The 2019–20 season was the 123rd 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 12 July 2019, with the first round of matches in the
2019–20 Scottish League Cup
The 2019–20 Scottish League Cup (also known as the Betfred Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 74th season of Scotland's second-most prestigious football knockout competition.
The format for the 2019–20 competition was the same as the prev ...
. The
2019–20 Scottish Professional Football League season started on 2 August 2019.
All competitive matches affiliated with the
Scottish Football Association
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were postponed indefinitely on 13 March 2020, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Transfer deals
Celtic transfer defender
Kieran Tierney
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to
Arsenal
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for £25 million, a record fee for both a player sold by a Scottish club and for a deal involving a Scottish player.
League competitions
On 15 April 2020, all divisions in the SPFL below the
Scottish Premiership
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were concluded, and all play-off matches were cancelled, as clubs chose to curtail the season due to the pandemic.
On 18 May, the Premiership was curtailed and
Celtic declared champions. Final league standings across the four SPFL leagues were determined by the average number of points per game.
Other leagues in Scotland were decided on a points per games basis, or declared null and void.
Scottish Premiership
Scottish Championship
Scottish League One
Scottish League Two
Non-league football
Level 5
Level 6
Honours
Cup honours
Non-league honours
Senior
Junior
;West Region
;East Region
;North Region
Individual honours
PFA Scotland awards
Due to the
covid-19 pandemic
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,
PFA Scotland cancelled their awards for the 2019–20 season.
SFWA awards
Scottish clubs in Europe
Summary
Celtic
;UEFA Champions League
;UEFA Europa League
Having lost in Champions League qualifying to
CFR Cluj, Celtic dropped into the Europa League playoff round.
;Group Stage
;Knockout Stage
Rangers
;UEFA Europa League
;Group Stage
;Knockout Stage
Kilmarnock
;UEFA Europa League
Aberdeen
;UEFA Europa League
Scotland national team
Women's football
Glasgow City won their 13th consecutive Scottish national title in the 2019 season, which was completed on 24 November with the Scottish Women's Cup final.
2019 was officially the last season of the
SWFL First Division
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For most of its ...
and
SWFL Second Division
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, after 20 years (replaced by the
SWF Championship and
SWFL regional divisions).
League and Cup honours
Individual honours
SWPL awards
Scottish Women's Premier League
SWPL 1
SWPL 2
UEFA Women's Champions League
Glasgow City
Glasgow City entered the Champions League in the
round of 32,
and were seeded at that stage.
City eliminated Russian side
Chertanovo
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to progress to the last 16, where they defeated Danish club
Brøndby after a
penalty shootout. This meant that City progressed to the quarter-finals, which were originally scheduled for March 2020 but were rescheduled and reformatted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hibernian
Hibernian entered the Champions League in the
qualifying group phase.
They progressed to the last 32, where they were unseeded, by winning their group.
Scotland women's national team
Deaths
*August:
Jimmy Fleming, 90, Stirling Albion and Berwick Rangers full back.
*22 August:
Junior Agogo, 40, Hibernian forward.
*4 September:
Kenny Mitchell, 62, Greenock Morton defender.
*16 September:
Bobby Prentice, 65, Heart of Midlothian winger.
*18 September:
Fernando Ricksen, 43, Rangers defender.
*23 October: John Fleming, 62, referee and SFA official.
*11 November: Bill Barr, Ayr United chairman.
*25 November:
Martin Harvey
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Playing career Club
He played for local side Boyland F.C. and with ...
, 78, Raith Rovers assistant manager.
*11 December:
Ian Young, 76, Celtic and St Mirren defender.
*18 December:
Tom White Thomas, Tom or Tommy White may refer to:
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* Tommy W ...
, 80, Raith Rovers, St Mirren, Hearts and Aberdeen forward.
*20 December:
Billy Hughes
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, 70, Scotland forward.
*22 December:
Duncan MacKay, 82, Celtic, Third Lanark and Scotland defender.
*6 January:
Danny Masterton
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Masterton was from Muirkirk, Ayrshire. He began his career with Ayr United, before moving to Clyde Clyde may refer to:
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* Clyde ...
, 65, Ayr United, Clyde and Queen of the South forward.
*15 January:
Bobby Brown, 96, Queen's Park, Rangers, Falkirk and Scotland goalkeeper; St Johnstone and Scotland manager.
*March:
Dave Souter, 79, Dundee United, Arbroath, Berwick Rangers, East Fife, Clyde and Dundee winger and defender.
*30 March:
Alex Forsyth, 91, Albion Rovers and East Stirlingshire outside right.
*11 April:
Peter Bonetti, 78, Dundee United goalkeeper.
*23 April:
John Murphy, 77, Ayr United defender.
*April: John Freebairn, Partick Thistle and Montrose goalkeeper.
*2 May:
John Ogilvie, 91, Hibernian defender.
*26 May:
Christian Mbulu
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, 23, Motherwell defender.
Notes and references
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