Scottish_Premier_League

Scottish Premier League 2006-07

Bank of Scotland Premier League
Season 2006–07

Champions Celtic

Relegated Dunfermline

Champions League Celtic, Rangers

UEFA Cup Aberdeen, Dunfermline

Intertoto Cup None

Top goalscorer Kris Boyd (20)

Biggest home win Motherwell 5–0 Kilmarnock (30 Sep)

Biggest away win Motherwell 1–7 Hibernian (18 Nov)

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The 2006–07 Scottish Premier League season was the ninth season of the Scottish Premier League. It began on July 29, 2006.

The league champions, Celtic and runners-up, Rangers, qualified for the UEFA Champions League. The team finishing third, Aberdeen qualified for the UEFA Cup, as did the Scottish Cup finalists Dunfermline Athletic. However, being the bottom-placed team in the SPL, Dunfermline were also relegated to the First Division.

1 Promotion and relegation from 2005–06
2 Events
3 Final table
4 Top scorers
5 Attendances
6 Monthly awards
7 See also

Promotion and relegation from 2005–06

Promoted from First Division to Premier League

St. Mirren

Relegated from Premier League to First Division

Livingston

Events

Main article: 2006-07 in Scottish football#Notable events

On April 22, 2007 Celtic beat Kilmarnock 2–1 to win the title for the second season running with a last-minute winner from Shunsuke Nakamura.

On May 12, 2007 Dunfermline Athletic were relegated to the First Division after a 2–1 defeat at Inverness and St. Mirren came back from 2–0 down to win 3–2 at Motherwell.

On May 20, 2007 Aberdeen beat Rangers 2–0 at home in their final game of the season to qualify for the UEFA Cup.

For the second consecutive season, the top scorer was Kris Boyd of Rangers, with 20 goals.

Final table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Celtic (C)	38	26	6	6	65	34	+31	84	UEFA Champions League 2007-08 Third qualifying round
2	Rangers	38	21	9	8	61	32	+29	72	UEFA Champions League 2007-08 Second qualifying round
3	Aberdeen	38	19	8	11	56	37	+19	65	UEFA Cup 2007-08 First round
4	Hearts	38	17	10	11	47	35	+12	61
5	Kilmarnock	38	16	7	15	47	54	−7	55
6	Hibernian	38	13	10	15	56	46	+10	49
7	Falkirk	38	15	5	18	49	47	+2	50
8	Inverness CT	38	11	13	14	42	48	−6	46
9	Dundee United	38	10	12	16	40	59	−19	42
10	Motherwell	38	10	8	20	44	57	−13	38
11	St. Mirren	38	8	12	18	31	51	−20	36
12	Dunfermline Athletic (R)	38	8	8	22	26	55	−29	32	Relegation to First Division

Source:^{citation needed}
Rules for classification: 1^st points; 2^nd goal difference; 3^rd goals scored.

Dunfermline gained UEFA Cup place as fellow Scottish Cup finalists Celtic had already qualified for Europe via Champions League
No Scottish side competed in the Intertoto Cup in the 2007-08 season after Inverness CT withdrew their application
After 33 games (at which point each team had played each other three times) the table split into a top six and bottom six, and teams played one further game against each side in their half. Teams stayed in their half of the league regardless of their points total.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted.

Scottish Premier League 2006-07 Winners
Celtic
41st Title

Top scorers

Scorer	Team	Appearances	Goals	Average
Kris Boyd	Rangers	32	20	0.63
Scott McDonald	Motherwell	32	15	0.47
Steven Naismith	Kilmarnock	37	15	0.41
Anthony Stokes	Falkirk	16	14	0.86
Chris Killen	Hibernian	18	13	0.72
Darren Mackie	Aberdeen	36	13	0.36
JV of Hesselink	Celtic	21	13	0.62
Colin Nish	Kilmarnock	33	12	0.36
Charlie Adam	Rangers	32	11	0.34
Barry Robson	Dundee United	29	11	0.38
John Sutton	St. Mirren	33	11	0.33
Craig Dargo	Inverness CT	27	10	0.37
Noel Hunt	Dundee United	28	10	0.36
Steve Lovell	Aberdeen	27	9	0.33
Shunsuke Nakamura	Celtic	37	9	0.24
Andrius Velicka	Hearts	27	8	0.30

Attendances

Overall 3.7 million spectators attended an average per match of just over 8,090. The average and highest attendances for SPL clubs during the 2006/07 season are shown below:

Club	Average	Highest
Celtic	57,928	59,659
Rangers	49,955	50,488
Hearts	16,937	17,369
Hibernian	14,587	16,747
Aberdeen	12,475	20,045
Dundee United	7,147	12,329
Kilmarnock	6,807	13,506
Dunfermline Athletic	6,106	8,561
Motherwell	5,877	11,745
St. Mirren	5,609	10,251
Falkirk	5,387	7,245
Inverness CT	4,879	7,522

Monthly awards

Main article: Scottish Premier League monthly awards

Month	Manager	Player	Young Player
August	Jim Jefferies (Kilmarnock)	Russell Latapy (Falkirk)	Aiden McGeady (Celtic)
September	Gordon Strachan (Celtic)	Allan McGregor (Rangers)	Aiden McGeady (Celtic)
October	Charlie Christie (Inverness CT)	Lee Naylor (Celtic)	Anthony Stokes (Falkirk)
November	Craig Levein (Dundee United)	Russell Anderson (Aberdeen)	Anthony Stokes (Falkirk)
December	John Hughes (Falkirk)	Artur Boruc (Celtic)	Darren Barr (Falkirk)
January	Gordon Strachan (Celtic)	Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (Celtic)	Christophe Berra (Hearts)
February	Maurice Malpas (Motherwell)	Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic)	Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian)
March	Craig Levein (Dundee United)	Alan Hutton (Rangers)	Steven Naismith (Kilmarnock)
April	Stephen Kenny (Dunfermline Athletic)	Neil Lennon (Celtic)	Mark Reynolds (Motherwell)

Club			International
Domestic Leagues	Domestic Cups	European Competitions	Related to Scotland
Premier League	Scottish Cup (Final)	Champions League	Results
First Division	League Cup (Final)	Champions League	Results
Second Division	Challenge Cup (Final)	UEFA Cup	Euro 2008 qualifying (Group B)
Third Division	Junior Cup		Euro 2008 qualifying (Group B)
Transfers
Major Scottish football transfers 2006–07