1995–96 in Scottish football

The 1995–96 season was the 99th season of competitive football in Scotland.

cottish Premier Division

Overview

Rangers won the Premier Division with a record 87 points, finishing four ahead of rivals Celtic. Aberdeen were third with 55 points (on goal difference).

Falkirk were relegated after finishing bottom. Partick Thistle were relegated via the play-offs, losing 3–2 on aggregate to Dundee United, who returned to the Premier Division at the first attempt. This was the only occasion on which this short-lived play-off system relegated a team from the Premier Division.

Rangers qualified for the European Cup, with Celtic and Aberdeen making it into the UEFA Cup. All three clubs entered at the qualifying round stage.

Celtic's Pierre van Hooijdonk was the top scorer with 26 goals, ahead of the Rangers trio of Gordon Durie (17), Ally McCoist (16) and Paul Gascoigne (14).

Rangers recorded the biggest win of the campaign with a 7–0 home win over Hibernian, with Gordon Durie scoring four times. Incredibly, Hibs had won 1–0 at Ibrox just three months earlier, and Hearts won 3–0 there just three weeks after the 7–0 match.

Celtic went 31 games unbeaten, from 4 October to the end of the season. Motherwell had the best winning run with five consecutive successes, while Falkirk lost eight in a row.

Table

Promoted: Stirling Albion, East Fife
Relegated: Forfar Athletic, Montrose

cottish League Division Three

FWA awards

Key:
* (H) = Home match
* (A) = Away match
* ECQ8 = European Championship qualifying - Group 8
* F = Friendly
* ECGA = European Championship - Group A

ee also

*Dundee United F.C. season 1995-96
*Rangers F.C. season 1995-96

Notes and references