The 2024–25 season is the 128th season of competitive

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. The domestic season to began on 13 July 2024 with the first

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group stage matches, and the first round of matches in the 2024–25 Scottish Premiership were played on the weekend of 2–4 August.

Transfer deals

League competitions

Scottish Premiership

Scottish Championship

Scottish League One

Scottish League Two

Non-league football

Level 5

Level 6

=Highland

=Lowland

Honours

Cup honours

Non-league honours

Individual honours

PFA Scotland awards

SFWA awards

Scottish clubs in Europe

Summary

Celtic

;UEFA Champions League

League stage

Having won the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership, Celtic entered the Champions League in the league phase. The draw for the knockout phase play-offs was held on 31 January 2025. Celtic were drawn against

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, as a result of finishing the league phase in 21st place.

Knockout stage

Rangers

;UEFA Champions League Having finished second in the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership, Rangers entered the Champions League in the third qualifying round. ;UEFA Europa League

League Stage

Knockout stage

Heart of Midlothian

;UEFA Europa League Having finished third in the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership, Hearts entered the

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in the play-off round. UEFA Conference League

Kilmarnock

;UEFA Europa League Having finished fourth in the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership, Kilmarnock entered the

in the

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. ;UEFA Conference League

St Mirren

;UEFA Conference League Having finished fifth in the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership, St Mirren entered the Conference League in the

Scotland national team

Women's football

League and Cup honours

Individual honours

Scottish Women's Premier League

;SWPL 1 ;SWPL 2

Scotland women's national team

Deaths

*11 July: Niall Hopper, 88, Queen's Park forward. *4 August: Jim Doherty, 65, Kilmarnock, Clyde, Queen of the South and Stranraer midfielder. *5 August:

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, 88, Queen's Park, Clyde and Scotland inside forward; Queen of the South manager. *8 August: Alex Kinninmonth, 82, Dundee, Dunfermline Athletic and Forfar Athletic midfielder. *9 August:

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, Hibernian forward; ''Sportscene'' and ''Sportsound'' presenter. *31 August: Sol Bamba, 39, Dunfermline and Hibernian defender. *2 September: Mick Cullen, 93, Scotland winger. *6 September: Ron Yeats, 86, Dundee United and Scotland defender. *10 October:

Peter Cormack Peter Barr Cormack (17 July 1946 – 10 October 2024) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. His greatest success was with Liverpool in the early 1970s, for whom he played 178 times, winning two league championships, one FA C ...

, 78, Hibernian, Partick Thistle and midfielder; Partick Thistle, Cowdenbeath and Greenock Morton manager. *13 October:

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, 66, Cowdenbeath, Forfar Athletic, Hamilton Academical, Meadowbank Thistle forward. *25 October:

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, 78, Dunfermline Athletic, Celtic and Clydebank midfielder. *22 November: Kenny Aird, 77, St Mirren, St Johnstone and Hearts winger. *November: John McNamee, 83, Celtic and Hibernian defender. *11 December: Alex Edwards, 78, Dunfermline Athletic and Hibernian winger. *30 December: Tony Connell, 80, Third Lanark, St Mirren and Queen of the South full-back. *11 January:

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, 87, Kilmarnock wing-half. *15 January: Alex Brash, 69, Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers and Brechin City defender. *17 January:

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, 84, Scotland forward. *19 January:

Jimmy Calderwood James Calderwood (28 February 1955 – 19 January 2025) was a Scottish football player and manager. Calderwood played for Birmingham City and Dutch clubs Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II Tilburg, Roda JC and Heracles Almelo. After retiring as a pl ...

, 69, Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock and Ross County manager. *2 February: Billy Pirie, 75, Arbroath, Aberdeen and Dundee forward. *6 February: Gordon Marshall, Sr., 85, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Aberdeen and Arbroath goalkeeper. *19 February: Cammy Murray, 80, St Mirren, Motherwell and Arbroath right-back. *20 February: Evan Williams, 81, East Fife, Celtic, Clyde and Stranraer goalkeeper. *3 March: John McTavish, 93, St Mirren and Stranraer defender. *17 March: John Fraser, 88, Hibernian and Stenhousemuir winger. *22 April: David Clunie, 77, Hearts, Berwick Rangers and St Johnstone defender. *23 April: Jim Herriot, 85, Dunfermline, Hibernian, St Mirren, Partick Thistle, Morton and Scotland goalkeeper. *25 April: Wayne Addicoat, 45, Elgin City, Huntly, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County midfielder. *9 May: Tom Farmer, 84, Hibernian majority shareholder. *14 May: Jack McGinn, 92, Celtic chairman and Scottish FA president. *16 May: Shaun Dennis, 55, Raith Rovers, Hibernian and Brechin City defender. *28 May: Willie Stevenson, 85, Rangers wing half.

Notes

References

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