Scottish Premier League 1999-2000

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Bank of Scotland Premier League
Season	1999–2000
Champions	Rangers
Relegated	No relegation
Champions League	Rangers
UEFA Cup	Celtic, Hearts
Intertoto Cup	None
Top goalscorer	Mark Viduka (25)
Biggest home win	Celtic 7–0 Aberdeen (16 Oct)
Biggest away win	Dundee 1–7 Rangers (27 Feb) Aberdeen 0–6 Celtic (11 Dec)
Total goals	528
Average goals/game	2.93
Highest attendance	60,253, Celtic 3–0 St. Johnstone (07 Aug)
Lowest attendance	4,039, Dundee 0–0 Kilmarnock (26 Jan)
Average attendance	17,944
← Previous season 1998-99	Next season → 2000-01

The 1999-2000 Scottish Premier League was the second season of the Scottish Premier League. It began in on 31 July 1999.

1 Overview
2 Promotion and relegation from 1998–99
3 Events
4 Table
5 Results
- 5.1 Matches 1-18
- 5.2 Matches 19-36
6 Top scorers
7 Attendances
8 Managerial changes
9 References
10 See also

[edit] Overview

The 1999-2000 Scottish Premier League was won by Rangers for the second successive year, finishing 21 points ahead of nearest rivals Celtic. As the SPL was being expanded to 12 teams, the bottom finishing side were to face the second and third finishing sides from the first division, in a three team play-off. However, due to Falkirk's stadium not meeting SPL requirements, Aberdeen remained in the SPL and Dunfermline were promoted automatically from second position. As champions, Rangers qualified for the Champions League while Celtic and third-placed Hearts qualified for the UEFA Cup.

Celtic entered the season under new management with former Liverpool player John Barnes taking charge in June 1999.^[1] It proved to be a brief and unsuccessful reign, however, after being sacked in February 2000 in the wake of a Scottish Cup defeat to First Division Inverness Caledonian Thistle.^[2]

[edit] Promotion and relegation from 1998–99

Promoted from First Division to Premier League

Hibernian

Relegated from Premier League to Scottish First Division

Dunfermline Athletic

[edit] Events

April 22: Rangers win the SPL title after Celtic are held to a 1-1 draw at home to Hibernian.^[3] It is Rangers' 11th Scottish title in 12 years.

[edit] Table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rangers	36	28	6	2	96	26	70	90	UEFA Champions League 2000-01 Second qualifying round
2	Celtic	36	21	6	9	90	38	52	69	UEFA Cup 2000-01 Qualifying round
3	Hearts	36	15	9	12	47	40	7	54	UEFA Cup 2000-01 Qualifying round
4	Motherwell	36	14	10	12	49	63	-14	52
5	St Johnstone	36	10	12	14	36	44	-8	42
6	Hibernian	36	10	11	15	49	61	-12	41
7	Dundee	36	12	5	19	45	64	-19	41
8	Dundee United	36	11	6	19	34	57	-23	39
9	Kilmarnock	36	8	13	15	38	52	-14	37
10	Aberdeen	36	9	6	21	44	83	-39	33

Source: SPL official website

[edit] Results

[edit] Matches 1-18

During matches 1-18 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).

Home \ Away¹	ABER	CELT	DUND	DUNU	HEAR	HIBS	KILM	WELL	RANG	STJO
Aberdeen		0–5	0–2	1–2	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–5	0–3
Celtic	7–0		6–2	4–1	4–0	4–0	5–1	0–1	1–1	3–0
Dundee	1–3	1–2		0–2	1–0	3–4	0–0	0–1	2–3	1–2
Dundee United	3–1	2–1	2–1		0–2	3–1	0–0	0–2	0–4	1–0
Hearts	3–0	1–2	4–0	3–0		0–3	2–2	1–1	0–4	1–1
Hibernian	2–0	0–2	5–2	3–2	1–1		0–3	2–2	0–1	0–1
Kilmarnock	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	0–2		0–1	1–1	1–2
Motherwell	5–6	3–2	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–4		1–5	1–0
Rangers	3–0	4–2	1–2	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	4–1		3–1
St. Johnstone	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–4	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1

Source: Soccerbase
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

[edit] Matches 19-36

During matches 19-36 each team plays every other team a further two times (home and away).

Home \ Away¹	ABER	CELT	DUND	DUNU	HEAR	HIBS	KILM	WELL	RANG	STJO
Aberdeen		0–6	0–1	3–1	1–2	4–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	2–1
Celtic	5–1		2–2	2–0	2–3	1–1	4–2	4–0	0–1	4–1
Dundee	0–2	0–3		3–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	4–1	1–7	1–1
Dundee United	1–1	0–1	1–0		0–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–2	0–1
Hearts	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–2		2–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0
Hibernian	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	3–1		2–2	2–2	2–2	3–3
Kilmarnock	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–0		0–2	0–2	3–2
Motherwell	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–3	0–2	2–0	2–0		2–0	2–1
Rangers	5–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	5–2	1–0	6–2		0–0
St. Johnstone	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–2

[edit] Top scorers

Celtic's Mark Viduka was the SPL's top scorer in season 1999-2000.

Player	Club	Goals
Mark Viduka	Celtic	25
Jorg Albertz	Rangers	17
Rod Wallace	Rangers	16
Gary McSwegan	Hearts	13
Willie Falconer	Dundee	12
Mark Burchill	Celtic	11
Kenny Miller	Hibernian	11
John Spencer	Motherwell	11
Billy Dodds	Rangers	10
Nathan Lowndes	St. Johnstone	10
Michael Mols	Rangers	9
Tommy Johnson	Celtic	9

Source: SPL official website

[edit] Attendances

The average attendances for SPL clubs during the 1999/00 season are shown below:

Team	Average
Celtic	54,440
Rangers	48,116
Hearts	14,246
Aberdeen	12,813
Hibernian	11,870
Kilmarnock	9,419
Dundee United	8,186
Motherwell	7,297
Dundee	6,938
St. Johnstone	6,117

Source: SPL official website

[edit] Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Aberdeen	Paul Hegarty		May 1999	Ebbe Skovdahl	June 1999
Celtic	Jozef Vengloš	Mutual consent	May 1999	John Barnes	10 June 1999
Celtic	John Barnes	Sacked	10 February 2000	Kenny Dalglish (Caretaker)	10 February 2000