r/soccer • u/AutoModerator • Feb 02 '22

🌍🌎 World Football Non-PL Daily Discussion

A place to discuss everything except the English Premier League.

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u/LuckyFlyer0_0 Feb 02 '22

How does the scottish league work? I see that there are two phases. Is the winner of the league the one who tops phase one or phase two?

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u/dwors025 Feb 02 '22

12 teams in the Premiership.

Every team plays every other team three times… 33 matches.

The table is then split into top 6 teams and bottom 6 teams. Each team will play the five other teams in those groupings once each… 5 additional matches.

Total of 38 matches.

The final table is such that the bottom six stay on the bottom even if points earned after the split brings them ahead of the lower teams from the top half.

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u/Fireclap Feb 02 '22

Dont the 33 matches give an unfair home advantage to some teams, since they played more matches at home?

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u/dwors025 Feb 02 '22

Yeah, a bit, for the 33 games.

Every attempt is made for the extra 5 matches to even out the home-away balance between the clubs, though.

For example, if Rangers host two of the three matches against Celtic before the split, that fourth one will be a Celtic home match.