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The Scottish Championship, known as the William Hill Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of the
Scottish Professional Football League The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is the national men's association football league in Scotland. The league was formed in June 2013 following a merger between the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League. As ...
, the league competition for men's professional
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clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Championship was established in July 2013, after the Scottish Professional Football League was formed by a merger of the
Scottish Premier League The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the top level league competition for professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football' ...
and
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.


Format

Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then
goal difference Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...
, and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned league champion. If points are equal, the goal difference determines the winner. If this still does not result in a winner, the tied teams must take part in a playoff game at a neutral venue to determine the final placings.


Promotion and relegation

The champions are directly promoted to the Scottish Premiership, swapping places with the bottom club of the Premiership. The clubs finishing 2nd, 3rd and 4th then enter the two-legged Premiership play-off. The 3rd-placed club plays the 4th-placed club, with the winner then playing the 2nd-placed club. The winner of that game then plays against the 11th-placed Premiership club. If the Championship play-off winner prevails, the club is promoted and the Premiership club is relegated; otherwise, the Premiership club remains in its league while the Championship club is not promoted. For promotion and relegation, the Championship play-off system closely mirrors its Premiership counterpart—the bottom-ranked club in the Championship is automatically relegated while the 9th-placed club undergoes a play-off with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed clubs from League One.


Teams

Listed below are all the teams competing in the
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season, with details of the first season they entered the second tier; the first season of their current spell in the second tier; and the last time they won the second tier.


Stadiums


Statistics


Championships


Records and awards

; Biggest home win: Heart of Midlothian 10–0 Cowdenbeath, 28 February 2015 ; Biggest away win: Dumbarton 0–6 Rangers, 2 January 2016; ; Most points in a season: 91; Heart of Midlothian, 2014–15 ; Fewest points in a season: 4; Brechin City, 2017–18 ; Fewest goals scored in a season: 20; Brechin City, 2017–18 ; Most goals scored in a season: 96; Heart of Midlothian, 2014–15 ; Most goals conceded in a season: 90; Brechin City, 2017–18 ; Fewest goals conceded in a season: 23; Dundee United, 2023–24Dundee United conceded 22 goals in the curtailed 2019–20 season (28 games). ; Highest attendance: 50,349; Rangers 1–1 Alloa Athletic, 23 April 2016 ; Lowest attendance: 318; Cowdenbeath 3–0 Greenock Morton, 25 March 2014


Top goalscorers

''Italics'' denotes players still playing professional football,
Bold denotes players still playing in the Scottish Championship.


Broadcasting rights


Notes


References


External links

* {{Scottish Championship 2013 establishments in Scotland 2 Professional sports leagues in Scotland Championship Second level football leagues in Europe Sports leagues established in 2013