⚽ The Kick-Off | Monday 10th November 2025
Weekend round-up. Derek McInnes, Gary Naysmith and Wullie Gibson win Manager of the Month awards. Green Brigade banned by Celtic. Aaron Hickey back for Brentford.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #186:
Highland League club Inverurie Loco Works got their name from the local locomotive works of the Great North of Scotland Railway, where the team’s founders worked back in 1902.WEEKEND ROUND-UP
➡️ WILLIAM HILL PREMIERSHIP
Hearts remain unbeaten but dropped points at home to Dundee United as Celtic closed the gap to seven points. At the other end of the table, Livingston closed the gap on 11th-placed Dundee to one point.
Aberdeen 1-1 Motherwell
Celtic 4-0 Kilmarnock
Dundee 0-3 Rangers
Falkirk 1-1 Livingston
Heart of Midlothian 1-1 Dundee United
St Mirren 0-3 Hibernian
View the Premiership table here
➡️ WILLIAM HILL CHAMPIONSHIP
Queen’s Park’s second league win of the season has moved them into eighth above Ross County. Airdrieonians came close to securing their second league win of the season, but had to settle for a point against second-placed Partick Thistle.
Airdrieonians 1-1 Partick Thistle
Dunfermline Athletic 2-2 St Johnstone
Greenock Morton 1-0 Arbroath
Queen’s Park 2-1 Raith Rovers
Ross County 3-3 Ayr United
View the Championship table here
➡️ WILLIAM HILL LEAGUE ONE
Inverness Caledonian Thistle remain top with Cove Rangers still at the bottom of the table. Queen of the South have moved into the play-off positions.
Hamilton Academical 3-0 Peterhead
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-0 Cove Rangers
Montrose 0-4 Alloa Athletic
Queen of the South 3-0 East Fife
Stenhousemuir 2-2 Kelty Hearts
View the League One table here
➡️ WILLIAM HILL LEAGUE TWO
East Kilbride have closed the gap to four points behind The Spartans. Bottom side Edinburgh City are now nine points behind Stranraer, Stirling Albion, and Annan Athletic.
Clyde 0-0 Stranraer
Dumbarton 2-1 Annan Athletic
East Kilbride 2-0 Stirling Albion
Edinburgh City 1-3 Elgin City
Forfar Athletic 1-1 The Spartans
View the League Two table here
🏆 SKY SPORTS CUP QUARTER FINALS
Celtic were the biggest winners of the quarter finals with their 9-1 win over Queen’s Park. Rangers are looking to win the trophy for the fourth season in a row.
Celtic 9-1 Queen’s Park
Glasgow City 2-0 Aberdeen
Heart of Midlothian 2-3 Hibernian
Rangers 3-0 Partick Thistle
⚽️ THE LATE GOALS SOCIETY
(goals scored in the 85th minute or later)
Danny Wilson (Livingston - 89’), Djedi Gassama (Rangers - 90’), Arne Engels (Celtic - 90+3’)
Andew Tod (Dunfermline Athletic - 90+1’), Oisin Smyth (Partick Thistle - 90+4’)
Matthew Aitken (Stenhousemuir - 88’), Lewis Stewart (Alloa Athletic - 90+1’)
Connor Young (East Kilbride - 87’), Oliver Colloty (Elgin City- 88’)
Bayley Hutchison (Heart of Midlothian Women - 89’)
🔴 THE RED CARD CLUB
Callum Crane (Stirling Albion)
NEWS
🏅 Hearts manager Derek McInnes has been named Glen’s Vodka Premiership Manager of the Month for the third time running this season.
Stenhousemuir’s Gary Naysmith won the League One award and Annan Athletic’s Wullie Gibson won the League Two Manager of the Month. - SPFL website
🏅 East Fife’s Keiran Millar won the William Hill Scottish League One Player of the Month for October.
Annan Athletic’s Keith Watson won the League Two award. - SPFL website
🔴 Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin has revealed that defender Kristers Tobers will be out injured for the rest of the season.
The Dons boss said: “He’s going to be out for more or less the whole season, unfortunately.” - Paul Third, The Press & Journal
🟢 Celtic have banned the Green Brigade for three home games after two police officers and a steward were assaulted during the recent win over Falkirk.
Access to away tickets will also be suspended over the same time period. - Peter Cassidy, STV
🔴 Hamilton Academical Sporting Director Gerry Strain issued a statement via the club website on Friday to outline that he is now the sole director of the club, and a recruitment drive for new board directors is under way. - Hamilton Academical website
🎱 The draw for the last 32 of the KDM Evolution Trophy will take place at 1pm this Thursday. The draw will be available to watch on YouTube. - SPFL website
🆕 Former Dundee, Raith Rovers, and Rangers striker Nacho Novo has been named the new manager of West of Scotland First Division club Darvel. - Martin McMillan, Glasgow Times
🚔 An arrest warrant has been issued for former St Mirren and Motherwell player Kevin Van Veen after he failed to appear in court for sentencing in Hamilton. - Keiran Fleming, STV
🗓️ With another international week upon us, and two crucial qualifiers ahead for Scotland, attention will begin to turn to some key dates.
The FIFA World Cup draw is on Friday, 5th December.
If Scotland finishes second in the group, the play-off draw becomes of interest. The draw is a week on Thursday.
🆚 The Scotland Women’s National Team will face Ukraine and China PR in friendly matches in Spain later this month. - Scottish FA website
🧢 Scotland Under-19 defender James Overy has been called up for the full Australia squad.
The Manchester United Academy player was born in Perth, Australia, and has represented both Scotland and his country of birth at youth level. He is eligible to play for Scotland through his Scottish mother.- Mark Walker, The Herald
⚽️ Aaron Hickey played 70 minutes of Brentford’s 3-1 win over Newcastle United yesterday.
⚽️ Lewis Ferguson played the full game as Bologna beat Napoli 2-0. Scott McTominay was taken off in the 82nd minute. Billy Gilmour missed the game with an injury.
Che Adams played the second half of Torino’s 0-0 draw away to Juventus. - view the Serie A table
🏆 It was the first round of the R Davidson Highland League Cup at the weekend. Turriff United and Fortmartine United were the biggest winners of the round. Turriff beat Rothes 6-0, and Formartine beat Lossiemouth by the same score line.
They are joined in today’s second round draw by Banks o’Dee, Brechin City, Brora Rangers, Fraserburgh, Inverurie Loco Works, and Nairn County.
➡️ Things are heating up at the top of the Park’s Motor Group Lowland League. Three points currently separate Clydebank at the top and Tranent in fourth. The Bankies suffered a 2-1 defeat away to third-placed Broxburn Athletic.
East Stirlingshire are now four points adrift at the bottom. - view the Lowland League table here
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