2014–15 Scottish Championship

Scottish Championship

Season	2014–15
Champions	Heart of Midlothian
Promoted	Heart of Midlothian
Matches played	151
Goals scored	437 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jason Cummings (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Hearts 10–0 Cowdenbeath (28 February 2015)
Biggest away win	Cowdenbeath 0–5 Queen of the South (21 January 2015)
Highest scoring	Hearts 10–0 Cowdenbeath (28 February 2015)
Longest winning run	9 games^[1] Heart of Midlothian
Longest unbeaten run	20 games^[1] Heart of Midlothian
Longest winless run	12 games^[1] Alloa Athletic
Longest losing run	5 games^[1] Cowdenbeath Livingston
Highest attendance	43,683^[2] Rangers 1–2 Heart of Midlothian (10 August 2014)
Lowest attendance	549^[2] Cowdenbeath 0–3 Alloa Athletic (23 August 2014)
Average attendance	7,532^[2]
← 2013–14 2015–16 → All statistics correct as of 31 March 2015.

The 2014–15 Scottish Championship is the 20th season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football.

Heart of Midlothian won the title on 22 March 2015 and secured their return to the Scottish Premiership with a record seven matches remaining, after Rangers defeated city rivals Hibernian 2–0.^[3]

Teams

Rangers were promoted as 2013–14 Scottish League One champions, whilst Heart of Midlothian were relegated from the 2013–14 Scottish Premiership. Hibernian finished 11th in the Premiership and were eventually relegated after a play-off against Hamilton Academical, losing a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw on aggregate over two legs.

Stadia and locations

Stadia by capacity and locations

Alloa Athletic	Cowdenbeath	Dumbarton	Falkirk
Recreation Park	Central Park	Dumbarton Football Stadium	Falkirk Stadium
Capacity: 3,100^[4]	Capacity: 4,309^[5]	Capacity: 2,020^[6]	Capacity: 8,750^[7]

Rangers	Alloa Athletic Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Falkirk Hearts Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers		Heart of Midlothian
Ibrox Stadium			Tynecastle Stadium
Capacity: 50,947^[8]			Capacity: 17,529^[9]

Raith Rovers	Queen of the South	Livingston	Hibernian
Stark's Park	Palmerston Park	Almondvale Stadium	Easter Road
Capacity: 8,473^[10]	Capacity: 8,690^[11]	Capacity: 9,865^[12]	Capacity: 20,421^[13]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alloa Athletic	Danny Lennon	Pendle	Marshall Construction
Cowdenbeath	Jimmy Nicholl	Uhlsport	Subsea Pressure Controls
Dumbarton	Ian Murray	Joma	Baxter Ramsay
Falkirk	Peter Houston	Puma	Central Demolition
Heart of Midlothian	Robbie Neilson	Adidas	Foundation of Hearts (A)
Hibernian	Alan Stubbs	Nike	Marathonbet
Livingston	John McGlynn	Joma	Energy Assets
Queen of the South	James Fowler	Joma	Southwest Mechanical Services
Raith Rovers	Grant Murray	Puma	valmcdermid.com (H, front of shirt), Keytech Electronic Systems (H, back of shirt), D&G Autocare (A)
Rangers	Stuart McCall	Puma	32Red

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Heart of Midlothian (C, P)	35	29	3	3	94	24	+70	90	Promotion to the 2015-16 Scottish Premiership
2	Hibernian (T)	35	20	7	8	67	32	+35	67	Qualification to the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs
3	Rangers (T)	35	19	9	7	67	37	+30	66	Qualification to the quarter-finals of the promotion play-offs
4	Queen of the South (Q)	35	17	9	9	58	40	+18	60
5	Falkirk	35	14	11	10	48	45	+3	53
6	Raith	35	12	6	17	40	63	−23	42
7	Dumbarton	35	9	6	20	34	77	−43	33
8	Cowdenbeath	35	7	4	24	31	83	−52	25
9	Livingston^{[lower-alpha 1]}	35	7	8	20	40	53	−13	24	Qualification to the relegation play-off
10	Alloa Athletic	35	5	9	21	31	56	−25	24	Relegation to the 2015-16 Scottish League One

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2015. Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated.
Notes:

↑ Livingston were deducted 5 points due to failure of tax payments.

Results

Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season, for a total of 36 games.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away^[1]	ALO	COW	DUM	FAL	HOM	HIB	LIV	QOS	RAI	RAN
Alloa Athletic		2–3	0–1	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1
Cowdenbeath	0–3		1–3	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–3
Dumbarton	3–1	0–0		0–3	0–0	3–6	1–0	0–4	2–1	0–3
Falkirk	2–1	6–0	1–1		1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–2
Heart of Midlothian	2–0	5–1	5–1	4–1		2–1	5–0	4–1	1–0	2–0
Hibernian	2–0	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–1		2–1	0–0	1–1	4–0
Livingston	4–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–4		2–2	0–1	0–1
Queen of the South	2–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–0	1–1		2–0	2–0
Raith Rovers	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	0–4	1–3	1–5	3–4		0–4
Rangers	1–1	1–0	4–1	4–0	1–2	1–3	2–0	4–2	6–1

Updated to games played on 27 December 2014.
Source: BBC Sport
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away^[1]	ALO	COW	DUM	FAL	HOM	HIB	LIV	QOS	RAI	RAN
Alloa Athletic			3–0	1–3	1–4	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–1
Cowdenbeath	0–2		3–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–5	0–1	0–0
Dumbarton	1–0	1–2		1–0	1–5	1–2	1–5	0–0		1–3
Falkirk	1–0	1–0	3–3		0–3		2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1
Heart of Midlothian	3–0	10–0	4–0	2–3		1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1
Hibernian	4–1	5–0	3–0	3–3	2–0		2–1	0–1	1–1	0–2
Livingston	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–3	1–3			0–2	1–1
Queen of the South	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	3–1		2–1	3–0
Raith Rovers	2–1	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	0–4	3–0		1–2
Rangers	2–2	4–1	3–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	4–0

Updated to games played on 22 April 2015.
Source: BBC Sport
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals^[14]
1	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	16
2	Derek Lyle	Queen of the South	15
3	Gavin Reilly	Queen of the South	13
3	Liam Buchanan	Alloa Athletic	13
5	James Keatings	Heart of Midlothian	11
	Osman Sow	Heart of Midlothian
	Jamie Walker	Heart of Midlothian
	Jordan White	Livingston
	Dominique Malonga	Hibernian
10	Genero Zeefuik	Heart of Midlothian	10

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "2014–15 Scottish Championship statistics". Statto. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "2014–15 Scottish Championship statistics". ESPN. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
↑ "Hibernian 0-2 Rangers". BBC Sport. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
↑ "Alloa Athletic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Cowdenbeath Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Dumbarton Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Falkirk Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Heart of Midlothian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Raith Rovers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Queen of the South Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Livingston Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Hibernian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Scottish Championship Top Scorers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

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2014–15 Premiership teams	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Hamilton Academical Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Partick Thistle Ross County St. Johnstone St. Mirren

2014–15 Championship teams	Alloa Athletic Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers

2014–15 League One teams	Airdrieonians Ayr United Brechin City Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic Greenock Morton Peterhead Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

2014–15 League Two teams	Albion Rovers Annan Athletic Arbroath Berwick Rangers Clyde East Fife East Stirlingshire Elgin City Montrose Queen's Park

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2014–15 in Scottish football

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Domestic leagues	SPFL Premiership Championship League One League Two Highland League Lowland League East of Scotland League South of Scotland League SJFA West Premier SJFA East Superleague SJFA North Superleague SPFL Development League Women's Premier League

Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Challenge Cup (Final) Junior Cup Youth Cup Women's Cup

European competitions	Champions League Europa League

Related to national team	Results UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group D

Transfers	Summer 2014 Winter 2014–15

Club seasons

Premiership	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Hamilton Academical Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Partick Thistle Ross County St. Johnstone St. Mirren

Championship	Alloa Athletic Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers

League One	Airdrieonians Ayr United Brechin City Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic Greenock Morton Peterhead Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

League Two	Albion Rovers Annan Athletic Arbroath Berwick Rangers Clyde East Fife East Stirlingshire Elgin City Montrose Queen's Park

Highland League	Brora Rangers Buckie Thistle Clachnacuddin Cove Rangers Deveronvale Formartine United Forres Mechanics Fort William Fraserburgh Huntly Inverurie Loco Works Keith Lossiemouth Nairn County Rothes Strathspey Thistle Turriff United Wick Academy

Lowland League	BSC Glasgow Dalbeattie Star East Kilbride Edinburgh City Edinburgh University Gala Fairydean Rovers Gretna 2008 Preston Athletic Selkirk Spartans Stirling University Threave Rovers Vale of Leithen Whitehill Welfare