2006–07 Scottish Premier League

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 September)
Biggest away win	Motherwell 1–6 Hibernian (18 November)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

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 on the return of Walter Smith as manager following a brief and disastrous reign by Frenchman Paul Le Guen. 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 Results
5 Goals
- 5.1 Top scorers
- 5.2 Hat-tricks
6 Attendances
7 Monthly awards
8 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.

On May 12, 2007 Dunfermline Athletic were relegated to the First Division after a 2–1 defeat at Inverness CT 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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Celtic (C)	38	26	6	6	65	34	+31	84	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	Rangers	38	21	9	8	61	32	+29	72	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3	Aberdeen	38	19	8	11	56	37	+19	65	2007–08 UEFA Cup First round
4	Heart of Midlothian	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 Caledonian Thistle	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 the First Division

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of 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.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

2006–07 Scottish Premier League Winners
Celtic
41st Title

Results

Matches 1–22

During matches 1–22 each team played every other team twice (home and away).

Home \ Away¹	ABE	CEL	DUN	DNF	FAL	HOM	HIB	INV	KIL	MOT	RAN	STM
Aberdeen		0–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	2–0
Celtic	1–0		2–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–0
Dundee United	3–1	1–4		0–0	1–2	0–1	0–3	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0
Dunfermline Athletic	0–3	1–2	2–1		0–3	1–2	0–4	0–0	3–2	0–2	1–1	2–1
Falkirk	0–2	0–1	5–1	1–0		1–1	2–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1
Heart of Midlothian	0–1	2–1	4–0	1–1	0–0		3–1	4–1	0–2	4–1	0–1	0–1
Hibernian	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–2		2–0	2–2	3–1	2–1	5–1
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–0		3–4	0–1	2–1	1–2
Kilmarnock	1–0	1–2	0–0	5–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1		1–2	2–2	1–1
Motherwell	0–2	1–1	2–3	2–1	4–2	0–1	1–6	1–4	5–0		1–2	0–0
Rangers	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	4–0	2–0	3–0	0–1	3–0	1–1		1–1
St. Mirren	1–1	1–3	1–3	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–3

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

During matches 23–33 each team played every other team once (either at home or away).

Home \ Away¹	ABE	CEL	DUN	DNF	FAL	HOM	HIB	INV	KIL	MOT	RAN	STM
Aberdeen		1–2	2–4	3–0		1–0		1–1
Celtic				2–1			2–1		4–0	2–0	3–2	3–1
Dundee United		0–3		0–0	1–5		0–0			1–1
Dunfermline Athletic						0–1	1–0		1–1		0–1	0–0
Falkirk	1–2	0–1		1–0					0–2	1–2		2–1
Heart of Midlothian		1–4	0–4		1–0			1–0	1–0			1–1
Hibernian	0–0				2–0	0–1				2–0	0–2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle		1–2	1–0	1–3	1–1		3–0					2–1
Kilmarnock	1–2		1–0				0–2	3–2			1–3
Motherwell	0–2			2–0		0–2		1–0	0–1		0–1
Rangers	3–0		5–0		2–1	0–0		1–1
St. Mirren	0–2		0–1				1–1		0–2	0–0	0–1

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 34–38

During matches 34–38 each team played every other team in their half of the table once.

Top six

Home \ Away¹	ABE	CEL	HOM	HIB	KIL	RAN
Aberdeen				2–2	3–0	2–0
Celtic	2–1		2–0
Heart of Midlothian	1–1			2–0
Hibernian		1–2			0–1	3–3
Kilmarnock		1–3	1–0
Rangers		0–1	2–1		0–1

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Bottom six

Home \ Away¹	DUN	DNF	FAL	INV	MOT	STM
Dundee United				1–1	0–0	0–2
Dunfermline Athletic	1–0		0–3		4–1
Falkirk	2–0			1–0		0–2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle		2–1			2–0
Motherwell			3–3			2–3
St. Mirren		0–1		0–1

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Goals

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
Jan Vennegoor 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	Heart of Midlothian	27	8	0.30

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Scottish Premier League hat-tricks

Scorer	For	Against	Date
Nakamura, ShunsukeShunsuke Nakamura	Celtic	Dundee United	14 October 2006
Stokes, AnthonyAnthony Stokes	Falkirk	Dundee United	28 October 2006
Stokes, AnthonyAnthony Stokes	Falkirk	Dunfermline Athletic	4 November 2006
Gravesen, ThomasThomas Gravesen	Celtic	St. Mirren	12 November 2006
Stokes, AnthonyAnthony Stokes	Falkirk	Inverness CT	30 December 2006
Vennegoor of Hesselink, JanJan Vennegoor of Hesselink	Celtic	St. Mirren	20 January 2007
Boyd, KrisKris Boyd	Rangers	Kilmarnock	11 February 2007
Boyd, KrisKris Boyd	Rangers	Aberdeen	17 March 2007
Robson, BarryBarry Robson	Dundee United	Heart of Midlothian	17 March 2007

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)

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Domestic leagues	Albania · Andorra · Armenia '06 '07 · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus '06 '07 · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · England · Estonia '06 '07 · Faroe Islands '06 '07 · Finland '06 '07 · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland '06 '07 · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan '06 '07 · Latvia '06 '07 · Lithuania '06 '07 · Luxembourg · Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway '06 '07 · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '06 '07 · Romania · Russia '06 '07 · San Marino · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden '06 '07 · Switzerland · Turkey · Ukraine · Wales

Domestic cups	Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · England · Estonia · Faroe Islands '06 '07 · Finland '06 '07 · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland '06 '07 · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan '06 '07 · Latvia '06 '07 · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Rep. of Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway '06 '07 · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '06 '07 · Romania · Russia · San Marino · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden '06 '07 · Switzerland · Turkey · Ukraine · Wales

League cups	England · Finland '06 '07 · France · Iceland '06 '07 · Israel · Northern Ireland · Republic of Ireland '06 '07 · Scotland · Wales

UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, final) · UEFA Cup (Qualifying, Group stage, knockout stage, final) · Intertoto Cup '06 '07 · Super Cup '06 '07

2006–07 Scottish Premier League

Contents

Promotion and relegation from 2005–06

Events

Final table

Results

Matches 1–22

Matches 23–33

Matches 34–38

Top six

Bottom six

Goals

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Attendances

Monthly awards

See also