The 2010–11 season was the 114th season of competitive football in Scotland. ^[1]

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• Rangers won the SPL title, pipping rivals Celtic on the final day of the season, their third title in a row and their 54th Scottish league championship. It was Walter Smith's final season as manager of Rangers.
• Inverness Caledonian Thistle are competing in the Scottish Premier League for the sixth time, their last season in the top-flight since the 2008–09 season, after being promoted as First Division champions last season.^[2]
• Stirling Albion are competing in the First Division after being promoted as Second Division champions.^[3]
• Arbroath won the Third Division, the first title in the club's 133-year history.

• 29 July – Alex Wilson, 76, Portsmouth and Scotland defender.^[6]
• 2 September – Jackie Sinclair, 67, Dunfermline and Scotland winger.^[7]
• 30 October – John Benson, 67, Manchester City, Torquay United, Bournemouth, Exeter City and Norwich City defender; Bournemouth, Manchester City, Burnley and Wigan Athletic manager.^[8]
• 10 November – Jim Farry, 56, Scottish Football League secretary (1979–1990) and Scottish Football Association chief executive (1990–1999).^[9]
• 18 November – Jim Cruickshank, 69, Queen's Park, Hearts, Dumbarton and Scotland goalkeeper.^[10]
• 28 December – Avi Cohen, 54, Rangers defender.^[11]
• 24 January – Alec Boden, 85, Celtic and Ayr United defender.
• 27 January – Svein Mathisen, 58, Norwegian player who made three appearances for Hibernian in 1978.^[12]
• 10 March – Danny Paton, 75, Hearts forward.
• 4 April – John Niven, 89, East Fife and Kilmarnock goalkeeper.^[13]
• 6 April – Jim Blair, 64, St Mirren and Hibs forward.
• 11 April – Jimmy Briggs, 74, Dundee United defender.^[14]
• 12 April – Ronnie Coyle, 46, Raith Rovers, Celtic, Ayr United, Clyde, East Fife and Queen's Park defender.^[15]
• 20 April – Allan Brown, 84, East Fife and Scotland forward.^[16]
• 28 April – Willie O'Neill, 70, Celtic defender.^[17]
• 30 April – Eddie Turnbull, 88, Hibernian and Scotland player; manager of Queen's Park, Aberdeen and Hibernian.
• 5 May – Dougie McCracken, 46, Ayr United, Dumbarton and East Fife player.
• 5 May – Tommy Wright, 83, Partick Thistle, East Fife and Scotland winger.^[18]
• 14 May – Ernie Walker, 83, Secretary of the Scottish Football Association from 1977 to 1990.^[19]
• 30 May – Eddie Morrison, 63, Kilmarnock and Morton forward; Kilmarnock manager.^[20]