1964–65 Scottish Division One

59th season of top-tier football league in Scotland March 2026 Scottish Division One 1964–65 Kilmarnock AirdrieoniansThird Lanark 1963–64 1965–66 The 1964–65 Scottish Division One was won by Kilmarnock on goal average, ahead of Hearts. Airdrieonians and Third Lanark finished 17th and 18th respectively and were relegated to the 1965-66 Second Division. In one of the closest finishes ever seen in a league competition in Britain, Hearts played Kilmarnock at Tynecastle on the last day of the season, holding a two-point lead over the Ayrshire club and a slightly better goal average. Kilmarnock had to beat Hearts by 2–0, or by a greater winning margin, to win the title. Any result better than a 2–0 defeat for Hearts, including other two-goal losing margins where Hearts scored six goals or more (e.g. 6-8) would have made Hearts champions. Realistically, Kilmarnock needed to win by two clear goals, which was the result they achieved by defeating Hearts 2–0 with first-half goals from Davie Sneddon and Brien McIlroy, giving them a goal average of 1.878 as against Hearts' 1.836. If goal difference had been the rule Hearts would have won the title. At the time, it was the only occasion that the championship was decided on the final day between the two challengers directly (in 1891 and 1905 a playoff took place when the top two finished level on points); the rare situation occurred again in 1991, and then in 2026.The 4 rare final-day winner-takes-all Scottish premiership title deciders, Laura Pollock, The National via Yahoo! Sport, 15 May 2026Scottish football braces itself for an almighty climax with Celtic v Hearts, Mark Atkinson, The Scotsman, 15 May 2026 To date, this was also the first and only time that neither of the Old Firm clubs finished in the top four of the top flight, and the fifth and last season (following 1897, 1903, 1904 and 1960, four also featuring Hearts) that neither Glasgow club finished in the top two.'Very Heaven' (page 9); David Ross, 2007; Lulu.com; 9781430317210 The situation reversed completely the following season, as Rangers and Celtic were the finalists in both cups and finished first and second in the league. League table main WDL 5 QR y 2 KIL Kilmarnock HOM Hearts DNF Dunfermline Athletic HIB Hibernian RAN Rangers DND Dundee CLY Clyde CEL Celtic DNU Dundee United GMF Morton PAR Partick Thistle ABD Aberdeen STJ St Johnstone MOT Motherwell STM St Mirren FAL Falkirk AIR Airdrieonians THI Third Lanark 22 6 6 62 33 22 6 6 90 49 22 5 7 83 36 21 4 9 75 47 18 8 8 78 35 15 10 9 86 63 17 6 11 64 58 16 5 13 76 57 15 6 13 59 51 13 7 14 54 54 11 10 13 57 58 12 8 14 59 75 9 11 14 57 62 10 8 16 45 54 9 6 19 38 70 7 7 20 43 85 5 4 25 48 110 3 1 30 22 99 green1 Champions C red1 Relegated to the 1965–66 Second Division R R complete RSSSF Results main FBR grey ABE AIR CEL CLY DND DNU DNF FAL HOM HIB KIL MOR MOT PAR RAN STJ STM THI Aberdeen 5–2 1–3 0–3 1–1 1–0 2–2 2–1 0–3 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 5–1 2–0 5–5 2–1 3–1 Airdrieonians 2–4 0–6 3–5 2–2 3–3 3–4 2–2 1–2 0–1 2–1 0–2 0–3 0–5 0–4 1–2 5–1 2–1 Celtic 8–0 2–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 1–2 3–0 1–2 2–4 2–0 1–0 2–0 1–2 3–1 0–1 4–1 1–0 Clyde 4–0 4–3 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 6–1 2–5 1–3 1–2 1–0 1–1 4–1 0–3 4–1 1–1 1–0 Dundee 3–1 4–0 3–3 1–2 2–4 3–1 3–2 1–2 2–1 1–3 1–1 4–2 3–3 4–1 4–4 2–1 6–1 Dundee United 0–3 3–2 3–1 6–0 1–4 2–0 4–1 1–1 0–1 0–1 3–2 3–1 1–2 1–3 4–1 2–0 4–1 Dunfermline Athletic 2–0 3–1 5–1 7–2 3–3 0–1 5–1 3–2 1–0 1–0 6–0 3–0 2–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 8–0 Falkirk 0–1 4–1 6–2 0–0 4–2 0–0 0–4 2–2 0–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 2–2 0–5 3–2 2–0 3–0 Heart of Midlothian 6–3 8–1 4–2 3–0 1–7 3–1 1–1 5–2 0–1 0–2 4–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 4–1 0–0 3–1 Hibernian 4–2 5–1 0–4 4–3 2–2 3–4 1–0 6–0 3–5 1–2 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 5–0 Kilmarnock 2–1 2–0 5–2 2–1 1–4 4–2 1–0 2–0 3–1 4–3 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 3–1 Morton 1–1 5–0 3–3 0–0 3–2 2–0 2–0 4–0 2–3 3–2 5–1 0–2 0–3 1–3 3–1 0–0 4–0 Motherwell 2–2 1–2 1–3 0–1 2–1 1–1 1–3 1–0 1–3 0–2 0–2 4–1 0–2 1–3 2–2 4–0 3–3 Partick Thistle 2–1 3–1 2–4 0–3 4–4 0–0 1–2 4–1 1–3 4–2 1–0 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–2 1–2 0–1 Rangers 2–2 9–2 1–0 6–1 4–0 0–1 0–0 6–1 1–1 2–4 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 5–0 St Johnstone 2–4 1–1 3–0 1–0 2–2 2–0 1–3 2–2 0–3 1–3 0–1 3–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 5–1 5–0 St Mirren 4–0 3–0 1–5 2–3 0–2 2–1 1–4 3–0 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–4 4–1 0–7 1–0 2–1 Third Lanark 4–1 0–4 0–3 0–4 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–5 0–2 0–4 1–2 0–2 0–3 0–1 0–2 2–1 complete Awards AwardWinnerClubSFWA Footballer of the YearSCO Billy McNeillCeltic References 2 1 Category:Scottish Division One seasons Scot