Season | 2001–02 | |
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2001–02 in Scottish football | |
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Premier League champions | |
Celtic | |
First Division champions | |
Partick Thistle | |
Second Division champions | |
Queen of the South | |
Third Division champions | |
Brechin City | |
Scottish Cup winners | |
Rangers | |
League Cup winners | |
Rangers | |
Challenge Cup winners | |
Airdrieonians | |
Junior Cup winners | |
Linlithgow Rose | |
Teams in Europe | |
Celtic, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Rangers | |
Scotland national team | |
2002 World Cup qualification |
The 2001–02 season was the 105th season of competitive football in Scotland. [1]
Celtic, domestic treble winners a year earlier, retain their Premier League title. [2]
After failing to win anything the previous season, Rangers won the Scottish Cup and League Cup under their new manager Alex McLeish. [3]
Airdrieonians, who narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League as First Division runners-up, went out of business of 1 May with debts of nearly £3million. [4] Later that month, however, a new club representing the town of Airdrie - Airdrie United - was formed, with ambitions of gaining Scottish league status for the 2002–03 season. [5]
Livingston, in the Premier League for the first time, finished third and qualified for the UEFA Cup. Livingston, who were known as Meadowbank Thistle until relocating from Edinburgh to Livingston in 1995 and played their first season in their new location as a Third Division club. [6]
Falkirk avoided relegation from the First Division and Stenhousemuir avoided relegation from the Second as a result of the league losing a member. The vacant place in the Third Division was occupied by Gretna, who until then had played in the English non-league system. [7]
Despite Gretna beating Airdrie United to the vacant league place, Airdrie United still gained a league place for the 2002–03 season – in the Second Division – as they bought out the debt-ridden club Clydebank. [8]
Queen of the South won the Second Division league title for the first time in 51-years since they won the Division B league title in season 1950–51. These were the only two occasions that the Dumfries club had won a league title in their history, that was up until they won their third ever league title in season 2012–13, when they won the Second Division once again. [9]
The 2001–02 Scottish Premier League was won by Celtic. Rangers finished second and therefore qualified for a UEFA Champions League place alongside Celtic. Livingston, in their debut season in Scotland's top division, qualified for the UEFA Cup along with Aberdeen. St Johnstone were relegated to the First Division.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation [lower-alpha 1] |
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1 | Celtic | 38 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 94 | 18 | +76 | 103 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
2 | Rangers | 38 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 82 | 27 | +55 | 85 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round |
3 | Livingston | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 50 | 47 | +3 | 58 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round [lower-alpha 2] |
4 | Aberdeen | 38 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 51 | 49 | +2 | 55 | |
5 | Heart of Midlothian | 38 | 15 | 5 | 18 | 53 | 58 | −5 | 50 | |
6 | Dunfermline Athletic | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 42 | 64 | −22 | 48 | |
7 | Kilmarnock | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 44 | 54 | −10 | 46 | |
8 | Dundee United | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 38 | 60 | −22 | 45 | |
9 | Dundee | 38 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 41 | 55 | −14 | 44 | |
10 | Hibernian | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 51 | 56 | −5 | 41 | |
11 | Motherwell | 38 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 49 | 69 | −20 | 40 | |
12 | St Johnstone | 38 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 62 | −38 | 21 | Relegation to the First Division |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Partick Thistle | 36 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 61 | 38 | +23 | 66 | Promoted to 2002–03 Scottish Premier League |
2 | Airdrieonians | 36 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 59 | 40 | +19 | 56 | Club folded |
3 | Ayr United | 36 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 53 | 44 | +9 | 52 | |
4 | Ross County | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 51 | 43 | +8 | 52 | |
5 | Clyde | 36 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 51 | 56 | −5 | 49 | |
6 | Inverness CT | 36 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 60 | 51 | +9 | 48 | |
7 | Arbroath | 36 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 42 | 59 | −17 | 48 | |
8 | St Mirren | 36 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 43 | 53 | −10 | 45 | |
9 | Falkirk [lower-alpha 1] | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 49 | 73 | −24 | 39 | |
10 | Raith Rovers | 36 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 50 | 62 | −12 | 35 | Relegated to Second Division 2002-03 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Queen of the South | 36 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 64 | 42 | +22 | 67 | Promoted To First Division 2002–03 |
2 | Alloa Athletic | 36 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 55 | 33 | +22 | 59 | |
3 | Forfar Athletic | 36 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 51 | 47 | +4 | 53 | |
4 | Clydebank [lower-alpha 1] | 36 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 51 | Club folded |
5 | Hamilton Academical | 36 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 49 | 44 | +5 | 48 | |
6 | Berwick Rangers | 36 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 47 | |
7 | Stranraer | 36 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 48 | 51 | −3 | 45 | |
8 | Cowdenbeath | 36 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 49 | 51 | −2 | 44 | |
9 | Stenhousemuir [lower-alpha 2] | 36 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 33 | 57 | −24 | 36 | |
10 | Greenock Morton | 36 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 48 | 63 | −15 | 35 | Relegated to Third Division 2002–03 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Brechin City | 36 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 67 | 38 | +29 | 73 | Promoted to Second Division 2002–03 |
2 | Dumbarton | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 59 | 48 | +11 | 61 | |
3 | Albion Rovers | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 51 | 32 | +19 | 59 | |
4 | Peterhead | 36 | 17 | 5 | 14 | 63 | 52 | +11 | 56 | |
5 | Montrose | 36 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 43 | 39 | +4 | 55 | |
6 | Elgin City | 36 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 45 | 47 | −2 | 47 | |
7 | East Stirlingshire | 36 | 12 | 4 | 20 | 51 | 58 | −7 | 40 | |
8 | East Fife | 36 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 39 | 56 | −17 | 40 | |
9 | Stirling Albion | 36 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 45 | 68 | −23 | 37 | |
10 | Queen's Park | 36 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 38 | 53 | −15 | 35 |
Competition | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Report |
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Scottish Cup 2001–02 | Rangers | 3 – 2 | Celtic | Wikipedia article |
League Cup 2001–02 | Rangers | 4 – 0 | Ayr United | Wikipedia article |
Challenge Cup 2001–02 | Airdrieonians | 2 – 1 | Alloa Athletic | Wikipedia article |
Youth Cup | Rangers | 4 – 2 | Ayr United | |
Junior Cup | Linlithgow Rose | 1 – 0 | Auchinleck Talbot |
Award | Player | Team |
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Players' Player of the Year | Lorenzo Amoruso | Rangers |
Young Player of the Year | Kevin McNaughton | Aberdeen |
Award | Player | Team |
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Footballer of the Year | Paul Lambert | Celtic |
Young Player of the Year | James McFadden | Motherwell |
Manager of the Year | Martin O'Neill | Celtic |
Club | Competition(s) | Final round | Coef. |
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Celtic | UEFA Champions League UEFA Cup | Group stage Third round | 10.00 |
Rangers | UEFA Champions League UEFA Cup | Third qualifying round Fourth round | 11.50 |
Kilmarnock | UEFA Cup | First round | 3.00 |
Hibernian | UEFA Cup | First round | 2.00 |
Average coefficient - 6.625
Date | Venue | Opponents | Score [note 1] | Competition | Scotland scorer(s) | Report |
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1 September | Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) | Croatia | 0–0 | WCQG6 | BBC Sport | |
5 September | Stade Roi Baudouin, Brussels (A) | Belgium | 0–2 | WCQG6 | BBC Sport | |
6 October | Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) | Latvia | 2–1 | WCQG6 | Dougie Freedman, David Weir | BBC Sport |
27 March | Stade de France, Saint-Denis (A) | France | 0–5 | Friendly | BBC Sport | |
17 April | Pittodrie, Aberdeen (H) | Nigeria | 1–2 | Friendly | Christian Dailly | BBC Sport |
16 May | Asiad Main Stadium, Busan (A) | South Korea | 1–4 | Friendly | Scott Dobie | BBC Sport |
20 May | Mongkok Stadium, Hong Kong (N) | South Africa | 0–2 | Friendly | BBC Sport |
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