Pixels: | 250 |
Competition: | Scottish Championship |
Season: | 2022–23 |
Winners: | Dundee |
Promoted: | Dundee |
Relegated: | Hamilton Academical (via play-offs) Cove Rangers |
Matches: | 180 |
Total Goals: | 504 |
League Topscorer: | Dipo Akinyemi 20 goals |
Biggest Home Win: | Dundee 7–0 Hamilton Academical (1 April 2023) |
Biggest Away Win: | Cove Rangers 0–6 Queen's Park (7 January 2023) |
Highest Scoring: | Hamilton Academical 4–4 Cove Rangers (29 October 2022) Queen's Park 3–5 Dundee (5 May 2023) |
Longest Wins: | Inverness Caledonian Thistle Queen's Park 6 games |
Longest Unbeaten: | Dundee Greenock Morton 10 games |
Longest Winless: | Cove Rangers 10 games |
Longest Losses: | Hamilton Academical 7 games |
Highest Attendance: | 6,862 Dundee 0–0 Cove Rangers (28 April 2023) |
Lowest Attendance: | 471 Queen's Park 2–1 Cove Rangers (27 August 2022) Queen's Park 1–2 Greenock Morton (4 October 2022) |
Attendance: | 397,031 |
Average Attendance: | 2,205 |
Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
Updated: | 5 May 2023 |
The 2022–23 Scottish Championship (known as cinch Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the tenth season of the Scottish Championship, the second tier of Scottish football.
Ten teams contested the league: Arbroath, Ayr United, Cove Rangers, Dundee, Greenock Morton, Hamilton Academical, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Partick Thistle, Queen's Park and Raith Rovers.
The following teams changed division after the 2021–22 season.
Promoted from League One
Relegated from the Premiership
Relegated to League One
Promoted to the Premiership
Arbroath | Ayr United | Cove Rangers | Dundee | |
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Gayfield Park | Somerset Park | Balmoral Stadium | Dens Park | |
Capacity: 6,600[1] | Capacity: 10,185[2] | Capacity: 3,023[3] | Capacity: 11,775[4] | |
Greenock Morton | Hamilton Academical | |||
Cappielow | New Douglas Park | |||
Capacity: 11,589[5] | Capacity: 6,018[6] | |||
Inverness Caledonian Thistle | Partick Thistle | Queen's Park | Raith Rovers | |
Caledonian Stadium | Firhill Stadium | Ochilview Park[7] | Stark's Park | |
Capacity: 7,512[8] | Capacity: 10,102[9] | Capacity: 3,746[10] | Capacity: 8,867[11] | |
Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
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Arbroath | Macron | Megatech | |||
Ayr United | Hummel | Jewson (Home) Lindsay Mortgage Services (Away) | |||
Cove Rangers | Adidas | ACE Group | |||
Dundee | Gary Bowyer | Macron | Crown Engineering Services | ||
Greenock Morton | Joma | McGill's | |||
Hamilton Academical | Adidas | Active Access | |||
Inverness Caledonian Thistle | Puma | ILI Group | |||
Partick Thistle | O'Neills | Just Employment Law | |||
Queen's Park | Macron | Scotts | |||
Raith Rovers | Joma | Dean Park Hotel (Home) Fife Letting Service (Away) |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Raith Rovers | John McGlynn | End of contract | 3 May 2022[12] | Pre-season | Ian Murray | 24 May 2022[13] |
Dundee | Mark McGhee | 15 May 2022[14] | Gary Bowyer | 8 June 2022[15] | ||
Queen's Park | John Potter | End of interim spell | 15 May 2022[16] | Owen Coyle | 1 June 2022[17] | |
Cove Rangers | Paul Hartley | Signed by Hartlepool United | 3 June 2022[18] | Jim McIntyre | 15 June 2022[19] | |
Hamilton Academical | Stuart Taylor | Mutual consent | 23 June 2022[20] | John Rankin | 28 June 2022[21] | |
Cove Rangers | Jim McIntyre | Sacked | 3 January 2023[22] | 8th | Paul Hartley | 5 January 2023[23] |
Partick Thistle | Ian McCall | 12 February 2023[24] | 5th | Kris Doolan | 12 February 2023 |
Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 180 games, with each team playing 36.
Rank | Player | Club | Goals | |
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1 | Dipo Akinyemi | Ayr United | 20 | |
2 | Simon Murray | Queen's Park | 15 | |
3 | Billy Mckay | Inverness CT | 13 | |
Brian Graham | Partick Thistle | |||
5 | Zach Robinson | Dundee | 12 |
Month | Manager of the Month | Player of the Month | ||
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Manager | Club | Player | Club | |
August | Lee Bullen | Ayr United | Dipo Akinyemi | Ayr United |
September/October | Dougie Imrie | Greenock Morton | Robbie Muirhead | Greenock Morton |
November | Gary Bowyer | Dundee | Paul McMullan | Dundee |
December | Owen Coyle | Queen's Park | Grant Savoury | Queen's Park |
January | Billy Dodds | Inverness CT | Billy Mckay | Inverness CT |
February | Dougie Imrie | Greenock Morton | Connor Shields | Queen's Park |
March | Gary Bowyer | Dundee | Dipo Akinyemi | Ayr United |
April | Billy Dodds | Inverness CT | Kyle Turner | Partick Thistle |
The SPFL Championship manager of the year was Gary Bowyer of Dundee.
The SPFL Championship player of the year was Dipo Akinyemi of Ayr United.
The semi-finals were contested by the teams placed second to fourth in League One, as well as the team placed ninth in the Championship. The winners advanced to the final, with the highest-ranked team hosting the second leg.[25]
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