2015–16 Scottish Premiership#Final

Promoted from Scottish Championship

• Heart of Midlothian

Relegated from Scottish Premiership

• St Mirren

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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|adjust_points_DUN=-3 |note_DUN=Dundee United were deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player in their win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle on 6 May 2016.{{cite web|title=Dundee Utd docked points for fielding ineligible player Ali Coote v ICT |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36265268|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=11 May 2016|date=11 May 2016}}

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|class_rules=1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification and second stage group allocation).{{cite web |url=http://www.scoresway.com/?sport=soccer&page=season&id=11644&view=rules |title=Premiership 2015/2016 - Season rules |publisher=Scoresway |access-date=1 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210174207/http://www.scoresway.com/?sport=soccer&page=season&id=11644&view=rules |archive-date=10 December 2018 |url-status=dead }}

|note_header_res=Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

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Teams play each other twice, once at home and once away.

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|source=[http://spfl.co.uk/premiership/results/ Scottish Premiership]

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Teams play every other team once (either at home or away).

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After 33 matches, the league splits into two sections of six teams each, with teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches are determined upon the league table at the time of the split.

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{{updated|matches played on 15 May 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scottish-premiership/top-scorers |title=Scottish Premiership Top Scorers |work=BBC |access-date=23 September 2015}}

The quarter-finals were contested between the 3rd and 4th placed teams in the Scottish Championship; Hibernian and Raith Rovers. Hibernian, the winners, advanced to the semi-finals to face the 2nd placed team in the Championship; Falkirk. Falkirk, the winners, advanced to the final to play-off against the 11th placed team in the Premiership, Kilmarnock, with the winners securing a place in the 2016–17 Scottish Premiership.

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|goals1=Vaulks {{goal|90+1}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk

|attendance=7,636

|referee=John Beaton

|motm=

}}

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|result=

|nobars=1

|date=22 May 2016

|score=4–0

|aggregatescore=4–1

|time=15:00

|report=[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36314850 BBC Report]

|team1=Kilmarnock

|team2=Falkirk

|goals1=Kiltie {{goal|3||62}}
Addison {{goal|8}}
Boyd {{goal|65}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Rugby Park, Kilmarnock

|attendance=11,013

|referee=Willie Collum

|motm=

}}

Celtic FC drew the highest average home attendance in the 2015–16 edition of the Scottish Premiership.

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