⚽ The Kick-Off | Wednesday 14th May 2025
Hearts and Kilmarnock reach an agreement for McInnes. McKay and Grant to leave Tynecastle. Advantage Livingston and East Fife. Rodgers wins manager of the season award.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #58: Dixie Deans and Joe Harper both scored hat-tricks in the 1974 Scottish League Cup Final.
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ William Hill Scottish Premiership Play Offs Semi Final - First Leg
Partick Thistle 0 - 2 Livingston
➡️ William Hill Scottish League One Play-Off Final - First Leg
East Fife 3 - 2 Annan Athletic
plus results in the West of Scotland League, North Region and youth football - view all results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website
NEWS
🤝 Hearts and Kilmarnock have reached an agreement about Derek McInnes. However, McInnes has said he will be in the dugout for Kilmarnock’s remaining two games of the season, including Hearts’ visit to Rugby Park on Sunday.
Liam Fox will remain in charge for the Tynecastle club’s final two games. - Paul Barnes, BBC
👋 While McInnes may be on his way to Tynecastle, Barrie McKay and Jorge Grant will be departing Hearts at the end of the season. - Craig Cairns, Hearts Standard
👀 It was some game at Bayview last night for the League One Play-Off Final First Leg.
East Fife had raced into a 2-0 lead before Annan Athletic levelled things early in the second half.
Annan then had a player sent off before East Fife got their third. The away side finished the game with nine men and East Fife manager Dick Campbell was also shown a red card.
🔵 Greenock Morton and Morton Club Together (MCT) released a joint statement following the previous day’s news that main club sponsor Dalrada Technologies had given them until today to engage in discussions about an extension to their sponsorship.
New members have been co-opted onto the MCT board to help progress things forward, including engaging with their membership about the deal.
Morton also explained the reasons behind not revealing that they had their FIFA sanction against them, including that they didn’t want to distract from the play-off battle while they tried to get to the bottom of it. - Greenock Morton website
🏅 Brendan Rodgers has won the Glen’s SPFL Premiership Manager of the Season award.
📝 Scotland Under-19 midfielder Aidan Borland has signed a new long-term deal at Aston Villa.
The 18-year-old signed from Celtic two years ago and established his place in their Under-21 team at the age of 16.
He also captained Villa to their FA Youth Cup success recently. - Aston Villa website
🏅 Lennon Miller has been named the Scottish Football Writers Association Young Player of the Year.
🏅 Hibernian’s Kathleen McGovern has won the SWPL Player of the Month for April.
Kilmarnock’s Lucie Burns won the SWPL 2 Player of the Month award. - SWPL website
🏆 Lewis Ferguson has the chance to write his name in the history books tonight as Bologna face AC Milan in the Coppa Italia Final.
Not only would he be the first Scottish player to lift the Coppa Italia trophy since Graeme Souness in 1985 while playing for Sampdoria, but it would also be Bologna’s first silverware since the 1973/74 season. - Mark Atkinson, The Scotsman
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
➡️ William Hill Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen v Celtic (8pm - live on Sky Sports)
Dundee v Ross County (7.45pm)
Heart of Midlothian v St Johnstone (7.45pm)
Motherwell v Kilmarnock (7.45pm)
Rangers v Dundee United (7.45pm)
St Mirren v Hibernian (7.45pm)
➡️ William Hill Scottish Championship Play-Off Final - First Leg
Cove Rangers v Airdrieonians (8.10pm - live on BBC Alba)
➡️ SWPL 1
Heart of Midlothian v Rangers (6.30pm)
Hibernian v Celtic (6pm - live on BBC Alba)
Motherwell v Glasgow City (8pm)
Partick Thistle v Queen’s Park (7.45pm)
plus fixtures in the West of Scotland League, cups and youth football - view all fixtures on the Scottish Football Fixtures website
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