will advance to the semi-finals to face the 2nd placed team in the Championship, and the winners of that tie will advance to the final to play-off against the 11th placed team in the Premiership, with the winners securing a place in the 2017–18 Scottish Premiership.