2017–18 Scottish Premiership

The following teams have changed division since the 2016–17 season. To Premiership Promoted from Scottish Championship • Hibernian From Premiership Relegated to Scottish Championship • Inverness Caledonian Thistle Stadia and locations Personnel and kits Managerial changes ==Format==

Basic 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. Prize money In April 2018, the SPFL confirmed the prize money to be allocated to the league members at the conclusion of the competitions. The Premiership winners would receive £3.176 million, with a total pot of £24.5m to be distributed across the four divisions. ==League summary==

League table 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. Source: BBC Sport ==Results==

Matches 1–22 Teams play each other twice, once at home and once away. Matches 23–33 Teams play every other team once (either at home or away). Matches 34–38 After 33 matches, the league splits into two sections of six teams i.e. the top six and the bottom six, with the teams playing every other team in their section once (either at home or away). The exact matches are determined by the position of the teams in the league table at the time of the split. Top six Bottom six ==Season statistics==

Top scorers Hat-tricks Discipline Player Yellow cards Red cards Club Yellow cards Red cards Attendances These are the average attendances of the teams. ==Awards==

The quarter-final was contested between the third and fourth-placed teams (Dundee United and Dunfermline Athletic) in the Scottish Championship, with the winners advancing to the semi-final to face the second-placed Championship side (Livingston). The last remaining Championship team played off against the eleventh-placed Premiership team in the final, with the winners securing the last place in the 2018–19 Scottish Premiership. Quarter-final First leg Second leg Semi-final First leg Second leg Final First leg Second leg Livingston were promoted to the Premiership. == Broadcasting ==

Live Matches The SPFL permitted Sky Sports and BT Sport to show up to six live home matches between the broadcasters from each club - although this was only four for Rangers and Celtic. Sky Sports and BT Sport's deals allowed them to broadcast 30 games each (and the play-offs for BT). The deal roughly provided £21m to SPFL per season. Highlights Sky Sports held the rights to Saturday night highlights - however, they did not broadcast a dedicated programme and instead merely showed the goals of the Premiership matches on Sky Sports News in their Goals Express programme primarily focused on goals from the English Football League. Gaelic-language channel BBC Alba had the rights to broadcast the repeat in full of 38 Saturday 3pm matches "as live" at 5.30pm. The main Premiership highlights programme was BBC Scotland's Sportscene programme, hosted on Sundays, which showed in depth highlights of all six Premiership matches every weekend. STV showed the goals from the weekend matches on Monday nights during the Sport section of their News at Six programme as well as during their weeknight football-debate show on STV2. The SPFL also uploaded the goals from every Premiership match onto its YouTube channel, available from 6pm on a Sunday for UK and Ireland viewers and 10pm on a Saturday for those worldwide. ==See also==