⚽ The Kick-Off | Tuesday 16th December 2025
Rangers beat Hibs. Kilmarnock sack Stuart Kettlewell. Hamilton Academical appoint new director. Aberdeen say initial alcohol trial was a success. Scotland outline training camp plans.
🌎 Days until Haiti v Scotland at the World Cup: 179
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #212: Raith Rovers 6-0 win over Ross County was their biggest league victory since 1992, when they defeated St Mirren 7-0 on the opening day of the season. (via the SPFL)
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ WILLIAM HILL PREMIERSHIP
Rangers 1-0 Hibernian
NEWS
➡️ Rangers beat Hibernian 1-0 at Ibrox last night thanks to an Emmanuel Fernandez goal.
The Ibrox club are back in third, nine points behind Hearts, with a game in hand. - View the Premiership table
🔵 Kilmarnock have sacked Stuart Kettlewell.
The Rugby Park club hasn’t won in 10 games. The Kilmarnock board said “change is required”.
Kettlewell only joined Killie this summer. He is the second SPFL manager to be sacked in successive days following Tony Docherty’s departure from Ross County. - Kheredine Idessane, BBC
🔴 Hamilton Academical have appointed Jonny Towers, a senior executive at The Funding Globe Ltd, the company that provided emergency financial support to cover club wages on Friday, to the board. - Hamilton Academical website
🍺 Aberdeen have reported that their initial alcohol sale trial at the weekend was a success. - Aberdeen FC website
🟢 Martin O’Neill has said in a radio interview that he would have ‘happily stayed on’ as Celtic manager if he had been asked by the club’s hierarchy. - Ryan McGinlay, The Celtic Way
☀️ Steve Clarke is planning two Scotland training camps, including a hot weather camp, in addition to friendlies against non-European opposition ahead of the World Cup.
He also told the BBC he isn’t afraid to bring younger players into the squad.- Chris McLaughlin, BBC
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
🏆 KDM Evolution Trophy – Round of 32
Cove Rangers v Partick Thistle
Dumbarton v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Elgin City v East Fife
Heart of Midlothian B v St Johnstone
Montrose v The Spartans
Queen of the South v Dunfermline Athletic
Queen’s Park v Clyde
(all 7.45pm)
➡️ Parks Motor Group Lowland League
Gretna 2008 v Celtic B (7.45pm)
➡️ East of Scotland League First Division
Tynecastle v Leith Athletic (7.30pm)
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