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The Scottish Premiership is Scotland's top flight and the home of the Old Firm, the fixture between Celtic and Rangers that shapes the title race almost every season. Beyond Glasgow, Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian carry big travelling supports and long histories, and the smaller grounds produce an atmosphere that television rarely does justice. The league splits into a top half and a bottom half late in the campaign, which turns the final rounds into two separate scraps - one for Europe, one for survival.

Scottish league football dates back to 1890 and the modern Premiership carries all of that weight, from Celtic's 1967 European Cup win to the derby that has run since the nineteenth century. The post-split format is the league's defining quirk: once the fixtures are divided, every remaining match is played against a direct rival, so the run-in is unusually intense at both ends of the table. Celtic and Rangers dominate the honours, but Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian have all had spells of pushing them, and cup upsets are part of the Scottish calendar.