⚽ The Kick-Off - Wednesday 22nd April 2026
St Johnstone win the Championship. Hamilton Academical dispute a winding-up petition. Ross Stewart and Oli McBurnie on the scoresheet. SPFL fixture date announced.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #293: Sunday's Scottish Cup Semi-Final between Celtic and St Mirren was the highest scoring semi since Rangers beat Morton 7-2 in the 1896/97 season.
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ William Hill Championship
Dunfermline Athletic 0 - 2 St Johnstone
plus matches in the North of Scotland League, East of Scotland League, and West of Scotland League. View all results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
NEWS
🔵 Congratulations to St Johnstone on winning the William Hill SPFL Championship last night.
Their 2-0 win over Dunfermline Athletic sealed the title and a return to the Premiership at the first time of asking.
Reece McAlear and Ruari Paton got the goals. - view the Championship table
⚽️ Both Ross Stewart and Oli McBurnie were amongst the goals again in the EFL Championship last night.
Stewart scored Southampton’s equaliser in their 2-2 draw with Bristol City. McBurnie also scored an equaliser in Hull City’s 2-2 draw with Leicester City.
🗓️ A date for the diary. Next season’s SPFL fixtures will be announced on Thursday, 18 June at 12 noon.
🔴 Hamilton Academical are disputing a winding-up petition that has been served on behalf of former Director of Football Gerry Strain. - Hamilton Academical website
🗣️ Ross County Chief Executive Steven Ferguson told a fans forum that the club will be looking to reduce the size of their squad next season, regardless of what division they are in, and will introduce KPIs to the football department, which haven’t been in place before.
He told fans: “We’ve never done that before, which might seem strange, but it is there across every other department of the club.
“I don’t think we’re the only club that doesn’t do it on the football side. Our model was that the manager has the final say on the football department, and the rest of the club’s responsibility is to support that.
“That served us well for 20 years but our takeaway from the discussion is that we need to KPI our football department.” - Paul Chalk, The Press & Journal
💜 Kelty Hearts Chairman Jordan Gardner has issued a statement and reasoning as to why the club are temporarily pausing their Under-17 and Under-19 Academy.
The three main reasons are that the academy was hastily set up and not fully compliant. It has had extremely poor financial management, and it doesn’t have a proper academy director. - Kelty Hearts website
📝 Partick Thistle’s Cammy Logan has signed a one-year contract extension after the club triggered the option to extend. - Partick Thistle website
🔵 Montrose defender Kerr Waddell will leave the club at the end of the season after seven years at Links Park. - Montrose FC website
🏅 Hibernian Women’s Rosie Livingstone has won the SWPL 1 Player of the Month award for March. Natalie Bandura won the SWPL 2 award following her performances for The Spartans. - SWPL website
👏 Falkirk FCF Ladies are to become Falkirk FC Women from next season as they become an official part of the club. Up until now, the side has been under the auspices of the Falkirk Football Community Foundation. - Falkirk FC website
🌎 Another FIFA World Cup ticket drop is taking place in their ‘Last-Minute Sales Phase’. Tickets for all 104 games will be available on a first-come, first-served basis from 4pm UK time tomorrow.
As we know, FIFA has come under increased scrutiny about its ticketing practices, and The Athletic has been reporting that sales for the USA’s opening game are lagging significantly behind games such as Iran v New Zealand. - FIFA website
🍺 Fife pubs are to get extended opening hours during the World Cup. - Clare Buchanan, Dunfermline Press
🍺 More than 50 North Ayrshire pubs have applied for extended hours during the World Cup. - BBC
🗣️ The Lowland League issued a statement regarding the news that Linlithgow Rose will not compete in this season’s Pyramid Play-Off.
As part of the statement, they said: “To safeguard the integrity of the pyramid and fulfil our obligations within Scottish football, the SLFL Board will now look to develop a comprehensive plan to ensure, as far as possible, that we consistently have eligible, Bronze licensed clubs ready to contest the play-off in future seasons.
As part of this, the Board will implement a proactive framework designed to guide our member clubs towards achieving and maintaining the necessary Scottish FA Club Licensing criteria well in advance of the season’s end.” - Lowland League website
🏟️ East of Scotland club Arniston Rangers have been the victims of more vandalism at Newbyres Park. This time, their pie hut was broken into, stealing money, equipment, and stock. Previous damage included vandals smashing their dugouts, a £7,000 storage container being set on fire, and doors being damaged.
The club has set up a GoFundMe to help cover the costs of repairs and install CCTV.
⚽️ Former Scotland international Callum Paterson was named in the EFL League Two Team of the Season over the weekend after starring for high-flying MK Dons.
🌎 Days until Haiti v Scotland at the World Cup: 52
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
Matches in the Midlands League, East of Scotland League, West of Scotland Football League, South of Scotland League and cups. View all fixtures on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
Hosted by none other than commentator Rory Hamilton, expect general World Cup knowledge rounds, a Scotland at the World Cup round, and much more.
Last five teams remaining.
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