2010–11 Scottish Premier League

The 2010–11 Scottish Premier League was the thirteenth season of the Scottish Premier League, the highest division of Scottish football. It commenced on 14 August 2010 and ended on 15 May 2011. The defending champions were Rangers who retained their championship with a 5–1 win at Kilmarnock on the final day of the season.[1]

Scottish Premier League
Season2010–11
Dates14 August 2010 – 15 May 2011
ChampionsRangers Premier League title
54th Scottish title overall
RelegatedHamilton Academical
Europa LeagueCeltic
Heart of Midlothian
Dundee United
Matches played228
Goals scored584 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorerKenny Miller (21)
Biggest home winCeltic 9–0 Aberdeen
(6 November 2010)
Biggest away winMotherwell
Highest scoringCeltic 9–0 Aberdeen
(6 November 2010)
Longest winning run9 games
Longest unbeaten run14 games
Celtic
Longest winless run22 games
Hamilton Academical
Longest losing run7 games
Aberdeen
Highest attendance58,874
Celtic
Lowest attendance2,019
Hamilton Academical v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
(13 November 2010)
Average attendance13,677

Teams
Location of teams in Scottish Premier League 2010–11

Twelve teams participated in the 2010–11 season, eleven of which competed in the 2009–10 season. Inverness Caledonian Thistle was promoted from the 2009–10 First Division.

Team changes

Promoted from First Division to Premier League

Relegated from Premier League to First Division

Kits and shirt sponsors
Team Kit manufacturer Kit sponsor Notes
Aberdeen Nike Team Recruitment New home and away kits
Celtic Nike Tennent's Lager Tennent's replaced Carling as shirt sponsors
New home and away kits
Dundee United Nike Calor Gas Calor Gas replaced Cabrini as shirt sponsors
Hamilton Academical Nike Reid Furniture
Heart of Midlothian Umbro Ūkio bankas New home and away kits
Hibernian Puma McEwan Fraser Puma replaced Le Coq Sportif as kit manufacturer
New home and away kits
Inverness CT Errea Orion Group New home and away kits
Kilmarnock 1869 Verve.net New home and away kits
Motherwell Puma[2] Commsworld Puma replaced Canterbury as kit manufacturer
New home and away kits
Rangers Umbro Tennent's Lager Tennent's replaced Carling as shirt sponsors
New home, away and third kits
St Johnstone Joma Taylor Wimpey Joma replaced Surridge as kit manufacturer
New home and away kits
St Mirren Hummel Braehead Shopping Centre New home and away kits

Stadiums and Attendees
As of 15:08, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[3]
Team Stadium Capacity Total Highest Lowest Average
Aberdeen Pittodrie Stadium 22,199 173,460 15,307 5,955 9,129
Celtic Celtic Park 60,355 930,395 58,874 40,750 48,968
Dundee United Tannadice Park 14,209 140,391 11,790 4,918 7,389
Hamilton Academical New Douglas Park 6,096 55,056 5,356 2,011 2,898
Heart of Midlothian Tynecastle Stadium 17,420 269,506 17,420 12,009 14,185
Hibernian Easter Road[note 1] 020,250 223,360 17,793 7,238 11,756
Inverness CT Caledonian Stadium 7,500 85,998 7,547 3,241 4,526
Kilmarnock Rugby Park 18,128 122,106 16,173 4,214 6,427
Motherwell Fir Park 13,742 99,838 9,716 3,324 5,255
Rangers Ibrox Stadium 51,082 860,793 50,248 41,514 45,305
St Johnstone McDiarmid Park 10,673 72,982 6,866 2,253 3,841
St Mirren St Mirren Park 8,016 84,545 6,118 2,701 4,450

Events

Referee strike
Main article: Scottish football referee strike

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Rangers (C) 38 30 3 5 88 29 +59 93 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2 Celtic 38 29 5 4 85 22 +63 92 Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[lower-alpha 1]
3 Heart of Midlothian 38 18 9 11 53 45 +8 63 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4 Dundee United 38 17 10 11 55 50 +5 61 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5 Kilmarnock 38 13 10 15 53 55 −2 49
6 Motherwell 38 13 7 18 40 60 −20 46
7 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 38 14 11 13 52 44 +8 53
8 St Johnstone 38 11 11 16 23 43 −20 44
9 Aberdeen 38 11 5 22 39 59 −20 38
10 Hibernian 38 10 7 21 39 61 −22 37
11 St Mirren 38 8 9 21 33 57 −24 33
12 Hamilton Academical (R) 38 5 11 22 24 59 −35 26 Relegation to the First Division
Source: SPFL Archive
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Celtic entered the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League as they won the 2011 Scottish Cup Final. Due to this, Heart of Midlothian also moved up to the third qualifying round, whilst fourth-placed team Dundee United received the second qualifying round spot.

Results

Matches 1–22

Teams play each other twice, once at home, once away

Home \ Away ABE CEL DUN HAM HOM HIB INV KIL MOT RAN STJ STM
Aberdeen 0–3 1–1 4–0 0–1 4–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–3 0–1 2–0
Celtic 9–0 1–1 3–1 3–0 2–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–3 2–0 4–0
Dundee United 3–1 1–2 2–1 2–0 1–0 0–4 1–1 2–0 0–4 1–0 1–2
Hamilton Academical 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–4 1–2 1–3 2–2 0–0 1–2 1–2 0–0
Heart of Midlothian 5–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–3 0–2 1–2 1–1 3–0
Hibernian 1–2 0–3 2–2 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–1 2–1 0–3 0–0 2–0
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2–0 0–1 0–2 0–1 1–3 4–2 1–3 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–2
Kilmarnock 2–0 1–2 1–2 3–0 1–2 2–1 1–2 0–1 2–3 1–1 2–1
Motherwell 1–1 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 0–0 0–1 1–4 4–0 3–1
Rangers 2–0 0–2 4–0 4–0 1–0 0–3 1–1 2–1 4–1 2–1 2–1
St Johnstone 0–1 0–3 0–0 2–0 0–2 2–0 1–0 0–3 0–2 0–2 2–1
St Mirren 2–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 0–2 1–0 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–3 1–2
Updated to match(es) played on 20:40, 19 April 2011 (UTC). Source: BBC Sport
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

Teams play every other team once (either at home or away)

Home \ Away ABE CEL DUN HAM HOM HIB INV KIL MOT RAN STJ STM
Aberdeen 1–0 0–0 0–1 5–0 0–1
Celtic 1–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 3–0 1–0
Dundee United 3–1 1–3 3–0 1–0 2–0
Hamilton Academical 1–1 0–2 1–1 0–1 0–0
Heart of Midlothian 2–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–2
Hibernian 1–2 2–2 2–0 2–1 0–2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 0–2 3–2 1–1 1–1 3–0 2–0
Kilmarnock 0–4 1–1 1–1 3–1 2–0
Motherwell 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–1
Rangers 2–3 1–0 2–1 6–0 4–0
St Johnstone 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0
St Mirren 3–2 1–1 3–1 0–1 3–3 0–1
Updated to match(es) played on 19:56, 4 May 2011 (UTC). Source: BBC Sport
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 34–38

After 33 matches, the league split 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 were determined upon the league table at the time of the split.

Statistics

Top scorers
As of 18:01, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[9]
Rank Scorer Team Goals
1 Kenny Miller[note 2] Rangers 21
2 Gary Hooper Celtic 20
3 David Goodwillie Dundee United 17
4 Nikica Jelavić Rangers 16
5 Adam Rooney Inverness CT 15
Conor Sammon[note 3] Kilmarnock
Anthony Stokes[note 4] Celtic
8 Michael Higdon St Mirren 14
9 Rudolf Skácel Heart of Midlothian 13
10 Nick Blackman[note 5] Aberdeen 12

Hat-tricks
Main article: List of Scottish Premier League hat-tricks
Scorer For Against Date
Paul Hartley Aberdeen Hamilton Academical 14 August 2010[10]
Kenny Miller Rangers Hibernian 22 August 2010[11]
Rudi Skacel Heart of Midlothian St Mirren 23 October 2010[12]
Anthony Stokes Celtic Aberdeen 6 November 2010[13]
Gary Hooper Celtic Aberdeen 6 November 2010[13]
Nick Blackman Motherwell St Johnstone 10 November 2010[14]
Kenny Miller Rangers Kilmarnock 20 November 2010[15]
Adam Rooney Inverness CT Hibernian 20 November 2010[16]
Nikica Jelavić Rangers Motherwell 12 February 2011[17]
Michael Higdon St Mirren Hamilton Academical 2 April 2011[18]
Jon Daly Dundee United Motherwell 7 May 2011[19]
Kyle Lafferty Rangers Kilmarnock 15 May 2011[20]

Awards

Monthly awards
Main article: List of Scottish Premier League monthly award winners
Month Manager of the Month Player of the Month Young Player of the Month
Manager Club Player Club Player Club
August Walter Smith[21] Rangers Kenny Miller[21] Rangers James Forrest[22] Celtic
September Neil Lennon[23] Celtic Kenny Miller[24] Rangers Chris Maguire[25] Aberdeen
October Terry Butcher[26] Inverness CT Steven Naismith[27] Rangers Ki Sung-Yueng[28] Celtic
November Jim Jefferies[29] Heart of Midlothian Alexei Eremenko[30] Kilmarnock David Templeton[31] Heart of Midlothian
December Mixu Paatelainen[32] Kilmarnock Marius Žaliūkas[33] Heart of Midlothian David Templeton[33] Heart of Midlothian
January Neil Lennon[34] Celtic Beram Kayal[35] Celtic Jamie Ness[36] Rangers
February Colin Calderwood[37] Hibernian Marián Kello[38] Heart of Midlothian Callum Booth[37] Hibernian
March Peter Houston[39] Dundee United David Goodwillie[39] Dundee United Johnny Russell[39] Dundee United
April Neil Lennon[40] Celtic Allan McGregor[41] Rangers Jamie Murphy[42] Motherwell

Clydesdale Bank Premier League Awards
AwardRecipient
Player of the Season Emilio Izaguirre[43]
Manager of the Season Mixu Paatelainen[43]
Young Player of the Season David Goodwillie[43]
Goal of the Season Derek Riordan[43]
Save of the Season Marian Kello[43]
Under-19 League Player of the Season Jason Holt[43]
Best Club Media RelationsMotherwell[43]
SPL Family ChampionsRangers[43]
Best Community InitiativeSt Mirren[43]

Notes
  1. The capacity of Easter Road was increased during the 2010 close season as Hibernian opened a new East Stand
  2. Miller left Rangers to sign for Turkish club Bursaspor in January 2011
  3. Sammon left Kilmarnock to sign for English club Wigan Athletic in January 2011
  4. Stokes scored 1 goal for Hibernian
  5. Blackman scored 10 goals for Motherwell

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