⚽ The Kick-Off | Wednesday 24th September 2025
Tuesday night round-up. Pressure piles on Aberdeen and Jimmy Thelin. Lennon Miller gets first start and first goal in Italy. SPFL Team of the Week.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #153:
Celtic's 9-0 win over Dundee United in 2022 is the biggest win the SPFL Premiership eraLATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ William Hill Scottish Premiership
Dundee United 2 - 0 Aberdeen
Falkirk 2 - 2 Hibernian
➡️ William Hill Scottish Championship
Airdrieonians 1 - 2 St Johnstone
Dunfermline Athletic 0 - 1 Ayr United
plus results in the KDM Evolution Trophy. View all the results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
NEWS
🏅 Dundee United moved up to third with their 2-0 win over Aberdeen at Tannadice. Ivan Dolcek’s fifth goal of the season, plus a goal from Bert Esselink, gave the home side the three points.
It is not looking good for Aberdeen at the moment. Five league games played, zero goals scored, one point, not to mention some of their own fans chanting that Jimmy Thelin will be sacked in the morning. The Dons face Motherwell on Saturday evening. - View the Premiership table
⚽️ Falkirk came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Hibernian at The Falkirk Stadium. Martin Boyle and Jamie McGrath had the Hibees ahead before Ross MacIver pulled one back just before half-time. Liam Henderson grabbed the equaliser. - view the Premiership table
⚽️ It was a lively night in the Scottish Championship. Two away wins, 14 yellow cards, and four red cards, three of which came after the 90th minute.
St Johnstone’s goal scorers were Jamie Gullan and Cheick Diabate as they went eight points clear at the top of the table. Cameron Cooper got the consolation for Airdrie. Diabate also received a second yellow in added time, as did Aaron Reid for the Diamonds.
Mark McKenzie scored the only goal of the game in Ayr United’s win over Dunfermline Athletic. Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen was sent off just after half-time for Dunfermline. Dylan Watret was given his marching orders in the 92nd minute for Ayr. - view the Championship table
⚽️ Inverness Caledonian Thistle were the biggest winners in the KDM Evolution Trophy last night. The League One side beat Dundee B 6-0. Annan Athletic beat Rangers B 4-3 in the highest scoring match of the night.
Heart of Midlothian B picked up their first win of the league phase with a 3-2 win away to Queen of the South. It wasn’t enough to lift them out of the bottom eight, however. The teams finishing in positions 23 - 30 will be eliminated after matchday six. After four matchdays, the bottom eight are all B teams. St Mirren B and Celtic B are the only two B sides in qualification positions at the moment.
Inverness, Stenhousemuir, Montrose, Forfar Athletic, Edinburgh City, and Stranraer have all qualified for the last 32. - view the KDM Evolution Trophy league phase table
⚽️ Lennon Miller got his first start and first goal for Udinese in the Coppa Italia last night.
The midfielder scored a header in Udinese’s 2-1 win over Palermo.
🚀 Forfar Athletic have signed Queen of the South’s 19-year-old forward Harry McLinden on a season-long loan. - Forfar Athletic website
⛔️ St Johnstone goalkeeper Toby Steward has been named the star man in the SPFL Team of the Week.
🏟️ Scottish FA Chief Executive Ian Maxwell has promised a soon-to-be-published report that will "talk about changes" Scotland needs to make to develop more homegrown football players. - Chris McLaughlin, BBC
🏟️ Scotland Women’s National Team has announced a second friendly next month. In addition to the Switzerland game in Dunfermline, they will also play Morocco away. - Scottish FA website
🏟️ Highland League side Fraserburgh has launched a special tartan shirt to celebrate the club’s 115th anniversary, which will raise money for a local Westfield School.
The shirt features the club’s own tartan, and the school that supports pupils with complex additional needs will receive a proportion of sales from each shirt. - Callum Law, The Press & Journal
🏟️ There is plenty of Scottish representation at the annual Football Content Awards. Amongst those nominated are A Celtic State of Mind, Albion Rovers, Allaster McKallaster, Ally Begg ABTV, Brian McClair, East Kilbride, and JJ Bull. - you can vote for your favourites here
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
🏆 UEFA Europa League – Matchday 1
Crvena Zvezda v Celtic (8pm - live on TNT Sports 2)
🏆 KDM Evolution Trophy – League Phase
Edinburgh City v Celtic B (7.45pm)
Hamilton Academical v St Mirren B (7.45pm)
plus fixtures in the North of Scotland Football League. View all the fixtures on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
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Quick edit to of course credit Aberdeen their point against Livingston and correct the Hearts B score. One of those mornings it seems.