Scottish Premiership Predictions

This Week's Fixtures

Aberdeen v Kilmarnock

Scotland · Premiership Sat 5 Sep, 14:00 UTC

Aberdeen to win · 54% model probability · odds 1.73

Model BTTS 57% O2.5 57%

Odds Home 1.73 Draw 3.75 Away 4.50 BTTS 1.67 O2.5 1.67

Dundee Utd v Falkirk

Scotland · Premiership Sat 5 Sep, 14:00 UTC

Dundee Utd to win · 49% model probability · odds 1.90

Model BTTS 57% O2.5 54%

Odds Home 1.90 Draw 3.60 Away 3.80 BTTS 1.62 O2.5 1.73

Rangers v Motherwell

Scotland · Premiership Sat 5 Sep, 14:00 UTC

Rangers to win · 66% model probability · odds 1.44

Model BTTS 54% O2.5 60%

Odds Home 1.44 Draw 4.33 Away 7.00 BTTS 1.75 O2.5 1.62

ST Mirren v Celtic

Scotland · Premiership Sat 5 Sep, 19:00 UTC

Celtic to win · 65% model probability · odds 1.48

Model BTTS 60% O2.5 66%

Odds Home 6.25 Draw 4.33 Away 1.48 BTTS 1.57 O2.5 1.44

Heart Of Midlothian v Dundee

Scotland · Premiership Sun 6 Sep, 14:00 UTC

Heart Of Midlothian to win · 66% model probability · odds 1.44

Model BTTS 52% O2.5 58%

Odds Home 1.44 Draw 4.33 Away 7.00 BTTS 1.75 O2.5 1.62

ST Johnstone v Hibernian

Scotland · Premiership Sun 6 Sep, 14:00 UTC

Hibernian to win · 37% model probability · odds 2.50

Model BTTS 56% O2.5 50%

Odds Home 2.80 Draw 3.25 Away 2.50 BTTS 1.67 O2.5 1.91

Rangers v ST Mirren

Scotland · Premiership Wed 9 Sep, 18:45 UTC

Rangers to win · 72% model probability · odds 1.30

Model BTTS 47% O2.5 58%

Odds Home 1.30 Draw 5.25 Away 9.00 BTTS 1.95 O2.5 1.62

ST Johnstone v Celtic

Scotland · Premiership Wed 9 Sep, 19:00 UTC

Celtic to win · 64% model probability · odds 1.44

Model BTTS 57% O2.5 62%

Odds Home 6.50 Draw 4.50 Away 1.44 BTTS 1.75 O2.5 1.57

Current Table

#TeamPWDLGDPtsForm
1 Celtic 4 4 0 0 9 12 WWWW
2 ST Mirren 4 3 1 0 4 10 WDWW
3 Heart Of Midlothian 4 3 0 1 6 9 WWWL
4 Motherwell 4 2 2 0 4 8 WDDW
5 Dundee 5 2 1 2 2 7 DLWWL
6 Rangers 4 2 1 1 1 7 WWLD
7 Hibernian 4 2 0 2 -1 6 LWWL
8 ST Johnstone 4 1 1 2 -1 4 DLLW
9 Dundee Utd 5 1 1 3 -5 4 LWLLD
10 Aberdeen 4 1 0 3 -5 3 LLLW
11 Falkirk 4 0 1 3 -4 1 LLDL
12 Kilmarnock 4 0 0 4 -10 0 LLLL

Betting the Scottish Premiership in 2026/27

The Scottish Premiership presents a bettor with two different leagues wearing one badge. Fixtures involving the Old Firm are priced short, watched closely and rarely leave value on the table in the match result. The other half of the division — ten clubs separated by far less than the table suggests — behaves much more like the English Championship: competitive, drawish, and covered with far less bookmaker attention. Almost everything we publish in this league comes from that second category.

Structurally, Scotland's top flight is a 38-game season with a twist nothing else we cover has: after 33 rounds the division splits into a top and bottom six. The split changes incentives sharply in April and May — bottom-six sides fighting relegation against opponents with nothing to play for, top-six clubs recalibrating around European places — and the model's opposition-adjusted ratings handle that better than season-long averages do, because it weights who you played, not just how you did.

Goals sit in the mid-2s across the division, though Old Firm fixtures against the bottom half inflate the average; strip those out and the rest of the league is lower-scoring and tighter than the headline number implies. Home advantage is solid, and winter conditions — genuine winter, on some challenging surfaces — nudge scoring down from December to February.

How the model handles it

The two-club problem is really a pricing problem. When a dominant side visits a mid-table club at 1.25, the match result is unbettable, but the goals lines, correct score and both-teams-to-score markets still have to spread probability across real uncertainty — and that is where the model finds its Scottish value. In the ten-club league within the league, straightforward match-result value appears regularly, especially early season when European qualifiers force weakened domestic line-ups that the market is slow to price.

The usual early-2026/27 caveat applies: ratings lean on last season until around six rounds accumulate, with promoted sides carrying the widest uncertainty. Every selection is archived at kickoff, settled at publication odds, and published in full on the model results page.