⚽ The Kick-Off | Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Partick Thistle go level with St Johnstone. Dunfermline close gap on play-off places. McTominay scores a double in Europe. SPFL Team of the Week revealed.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #173:
Hibs have received four of the top seven Scottish domestic transfer fees of all time.LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ William Hill Scottish Championship
Airdrieonians 0 - 4 Dunfermline Athletic
Partick Thistle 2 - 1 Ayr United
🏆 Morrisons Motors Aberdeenshire Shield First Round
Huntly 2 - 3 Aberdeen
plus results in the Scottish FA Youth Cup. View all the results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
NEWS
⬆️ Partick Thistle are now 10 games unbeaten following their 2-1 home win over Ayr United.
Ts’oanelo Lets’osa and Ben Stanway got the goals for Partick, who are now joint top with St Johnstone. Ethan Walker had put Ayr ahead in the first half before he was sent off in the 73rd minute. - view the Championship table here
4️⃣ Dunfermline Athletic put four past bottom-side Airdrieonians.
Andrew Tod got a first-half double before Matty Tod and Chris Kane scored in the second half. The Pars are now two points behind fourth-placed Ayr United. - view the Championship table here
⚽️ Scott McTominay returned to the Napoli starting line-up for the UEFA Champions League and scored twice after missing the weekend’s defeat to Torino. Billy Gilmour also started, but it was not a good night for the Italian club as they fell to a 6-2 defeat against PSV Eindhoven.
⭐️ Hearts striker Claudio Braga was named star man in the SPFL Team of the Week.
🟠 Get a flavour of what took place behind the scenes in Glasgow City’s dramatic UEFA Women’s Europa Cup win over HB Koge last week.
🏆 This weekend is the second round of the Scottish Gas Scottish Cup. The longest journeys of the round are:
Wick Academy v Benburb - 546 mile round trip
Clachnacuddin v Sauchie Juniors - 288 mile round trip
Dumbarton v Tayport - 191 mile round trip
Musselburgh Athletic v Forfar Athletic - 189 mile round trip
🎙️ STV is launching a new Scottish football podcast from Monday. The STV Radio Football Show will be hosted by Ronnie Charters and Ewen Cameron. - Peter Cassidy, STV
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
🏆 Morrisons Motors Aberdeenshire Shield First Round
Dyce v Hermes (8pm)
plus fixtures in the UEFA Youth League and J Haig Gordon Memorial Trophy. View all the fixtures on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
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