⚽ The Kick-Off | Thursday 15th May 2025
St Johnstone relegated. Hibernian secure third. Lewis Ferguson wins the Coppa Italia. Player departures at Raith Rovers and Stirling Albion. Rangers release new home shirt.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #59: The biggest Scottish Cup Final winning margin is 6-1. Renton 6 - 1 Cambuslang (1888) Celtic 6 - 1 Hibernian (1972)
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ William Hill Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen 1 - 5 Celtic
Dundee 1 - 1 Ross County
Heart of Midlothian 2 - 1 St Johnstone
Motherwell 3 - 0 Kilmarnock
Rangers 3 - 1 Dundee United
St Mirren 2 - 2 Hibernian
➡️ William Hill Scottish Championship Play-Off Final - First Leg
Cove Rangers 1 - 2 Airdrieonians
➡️ SWPL 1
Heart of Midlothian 3 - 5 Rangers
Hibernian 4 - 2 Celtic
Motherwell 1 - 2 Glasgow City
Partick Thistle 2 - 0 Queen’s Park
plus results in the West of Scotland League, cups and youth football - view all results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website
NEWS
⬇️ St Johnstone have been relegated after losing to Hearts at Tynecastle and Ross County scoring a 94th-minute equaliser away to Dundee.
Ross County must win at home to Motherwell on Sunday and hope St Johnstone beat Dundee to avoid the relegation play-off for the third successive season. - view the full Premiership table
3️⃣ Hibernian secured third place with their 2-2 draw with St Mirren and Aberdeen’s 5-1 defeat at home to Celtic.
🔝 Hibernian Women need just one point against Rangers on Sunday to win the SWPL 1 title.
Defeat and Rangers Women will win the title. Glasgow City can no longer win the title but need to better Rangers result to secure the second Champions League place. - view the SWPL 1 table
🏆 Lewis Ferguson and Bologna won the Coppa Italia last night.
Bologna beat AC Milan 1-0 in Rome to win their first trophy since the 1973/74 season. - Matthew Elder, The Scotsman
😢 Former Scottish FA President and Celtic Chairman, Jack McGinn has passed away at the age of 92.
He was the grandfather of John, Paul and Stephen McGinn. - BBC
🤝 The proposed changes to Tier five of Scottish football look set to be going ahead from the 2026-27 season, according to The Press & Journal.
The new tier five, made up of the Highland League, Lowland East and Lowland West, has been approved by the Pyramid Working Group. The next and final step is for the various league AGMs to approve in the coming weeks. - Callum Law, The Press & Journal
🆕 Rangers have released their new Umbro home shirt.
👋 Raith Rovers have released Kevin Dabrowski, Kieran Freeman, Euan Murray, Aidan Connolly and Jake Nicholson. - Raith Rovers website
👋 Derek Galston, Erik Sula, Euan Deveney, Ally Roy, Lewis Milne, Ross Davidson have all left Stirling Albion at the end of their contracts. - Stirling Albion website
🏟️ East of Scotland Second Division Club Peebles Rovers are facing expulsion from the league if they cannot find a new home in the next 10 months.
Peebles’ Whitestone Park no longer meets the East of Scotland criteria. They have not been successful with their development plans or moving elsewhere.
If they cannot find somewhere this summer, they will be automatically relegated to the third division for next season. If they can not find somewhere by next year, they will be removed altogether. - David Knox, BBC
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
🏆 Only Sport Scottish Amateur Cup Final
Steins Thistle AFC v FC Pather AFC (7.30pm - at Hampden Park)
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