The 2006–07 Scottish Premier League season was the ninth season of the

Scottish Premier League The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the top level league competition for professional football clubs in Scotland. The league was founded in 1998, when it broke away from the Scottish Football League (SFL). It was abolished in 2013, when t ...

. It began on 29 July 2006. The league champions, Celtic and

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, qualified for the

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on the return of

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as manager following a brief and disastrous reign by

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. The team finishing third,

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qualified for the

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, as did the

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. However, being the bottom-placed team in the SPL, Dunfermline were also relegated to the First Division.

Teams

Promotion and relegation from 2005–06

Promoted from First Division to

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* St Mirren Relegated from

to First Division *

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Stadia and locations

Personnel

Managerial changes

Events

*On 22 April 2007 Celtic beat Kilmarnock 2–1 to win the title for the second season running thanks to goals from

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and

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who scored a free-kick in the dying second of the match to clinch the title for Celtic *On 12 May 2007

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were relegated to the First Division after a 2–1 defeat at

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and St Mirren came back from 2–0 down to win 3–2 at

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. *On 20 May 2007

beat

2–0 at home in their final game of the season to qualify for the UEFA Cup. *For the second consecutive season, the top scorer was

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, with 20 goals.

League table

Results

Matches 1–22

During matches 1–22 each team played every other team twice (home and away).

Matches 23–33

During matches 23–33 each team played every other team once (either at home or away).

Matches 34–38

During matches 34–38 each team played every other team in their half of the table once.

Top six

Bottom six

Goals

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Attendances

Overall 3.7 million spectators attended an average per match of just over 8,090. The average and highest attendances for SPL clubs during the 2006/07 season are shown below: Source
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Monthly awards

References

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