| Pixels: | 250 |
| Competition: | Scottish Championship |
| Season: | 2019–20 |
| Dates: | 3 August 2019 – 15 April 2020 |
| Winners: | Dundee United |
| Promoted: | Dundee United |
| Relegated: | Partick Thistle |
| Matches: | 137 |
| Total Goals: | 364 |
| League Topscorer: | Lawrence Shankland (24 goals)[1] [2] |
| Biggest Home Win: | Dundee United 6–0 Greenock Morton (28 September 2019) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Queen of the South 0–4 Greenock Morton (29 February 2020) |
| Highest Scoring: | Dundee United 6–2 Dundee (30 August 2019) Greenock Morton 4–4 Alloa Athletic (22 February 2020) |
| Longest Wins: | 9 matches: Dundee United |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 13 matches: Dundee United |
| Longest Winless: | 10 matches: Queen of the South |
| Longest Losses: | 5 matches: Dunfermline Athletic |
| Highest Attendance: | 14,108 Dundee United 6–2 Dundee (30 August 2019) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 661 Alloa Athletic 0–1 Arbroath (24 August 2019) |
| Attendance: | 414,131 |
| Average Attendance: | 3,022(98) |
| Prevseason: | 2018–19 |
| Nextseason: | 2020–21 |
| Updated: | 1 May 2020 |
The 2019–20 Scottish Championship (known as Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 26th season in the current format of 10 teams in the second-tier of Scottish football. Ten teams contested the league: Alloa Athletic, Arbroath, Ayr United, Dundee, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Greenock Morton, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Partick Thistle and Queen of the South.
The season began on 3 August 2019 and was scheduled to end on 2 May 2020.[3] On 13 March 2020 all SPFL leagues were indefinitely suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.[4] On 8 April 2020, the SPFL proposed to end the 2019 - 20 season by utilising a points per game ratio to determine the final standings.[5] The plan was approved on 15 April 2020, declaring that the season was over, as Dundee United were declared title winners with Partick Thistle relegated to League One.[6] Partick Thistle joined Heart of Midlothian F.C. (which had been relegated from the Scottish Premiership under similar circumstances) in suing the Scottish Professional Football League on the grounds that their relegation was unfair; Partick was two points behind the second-to-last-place team but had played one less game. Ultimately, the lawsuit failed and Partick and Hearts were indeed relegated.[7]
The following teams have changed division since the 2018–19 season:
To Championship
Arbroath secured promotion to the Championship on 13 April 2019.[8] Dundee were relegated from the Premiership on 4 May 2019.[9]
From Championship
Ross County secured promotion to the Premiership on 26 April 2019. Falkirk were relegated to League One on 3 May 2019.
| Alloa Athletic | Arbroath | Ayr United | Dundee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recreation Park | Gayfield Park | Somerset Park | Dens Park | |
| Capacity: 3,100[10] | Capacity: 6,600[11] | Capacity: 10,185[12] | Capacity: 11,775[13] | |
| Dundee United | Dunfermline Athletic | |||
| Tannadice Park | East End Park | |||
| Capacity: 14,223[14] | Capacity: 11,480[15] | |||
| Greenock Morton | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | |||
| Cappielow | Caledonian Stadium | Firhill Stadium | ||
| Capacity: 11,589[16] | Capacity: 7,750[17] | Capacity: 10,102[18] | Capacity: 8,690[19] | |
| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alloa Athletic | [20] | Pendle | Northern Gas and Power | ||
| Arbroath | [21] | Pendle[22] | Megatech | ||
| Ayr United | [23] | Adidas[24] | Bitcoin BCH[25] | ||
| Dundee | Macron[26] | Switch Gas & Electric[27] | |||
| Dundee United | Macron[28] | Utilita | |||
| Dunfermline Athletic | [29] | Joma[30] | SRJ Windows | ||
| Greenock Morton | [31] | est 1874 | Millions[32] | ||
| Inverness CT | [33] | Erreà[34] | McEwan Fraser Legal | ||
| Partick Thistle | Joma[35] | Just Employment Law[36] | |||
| Queen of the South | [37] | Macron[38] | BB Body Repairers |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alloa Athletic |  Jim Goodwin | Signed by St Mirren | 29 June 2019 | Pre-season | Peter Grant | 10 July 2019 | |
| Partick Thistle | Gary Caldwell | Sacked | 18 September 2019 | 9th | Ian McCall | 23 September 2019 | |
| Ayr United | Ian McCall | Signed by Partick Thistle | 23 September 2019 | 2nd | Sandy Stewart (interim) | 23 September 2019 | |
| Ayr United | Sandy Stewart | End of interim | 22 October 2019 | 2nd | Mark Kerr | 22 October 2019 |
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.
| Player | For | Against | Score | Date | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Shankland4 | Dundee United | Inverness CT | 4–1 (H) | 3 August 2019 | [39] | |
| Bob McHugh | Greenock Morton | Alloa Athletic | 4–1 (H) | 10 August 2019 | [40] | |
| Lawrence Shankland | Dundee United | Greenock Morton | 6–0 (H) | 28 September 2019 | [41] | |
| Kevin Nisbet4 | Dunfermline Athletic | Partick Thistle | 5–1 (H) | 30 November 2019 | [42] | |
| Lawrence Shankland | Dundee United | Partick Thistle | 4–1 (A) | 11 January 2020 | [43] |
Note
4 Player scored four goals
| Month | Manager of the Month | Player of the Month | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | Club | Player | Club | ||
| August | Robbie Neilson | Dundee United | Lawrence Shankland | Dundee United | |
| September | Ian McCall | Ayr United Partick Thistle | Alan Forrest | ||
| October | James McPake | Dundee | Declan McDaid | Dundee | |
| November | Robbie Neilson | Kevin Nisbet | Dunfermline Athletic | ||
| December | Robbie Neilson | Calum Butcher | |||
| January | Peter Grant | Alloa Athletic | Kevin O'Hara | ||
| February | David Hopkin | Greenock Morton | Nicky Cadden | Greenock Morton | |