2006–07 Scottish Premier League

Scottish Premier League
Season	2006–07
Dates	29 July 2006 – 20 May 2007
Champions	Celtic ; 5th Premier League title ; 41st Scottish title
Relegated	Dunfermline
Champions League	Celtic; Rangers
UEFA Cup	Aberdeen; Dunfermline
Intertoto Cup	None
Matches played	228
Goals scored	560 (2.46 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kris Boyd (20)
Biggest home win	Motherwell 5–0 Kilmarnock (30 September)
Biggest away win	Motherwell 1–6 Hibernian (18 November)
	← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 Scottish Premier League season was the ninth season of the Scottish Premier League. It began on 29 July 2006. The league champions, Celtic and runners-up, Rangers, qualified for the UEFA Champions League on the return of Walter Smith as manager following a brief and disastrous reign by Frenchman Paul Le Guen. The team finishing third, Aberdeen qualified for the UEFA Cup, as did the Scottish Cup finalists Dunfermline Athletic. 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 Premier League

St Mirren

Relegated from Premier League to First Division

Livingston

Stadia and locations

Aberdeen	Celtic	Dundee United	Dunfermline Athletic
Pittodrie Stadium	Celtic Park	Tannadice Park	East End Park
Capacity: 20,866^[1]	Capacity: 60,411^[2]	Capacity: 14,223^[3]	Capacity: 12,509^[4]
File:Pittodrie from Block Y, May 2015.jpg	File:CelticPark.JPG	File:East Stand Tannadice.jpg	File:East End Park from Norrie McCathie stand.jpg
Falkirk	2006–07 Scottish Premier League is located in Scotland Aberdeen Aberdeen Dundee United Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Falkirk Hearts Hearts Hibernian Hibernian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Kilmarnock Rangers Rangers St Mirren St Mirren 2006–07 Scottish Premier League 2006–07 Scottish Premier League Celtic Celtic Motherwell Motherwell class=notpageimage\| Location of teams in 2006–07 Scottish Premier League		Heart of Midlothian
Falkirk Stadium			Tynecastle Park
Capacity: 7,937^[5]			Capacity: 17,420^[6]
File:Falkirk Stadium - geograph.org.uk - 397119.jpg			File:Tynecastle Stadium 2007.jpg
Hibernian			Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Easter Road			Caledonian Stadium
Capacity: 16,531^[7]			Capacity: 7,500^[8]
File:Easter Road 2010.JPG			File:Caledonianstadium.jpg
Kilmarnock	Motherwell	Rangers	St Mirren
Rugby Park	Fir Park	Ibrox Stadium	Love Street
Capacity: 17,889^[9]	Capacity: 13,677^[10]	Capacity: 50,817^[11]	Capacity: 10,800^[12]
File:Rugby Park.jpg	File:Fir Park, Motherwell. - geograph.org.uk - 219204.jpg	File:Ibrox Inside.jpg	File:Mainstand.JPG

Personnel

Team	Manager
Aberdeen	Scotland Jimmy Calderwood
Celtic	Scotland Gordon Strachan
Dundee United	Scotland Craig Levein
Dunfermline Athletic	Republic of Ireland Stephen Kenny
Falkirk	Scotland John Hughes
Heart of Midlothian	Ukraine Anatoliy Korobochka
Hibernian	Scotland John Collins
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Scotland Charlie Christie
Kilmarnock	Scotland Jim Jefferies
Motherwell	Scotland Maurice Malpas
Rangers	Scotland Walter Smith
St Mirren	Scotland Gus MacPherson

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Manner of departure	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Rangers	Scotland Alex McLeish	8 May 2006	Sacked	Pre-season	France Paul Le Guen	9 May 2006
Motherwell	England Terry Butcher	17 May 2006	Signed by Sydney FC	Pre-season	Scotland Maurice Malpas	17 May 2006
Hibernian	England Tony Mowbray	13 October 2006	Signed by West Bromwich Albion	7th	Scotland John Collins	31 October 2006
Dunfermline Athletic	Scotland Jim Leishman	26 October 2006	Became Director of Football	11th	Republic of Ireland Stephen Kenny	10 November 2006
Dundee United	Scotland Craig Brewster	29 October 2006	Sacked	12th	Scotland Craig Levein	30 October 2006
Rangers	France Paul Le Guen	4 January 2007	Mutual consent	2nd	Scotland Walter Smith	10 January 2007
Heart of Midlothian	Lithuania Valdas Ivanauskas	20 March 2007	Mutual consent	4th	Ukraine Anatoliy Korobochka	20 March 2007 (caretaker) 30 July 2007 (permanent)

Events

On 22 April 2007 Celtic beat Kilmarnock 2–1 to win the title for the second season running thanks to goals from Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Shunsuke Nakamura who scored a free-kick in the dying second of the match to clinch the title for Celtic
On 12 May 2007 Dunfermline Athletic were relegated to the First Division after a 2–1 defeat at Inverness CT and St Mirren came back from 2–0 down to win 3–2 at Motherwell.
On 20 May 2007 Aberdeen beat Rangers 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 Kris Boyd of Rangers, with 20 goals.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^{[lower-alpha 1]}
1	Celtic (C)	38	26	6	6	65	34	+31	84	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	Rangers	38	21	9	8	61	32	+29	72	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	Aberdeen	38	19	8	11	55	38	+17	65	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
4	Heart of Midlothian	38	17	10	11	47	35	+12	61
5	Kilmarnock	38	16	7	15	47	54	−7	55
6	Hibernian	38	13	10	15	56	46	+10	49

7	Falkirk	38	15	5	18	49	47	+2	50
8	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	38	11	13	14	42	48	−6	46
9	Dundee United	38	10	12	16	40	59	−19	42
10	Motherwell	38	10	8	20	41	61	−20	38
11	St Mirren	38	8	12	18	31	51	−20	36
12	Dunfermline Athletic (R)	38	8	8	22	26	55	−29	32	Relegation to the Scottish First Division and qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Source: Scottish Professional Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.
↑ As Celtic, the Scottish Cup winners, qualified for the Champions League via their league position, the place in the UEFA Cup was passed to Dunfermline Athletic, the cup runner-up.

Results

Matches 1–22

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

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	DUN	DNF	FAL	HOM	HIB	INV	KIL	MOT	RAN	STM
Aberdeen		0–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	2–0
Celtic	1–0		2–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–0
Dundee United	3–1	1–4		0–0	1–2	0–1	0–3	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0
Dunfermline Athletic	0–3	1–2	2–1		0–3	1–2	0–4	0–0	3–2	0–2	1–1	2–1
Falkirk	0–2	0–1	5–1	1–0		1–1	2–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1
Heart of Midlothian	0–1	2–1	4–0	1–1	0–0		3–1	4–1	0–2	4–1	0–1	0–1
Hibernian	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–2		2–0	2–2	3–1	2–1	5–1
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–0		3–4	0–1	2–1	1–2
Kilmarnock	1–0	1–2	0–0	5–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1		1–2	2–2	1–1
Motherwell	0–2	1–1	2–3	2–1	4–2	0–1	1–6	1–4	5–0		1–2	0–0
Rangers	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	4–0	2–0	3–0	0–1	3–0	1–1		1–1
St Mirren	1–1	1–3	1–3	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

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

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	DUN	DNF	FAL	HOM	HIB	INV	KIL	MOT	RAN	STM
Aberdeen		1–2	2–4	3–0		1–0		1–1
Celtic				2–1			2–1		4–0	2–0	0–1	3–1
Dundee United		0–3		0–0	1–5		0–0			1–1
Dunfermline Athletic						0–1	1–0		1–1		0–1	0–0
Falkirk	1–2	1–0		1–0					0–2	1–2		2–1
Heart of Midlothian		1–4	0–4		1–0			1–0	1–0			1–1
Hibernian	0–0				2–0	0–1				2–0	0–2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle		1–2	1–0	1–3	1–1		3–0					2–1
Kilmarnock	1–2		1–0				0–2	3–2			1–3
Motherwell	0–2			2–0		0–2		1–0	0–1		0–1
Rangers	3–0		5–0		2–1	0–0		1–1
St Mirren	0–2		0–1				1–1		0–2	0–0	0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 34–38

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

Top six

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	HOM	HIB	KIL	RAN
Aberdeen				2–2	3–0	2–0
Celtic	2–1		1–3
Heart of Midlothian	1–1			2–0
Hibernian		2–1			0–1	3–3
Kilmarnock		1–3	1–0
Rangers		2–0	2–1		0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Bottom six

Home \ Away	DUN	DNF	FAL	INV	MOT	STM
Dundee United				1–1	0–0	0–2
Dunfermline Athletic	1–0		0–3		4–1
Falkirk	2–0			1–0		0–2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle		2–1			2–0
Motherwell			3–3			2–3
St Mirren		0–1		0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Goals

Top scorers

Scorer	Team	Appearances	Goals	Average
Scotland Kris Boyd	Rangers	32	20	0.63
Australia Scott McDonald	Motherwell	32	15	0.47
Scotland Steven Naismith	Kilmarnock	37	15	0.41
Republic of Ireland Anthony Stokes	Falkirk	16	14	0.86
New Zealand Chris Killen	Hibernian	18	13	0.72
Scotland Darren Mackie	Aberdeen	36	13	0.36
Netherlands Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink	Celtic	21	13	0.62
Scotland Colin Nish	Kilmarnock	33	12	0.36
Scotland Charlie Adam	Rangers	32	11	0.34
Scotland Barry Robson	Dundee United	29	11	0.38
England John Sutton	St Mirren	33	11	0.33
Scotland Craig Dargo	Inverness CT	27	10	0.37
Republic of Ireland Noel Hunt	Dundee United	28	10	0.36
England Steve Lovell	Aberdeen	27	9	0.33
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura	Celtic	37	9	0.24
Lithuania Andrius Velicka	Heart of Midlothian	27	8	0.30

Hat-tricks

Scorer	For	Against	Date
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura	Celtic	Dundee United	14 October 2006
Republic of Ireland Anthony Stokes	Falkirk	Dundee United	28 October 2006
Republic of Ireland Anthony Stokes	Falkirk	Dunfermline Athletic	4 November 2006
Denmark Thomas Gravesen	Celtic	St Mirren	12 November 2006
Republic of Ireland Anthony Stokes	Falkirk	Inverness CT	30 December 2006
Netherlands Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink	Celtic	St Mirren	20 January 2007
Scotland Kris Boyd	Rangers	Kilmarnock	11 February 2007
Scotland Kris Boyd	Rangers	Aberdeen	17 March 2007
Scotland Barry Robson	Dundee United	Heart of Midlothian	17 March 2007

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:

Club	Average	Highest
Celtic	57,928	59,659
Rangers	49,955	50,488
Hearts	16,937	17,369
Hibernian	14,587	16,747
Aberdeen	12,475	20,045
Dundee United	7,147	12,329
Kilmarnock	6,807	13,506
Dunfermline Athletic	6,106	8,561
Motherwell	5,877	11,745
St Mirren	5,609	10,251
Falkirk	5,387	7,245
Inverness CT	4,879	7,522

Source: SPL official website

Monthly awards

Month	Manager	Player	Young Player
August	Scotland Jim Jefferies (Kilmarnock)	Trinidad and Tobago Russell Latapy (Falkirk)	Republic of Ireland Aiden McGeady (Celtic)
September	Scotland Gordon Strachan (Celtic)	Scotland Allan McGregor (Rangers)	Republic of Ireland Aiden McGeady (Celtic)
October	Scotland Charlie Christie (Inverness CT)	England Lee Naylor (Celtic)	Republic of Ireland Anthony Stokes (Falkirk)
November	Scotland Craig Levein (Dundee United)	Scotland Russell Anderson (Aberdeen)	Republic of Ireland Anthony Stokes (Falkirk)
December	Scotland John Hughes (Falkirk)	Poland Artur Boruc (Celtic)	Scotland Darren Barr (Falkirk)
January	Scotland Gordon Strachan (Celtic)	Netherlands Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (Celtic)	Scotland Christophe Berra (Hearts)
February	Scotland Maurice Malpas (Motherwell)	Japan Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic)	Scotland Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian)
March	Scotland Craig Levein (Dundee United)	Scotland Alan Hutton (Rangers)	Scotland Steven Naismith (Kilmarnock)
April	Republic of Ireland Stephen Kenny (Dunfermline Athletic)	Northern Ireland Neil Lennon (Celtic)	Scotland Mark Reynolds (Motherwell)

References

↑ "Aberdeen Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Celtic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Dundee United Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Dunfermline Athletic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Falkirk Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Heart of Midlothian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Hibernian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
↑ "Kilmarnock Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Motherwell Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
↑ "Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
↑ "St Mirren Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

[13] Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

[table_note_res_REL0.33452099391004-14] As Celtic, the Scottish Cup winners, qualified for the Champions League via their league position, the place in the UEFA Cup was passed to Dunfermline Athletic, the cup runner-up.

[1] "Aberdeen Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[2] "Celtic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[3] "Dundee United Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[4] "Dunfermline Athletic Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[5] "Falkirk Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[6] "Heart of Midlothian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[7] "Hibernian Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[8] "Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[9] "Kilmarnock Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[10] "Motherwell Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

[11] "Rangers Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

[12] "St Mirren Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

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Personnel

Managerial changes

Events

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Results

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Top six

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Top scorers

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