The 2022–23 season is the 126th season of competitive
football in Scotland
Association football ( sco, fitbaa, gd, ball-coise) is one of the national sports of Scotland and the most popular sport in the country. There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Sco ...
. The domestic season began on 9 July 2022 with the first
Scottish League Cup
The Scottish League Cup (also known as the Viaplay Cup for sponsorship reasons) is a football competition open to all Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) clubs. First held in 1946–47, it is the oldest national League Cup in existen ...
group stage matches, and the first round of matches in the
2022–23 Scottish Premiership were played on 30 July.
Transfer deals
League competitions
Scottish Premiership
Scottish Championship
Scottish League One
Scottish League Two
Non-league football
Level 5
Level 6
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=Lowland
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Honours
Cup honours
Non-league honours
Individual honours
PFA Scotland awards
SFWA awards
Scottish clubs in Europe
Summary
Celtic
;UEFA Champions League
Celtic entered the
2022–23 UEFA Champions League in the group stage, having won the
2021–22 Scottish Premiership.
Rangers
;UEFA Champions League
Rangers entered the
2022–23 UEFA Champions League in the third qualifying round, having finished second in the
2021–22 Scottish Premiership.
Heart of Midlothian
;UEFA Europa League
Hearts entered the
2022–23 UEFA Europa League in the playoff round, having finished third in the
2021–22 Scottish Premiership.
;UEFA Europa Conference League
Dundee United
;UEFA Europa Conference League
Dundee United entered the
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League in the third qualifying round, after finishing fourth in the
2021–22 Scottish Premiership.
Motherwell
;UEFA Europa Conference League
Motherwell entered the
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League in the second qualifying round, after finishing fifth in the
2021–22 Scottish Premiership.
Scotland national team
Women's football
League honours
Cup honours
Individual honours
SWPL awards
Scottish Women's Premier League
UEFA Women's Champions League
Rangers and
Glasgow City qualified for the
Women's Champions League.
Rangers
Glasgow City
Scotland women's national team
Deaths
*1 July:
Drew Busby
Andrew Douglas Busby (8 December 1947 – 1 July 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played for Third Lanark, Airdrieonians, Hearts, Toronto Blizzard and Morton. Busby also served Queen of the South as their player-manager.
Career
Busby st ...
, 74, Third Lanark, Partick Thistle, Airdrieonians, Heart of Midlothian, Morton and Queen of the South forward; Queen of the South manager.
*2 July:
Andy Goram
Andrew Lewis Goram (13 April 1964 – 2 July 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Bury, Lancashire, England, he started his career with Oldham Athletic and Hibernian, but he is best remembered for playing for Ra ...
, 58, Hibernian, Rangers, Motherwell, Hamilton Academical, Queen of the South, Elgin City and Scotland goalkeeper.
*8 July:
Harry Mowbray, 75, Cowdenbeath and St Mirren defender.
*9 July:
Davie Robb, 74, Aberdeen, Dunfermline Athletic and Scotland forward.
*9 July:
Adam Strachan, 35, Partick Thistle, Ross County, Clyde, Arbroath, Dumbarton and Albion Rovers midfielder.
*10 July:
Ken Armstrong, 63, Kilmarnock defender.
*1 August:
John Hughes, 79, Celtic and Scotland forward; Stranraer manager.
*11 August:
Pat Liney, 86, Dundee and St Mirren goalkeeper.
*August:
Billy Hodgson
William Hodgson (9 July 1935 – 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger or inside forward.
Career
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Hodgson started his career with Dunoon Athletic before joining St Johnstone in 1954. He had a loa ...
, 87, St. Johnstone and Hamilton Academical outside-right.
*8 September:
Dave Smith, Dundee manager.
*11 September: Chris Robinson, 71, Heart of Midlothian chairman and chief executive.
*12 September:
Ken Brownlee, 87, Aberdeen, Third Lanark and St Johnstone wing half.
*25 September:
Roy MacLaren, 92, St Johnstone goalkeeper.
*8 October:
John Duncan John Duncan may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John Duncan (painter) (1866–1945), Scottish painter
* John Duncan (artist) (born 1953), American artist and musician
* Big John Duncan (born 1958), Scottish punk musician
* John Duncan (harpist) ...
, 73, Dundee forward.
*20 October:
Jimmy Millar, 87, Dunfermline Athletic, Rangers, Dundee United and Scotland forward; Raith Rovers manager.
*30 October:
Sammy Wilson, 85, Falkirk and Dundee forward.
*15 November:
Jimmy O'Rourke, 76, Hibernian, St Johnstone and Motherwell forward.
*20 November:
Norrie Davidson
Norman Davidson (25 October 1934 – 20 November 2022) was a Scottish association football, footballer who played as a centre-forward.
Career
Davidson was born in Kintore, Aberdeenshire, and after a period as a teenager with Chelsea F.C., Chels ...
, 88, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian, Dundee United, Partick Thistle and St Mirren forward.
*c.29 November: Alex Lamond, St Johnstone chairman.
*14 December:
Alex Duchart, 89, Hibernian, Third Lanark, East Fife, Dumbarton and Falkirk winger.
*c.14 December: Jim Boyd, 66, Clyde and Motherwell defender.
*1 January:
Frank McGarvey, 66, St Mirren, Celtic, Queen of the South, Clyde and Scotland forward; Queen of the South manager.
Retirements
* 18 June 2022:
Paul Caddis
Paul McLean Caddis (born 19 April 1988) is a Scottish football coach and former professional footballer who played in more than 350 professional matches at club level and represented his country at youth and senior levels. Having predominantly ...
, 34, former
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
,
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
and
Dundee United
Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dundee. The club name is usually abbreviated to Dundee United. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1 ...
defender.
* 22 June 2022:
Jamie Ness
Jamie Ness (born 2 March 1991) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Forfar Athletic.
Ness began his career with Rangers and made his debut for the first team in January 2011. He then scored against Celtic in the Scottish Cup ...
, 31, former
Rangers,
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
and
Forfar Athletic
Forfar Athletic Football Club are a Scottish semi-professional football club from the town of Forfar, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Professional Football League and currently play in Scottish League Two. They play their home games a ...
midfielder.
[https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/20227364, Ex-Rangers midfielder Jamie Ness retires from football aged 31, Glasgow Evening Times, 22 June 2022]
Notes and references
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