2015–16 Scottish Championship

Ladbrokes Championship

Season	2015–16
← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 12 April 2015.

The 2015–16 Scottish Championship (referred to as the Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) will be the 21st season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football.

Ten teams contest the league: Alloa Athletic, Dumbarton, Falkirk, Greenock Morton, Hibernian, Livingston, Queen of the South, Raith Rovers, Rangers and St Mirren.

Teams

Promoted from Scottish League One

Greenock Morton

Relegated from Scottish Premiership

St Mirren

Stadia and locations

Alloa Athletic	Dumbarton	Falkirk	Greenock Morton
Recreation Park	Dumbarton Football Stadium	Falkirk Stadium	Cappielow Park
Capacity: 3,100^[1]	Capacity: 2,020^[2]	Capacity: 8,750^[3]	Capacity: 11,589^[4]

Hibernian	Alloa Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Morton Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers St Mirren		Livingston
Easter Road			Almondvale Stadium
Capacity: 20,421^[5]			Capacity: 9,865^[6]

Queen of the South	Raith Rovers	Rangers	St Mirren
Palmerston Park	Stark's Park	Ibrox Stadium	St Mirren Park
Capacity: 8,690^[7]	Capacity: 8,867^[8]	Capacity: 50,817^[9]	Capacity: 8,023^[10]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alloa Athletic	Jack Ross	Pendle	Marshall Construction
Dumbarton	Stephen Aitken	Joma	Baxter Ramsay
Falkirk	Peter Houston	Puma	Central Demolition
Greenock Morton	Jim Duffy	Nike	Millions Sweets
Hibernian	Alan Stubbs	Nike	Marathonbet
Livingston	David Hopkin	Joma	Energy Assets
Queen of the South	James Fowler	Joma	Palmerston Cafe
Raith Rovers	Ray McKinnon	Puma	valmcdermid.com (Home shirt) D&G Autocare (Away shirt)
Rangers	Mark Warburton	Puma	32Red
St Mirren	Alex Rae	Carbrini	JD Sports

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Rangers	24	19	3	2	66	17	+49	60	Promotion to the 2016–17 Scottish Premiership
2	Hibernian	23	16	4	3	38	17	+21	52	Qualification to the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs
3	Falkirk	24	13	8	3	40	20	+20	47	Qualification to the quarter-finals of the promotion play-offs
4	Queen of the South	22	9	4	9	22	28	−6	31
5	Raith Rovers	22	8	5	9	24	28	−4	29
6	Greenock Morton	23	7	7	9	23	26	−3	28
7	St. Mirren	23	6	6	11	23	33	−10	24
8	Dumbarton	23	6	4	13	19	41	−22	22
9	Livingston	24	4	5	15	24	36	−12	17	Qualification to the relegation play-off
10	Alloa Athletic	24	3	4	17	13	46	−33	13	Relegation to the 2016–17 Scottish League One

Updated to match(es) played on 13 February 2016. Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

Results

Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 36 games.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Alloa Athletic !ALO	Dumbarton !DUM	Falkirk !FAL	Greenock Morton !GMO	Hibernian !HIB	Livingston !LIV	Queen of the South !QOS	Raith Rovers !RAI	Rangers !RAN	St Mirren !STM
Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic		0–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–5	0–2
Dumbarton !Dumbarton	0–2		0–5	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	3–3	1–2	1–0
Falkirk !Falkirk	5–0	2–1		1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–0
Greenock Morton !Greenock Morton	1–0	0–0	1–1		0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–4	0–0
Hibernian !Hibernian	3–0	4–2	1–1	1–0		2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Livingston !Livingston	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–4	0–1		0–1	3–0	1–1	0–1
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	3–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–3	1–4		1–1	1–5	0–2
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–0	1–0		0–1	1–1
Rangers !Rangers	4–0	4–0	3–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	5–0		3–1
St Mirren !St Mirren	1–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–4	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–1

Updated to games played on 06 February 2016.
Source: Scottish Championship
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	Alloa Athletic !ALO	Dumbarton !DUM	Falkirk !FAL	Greenock Morton !GMO	Hibernian !HIB	Livingston !LIV	Queen of the South !QOS	Raith Rovers !RAI	Rangers !RAN	St Mirren !STM
Alloa Athletic !Alloa Athletic			0–1	2–2					1–1
Dumbarton !Dumbarton						1–0			0–6
Falkirk !Falkirk		1–0			1–1			2–2
Greenock Morton !Greenock Morton		2–0							0–2	0–1
Hibernian !Hibernian								1–0		3–1
Livingston !Livingston			1–1		0–0		0–2
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	1–0			1–0						1–0
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	0–1	0–0
Rangers !Rangers			1–0		4–2	4–1
St Mirren !St Mirren	3–1					1–4

Updated to games played on 13 February 2016.
Source: Scottish Championship
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 2 January 2016^[11]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Martyn Waghorn	Rangers	20
2	John Baird	Falkirk	13
3	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	12
4	Jason Holt	Rangers	8
5	Liam Buchanan	Livingston	7
	James Keatings	Hibernian
	Derek Lyle	Queen of the South
	James Tavernier	Rangers

References

↑ "Alloa Athletic 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.
↑ "Greenock Morton Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Hibernian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Livingston Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Queen of the South Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Raith Rovers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
↑ "St Mirren Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Scottish Championship Top Scorers". BBC. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

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2015–16 Championship teams	Alloa Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Greenock Morton Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers St. Mirren

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Premiership	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Partick Thistle Ross County St Johnstone

Championship	Alloa Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Greenock Morton Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers St. Mirren

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