Stadia and locations

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Aberdeen	Celtic	Dundee	Dundee United
Pittodrie Stadium	Celtic Park	Dens Park	Tannadice Park
Capacity: 20,897[4]	Capacity: 60,355[5]	Capacity: 11,506[6]	Capacity: 14,229[7]
Hamilton Academical	Aberdeen Dundee Utd Dundee Heart of Midlothian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kilmarnock Ross County St. Johnstone Celtic Hamilton Motherwell Partick Thistle Location of teams in 2015–16 Scottish Premiership		Heart of Midlothian
New Douglas Park			Tynecastle Stadium
Capacity: 6,078[8]			Capacity: 17,529[9]
Inverness Caledonian Thistle			Kilmarnock
Caledonian Stadium			Rugby Park
Capacity: 7,800[10]			Capacity: 18,128[11]
Motherwell	Partick Thistle	Ross County	St Johnstone
Fir Park	Firhill Stadium	Victoria Park	McDiarmid Park
Capacity: 13,677[12]	Capacity: 10,102[13]	Capacity: 6,541[14]	Capacity: 10,696[15]

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Personnel and kits

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Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aberdeen	Derek McInnes	Ryan Jack	Adidas	Saltire Energy
Celtic	Ronny Deila	Scott Brown	New Balance	Magners
Dundee	Paul Hartley	James McPake	Puma	Kilmac Energy
Dundee United	Gordon Young (interim)	Seán Dillon	Nike	Calor
Hamilton Academical	Martin Canning	Michael McGovern	Adidas[16]	Nevis (H), Scotia Aid (A)
Heart of Midlothian	Robbie Neilson	Alim Öztürk	Puma	Save the Children
Inverness CT	John Hughes	Richie Foran	Carbrini	Subway
Kilmarnock	Lee Clark	Mark Connolly	Erreà	QTS
Motherwell	Mark McGhee	Keith Lasley	Macron	Cash Converters
Partick Thistle	Alan Archibald	Abdul Osman	Joma	Kingsford Capital Management
Ross County	Jim McIntyre	Andrew Davies	Carbrini	Stanley CRC Evans Offshore
St Johnstone	Tommy Wright	Dave Mackay	Joma	Invest in Perth

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Managerial changes

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Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Motherwell	Ian Baraclough	Sacked	23 September 2015[17]	10th	Mark McGhee	13 October 2015[18]
Dundee United	Jackie McNamara		26 September 2015[19]	11th	Mixu Paatelainen	14 October 2015[20]
Kilmarnock	Gary Locke	Resigned	30 January 2016[21]	11th	Lee McCulloch (interim)	30 January 2016[21]
Kilmarnock	Lee McCulloch	End of interim	15 February 2016[22]	10th	Lee Clark	15 February 2016[22]
Dundee United	Mixu Paatelainen	Sacked	4 May 2016[23]	12th	Gordon Young (interim)	4 May 2016[24]

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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.

Promotion and relegation

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.

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 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.

Quarter-final

First leg

Raith Rovers v Hibernian

4 May 2016	Raith Rovers	1–0	Hibernian	Stark's Park, Kirkcaldy
19:45	Panayiotou 75'	BBC Report		Attendance: 5,330 Referee: Kevin Clancy

Second leg

Hibernian v Raith Rovers

7 May 2016	Hibernian	2–0 (2–1 agg.)	Raith Rovers	Easter Road, Edinburgh
12:30	McGinn 8' McGregor 12'	BBC Report		Attendance: 11,133 Referee: John McKendrick

Semi-final

First leg

Hibernian v Falkirk

10 May 2016	Hibernian	2–2	Falkirk	Easter Road, Edinburgh
19:45	Henderson 57' McGregor 66'	BBC Report	Miller 34' McHugh 80'	Attendance: 11,830 Referee: Alan Muir

Second leg

Falkirk v Hibernian

13 May 2016	Falkirk	3–2 (5–4 agg.)	Hibernian	Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk
19:45	Alston 13' Leahy 79' McHugh 90'	BBC Report	Keatings 31' (pen), 34'	Attendance: 7,851 Referee: Craig Thomson

Final

First leg

Falkirk v Kilmarnock

19 May 2016	Falkirk	1–0	Kilmarnock	Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk
19:45	Vaulks 90+1'	BBC Report		Attendance: 7,636 Referee: John Beaton

Second leg

Kilmarnock v Falkirk

22 May 2016	Kilmarnock	4–0 (4–1 agg.)	Falkirk	Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
15:00	Kiltie 3', 62' Addison 8' Boyd 65'	BBC Report		Attendance: 11,013 Referee: Willie Collum