2018–19_Scottish_Championship

2018–19 Scottish Championship

Football league season

The 2018–19 Scottish Championship (known as the Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 25th season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football. The fixtures were published on 15 June 2018, with the league starting on 4 August 2018.^[4]

Quick Facts Season, Dates ...

Ladbrokes Championship
Season	2018–19
Dates	4 August 2018 – 4 May 2019
Champions	Ross County
Promoted	Ross County
Relegated	Falkirk
Matches played	180
Goals scored	439 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lawrence Shankland (24 goals)^[1]^[2]
Biggest home win	Queen of the South 5–0 Ayr United^[3] (1 September 2018) Ross County 5–0 Greenock Morton^[3] (27 October 2018)
Biggest away win	Dundee United 0–5 Ayr United^[3] (30 November 2018)^[3]
Highest scoring	9 matches:^[3] 6 goals
Longest winning run	6 matches:^[3] Ross County
Longest unbeaten run	14 matches:^[3] Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Longest winless run	9 matches:^[3] Partick Thistle
Longest losing run	7 matches:^[3] Partick Thistle Queen of the South
Highest attendance	6,532^[3] Dundee United 2–3 Dunfermline Athletic (4 August 2018)
Lowest attendance	592^[3] Alloa Athletic 0–1 Ross County (1 December 2018)
Total attendance	561,688^[3]
Average attendance	3,120^[3] (239)
← 2017–18 2019–20 → All statistics correct as of 4 May 2019.

Ten teams contested the league: Alloa Athletic, Ayr United, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Falkirk, Greenock Morton, Inverness CT, Partick Thistle, Queen of the South and Ross County.

Ross County won the league following a 4–0 win over Queen of the South on 26 April 2019 to return to the Premiership after only one season's absence.^[5]

Teams

The following teams have changed division since the 2017–18 season:

To Championship

Ayr United secured promotion to the Championship on 28 April 2018 after a 2–0 victory over Albion Rovers.^[6] Ross County were relegated to the Championship on 12 May 2018 after a 1–1 draw with St Johnstone.^[7] Alloa Athletic won promotion following a 2–1 aggregate victory in the play-off final.^[8] Partick Thistle were also relegated to the Championship following a 3–1 aggregate defeat to Livingston in the play-off final.^[9]

From Championship

Brechin City were relegated to League One on 24 March 2018 after a 2–0 defeat to Greenock Morton.^[10] St Mirren secured promotion to the Premiership on 14 April 2018 after a goalless draw with Livingston,^[11] who were also promoted after winning the Premiership play-off final.^[9] Dumbarton were relegated after losing the Championship play-off final.^[8]

Stadia and locations

More information Alloa Athletic, Ayr United ...

Alloa Athletic	Ayr United	Dundee United	Dunfermline Athletic
Recreation Park	Somerset Park	Tannadice Park	East End Park
Capacity: 3,100^[12]	Capacity: 10,185^[13]	Capacity: 14,223^[14]	Capacity: 11,480^[15]

Falkirk	Alloa Athletic Ayr United Dundee Utd Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Morton Inverness CT Queen of the South Ross County Partick Thistle		Greenock Morton
Falkirk Stadium			Cappielow Park
Capacity: 7,937^[16]			Capacity: 11,589^[17]

Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Partick Thistle	Queen of the South	Ross County
Caledonian Stadium	Firhill Stadium	Palmerston Park	Victoria Park
Capacity: 7,750^[18]	Capacity: 10,102^[19]	Capacity: 8,690^[20]	Capacity: 6,541^[21]

Personnel and kits

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Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alloa Athletic	Jim Goodwin	Andy Graham^[22]	Pendle	The Energy Check^[23]
Ayr United	Ian McCall	Ross Docherty^[24]	Adidas^[25]	Bitcoin BCH^[26]
Dundee United	Robbie Neilson	Fraser Fyvie^[27]	Nike^[28]	Utilita^[28]
Dunfermline Athletic	Stevie Crawford	Lee Ashcroft^[29]	Joma^[30]	SRJ Windows^[30]
Falkirk	Ray McKinnon	Jordan McGhee	Puma^[31]	Central Demolition^[31]
Greenock Morton	David Hopkin	Jim McAlister^[32]	Vision Outsourcing^[33]	Millions^[33]
Inverness CT	John Robertson	Carl Tremarco^[34]	Erreà^[35]	McEwan Fraser Legal^[35]
Partick Thistle	Gary Caldwell	Stuart Bannigan	Joma^[36]	Just Employment Law^[37]
Queen of the South	Allan Johnston	Stephen Dobbie^[38]	Macron^[39]	Border Finance Ltd
Ross County	Steven Ferguson and Stuart Kettlewell	Marcus Fraser^[40]	Macron^[41]	McEwan Fraser Legal^[41]

Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Greenock Morton	Jim Duffy	Mutual consent	29 April 2018^[42]	Pre-season	Ray McKinnon	30 May 2018^[43]
Falkirk	Paul Hartley	Mutual consent	27 August 2018^[44]	10th	Ray McKinnon	31 August 2018^[45]
Greenock Morton	Ray McKinnon	Signed by Falkirk	31 August 2018^[45]	2nd	Jonatan Johansson	6 September 2018^[46]
Dundee United	Csaba László	Mutual consent	30 September 2018^[47]	4th	Robbie Neilson	8 October 2018^[48]
Partick Thistle	Alan Archibald	Sacked	6 October 2018^[49]	8th	Gary Caldwell	15 October 2018^[50]
Dunfermline Athletic	Allan Johnston	Resigned	9 January 2019^[51]	7th	Stevie Crawford	10 January 2019
Greenock Morton	Jonatan Johansson	Resigned	4 May 2019^[52]	5th	David Hopkin	15 May 2019
Queen of the South	Gary Naysmith	Sacked	4 May 2019^[53]	9th	Allan Johnston	5 May 2019

League summary

League table

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Ross County (C, P)	36	21	8	7	63	34	+29	71	Promotion to the Premiership
2	Dundee United	36	19	8	9	49	40	+9	65	Qualification for the Premiership play-off semi-final
3	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	36	14	14	8	48	40	+8	56	Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final
4	Ayr United	36	15	9	12	50	38	+12	54	Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final
5	Greenock Morton	36	11	13	12	36	45	−9	46
6	Partick Thistle	36	12	7	17	43	52	−9	43
7	Dunfermline Athletic	36	11	8	17	33	40	−7	41
8	Alloa Athletic	36	10	9	17	39	53	−14	39
9	Queen of the South (O)	36	9	11	16	41	48	−7	38	Qualification for the Championship play-offs
10	Falkirk (R)	36	9	11	16	37	49	−12	38	Relegation to League One

Source: SPFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Points in head-to-head matches; 5) Goal difference in hth matches; 6). Goals scored in hth matches; 7). Play-off (only for deciding promotion, play-off participation and relegation).^[54]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

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 2019–20 Scottish Premiership
	Qualification for Premiership play-off semi-final
	Qualification for Premiership play-off quarter-final
	Qualification for Championship play-offs
	Relegation to 2019-20 Scottish League One

More information Team \ Round ...

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
Team \ Round
Ross County	4	1	4	1	2	4	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dundee United	7	5	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	3	4	5	2	1	2	3	3	3	5	4	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	3
Ayr United	1	3	1	6	3	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	4
Greenock Morton	5	2	2	5	6	5	6	7	6	6	6	4	5	5	6	6	6	6	5	4	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	5	5
Partick Thistle	10	7	7	7	7	6	7	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	10	8	8	9	9	10	10	9	10	8	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	10	6	7	6
Dunfermline Athletic	2	6	8	8	8	8	8	5	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	6	7
Alloa Athletic	8	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	9	10	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	8	6	9	9	8
Queen of the South	6	8	6	3	4	7	5	6	5	4	5	6	6	6	5	4	4	5	6	5	4	5	5	5	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	9
Falkirk	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	8	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	10	9	10	10	10

Source: BBC Sport
Updated: 4 May 2019

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 (Matches 1-18)

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Home \ Away	ALL	AYR	DUN	DNF	FAL	GMO	INV	PAR	QOS	ROS
Alloa Athletic	—	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1
Ayr United	3–0	—	2–0	4–1	3–2	0–0	2–3	2–0	1–1	3–3
Dundee United	4–2	0–5	—	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–5
Dunfermline Athletic	0–0	0–0	0–2	—	0–1	3–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–3
Falkirk	2–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	—	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1
Greenock Morton	0–2	1–5	1–1	1–1	1–0	—	1–2	5–1	2–2	2–1
Inverness CT	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	2–3	1–1	—	3–2	0–0	2–2
Partick Thistle	2–2	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	—	3–2	0–2
Queen of the South	3–3	5–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	3–3	1–0	—	0–0
Ross County	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	5–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	—

Source: Scottish Championship
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season (Matches 19-36)

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Home \ Away	ALL	AYR	DUN	DNF	FAL	GMO	INV	PAR	QOS	ROS
Alloa Athletic	—	1–3	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–0
Ayr United	1–1	—	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–3
Dundee United	2–1	2–1	—	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0
Dunfermline Athletic	2–2	0–1	0–1	—	0–1	0–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–2
Falkirk	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–4	—	0–2	2–2	1–1	3–0	3–2
Greenock Morton	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	2–2	0–3	1–0	1–0
Inverness CT	3–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	—	1–2	1–2	1–2
Partick Thistle	2–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–2	—	2–1	2–4
Queen of the South	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–3	—	4–0
Ross County	2–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	—

Source: Scottish Championship
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of 4 May 2019

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Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lawrence Shankland	Ayr United	24
2	Stephen Dobbie	Queen of the South	21
3	Billy Mckay	Ross County	17
4	Pavol Šafranko	Dundee United	12
4	Zak Rudden	Falkirk	12
6	Alan Trouten	Alloa Athletic	10

Source:^[1]^[2]

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Scottish Professional Football League hat-tricks § Scottish Championship

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Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Stephen Dobbie	Queen of the South	Falkirk	0–3 (A)	25 August 2018	^[55]
Stephen Dobbie⁴	Queen of the South	Ayr United	5–0 (H)	1 September 2018	^[56]
Billy Mckay	Ross County	Dundee United	1–5 (A)	29 September 2018	^[57]
Stephen Dobbie	Queen of the South	Alloa Athletic	3–3 (H)	6 October 2018	^[58]
Billy Mckay	Ross County	Greenock Morton	5–0 (H)	27 October 2018	^[59]
Lawrence Shankland⁴	Ayr United	Dundee United	0–5 (A)	30 November 2018	^[60]
Billy Mckay	Ross County	Ayr United	3–2 (H)	26 February 2019	^[61]
Brian Graham	Ross County	Ayr United	1–3 (A)	19 April 2019	^[62]

Note

⁴ Player scored four goals; (H) = Home, (A) = Away

Attendances

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Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Alloa Athletic	21,215	2,116	592	1,178	+21.2%^†
2	Ayr United	38,832	3,249	1,559	2,157	+35.8%^†
3	Dundee United	91,415	6,532	4,201	5,078	−7.8%^†
4	Dunfermline Athletic	90,153	6,349	4,347	5,008	−4.5%^†
5	Falkirk	85,371	6,173	3,767	4,742	+1.4%^†
6	Greenock Morton	34,969	2,757	1,315	1,942	−2.2%^†
7	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	45,864	4,354	1,994	2,548	+6.4%^†
8	Partick Thistle	54,771	4,438	1,990	3,042	−31.5%^†
9	Queen of the South	29,799	3,916	727	1,655	+13.6%^†
10	Ross County	69,299	6,402	3,065	3,849	−15.2%^†
	League total	561,688	6,532	592	3,120	+8.3%^†

Updated to games played on 4 May 2019
Source: ^[3]^[63]^[64]^[65]^[66]^[67]^[68]^[69]^[70]^[71]^[72]

Awards

Monthly awards

More information Month, Manager of the Month ...

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Ref.
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Ref.
August	Ian McCall	Ayr United	Lawrence Shankland	Ayr United	^[73]
September	Steven Ferguson Stuart Kettlewell	Ross County	Stephen Dobbie	Queen of the South
October	Steven Ferguson Stuart Kettlewell	Ross County	Billy Mckay	Ross County
November	Robbie Neilson	Dundee United	Fraser Aird	Dundee United
December	Jim Goodwin	Alloa Athletic	Dario Zanatta	Alloa Athletic
January	Gary Naysmith	Queen of the South	Stephen Dobbie	Queen of the South
February	Stevie Crawford	Dunfermline Athletic	Billy Mckay	Ross County
March	John Robertson	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Aaron Doran	Inverness Caledonian Thistle
April	Steven Ferguson Stuart Kettlewell	Ross County	Brian Graham	Ross County

Championship play-offs

The second bottom team (Queen of the South) entered into a 4-team playoff with the 2nd-4th placed teams in 2018–19 Scottish League One (Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers and Montrose). Queen of the South secured their place in the Championship after defeating Raith 3–1 on aggregate in the final.

Semi-final

First leg

Montrose v Queen of the South

7 May 2019	Montrose	2–1	Queen of the South	Montrose
19:45	Campbell 43', 69'	Report	Murray 68'	Stadium: Links Park Attendance: 1,124 Referee: John McKendrick

Raith Rovers v Forfar Athletic

7 May 2019	Raith Rovers	2–1	Forfar Athletic	Kirkcaldy
19:45	Nisbet 40' Gullan 63'	Report	Baird 44'	Stadium: Stark's Park Attendance: 2,007 Referee: Colin Steven

Second leg

Queen of the South v Montrose

11 May 2019	Queen of the South	5–0 (6–2 agg.)	Montrose	Dumfries
15:00	Dobbie 11', 28', 40' Dykes 23' Doyle 32'	Report		Stadium: Palmerston Park Attendance: 2,001 Referee: Greg Aitken

Forfar Athletic v Raith Rovers

11 May 2019	Forfar Athletic	1–1 (2–3 agg.)	Raith Rovers	Forfar
15:00	Baird 55'	Report	Nisbet 59' (pen)	Stadium: Station Park Attendance: 2,512 Referee: Euan Anderson

Final

First leg

Raith Rovers v Queen of the South

15 May 2019	Raith Rovers	1–3	Queen of the South	Kirkcaldy
19:45	McKay 86'	Report	Dykes 17' Murray 22' Murray 75' (o.g.)	Stadium: Stark's Park Attendance: 2,471 Referee: David Munro

Second leg

Queen of the South v Raith Rovers

18 May 2019	Queen of the South	0–0 (3–1 agg.)	Raith Rovers	Dumfries
15:00		Report		Stadium: Palmerston Park Attendance: 2,420 Referee: Nick Walsh

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