The Natural Order 2020

With the truncated 2019/20 Scottish football season now finished thanks to all twelve Premiership clubs unanimously voting to end the top division as it stands after 30 league matches, the points due to each club in the four divisions can be added to their existing totals and the new ‘Natural Order’ revealed.

This year witnesses another new entry into the Scottish Leagues, with Cove Rangers becoming the eighty first club to play in the set-up since 1890, and the Aberdeen based outfit go straight in at number seventy five after scoring eleven points in their successful League Two championship winning season, leapfrogging founder members Cowlairs as well as Dumbarton Harp and Ayr Parkhouse.

It is in fact the less established newer clubs that see most of the movement in the historical standings, with Elgin City leaping three clubs into fifty sixth place, the most significant of these being Renfrewshire based Johnstone who spent eleven seasons in the league at the start of the nineteenth century.

The Rangers continue their impressive start to life in Scottish football, jumping to forty fifth place, leaving Meadowbank Thistle behind and now have their eyes set firmly on Leith Athletic directly above them. Likewise, Inverness, who now sit in thirty third place after overtaking Stenhousemuir have made significant strides since joining over twenty-five years.

The only established club to make any headway towards the traditional elite end of the table was St Johnstone who leapfrogged old Airdrie into fifteen place, but remain considerably adrift of the top ten, where Celtic stretched their lead over 1872 Rangers by another eight eighty points, with the former Ibrox club of course frozen on their excellent points total which should keep them in second place for most of the next decade until the rest catch and overtake them.

See where your club stands here:

PositionClubPoints
1Celtic8328
2Rangers (1872)7804
3Heart of Midlothian4926
4Aberdeen4817
5Hibernian4637
6Dundee4153
7Motherwell4123
8Kilmarnock3908
9St. Mirren3849
10Partick Thistle3651
11Falkirk3309
12Dundee United3217
13Morton2856
14Clyde2807
15St. Johnstone2745
16Airdrieonians (1878)2707
17Hamilton Academical2628
18Dunfermline Athletic2563
19Raith Rovers2379
20Ayr United2292
21Queen of the South1833
22Third Lanark1771
23Queen’s Park1734
24Dumbarton1646
25East Fife1637
26Cowdenbeath1258
27Arbroath1233
28Stirling Albion1183
29Alloa Athletic1126
30Clydebank1009
31Albion Rovers979
32Forfar Athletic925
33Inverness Caledonian Thistle890
34Stenhousemuir869
35Brechin City773
36Ross County754
37Livingston748
38Stranraer681
39Montrose634
40East Stirlingshire593
41Berwick Rangers547
42St. Bernard’s485
43Airdrie (2002)368
44Leith Athletic338
45The Rangers (2012)300
46Meadowbank Thistle251
47Peterhead242
48Port Glasgow Athletic218
49King’s Park199
50Bo’ness177
51Arthurlie140
52Gretna134
53Abercorn113
54Armadale112
55Bathgate99
56Elgin City85
57Vale of Leven83
58Johnstone81
59Broxburn United80
60Ayr60
61Annan Athletic59
62Renton58
63Lochgelly United50
64Nithsdale Wanderers39
65Edinburgh City35
66Solway Star20
67Dykehead17
68Royal Albert16
69ES Clydebank15
70Beith14
71Linthouse14
72Clackmannan13
73Helensburgh12
74Peebles Rovers12
75Cove Rangers11
76Mid Annandale11
77Galston10
78Cambuslang9
79Dumbarton Harp7
80Cowlairs6
81Ayr Parkhouse2