2015–16 Scottish Premiership
| Season | 2015–16 |
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| Champions | Celtic |
| Relegated | Dundee United |
| Matches played | 170 |
| Goals scored | 478 (2.81 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Leigh Griffiths (31 goals) |
| Biggest home win |
Celtic 8–1 Hamilton Academical (19 January 2016) |
| Biggest away win |
Kilmarnock 0–4 Dundee (1 August 2015) Kilmarnock 0–4 Ross County (22 August 2015) Aberdeen 1–5 St Johnstone (3 October 2015) Partick Thistle 0–4 Heart of Midlothian (31 October 2015) Kilmarnock 0–4 Aberdeen (19 December 2015) |
| Highest scoring |
Celtic 8–1 Hamilton Academical (19 January 2016) |
| Longest winning run | 8 matches: Aberdeen |
| Longest unbeaten run | 12 matches: Aberdeen |
| Longest winless run | 10 matches: Dundee United |
| Longest losing run | 5 matches: Partick Thistle |
| Highest attendance | 49,050 Celtic 7–0 Motherwell (15 May 2016) |
| Lowest attendance | 1,516 Hamilton Academical 0–1 Inverness CT (11 May 2016) |
| Total attendance | 2,237,437 |
| Average attendance | 9,644 |
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← 2014–15
2016–17 →
All statistics correct as of 15 May 2016.
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The 2015–16 Scottish Premiership (known as the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the third season of the Scottish Premiership, the highest division of Scottish football. The season began on 1 August 2015. Celtic are the defending champions.
Twelve teams contest the league: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Hamilton Academical, Heart of Midlothian, Inverness CT, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Ross County and St Johnstone.
Promoted from Scottish Championship
Relegated from Scottish Premiership
In the initial phase of the season, the 12 teams will play a round-robin tournament whereby each team plays each one of the other teams three times. After 33 games, the league splits into two sections of six teams, with each team playing each other in that section. The league attempts to balance the fixture list so that teams in the same section play each other twice at home and twice away, but sometimes this is impossible. A total of 228 matches will be played, with 38 matches played by each team.
Heart of Midlothian were promoted as 2014–15 Scottish Championship winners. On 2 May, bottom club Dundee United were defeated 2–1 away to their city rivals Dundee, a defeat which confined them to relegation of the Championship. Craig Wighton, a local Dundee fan, scored the winning goal in the 92nd minute of the game. The champion of that league will be promoted to the Premiership for the 2016–17 season. The team that finishes 11th in the Premiership will play the winner of the Championship playoffs (teams that finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the Championship) in two playoff games, with the winner securing a Premiership spot for the 2016–17 season.
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