The Scottish Premier League was the top-level league competition for professional football clubs in Scotland. The league was founded in 1998, when it broke away from the Scottish Football League (SFL). It was abolished in 2013, when the SPL and SFL merged to form the new Scottish Professional Football League, with its top division being known as the Scottish Premiership. A total of 19 clubs competed in the SPL, but only the Old Firm clubs of Glasgow—Celtic and Rangers—won the league championship.
Hearts take on Hibernian in an Edinburgh Derby played at Tynecastle in December 2006
Both sets of fans at an Old Firm match at Celtic Park
Rangers playing Barcelona at the Camp Nou in the 2007–08 Champions League
A cameraman pitchside at Tynecastle Stadium
The Scottish Premiership known as the cinch Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. Sixteen clubs have played in the Scottish Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season. Celtic are the current league champions, having won the 2022–23 Scottish Premiership.
Leigh Griffiths, the Scottish Premiership's all-time top goalscorer
Image: Pittodrie from Block Y, May 2015
Image: Celtic Park 3
Image: Dens stand
