2015–16 Scottish Championship

Ladbrokes Championship
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Season	2015–16
Champions	Rangers
Promoted	Rangers
Relegated	Alloa Athletic; Livingston
Europa League	Hibernian
Matches played	180
Goals scored	483 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorer	Martyn Waghorn; (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Queen of the South 6–0 Dumbarton; (19 March 2016)
Biggest away win	Dumbarton 0–6 Rangers; (2 January 2016)
Highest scoring	Raith Rovers 4–3 St Mirren; (5 March 2016); Rangers 4–3 Queen of the South; (26 March 2016)
Longest winning run	11 matches:; Rangers
Longest unbeaten run	14 matches:; Hibernian
Longest winless run	12 matches:; Alloa Athletic
Longest losing run	7 matches:; Alloa Athletic
Highest attendance	50,349; Rangers 1–1 Alloa Athletic; (23 April 2016)
Lowest attendance	468; Dumbarton 3–1 Alloa Athletic; (8 March 2016)
Total attendance	1,331,484
Average attendance	7,397
	← 2014–15 2016–17 → All statistics correct as of 7 May 2016.

The 2015–16 Scottish Championship (referred to as the Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the 21st season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football.

Rangers won the league title and promotion after a 1–0 win against Dumbarton on 5 April 2016,^[3] while Alloa Athletic were relegated after a 0–0 draw against Livingston on 2 April 2016.^[4]

Teams

The following teams have changed division since the 2014–15 season.

To Championship

Promoted from Scottish League One

Greenock Morton

Relegated from Scottish Premiership

St Mirren

From Championship

Promoted to Scottish Premiership

Heart of Midlothian

Relegated to Scottish League One

Cowdenbeath

Stadia and locations

Alloa Athletic	Dumbarton	Falkirk	Greenock Morton
Recreation Park	Dumbarton Football Stadium	Falkirk Stadium	Cappielow Park
Capacity: 3,100^[5]	Capacity: 2,020^[6]	Capacity: 8,750^[7]	Capacity: 11,589^[8]

Hibernian	Alloa Athletic Dumbarton Falkirk Morton Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South Raith Rovers Rangers St Mirren		Livingston
Easter Road			Almondvale Stadium
Capacity: 20,421^[9]			Capacity: 9,865^[10]

Queen of the South	Raith Rovers	Rangers	St Mirren
Palmerston Park	Stark's Park	Ibrox Stadium	St Mirren Park
Capacity: 8,690^[11]	Capacity: 8,867^[12]	Capacity: 50,817^[13]	Capacity: 8,023^[14]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alloa Athletic	Jack Ross	Pendle	Marshall Construction
Dumbarton	Stephen Aitken	Joma	Baxter Ramsay
Falkirk	Peter Houston	Puma	Central Demolition
Greenock Morton	Jim Duffy	Nike	Millions Sweets
Hibernian	Alan Stubbs	Nike	Marathonbet
Livingston	David Hopkin	Joma	Energy Assets
Queen of the South	Gavin Skelton (Caretaker)	Joma	Palmerston Cafe
Raith Rovers	Ray McKinnon	Puma	valmcdermid.com (Home shirt) D&G Autocare (Away shirt)
Rangers	Mark Warburton	Puma	32Red
St Mirren	Alex Rae	Carbrini	JD Sports

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Dumbarton	Ian Murray	Signed by St Mirren	22 May 2015^[15]	Pre-season	Stevie Aitken	27 May 2015^[16]
St Mirren	Gary Teale	Sacked	22 May 2015^[15]		Ian Murray	22 May 2015^[15]
Raith Rovers	Laurie Ellis (interim)	End of interim	23 May 2015^[17]		Ray McKinnon	23 May 2015^[17]
Rangers	Stuart McCall (interim)	End of interim	15 June 2015^[18]		Mark Warburton	15 June 2015^[18]
Alloa Athletic	Danny Lennon	Resigned	7 December 2015^[19]	10th	Jack Ross	15 December 2015^[20]
St Mirren	Ian Murray	Resigned	12 December 2015^[21]	8th	Alex Rae	18 December 2015^[22]
Livingston	Mark Burchill	Sacked	21 December 2015^[23]	9th	David Hopkin^a	23 December 2015^[24]^[25]
Queen of the South	James Fowler	Sacked	19 April 2016^[26]	7th	Gavin Skelton (interim)	19 April 2016^[26]

a.^ Initially interim, made permanent 5 January 2016

League table

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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 36 games.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	ALO	DUM	FAL	GMO	HIB	LIV	QOS	RAI	RAN	STM
Alloa Athletic		0–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–5	0–2
Dumbarton	0–2		0–5	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	3–3	1–2	1–0
Falkirk	5–0	2–1		1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–0
Greenock Morton	1–0	0–0	1–1		0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–4	0–0
Hibernian	3–0	4–2	1–1	1–0		2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Livingston	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–4	0–1		0–1	3–0	1–1	0–1
Queen of the South	3–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–3	1–4		1–1	1–5	0–2
Raith Rovers	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–0	1–0		0–1	1–1
Rangers	4–0	4–0	3–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	5–0		3–1
St Mirren	1–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–4	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–1

Source: Scottish Championship
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	ALO	DUM	FAL	GMO	HIB	LIV	QOS	RAI	RAN	STM
Alloa Athletic		1–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–1
Dumbarton	3–1		1–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	4–2	2–3	0–6	2–1
Falkirk	2–0	1–0		1–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	2–2	3–2	3–2
Greenock Morton	4–1	2–0	0–1		0–0	2–1	3–2	0–1	0–2	0–1
Hibernian	3–0	4–0	2–2	0–3		2–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	3–1
Livingston	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–0		0–2	0–1	1–0	2–3
Queen of the South	1–0	6–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–1		1–2	0–1	1–0
Raith Rovers	0–1	0–0	2–2	3–2	2–1	2–0	2–0		3–3	4–3
Rangers	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	4–2	4–1	4–3	2–0		1–0
St Mirren	3–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–2	1–4	2–1	1–2	2–2

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of matches played on 1 May 2016^[27]^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Martyn Waghorn	Rangers	20
2	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	18
3	John Baird	Falkirk	17
4	Denny Johnstone	Greenock Morton	14
4	Kenny Miller	Rangers	14
6	Derek Lyle	Queen of the South	13
7	Liam Buchanan	Livingston	11
	Iain Russell	Queen of the South
	Stevie Mallan	St Mirren

Discipline

Player

Yellow cards

As of matches played on 1 May 2016^[28]

Rank	Player	Club	Cards
1	Darren Barr	Dumbarton	9
1	Kyle Jacobs	Queen of the South	9
3	Jon Routledge	Dumbarton	8
	Declan McManus	Greenock Morton
	Liam Henderson	Hibernian
	Lewis Stevenson	Hibernian
	Ben Gordon	Livingston
	Chris Higgins	Queen of the South
	Lewis Toshney	Raith Rovers
10	9 players		7

Red cards

As of matches played on 1 May 2016^[28]

Rank	Player	Club	Cards
1	Kyle Benedictus	Raith Rovers	2
1	Andy Halliday	Rangers	2
3	22 players		1

Club

Yellow cards

As of matches played on 1 May 2016^[29]

Rank	Club	Cards
1	Queen of the South	72
2	Raith Rovers	62
3	Greenock Morton	61
3	Livingston	61

Red cards

As of matches played on 1 May 2016^[29]

Rank	Club	Cards
1	Alloa Athletic	4
	Dumbarton
	St Mirren
4	Queen of the South	3
4	Raith Rovers	3

Championship play-offs

Livingston, the second bottom team, entered into a 4-team playoff with the 2nd-4th placed teams in 2015–16 Scottish League One; Ayr United, Peterhead, and Stranraer.

Semi-finals

First leg

3 May 2016^[30]	Peterhead	1–4	Ayr United	Balmoor, Peterhead
20:00	McIntosh 35'	BBC Report	Donald 18' Preston 41', 59' Crawford 74'	Attendance: 807 Referee: Stephen Finnie

4 May 2016^[30]	Stranraer	5–2	Livingston	Stair Park, Stranraer
19:45	McGuigan 14', 70' Stirling 17' Gibson 40', 81'	BBC Report	White 10' Buchanan 68'	Attendance: 589 Referee: John Beaton

Second leg

7 May 2016^[30]	Ayr United	2–1 (6–2 agg.)	Peterhead	Somerset Park, Ayr
15:00	Crawford 26' Devlin 57'	BBC Report	Donald 31' (o.g.)	Attendance: 1,848 Referee: Crawford Allan

7 May 2016^[30]	Livingston	4–3 (a.e.t.) (6–8 agg.)	Stranraer	Almondvale Stadium, Livingston
15:00	Buchanan 18' White 45+2' Mullen 89' Halkett 90+4'	BBC Report	Cairney 62' Dick 109' Longworth 120'	Attendance: 1,018 Referee: Craig Thomson

Final

The winners of the semi-finals, Ayr United and Stranraer, competed against one another over two legs, with the winner, Ayr, replacing Livingston and being promoted to the 2016–17 Scottish Championship.

First leg

11 May 2016^[31]	Stranraer	1–1	Ayr United	Stair Park, Stranraer
19:45	McGuigan 54'	BBC Report	Docherty 90+5'	Attendance: 1,652 Referee: Bobby Madden

Second leg

15 May 2016^[31]	Ayr United	0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–1 agg.) (3–1 p)	Stranraer	Somerset Park, Ayr
14:45		BBC Report		Attendance: 4,581 Referee: Andrew Dallas
		Penalties
	Preston Trouten Docherty Graham		Cairney Longworth Barron Gibson

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2015–16 Scottish Championship

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Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

First half of season

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Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Discipline

Player

Yellow cards

Red cards

Club

Yellow cards

Red cards

Championship play-offs

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

First leg

Second leg

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