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in Scotland.

Key events

Celtic, domestic treble winners a year earlier, retain their Premier League title. After failing to win anything the previous season, Rangers won the Scottish Cup and League Cup under their new manager

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. Airdrieonians, who narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League as First Division runners-up, went out of business of 1 May with debts of nearly £3million. Later that month, however, a new club representing the town of Airdrie -

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- was formed, with ambitions of gaining Scottish league status for the 2002–03 season. Livingston, in the Premier League for the first time, finished third and qualified for the

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. Livingston, who were known as

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until relocating from

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to Livingston in 1995 and played their first season in their new location as a Third Division club. Falkirk avoided relegation from the First Division and Stenhousemuir avoided relegation from the Second as a result of the league losing a member. The vacant place in the Third Division was occupied by Gretna, who until then had played in the English non-league system. Despite Gretna beating Airdrie United to the vacant league place, Airdrie United still gained a league place for the 2002–03 season – in the Second Division – as they bought out the debt-ridden club Clydebank. Queen of the South won the Second Division league title for the first time in 51-years since they won the Division B league title in season 1950–51. These were the only two occasions that the

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club had won a league title in their history, that was up until they won their third ever league title in season 2012–13, when they won the Second Division once again.

League Competitions

Scottish Premier League

The 2001–02

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was won by

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finished second and therefore qualified for a

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place alongside Celtic. Livingston, in their debut season in Scotland's top division, qualified for the

along with

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were relegated to the

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Scottish First Division

Scottish Second Division

Scottish Third Division

Other honours

Cup honours

Individual honours

SPFA awards

SFWA awards

Scottish clubs in Europe

Average coefficient
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Scotland national team

Key: *(H) = Home match *(A) = Away match *WCQG6 = World Cup Qualifying - Group 6

Notes

References

External links

Scottish Premier League official websiteScottish Football League official websiteBBC Scottish Premier League portal

BBC Scottish Football League portal
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