1987–88 Scottish Premier Division

Scottish Premier Division
Season	1987–88
Champions	Celtic
Relegated	Falkirk; Dunfermline Athletic; Morton
European Cup	Celtic
UEFA Cup	Heart of Midlothian; Rangers; Aberdeen
Cup Winners' Cup	Dundee United
Matches played	264
Goals scored	646 (2.45 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tommy Coyne (33)
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 Scottish Premier Division season was won by Celtic, ten points ahead of Heart of Midlothian. Due to a league contraction to ten teams Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic and Morton were relegated.

Table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Celtic (C)	44	31	10	3	79	23	+56	72	Qualification for the European Cup first round
2	Heart of Midlothian	44	23	16	5	74	32	+42	62	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
3	Rangers	44	26	8	10	85	34	+51	60
4	Aberdeen	44	21	17	6	56	25	+31	59
5	Dundee United	44	16	15	13	54	47	+7	47	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round
6	Hibernian	44	12	19	13	41	42	−1	43
7	Dundee	44	17	7	20	70	64	+6	41
8	Motherwell	44	13	10	21	37	56	−19	36
9	St Mirren	44	10	15	19	41	64	−23	35
10	Falkirk (R)	44	10	11	23	41	75	−34	31	Relegation to the 1988–89 Scottish First Division
11	Dunfermline Athletic (R)	44	8	10	26	41	84	−43	26
12	Morton (R)	44	3	10	31	27	100	−73	16

Source: Statto
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results[]

Matches 1–22[]

During matches 1-22 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	DND	DNU	DNF	FAL	HOM	HIB	MOR	MOT	RAN	STM
Aberdeen		0–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–0
Celtic	2–2		5–0	1–2	4–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	3–1	4–1	1–0	1–0
Dundee	1–1	1–1		1–1	5–0	3–1	1–3	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–2
Dundee United	0–0	0–0	1–3		1–0	3–0	0–3	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–3
Dunfermline Athletic	0–3	2–1	0–1	0–0		0–0	0–1	3–3	4–1	0–1	0–4	2–0
Falkirk	2–2	0–1	0–3	4–1	0–0		1–5	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–1	1–3
Heart of Midlothian	2–1	1–1	4–2	4–1	3–2	4–2		1–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Hibernian	0–2	0–1	0–4	0–1	4–0	1–0	2–1		0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1
Morton	0–0	0–4	4–3	0–1	1–2	4–1	1–2	3–3		1–1	0–3	0–0
Motherwell	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–1	3–2	1–2	0–3	1–0	1–0		0–1	2–1
Rangers	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	4–0	4–0	3–2	1–0	7–0	1–0		3–1
St Mirren	1–3	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–2

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–44[]

During matches 23-44 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	DND	DNU	DNF	FAL	HOM	HIB	MOR	MOT	RAN	STM
Aberdeen		0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	4–0	0–0	1–2	2–1
Celtic	0–0		3–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
Dundee	1–2	1–2		0–2	2–0	4–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–3	2–1
Dundee United	0–2	1–2	1–0		2–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	3–1	1–1	5–1
Dunfermline Athletic	1–1	0–4	6–1	0–3		0–1	0–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–1
Falkirk	0–2	0–2	0–6	1–2	1–0		2–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	0–5	3–0
Heart of Midlothian	2–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0		0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–1
Hibernian	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0		3–1	1–1	0–2	0–0
Morton	0–2	0–4	1–7	0–4	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–1		0–2	3–2	0–2
Motherwell	2–1	0–1	3–3	4–2	3–2	0–0	0–2	0–2	1–0		0–2	2–1
Rangers	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–2	1–1	5–0	1–0		4–0
St Mirren	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–1	0–0	0–6	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–3