1987–88 Scottish Premier Division

Scottish Premier Division
Season	1987–88
Champions	Celtic
Relegated	Falkirk Dunfermline Athletic Morton
European Cup	Celtic
UEFA Cup	Heart of Midlothian Rangers Aberdeen
Cup Winners' Cup	Dundee United
Matches played	264
Goals scored	646 (2.45 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tommy Coyne (33)
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 Scottish Premier Division season was won by Celtic, ten points ahead of Heart of Midlothian. Due to a league contraction to ten teams Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic and Morton were relegated.

Table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Celtic !Celtic (C)	44	31	10	3	79	23	+56	72	1988–89 European Cup First round
2	Heart of Midlothian !Heart of Midlothian	44	23	16	5	74	32	+42	62	1988–89 UEFA Cup First round
3	Rangers !Rangers	44	26	8	10	85	34	+51	60
4	Aberdeen !Aberdeen	44	21	17	6	56	25	+31	59
5	Dundee United !Dundee United	44	16	15	13	54	47	+7	47	1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup First round
6	Hibernian !Hibernian	44	12	19	13	41	42	−1	43
7	Dundee !Dundee	44	17	7	20	70	64	+6	41
8	Motherwell !Motherwell	44	13	10	21	37	56	−19	36
9	St Mirren !St Mirren	44	10	15	19	41	64	−23	35
10	Falkirk !Falkirk (R)	44	10	11	23	41	75	−34	31	Relegation to First Division
11	Dunfermline Athletic !Dunfermline Athletic (R)	44	8	10	26	41	84	−43	26
12	Morton !Morton (R)	44	3	10	31	27	100	−73	16

Source: Statto
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

References

Statto

1987–88 in Scottish football

« 1986–87 1988–89 »

Domestic leagues	Football League Premier Division First Division Second Division Highland League

Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Junior Cup Tennent's Sixes

European competitions	European Cup European Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup

Related to national team	Results Euro 1988 qualifying (Group 7) Rous Cup

Club seasons

Premier Division	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Morton Motherwell Rangers St. Mirren

First Division	Airdrieonians Clyde Clydebank Dumbarton East Fife Forfar Athletic Hamilton Academical Kilmarnock Meadowbank Thistle Partick Thistle Queen of the South Raith Rovers

Second Division	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Arbroath Ayr United Brechin City Berwick Rangers Cowdenbeath East Stirlingshire Montrose Queen's Park St. Johnstone Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

Top division football seasons in Scotland

Football League	1890–91 1891–92 1892–93

Division One	1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75

Premier Division	1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98

Premier League	1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13

Premiership	2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

1987–88 in European football (UEFA)

« 1986–87 1988–89 »

Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '87 '88 England Estonia '87 '88 Faroe Islands '87 '88 Finland '87 '88 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '87 '88 Israel Italy Latvia '87 '88 Lithuania '87 '88 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '87 '88 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '87 '88 Spain Sweden '87 '88 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '87 '88 Finland '87 '88 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '87 '88 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '87 '88 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia

League cups	England Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Soviet Union '87 '88

UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

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