The 2021–22 Scottish Championship (known as the cinch Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the

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, the second tier of

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. The season began on 31 July. Ten teams contested the league:

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, Ayr United,

Dunfermline Athletic Dunfermline Athletic Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dunfermline, Fife. Founded in 1885, the club currently compete in the after winning the 2022–23 Scottish League One title. Dunfermline play at ...

, Greenock Morton,

Hamilton Academical Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, who currently compete in . They were established in 1874 from the school football team at Hamilto ...

Inverness Caledonian Thistle Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, commonly known as Caley Thistle, Inverness CT or just Inverness, is a professional football club based in Inverness, Scotland. The team competes in , the third tier of the Scottish Professional Footba ...

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Partick Thistle Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football, football club from Glasgow, Scotland and currently plays in the . Despite their name, the club are based at Firhill Stadium in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not ...

, Queen of the South and Raith Rovers.

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2020–21 season.

To Championship

Promoted from League One *

Relegated from the Premiership *

From Championship

Relegated to League One *

Alloa Athletic Alloa Athletic Football Club is a Scottish association football semi-professional club based in the town of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. They compete in as a member of the Scottish Professional Football League. According to the official club hist ...

Promoted to the Premiership * Heart of Midlothian *

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Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League summary

League table

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for round 13, but then postponed and played between rounds 16 and 17, it is added to the standings for round 16.

Results

Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 180 games, with each team playing 36.

First half of season (Matches 1–18)

Second half of season (Matches 19–36)

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Awards

Championship play-offs

The semi-finals will be contested by the teams placed second to fourth in

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, as well as the team placed ninth in the

. The winners will advance to the final, with the highest-ranked team hosting the second leg.

Bracket

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

First leg

Second leg

References

External links

Official website
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Scottish Championship seasons