2006–07 Scottish Premier League

101st season of top-tier football league in Scotland December 2009 April 2016 March 2026 Scottish Premier League 2006–07 29 July 2006 – 20 May 2007 Celtic 5th Premier League title 41st Scottish title Dunfermline Champions League CelticRangers UEFA Cup AberdeenDunfermline Intertoto Cup None 228 560 Kris Boyd (20) Motherwell 5–0 Kilmarnock (30 September) 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: 20,866https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/aberdeen/ Aberdeen Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 60,411https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/celtic/ Celtic Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 14,223https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/dundee-united/ Dundee United Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 12,509https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/dunfermline-athletic/ Dunfermline Athletic Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 200px 200px 200px 200px FalkirkUK Scotland 400 center Location of teams in 2006–07 Scottish Premier League UK Scotland 6 57.159387 -2.088979 Aberdeen left UK Scotland 6 56.474765 -2.968894 Dundee United right UK Scotland 6 56.075308 -3.441906 Dunfermline Athletic right UK Scotland 6 56.018151 -3.756666 Falkirk top UK Scotland 6 55.939167 -3.232222 Hearts bottom UK Scotland 6 55.961667 -3.165556 Hibernian right UK Scotland 6 57.494976 -4.217345 Inverness Caledonian Thistle left UK Scotland 6 55.604321 -4.508300 Kilmarnock left UK Scotland 6 55.853207 -4.309243 Rangers top UK Scotland 6 55.850388 -4.443927 St Mirren left UK Scotland 6 55.849705 -4.205414 UK Scotland 6 55.780279 -3.980205 UK Scotland TransparentPlaceholder.png 55.88 -4.28 Celtic right UK Scotland TransparentPlaceholder.png 55.75 -3.40 Motherwell bottom Heart of Midlothian Falkirk Stadium Tynecastle Park Capacity: 7,937https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/falkirk/ Falkirk Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 17,420http://spfl.co.uk/clubs/hearts/ Heart of Midlothian Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131022121754/http://spfl.co.uk/clubs/hearts/ 22 October 2013 dead dmy-all 200px 200px Hibernian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Easter Road Caledonian Stadium Capacity: 16,531https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/hibernian/ Hibernian Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 7,500http://spfl.co.uk/clubs/inverness/ Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 April 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes 200px 200px Kilmarnock Motherwell Rangers St Mirren Rugby Park Fir Park Ibrox Stadium Love Street Capacity: 17,889https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/kilmarnock/ Kilmarnock Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 13,677https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/motherwell/ Motherwell Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013 Capacity: 50,817https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/rangers/ Rangers Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 4 November 2015 Capacity: 10,800https://spfl.co.uk/clubs/st-mirren/ St Mirren Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 4 November 2015 200px 200px 200px 200px Personnel Team Manager Aberdeen Scotland Jimmy Calderwood Celtic Scotland Gordon Strachan Dundee UnitedScotland Craig Levein Dunfermline AthleticIreland Stephen Kenny FalkirkScotland John Hughes Heart of MidlothianRussia Anatoliy Korobochka HibernianScotland John Collins Inverness Caledonian ThistleScotland Charlie Christie KilmarnockScotland Jim Jefferies MotherwellScotland Maurice Malpas RangersScotland Walter Smith St MirrenScotland Gus MacPherson Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Manner of departure Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment RangersScotland Alex McLeish8 May 2006SackedPre-seasonFrance Paul Le Guen9 May 2006 MotherwellEngland Terry Butcher17 May 2006Signed by Sydney FCScotland Maurice Malpas17 May 2006 HibernianEngland Tony Mowbray13 October 2006Signed by West Bromwich Albion7thScotland John Collins31 October 2006 Dunfermline AthleticScotland Jim Leishman26 October 2006Became Director of Football11thIreland Stephen Kenny10 November 2006 Dundee UnitedScotland Craig Brewster29 October 2006Sacked12thScotland Craig Levein30 October 2006 RangersFrance Paul Le Guen4 January 2007Mutual consent2ndScotland Walter Smith10 January 2007 Heart of MidlothianLithuania Valdas Ivanauskas20 March 2007Mutual consent4thRussia Anatoliy Korobochka20 March 2007 (caretaker)30 July 2007 (permanent) Events 2006–07 in Scottish football 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 main WDL complete Scottish Professional Football League CEL RAN ABE HOM KIL HIB FAL INV DNU MOT STM DNF CL3Q CL2Q UC1 REL 19 8 11 55 38 26 6 6 65 34 C 10 12 16 40 59 8 8 22 26 55 R 15 5 18 49 47 17 10 11 47 35 13 10 15 56 46 11 13 14 42 48 16 7 15 47 54 10 8 20 41 61 21 9 8 61 32 8 12 18 31 51 Aberdeen Celtic Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Rangers St Mirren yes 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. 5 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored QR green1 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round green2 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round blue1 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round red1 Relegation to the Scottish First Division andqualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round 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). main FBR grey 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 complete Matches 23–33 During matches 23–33 each team played every other team once (either at home or away). main FBR grey ABE CEL DUN DNF FAL HOM HIB INV KIL MOT RAN STM Aberdeen 1–2 2–4 3–0 null 1–0 null 1–1 null null null null Celtic null null 2–1 null null 2–1 null 4–0 2–0 0–1 3–1 Dundee United null 0–3 0–0 1–5 null 0–0 null null 1–1 null null Dunfermline Athletic null null null null 0–1 1–0 null 1–1 null 0–1 0–0 Falkirk 1–2 1–0 null 1–0 null null null 0–2 1–2 null 2–1 Heart of Midlothian null 1–4 0–4 null 1–0 null 1–0 1–0 null null 1–1 Hibernian 0–0 null null null 2–0 0–1 null null 2–0 0–2 null Inverness Caledonian Thistle null 1–2 1–0 1–3 1–1 null 3–0 null null null 2–1 Kilmarnock 1–2 null 1–0 null null null 0–2 3–2 null 1–3 null Motherwell 0–2 null null 2–0 null 0–2 null 1–0 0–1 0–1 null Rangers 3–0 null 5–0 null 2–1 0–0 null 1–1 null null null St Mirren 0–2 null 0–1 null null null 1–1 null 0–2 0–0 0–1 complete Matches 34–38 During matches 34–38 each team played every other team in their half of the table once. Top six main FBR grey ABE CEL HOM HIB KIL RAN Aberdeen null null 2–2 3–0 2–0 Celtic 2–1 1–3 null null null Heart of Midlothian 1–1 null 2–0 null null Hibernian null 2–1 null 0–1 3–3 Kilmarnock null 1–3 1–0 null null Rangers null 2–0 2–1 null 0–1 complete Bottom six main FBR grey DUN DNF FAL INV MOT STM Dundee United null null 1–1 0–0 0–2 Dunfermline Athletic 1–0 0–3 null 4–1 null Falkirk 2–0 null 1–0 null 0–2 Inverness Caledonian Thistle null 2–1 null 2–0 null Motherwell null null 3–3 null 2–3 St Mirren null 0–1 null 0–1 null complete Goals Top scorers ScorerTeamAppearancesGoalsAverageScotland Kris BoydRangers32200.63Australia Scott McDonaldMotherwell32150.47Scotland Steven NaismithKilmarnock37150.41Ireland Anthony StokesFalkirk16140.86New Zealand Chris KillenHibernian18130.72Scotland Darren MackieAberdeen36130.36Netherlands Jan Vennegoor of HesselinkCeltic21130.62Scotland Colin NishKilmarnock33120.36Scotland Charlie AdamRangers32110.34Scotland Barry RobsonDundee United29110.38England John SuttonSt Mirren33110.33Scotland Craig DargoInverness CT27100.37Ireland Noel HuntDundee United28100.36England Steve LovellAberdeen2790.33Japan Shunsuke NakamuraCeltic3790.24Lithuania Andrius VelickaHeart of Midlothian2780.30 Hat-tricks List of Scottish Premier League hat-tricks ScorerForAgainstDate JPN Shunsuke Nakamura Celtic Dundee United 14 October 2006 IRL Anthony Stokes Falkirk Dundee United 28 October 2006 IRL Anthony Stokes Falkirk Dunfermline Athletic 4 November 2006 DEN Thomas Gravesen Celtic St Mirren 12 November 2006 IRL Anthony Stokes Falkirk Inverness CT 30 December 2006 NED Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink Celtic St Mirren 20 January 2007 SCO Kris Boyd Rangers Kilmarnock 11 February 2007 SCO Kris Boyd Rangers Aberdeen 17 March 2007 SCO 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: ClubAverageHighestCeltic57,92859,659Rangers49,95550,488Hearts16,93717,369Hibernian14,58716,747Aberdeen12,47520,045Dundee United7,14712,329Kilmarnock6,80713,506Dunfermline Athletic6,1068,561Motherwell5,87711,745St Mirren5,60910,251Falkirk5,3877,245Inverness CT4,8797,522 Source: SPL official website Awards Monthly awards Scottish Premier League monthly awards MonthManagerPlayerYoung PlayerAugustSCO Jim Jefferies (Kilmarnock)TRI Russell Latapy (Falkirk)IRL Aiden McGeady (Celtic)SeptemberSCO Gordon Strachan (Celtic) SCO Allan McGregor (Rangers) IRL Aiden McGeady (Celtic) OctoberSCO Charlie Christie (Inverness CT) ENG Lee Naylor (Celtic) IRL Anthony Stokes (Falkirk)November SCO Craig Levein (Dundee United) SCO Russell Anderson (Aberdeen) IRL Anthony Stokes (Falkirk)December SCO John Hughes (Falkirk) POL Artur Boruc (Celtic) SCO Darren Barr (Falkirk)January SCO Gordon Strachan (Celtic) NED Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (Celtic) SCO Christophe Berra (Hearts)February SCO Maurice Malpas (Motherwell) JPN Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic) SCO Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian)March SCO Craig Levein (Dundee United) SCO Alan Hutton (Rangers) SCO Steven Naismith (Kilmarnock)April IRL Stephen Kenny (Dunfermline Athletic) NIR Neil Lennon (Celtic) SCO Mark Reynolds (Motherwell) Annual awards AwardWinnerClubPFA Players' Player of the YearJPN Shunsuke NakamuraCelticPFA Young Player of the YearSCO Steven NaismithKilmarnockSFWA Footballer of the YearJPN Shunsuke NakamuraCelticSFWA Young Player of the YearSCO Scott Brown footballer, born June 1985HibernianPFA Manager of the YearSCO Gordon StrachanCelticSFWA Manager of the YearSCO Gordon StrachanCeltic PFA Scotland Team of the YearSPFA's team of the 2006/07 season http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/6582205.stm BBC Sport 23 April 2007Goalkeeper POL Artur Boruc(Celtic) Defenders SCO Steven Whittaker(Hibernian) SCO Russell Anderson(Aberdeen) SCO Stephen McManus(Celtic) ENG Lee Naylor(Celtic) Midfielders SCO Scott Brown(Hibernian) SCO Barry Ferguson(Rangers) JPN Shunsuke Nakamura(Celtic) Forwards SCO Steven Naismith(Kilmarnock) SCO Kris Boyd(Rangers) AUS Scott McDonald(Motherwell) See also 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 References Category:Scottish Premier League seasons 1 Scot