2016–17 Scottish Championship

Ladbrokes Championship

Season	2016–17
Matches played	73
Goals scored	180 (2.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jason Cummings (8 goals)^[1]
Biggest home win	Hibernian 4-0 Greenock Morton^[2] (27 August 2016) Hibernian 4-0 Queen of the South^[2] (19 November 2016)
Biggest away win	Queen of the South 0–5 Greenock Morton^[2] (15 October 2016)
Highest scoring	Dunfermline Athletic 4–3 Dumbarton^[2] (6 August 2016) Dunfermline Athletic 4–3 St Mirren^[2] (24 September 2016)
Longest winning run	5 matches:^[2] Dundee United Hibernian
Longest unbeaten run	9 matches:^[2] Dundee United
Longest winless run	14 matches:^[2] St Mirren
Longest losing run	6 matches:^[2] Queen of the South St Mirren
Highest attendance	16,477^[2] Hibernian 2–1 Dunfermline Athletic (13 August 2016)
Lowest attendance	600^[2] Dumbarton 0–0 Raith Rovers (19 November 2016)
Total attendance	327,319^[2]
Average attendance	4,483^[2]
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 4 December 2016.

The 2016–17 Scottish Championship (known as the Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the 22nd season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football. The fixtures were published on 17 June 2016.^[3]

Ten teams will contest the league. Ayr United, Dumbarton, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Falkirk, Greenock Morton, Hibernian, Queen of the South, Raith Rovers and St Mirren.

Teams

The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.

To Championship

Promoted from Scottish League One

Relegated from Scottish Premiership

Dundee United

From Championship

Relegated to Scottish League One

Promoted to Scottish Premiership

Rangers

Stadia and locations

Ayr United	Dumbarton	Dundee United	Dunfermline Athletic
Somerset Park	Dumbarton Football Stadium	Tannadice Park	East End Park
Capacity: 10,185^[4]	Capacity: 2,020^[5]	Capacity: 14,223^[6]	Capacity: 11,904^[7]

Falkirk	Ayr United Dumbarton Dundee Utd Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Morton Hibernian Queen of the South Raith Rovers St Mirren		Greenock Morton
Falkirk Stadium			Cappielow Park
Capacity: 7,937^[8]			Capacity: 11,589^[9]

Hibernian	Queen of the South	Raith Rovers	St. Mirren
Easter Road	Palmerston Park	Stark's Park	Paisley 2021 Stadium
Capacity: 20,421^[10]	Capacity: 8,690^[11]	Capacity: 9,031^[12]	Capacity: 8,023^[13]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ayr United	Ian McCall	Nicky Devlin	Adidas	Bodog
Dumbarton	Stephen Aitken	Darren Barr	Joma	Turnberry Homes
Dundee United	Ray McKinnon	Seán Dillon	Nike	McEwan Fraser Legal
Dunfermline Athletic	Allan Johnston	Andy Geggan	Joma	SRJ Windows
Falkirk	Peter Houston	Mark Kerr	Puma	Central Demolition
Greenock Morton	Jim Duffy	Lee Kilday	Vision Outsourcing	Millions
Hibernian	Neil Lennon	David Gray	Nike	Marathonbet
Queen of the South	Jim Thomson (caretaker)	Chris Higgins	Macron	KBT Pharmacy
Raith Rovers	Gary Locke	Jason Thomson	Puma	valmcdermid.com (Home shirt) Myeloma UK (Away shirt)
St Mirren	Jack Ross	Andy Webster	Carbrini	JD Sports

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Dundee United	name !Mixu Paatelainen	Sacked	4 May 2016^[14]	Pre-season	name !Ray McKinnon	12 May 2016^[15]
Raith Rovers	name !Ray McKinnon	Resigned	11 May 2016^[16]		name !Gary Locke	20 May 2016^[17]
Hibernian	name !Alan Stubbs	Signed by Rotherham United	1 June 2016^[18]		name !Neil Lennon	8 June 2016^[19]
St Mirren	name !Alex Rae	Sacked	18 September 2016^[20]	10th	name !Allan McManus (interim)	18 September 2016^[20]
St Mirren	name !Allan McManus (interim)	End of interim	4 October 2016	10th	name !Jack Ross	4 October 2016^[21]
Queen of the South	name !Gavin Skelton	Resigned	7 November 2016^[22]	6th	name !Jim Thomson (caretaker)	7 November 2016^[22]

League Summary

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Hibernian	15	9	4	2	26	8	+18	31	Promotion to Scottish Premiership
2	Dundee United	15	9	4	2	24	12	+12	31	Qualification to Premiership play-off semi-finals
3	Falkirk	15	7	4	4	21	16	+5	25	Qualification to Premiership play-off quarter-finals
4	Greenock Morton	14	6	5	3	21	15	+6	23	Qualification to Premiership play-off quarter-finals
5	Raith Rovers	14	6	5	3	19	14	+5	23
6	Queen of the South	14	5	3	6	16	21	−5	18
7	Ayr United	15	4	4	7	13	22	−9	16
8	Dumbarton	15	3	5	7	14	21	−7	14
9	Dunfermline Athletic	15	3	4	8	17	25	−8	13	Qualification to Championship play-offs
10	St Mirren	14	0	4	10	11	28	−17	4	Relegation to Scottish League One

Updated to match(es) played on 3 December 2016. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

Positions by Round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

	Leader - Promotion to 2017–18 Scottish Premiership
	Qualification to Premiership play-off semi-finals
	Qualification to Premiership play-off quarter-finals
	Qualification to Championship play-offs
	Relegation to 2017–18 Scottish League One

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Team \ Round
Ayr United !Ayr United	10	10	10	10	7	6	6	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7
Dumbarton !Dumbarton	8	5	5	5	6	8	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	8
Dundee United !Dundee United	4	8	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	2	2	2	2	2	2
Dunfermline Athletic !Dunfermline Athletic	2	4	7	7	8	9	7	8	8	8	8	9	9	8	9
Falkirk !Falkirk	9	7	8	6	5	4	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	5	3
Greenock Morton !Greenock Morton	5	6	6	8	9	7	8	6	6	7	6	4	3	3	4
Hibernian !Hibernian	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	6	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	2	3	4	6	6	6	6
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	1	1	1	2	3	3	4	4	5	4	3	3	4	4	5
St Mirren !St Mirren	7	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Source: Statto.com

Results

Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 180 games, with each team playing 36.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Ayr United !AYR	Dumbarton !DUM	Dundee United !DUN	Dunfermline Athletic !DNF	Falkirk !FAL	Greenock Morton !GMO	Hibernian !HIB	Queen of the South !QOS	Raith Rovers !RAI	St Mirren !STM
Ayr United !Ayr United				0–0	0–1	2–1	0–3	1–0	0–2	1–1
Dumbarton !Dumbarton	0–3		1–0	2–2		0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1
Dundee United !Dundee United	3–0	2–1		1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–2
Dunfermline Athletic !Dunfermline Athletic	1–1	4–3	1–3				1–3	0–1	0–0	4–3
Falkirk !Falkirk	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–1		1–1	1–2		2–4	3–1
Greenock Morton !Greenock Morton	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1				1–0	3–1
Hibernian !Hibernian	1–2		1–1	2–1	1–1	4–0		4–0		2–0
Queen of the South !Queen of the South	4–1	1–2	1–4		2–0	0–5	0–0		3–1
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	1–1	3–2		2–0	0–2		0–0	1–0		3–1
St Mirren !St Mirren		0–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–3

Updated to games played on 4 December 2016.
Source: Scottish Championship
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	Ayr United !AYR	Dumbarton !DUM	Dundee United !DUN	Dunfermline Athletic !DNF	Falkirk !FAL	Greenock Morton !GMO	Hibernian !HIB	Queen of the South !QOS	Raith Rovers !RAI	St Mirren !STM
Ayr United !Ayr United
Dumbarton !Dumbarton
Dundee United !Dundee United
Dunfermline Athletic !Dunfermline Athletic
Falkirk !Falkirk
Greenock Morton !Greenock Morton
Hibernian !Hibernian
Queen of the South !Queen of the South
Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers
St Mirren !St Mirren

Source: Scottish Championship
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of matches played on 3 December 2016^[1]^[23]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	8
2	Tony Andreu	Dundee United	7
3	Nicky Clark	Dunfermline Athletic	6
	Lee Miller	Falkirk
	Stephen Dobbie	Queen of the South
	Derek Lyle	Queen of the South
7	Alan Forrest	Ayr United	5
8	Simon Murray	Dundee United	4
	Joe Cardle	Dunfermline Athletic
	John Baird	Falkirk
	Ross Forbes	Greenock Morton
	Gary Oliver	Greenock Morton
	Thomas O'Ware	Greenock Morton
	Martin Boyle	Hibernian
	Mark Stewart	Raith Rovers

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Cardle, JoeJoe Cardle	Dunfermline Athletic	Dumbarton	4–3	000000002016-08-06-00006 August 2016	^[24]
Forrest, AlanAlan Forrest	Ayr United	Dumbarton	3–0	000000002016-10-15-000015 October 2016	^[25]

Discipline

Player

Yellow cards

As of matches played on 3 December 2016^[26]

Rank	Player	Club	Cards
1	Jamie McDonagh	Greenock Morton	6
2	Andy Geggan	Dunfermline Athletic	5
	Kyle Benedictus	Raith Rovers
	Ross Callachan	Raith Rovers
	Kyle Hutton	St Mirren
6	14 players		4

Red cards

As of matches played on 3 December 2016^[26]

Rank	Player	Club	Cards
1	Marvin Bartley	Hibernian	2
2	14 players		1

Club

Yellow cards

As of matches played on 3 December 2016^[27]

Rank	Club	Cards
1	Raith Rovers	33
2	Dundee United	31
3	Dunfermline Athletic	30

Red cards

As of matches played on 3 December 2016^[27]

Rank	Club	Cards
1	Dunfermline Athletic	5
2	Hibernian	3
3	Dundee United	2

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Ayr United !Ayr United	14,395	3,100	1,441	2,056	-0.63970130678283−36.0%^†
2	Dumbarton !Dumbarton	8,525	1,475	600	1,065	0.023054755043228+2.3%^†
3	Dundee United !Dundee United	56,694	10,925	5,829	7,086	-0.88919563307818−11.0%^†
4	Dunfermline Athletic !Dunfermline Athletic	32,285	7,622	2,732	4,612	0.31922196796339+31.9%^†
5	Falkirk !Falkirk	40,670	6,458	4,311	5,083	0.088669950738916+8.8%^†
6	Greenock Morton !Greenock Morton	14,764	3,378	1,528	2,109	-0.77252747252747−22.7%^†
7	Hibernian !Hibernian	104,430	16,477	13,861	14,918	0.59738730056751+59.7%^†
8	Queen of the South !Queen of the South	14,662	3,703	1,261	2,094	-0.99007092198582−0.9%^†
9	Raith Rovers !Raith Rovers	17,448	5,114	1,241	2,492	0.075993091537133+7.5%^†
10	St Mirren !St Mirren	23,446	4,997	2,126	3,349	-0.94391206313416−5.6%^†
	League total	327,319	16,477	600	4,483	-0.62143055170502−37.8%^†

Updated to games played on 3 December 2016
Source: ^[2]^[28]

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Ref.
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Ref.
August	Neil Lennon	Hibernian	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	^[29]
September	Peter Houston	Falkirk	Cammy Bell	Dundee United
October	Jim Duffy	Greenock Morton	Thomas O'Ware	Greenock Morton
November
December
January
February
March
April

Championship play-offs

The second bottom team will enter into a 4-team playoff with the 2nd-4th placed teams in 2016–17 Scottish League One.

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2016–17 Premiership teams	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Motherwell Partick Thistle Rangers Ross County St Johnstone

2016–17 Championship teams	Ayr United Dumbarton Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Greenock Morton Hibernian Queen of the South Raith Rovers St Mirren

2016–17 League One teams	Airdrieonians Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Brechin City East Fife Livingston Peterhead Queen's Park Stenhousemuir Stranraer

2016–17 League Two teams	Annan Athletic Arbroath Berwick Rangers Clyde Cowdenbeath Edinburgh City Elgin City Forfar Athletic Montrose Stirling Albion

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