2017–18 Scottish Championship
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The 2017–18 Scottish Championship (known as the Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 24th season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football. The fixtures were published on 23 June 2017.[3]
Season | 2017–18 |
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Champions | St Mirren |
Promoted | St Mirren Livingston |
Relegated | Dumbarton Brechin City |
Matches played | 180 |
Goals scored | 472 (2.62 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Stephen Dobbie (18 goals)[1] |
Biggest home win | Falkirk 6–1 Dundee United[2] (6 January 2018) St Mirren 5–0 Dumbarton[2] (27 March 2018) |
Biggest away win | Brechin City 0–5 Dundee United[2] (17 April 2018) |
Highest scoring | Dunfermline Athletic 2–5 Queen of the South[2] (9 December 2017) Falkirk 6–1 Dundee United[2] (6 January 2018) Dumbarton 2–5 Falkirk[2] (21 April 2018) |
Longest winning run | 5 matches:[2] Inverness CT |
Longest unbeaten run | 11 matches:[2] Inverness CT Livingston |
Longest winless run | 36 matches:[2] Brechin City |
Longest losing run | 16 matches:[2] Brechin City |
Highest attendance | 7,585[2] Dunfermline Athletic 1–3 Dundee United (30 September 2017) |
Lowest attendance | 392[2] Dumbarton 0–1 Inverness CT (18 April 2018) |
Total attendance | 518,654[2] |
Average attendance | 2,881[2] |
← 2016–17 2018–19 →
All statistics correct as of 28 April 2018. |
Ten teams contested the league: Brechin City, Dumbarton, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Falkirk, Greenock Morton, Inverness CT, Livingston, Queen of the South and St Mirren.
St Mirren won the league title, and promotion to the Premiership, after a 0–0 draw with Livingston on 14 April 2018.[4]
Brechin City became the first team in 126 years to go through a Scottish league season without a win. Their total of 4 points was the lowest ever recorded in the Scottish second tier, the lowest in the three points for a win era and the joint-lowest in any Scottish division.[5]