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Scottish football/soccer : Scottish Premier League 2007/2008 season preview

Celtic clinched their fifth Scottish Premier League title in seven years four rounds before the end of the 2006/07 season. The Glasgow giants also won the Scottish Cup with a 1-0 victory over Dunfermline. Here is a short summary of the 2006/07 Scottish Premier League campaign:

The following table shows the overall number of titles for each club in Scottish Premiership and their league standings in the last five seasons.

teamstitles2002/032003/042004/052005/062006/07
Rangers 5112132
Celtic4121211
Hearts433524
Hibernian478347
Aberdeen4811463
Kilmarnock1410755
Dundee United1115999
Motherwell11266810
Inverness---878
Falkirk----106
St. Mirren-----11
Gretna------

* Number of titles since 1891.

This page is introduction to the 2007/2008 Scottish Premier League season. Latest news, statistics, results and predictions you can find on our main Euro Football > Scotland page.

#teampoints g.dif. win-draw-lose
1Celtic843126-6-6 (38)
2Rangers722921-9-8 (38)
3Aberdeen651719-8-11 (38)
4Hearts611217-10-11 (38)
5Kilmarno.55-716-7-15 (38)
6Falkirk50215-5-18 (38)
7Hibernian491013-10-15 (38)
8Inverness46-611-13-14 (38)
9Dun. Utd.42-1910-12-16 (38)
10Mother.38-2010-8-20 (38)
11St. Mirren36-208-12-18 (38)
12Dunfer.32-298-8-22 (38)

* Table displays the league standings for season 2006/2007

teamoddsteamodds
Celtic Glasgow1.62Glasgow Rangers2.25
Hearts34Aberdeen 67
Hibernian151Gretna500
Kilmarnock501Dundee United1000
Motherwell1500Falkirk2000
Inverness2000St. Mirren2500

* Preseason odds for the outright winner of the 2007/08 Scottish football league.

Scottish Cup finals in last five seasons

2003   Rangers - Dundee   1:0
2004   Celtic - Dunfermline   3:1
2005   Celtic - Dundee United   1:0
2006   Hearts - Gretna   1:1   (4:2 pen.)
2007   Celtic - Dunfermline   1:0

Scottish League Cup finals in last five seasons

2003   Rangers - Celtic   2:1
2004   Livingston - Hibernian   2:0
2005   Rangers - Motherwell   5:1
2006   Celtic - Dunfermline   3:0
2007   Hibernian - Kilmarnock   5:1

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key players

Aberdeen

Goalkeeper Jamie Langfield (€0.3m); Defense: Jackie McNamara (€2.4m), Michael Hart (€0.5m), Andrew Considine (€0.1m); Midfield: Scott Severin (€0.8m), Barry Nicholson (€0.8m), Richard Foster (€0.3m), Chris Clark (€0.1m); Forward: Steve Lovell (€0.8m), Lee Miller (€0.6m), Darren Mackie (€0.1m).

Celtic Glasgow

Goalkeeper Artur Boruc (€11.5m); Defense: Stephen McManus (€2.3m), Lee Naylor (€1m); Midfield: Shunsuke Nakamura (€8.5m), Scott Brown (€6.6m), Jiri Jarosik (€6.5m), Massimo Donati (€4.5m), Thomas Gravesen (€3m), Aiden McGeady (€2m); Forward: Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (€8.5m), Maciej Zurawski (€4.3m).

Dundee United

Goalkeeper Grzegorz Szamotulski (€1.1m); Defense: Lee Wilkie (€0.4m), Darren Dods (€0.3m), Christian Kalvenes (€0.3m); Midfield: Stuart Duff (€0.5m), Mark Kerr (€0.5m), Barry Robson (€0.4m), Greg Cameron (€0.2m), David Robertson (€0.2m), Craig Conway (€0.2m); Forward: Noel Hunt (€0.6m).

Falkirk

Goalkeeper Robert Olejnik (€0.3m); Defense: Kenny Milne (€0.4m), Thomas Scobbie (€0.3m); Midfield: Arnau Riera (€0.8m), Steven Thomson (€0.5m), Stephen O'Donnell (€0.5m), Jack Ross (€0.4m), Patrick Cregg (€0.3m), Russell Latapy (€0.2m), Darren Barr (€0.1m); Forward: Pedro Moutinho (€0.5m).

Glasgow Rangers

Goalkeeper Roy Carroll (€2.4m); Defense: Cuellar (€3m), Alan Hutton (€2m); Midfield: Barry Ferguson (€7.5m), Thomas Buffel (€4.5m), Brahim Hemdani (€2.5m), Charlie Adam (€1.8m); Forward: Kris Boyd (€6m), Jean-Claude Darcheville (€4.5m), Da Marcus Beasley (€3.3m), Lee McCulloch (€3.3m).

Gretna

Goalkeeper Tony Caig (€0.5m); Defense: Daniel Grainger (€0.3m), Chris Innes (€0.1m), Martin Canning (€0.1m); Midfield: Eric Paartalu (€0.1m), Gavin Skelton (€0.1m), David Nicholls (€0.1m), Allan Jenkins (€0.1m); Forward: James Grady (€0.3m), David Graham (€0.2m), Colin McMenamin (€0.1m).

Hearts

Goalkeeper Craig Gordon (€1.8m); Defense: Ibrahim Tall (€1.3m), Robbie Neilson (€0.9m), Christophe Berra (€0.6m), Marius Zaliukas (€0.2m); Midfield: Neil McCann (€1.5m), Bruno Aguiar (€1.2m), Saulius Mikoliunas (€0.8m); Forward: Mauricio Pinilla (€2.5m), Roman Bednar (€1.3m), Andrius Velicka (€0.3m).

Hibernian

Goalkeeper Zbigniew Malkowski (€0.8m); Defense: David Murphy (€0.7m), Torben Joneleit (€0.3m), Rob Jones (€0.2m); Midfield: Brian Kerr (€0.8m), Guillaume Beuzelin (€0.8m), Alan O'Brien (€0.7m), Merouane Zemmama (€0.4m); Forward: Dean Shiels (€0.5m), Abdessalam Benjelloun (€0.4m), Steven Fletcher (€0.3m).

Inverness Caledonian Thistle

Goalkeeper Michael Fraser (€0.1m); Defense: Ross Tokely (€0.5m), Grant Munro (€0.4m), Stuart McCaffrey (€0.3m); Midfield: Ian Black (€0.5m), Roy McBain (€0.3m), Russell Duncan (€0.3m), Barry Wilson (€0.3m); Forward: Dennis Wyness (€0.6m), Marius Constantin Niculae (€0.5m), Graham Bayne (€0.3m).

Kilmarnock

Goalkeeper Alan Combe (€0.4m); Defense: Grant Murray (€0.4m), Frazer Wright (€0.2m); Midfield: Mohammed Sylla (€1.7m), Allan Johnston (€0.8m), Danny Invincible (€0.4m), James Fowler (€0.4m), Paul di Giacomo (€0.3m); Forward: Steven Naismith (€0.8m), Gary Wales (€0.4m), Colin Nish (€0.3m).

Motherwell

Goalkeeper Graeme Smith (€0.9m); Defense: Stephen Craigan (€0.8m), Martyn Corrigan (€0.5m), Mark Reynolds (€0.4m), Mark Fitzpatrick (€0.3m); Midfield: Paul Quinn (€0.5m), Jim Paterson (€0.5m), Krisztian Vadocz (€0.4m), Keith Lasley (€0.3m); Forward: Steven McGarry (€0.4m), David Clarkson (€0.4m).

St. Mirren

Goalkeeper Chris Smith (€0.3m); Defense: David van Zanten (€0.4m), John-Paul Potter (€0.3m); Midfield: Craig Molloy (€0.5m), Garry Brady (€0.4m), Gary Mason (€0.4m), Hugh Murray (€0.4m), Mark Corcoran (€0.4m), Richard Brittain (€0.3m); Forward: Craig Dargo (€1.3m), Stewart Kean (€0.4m).

 
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