2025–26 Scottish Championship

Scottish Championship
Season2025–26
Dates1 August 2025 – 1 May 2026
Matches120
Goals294 (2.45 per match)
Top goalscorerJosh McPake
14 goals
Biggest home winRaith Rovers 6–0 Ross County (13 December 2025)
Biggest away winArbroath 0–5 Dunfermline Athletic (13 September 2025)
Highest scoringSt Johnstone 4–3 Queen's Park (15 November 2025)
Longest winning runPartick Thistle
5 games
Longest unbeaten runPartick Thistle
St Johnstone
10 games
Longest winless runAirdrieonians
11 games
Longest losing runRoss County
4 games
Highest attendance6,894
Dunfermline Athletic v St. Johnstone
(8 November 2025)
Lowest attendance718
Queen's Park v Ross County
(3 February 2026)
Total attendance343,416
Average attendance2,862
2026–27 →
All statistics correct as of 17 February 2026.

The 2025–26 Scottish Championship (known as the William Hill Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the 13th season of the Scottish Championship, the second tier of Scottish football. The season began on 1 August 2025.[1]

Ten teams contest the league: Airdrieonians, Arbroath, Ayr United, Dunfermline Athletic, Greenock Morton, Partick Thistle, Queen's Park, Raith Rovers, Ross County and St Johnstone.

Teams

The following teams changed division after the 2024–25 season.

Stadia and locations

Airdrieonians Arbroath Ayr United Dunfermline Athletic
Excelsior Stadium Gayfield Park Somerset Park East End Park
Capacity: 10,101[2] Capacity: 6,056[3] Capacity: 10,185[4] Capacity: 11,480[5]
Greenock Morton
Location of teams in 2025–26 Scottish Championship
 Partick Thistle
Cappielow Firhill Stadium
Capacity: 11,589[6] Capacity: 10,887[7]
Queen's Park Raith Rovers Ross County St Johnstone
Lesser Hampden Stark's Park Victoria Park McDiarmid Park
Capacity: 990[8] Capacity: 8,867[9] Capacity: 6,541[10] Capacity: 10,696[11]
Championship football clubs in Glasgow

Personnel and kits

Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Airdrieonians Antigua and Barbuda Aaron Taylor-Sinclair Scotland Aidan Wilson Joma Holemasters
Arbroath Scotland David Gold
Scotland Colin Hamilton 		Scotland Thomas O'Brien Macron Megatech
Ayr United Scotland Scott Brown England Ben Dempsey O'Neills Jewson
Dunfermline Athletic Northern Ireland Neil Lennon Scotland Kyle Benedictus Erreà Gamdom
Greenock Morton Scotland Ian Murray Scotland Grant Gillespie Joma Dalrada Technology
Partick Thistle Scotland Mark Wilson Scotland Lee Ashcroft O'Neills WrightKerr All Trades Limited
Queen's Park Scotland Sean Crighton Scotland Euan Murray Adidas City Facilities Management
Raith Rovers Scotland Dougie Imrie Scotland Scott Brown Joma Audio Emotion (Home)
Sephra (Away)
Ross County Scotland Stuart Kettlewell Scotland Declan Gallagher Macron Ross-shire Engineering
St Johnstone Finland Simo Valakari Scotland Jason Holt Macron MandM

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Partick Thistle Scotland Brian Graham End of interim spell 30 May 2025[12] Pre-season Scotland Mark Wilson 30 May 2025[13]
Airdrieonians Scotland Rhys McCabe Resigned 15 August 2025[14] 9th Northern Ireland Danny Lennon 27 August 2025[15]
Ross County Scotland Don Cowie Sacked 24 August 2025[16] 10th Scotland Tony Docherty 3 September 2025
Airdrieonians Northern Ireland Danny Lennon Sacked 22 October 2025 10th Antigua and Barbuda Aaron Taylor-Sinclair 24 October 2025 (interim) & 1 January 2026 (permanent)
Raith Rovers Scotland Barry Robson Sacked 11 November 2025 6th Scotland Dougie Imrie 25 November 2025
Greenock Morton Scotland Dougie Imrie Joined Raith Rovers 25 November 2025 7th Scotland Ian Murray 2 January 2026
Ross County Scotland Tony Docherty Left by mutual consent 14 December 2025 10th Scotland Stuart Kettlewell 30 December 2025

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 St Johnstone 24 14 7 3 46 20 +26 49 Promotion to the Scottish Premiership
2 Partick Thistle 24 12 8 4 37 28 +9 44 Qualification for the Premiership play-off semi-final
3 Arbroath 24 10 7 7 32 30 +2 37 Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final
4 Ayr United 23 7 11 5 30 27 +3 32
5 Greenock Morton 25 6 12 7 25 30 −5 30
6 Dunfermline Athletic 23 8 5 10 29 26 +3 29
7 Raith Rovers 25 7 8 10 28 26 +2 29
8 Queen's Park 23 5 9 9 24 35 −11 24
9 Airdrieonians 25 5 8 12 20 33 −13 23 Qualification for the Championship play-offs
10 Ross County 24 5 7 12 23 39 −16 22 Relegation to League One
Updated to match(es) played on 17 February 2026. Source: [17]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only for deciding promotion, play-off participation and relegation).[18]

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)

Home \ Away AIR ARB AYR DNF GMO PAR QPA RAI ROS STJ
Airdrieonians — 1–0 0–1 0–4 1–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–2
Arbroath 1–0 — 1–1 0–5 1–1 2–1 4–1 0–0 3–0 3–1
Ayr United 4–2 1–1 — 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–4
Dunfermline Athletic 2–0 1–2 0–1 — 1–0 0–2 0–0 2–0 2–2 2–2
Greenock Morton 0–1 1–0 2–2 0–0 — 1–1 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–4
Partick Thistle 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 — 5–0 3–2 1–0 2–1
Queen's Park 0–0 1–3 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 — 2–1 0–1 1–2
Raith Rovers 0–3 3–0 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 — 6–0 0–2
Ross County 1–2 1–2 3–3 3–2 0–3 1–3 1–2 2–0 — 0–1
St Johnstone 3–0 3–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 5–1 4–3 0–0 0–0 —
Source: [19]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season (Matches 19–36)

Home \ Away AIR ARB AYR DNF GMO PAR QPA RAI ROS STJ
Airdrieonians — 14 Mar 25 Apr 28 Mar 28 Feb 18 Apr 0–3 0–0 0–1 0–1
Arbroath 1–1 — 3 Mar 21 Feb 1–1 25 Apr 21 Mar 18 Apr 7 Mar 4 Apr
Ayr United 1–1 11 Apr — TBC 21 Mar 4 Apr 10 Mar 2–1 21 Feb 1 May
Dunfermline Athletic 0–2 1 May 2–3 — 4 Apr 24 Feb 28 Feb 14 Mar 3 Mar 18 Apr
Greenock Morton 1 May 28 Mar 1–1 2–0 — 13 Mar 18 Apr 0–0 2–1 7 Mar
Partick Thistle 21 Feb 28 Feb 2–1 11 Apr 3–2 — 1 May 0–0 27 Mar 20 Mar
Queen's Park 7 Mar 2–1 14 Mar 25 Apr 21 Feb 2–2 — 4 Apr 0–1 24 Feb
Raith Rovers 21 Mar 2–3 27 Mar 1–2 11 Apr TBC 4–1 — 1 May 20 Feb
Ross County 4 Apr 0–2 18 Apr 21 Mar 25 Apr 2–0 14 Feb 28 Feb — 0–0
St Johnstone 11 Apr 1–0 28 Feb 0–1 5–0 2–2 28 Mar 25 Apr 14 Mar —
Updated to match(es) played on 17 February 2026. Source: [19]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

As of 17 February 2026

Scoring

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Scotland Josh McPake St Johnstone 14
2 England Josh Fowler Queen's Park
St Johnstone 		10
3 Scotland Euan Henderson Airdrieonians 9
Scotland Andrew Tod Dunfermline Athletic
5 Scotland Findlay Marshall Arbroath 8
Scotland Dylan Easton Raith Rovers
Scotland Jamie Gullan St Johnstone
8 Scotland Mark McKenzie Ayr United 7
Scotland Logan Chalmers Partick Thistle
Northern Ireland Ronan Hale Ross County

Awards

Month Manager of the Month Player of the Month
Manager Club Player Club
August Finland Simo Valakari St Johnstone Scotland Josh McPake St Johnstone
September
October Scotland Mark Wilson Partick Thistle Scotland Findlay Marshall Arbroath
November Scotland Aidan Fitzpatrick Partick Thistle
December Scotland David Gold
Scotland Colin Hamilton 		Arbroath Scotland Josh McPake St Johnstone
January Scotland Mark Wilson Partick Thistle Scotland Tony Watt Partick Thistle
February
March
April


References

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