SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE 2006-07

The '2006-07 Scottish Premier League' season was the ninth season of the Scottish Premier League. It began on July 29 2006.
The league champions, Celtic and runners-up, Rangers, qualified for the UEFA Champions League. The team finishing third, Aberdeen qualified for the UEFA Cup, as did the Scottish Cup finalists Dunfermline. However, being the bottom-placed team in the SPL, Dunfermline were also relegated to the First Division.

Contents

Events

Final Table

Top scorers

Attendances

Monthly awards

See also

Events

Main articles: 2006-07 in Scottish football#Notable events


★ On April 22 2007 Celtic beat Kilmarnock 2-1 to win the title for the second season running with a last-minute winner from Shunsuke Nakamura.

★ On May 12 2007 Dunfermline were relegated to the First Division after a 2-1 defeat at Inverness and St Mirren came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Motherwell.

★ On May 20 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.

Final Table

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	'Celtic (C)'	38	26	6	6	65	34	+31	'84'
2	'Rangers'	38	21	9	8	61	32	+29	'72'
3	'Aberdeen'	38	19	8	11	56	37	+19	'65'
4	'Hearts'	38	17	10	11	47	35	+10	'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 CT'	38	11	13	14	42	48	-6	'47'
9	'Dundee United'	38	10	12	16	40	59	-19	'42'
10	'Motherwell'	38	10	8	20	44	57	-13	'38'
11	'St. Mirren'	38	8	12	18	31	51	-20	'36'
12	'Dunfermline' '(R)'	38	8	8	22	26	55	-29	'32'

(C)	2006/07 Scottish Premier League champions
	UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round
	UEFA Champions League Second Qualifying Round
	UEFA Cup First Round
	Relegation to Scottish First Division

'Pld' = Matches played; 'W' = Matches won; 'D' = Matches drawn; 'L' = Matches lost; 'GF' = Goals for; 'GA' = Goals against; 'GD' = Goal difference; 'Pts' = Points

★ Dunfermline gained UEFA Cup place as fellow Scottish Cup finalists Celtic had already qualified for Europe via Champions League

★ No Scottish side will compete in the Intertoto Cup next season after Inverness withdrew their application

★ Note: After 33 games (at which point each team had played each other three times) the table split into a top six and bottom six, and teams played one further game against each side in their half. Teams stayed in their half of the league regardless of their total points.

Top scorers

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

Attendances

The average attendances for SPL clubs for season 2006/07 were as follows:

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

Monthly awards

Main articles: Scottish Premier League monthly awards

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

See also

★ 2006-07 in Scottish football

★ Scottish First Division 2006-07

★ Scottish Second Division 2006-07

★ Scottish Third Division 2006-07

★ Celtic F.C. season 2006-07

★ Dundee United F.C. season 2006-07

★ Hibernian F.C. season 2006-07

★ Kilmarnock F.C. season 2006-07

★ Rangers F.C. season 2006-07