SPFL - Calendar Year Table 2025!

Celtic and Rangers recorded more combined defeats in 2025 than in any previous calendar year in history

2025 was another blockbuster year in Scottish football. Record numbers of fans attended matches, record numbers of viewers watched on Sky Sports and several domestic records were broken - for good and for bad.

This article lists:

• The Calendar Year Table

  • The league table for each division from all matches played in 2025

• Old Firm Facts

  • Record number of defeats for Celtic and Rangers

  • Seasons with the fewest losses

For each division, an annual league table has been constructed using all league matches played between 1st January and 31st December 2025, sorted by Points Per Game (PPG) - to account for differing numbers of matches played in the year. The tables only include points earned on the field and don’t account for the 50+ points deductions imposed by the SPFL….

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2025 PREMIERSHIP TABLE

The 2025 Premiership league table is below, sorted by PPG. In the event of a tie, the “PPG change from 2024” is used as the deciding factor; did the team have a better or worse 2025 than 2024? Therefore, despite finishing in the bottom six in 2024/25, the current league leaders Hearts are top of the 2025 PPG table!

As ever, this is not the real, important, league table. It’s merely an interesting look into which fans witnessed their teams having a better year in 2025 than they did in 2024!

The 2025 Premiership PPG Table - for matches played in the Scottish Premiership only.

Hearts have the best improvement in PPG from last year’s table (Hearts ended 2024 second bottom of the league!), earning on average 0.69 points more per game in 2025 than they did in 2024.

For teams that spent the entirety of 2024-2025 in the division, Celtic had the biggest drop off in PPG in 2025, earning on average 0.58 points less per game than they did in 2024! Dundee United had the same PPG drop off as Celtic, but that’s caveated by the fact Dundee United were in the Championship for the first half of 2024.

Falkirk have the biggest drop off in PPG in 2025 compared to 2024, earning over 1 point less per game on average this year, but that is obviously explained by the fact that 2024 was spent in the Championship and League One!

There is also of course the caveat that for six teams (including Hearts), five of their fixtures were against bottom six sides, while six other sides played five extra matches against top six sides.

PPG only takes into account actual points earned, disregarding any points deductions - of which there were several.

The next section will provide the PPG table for the SPFL as a whole - all 43 teams that competed in the SPFL in 2025, as well as the individual division PPG tables for the other three tiers. The article ends with a specific look at the remarkably high 2025 loss rates of both Rangers and Celtic.