SPFL: New Scottish league brands unveiled
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The Scottish Professional Football League has revealed the names of its league competitions.
The new body was set up following the merger of the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League.
The new top-flight will be called the Scottish Premiership, with the old First Division renamed the Scottish Championship.
Divisions Two and Three will now be known as Scottish League One and Scottish League Two.
"A mountain of work has been done over the summer to get to this point and I believe there is much more that can be done," said SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster.
"The new league set-up reflects very much the recommendations Henry McLeish made in his report for the future of Scottish football.
"To have clarity on the names of each division and to have a logo that demonstrates the passion, the excitement and the drama of Scottish football, I'm thrilled."
Pressed on the branding's similarity with the English Premier League, Doncaster said: "People are certainly familiar with what it represents and when the names changed in England we saw the Championship being elevated in terms of stature within the game.
"And our sincere hope is that will also be the case here. So many of the changes we've created in terms of redistribution - around £1.5m being re-distributed away from the top division into the second tier; to have play-offs to keep the division alive within the Scottish Championship right the way to the end and so much of the benefit will be about the Championship clubs and ensuring full-time professional football is viable at that level."
Asked about the search for a new sponsor for the league, Doncaster said: "We've only been in existence for three weeks and have the clarity and certainty as to the structure that people would be investing in. We've now got the branding and the names that people can now start associating with the different tiers of football in this country; let's see where we get to.
"With the benefit of four years of clarity and certainty with broadcasters, with Sky Sports and BT, that puts us in a very good place for conversations with partners and sponsors moving forward.
"Today gives us the chance to think about all the positivity that should be ahead and a real, exciting season, I hope at every level of the game. We should see a stronger, more vibrant championship and more vibrant bottom of the table in the Premiership with play-offs now introduced.
"I'm really excited about the future and confident we can look forward to a season ahead where we can concentrate on the football rather than all the off-field matters that have dominated the agenda for so long."
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"Will we just copy the English leagues?"
"Aye, what's for lunch?"
La Scottish Liga
Fußball-Bundesliga Scotland
Ligue 1 Scotland
Scottish Eredivisie
I find the notion that the names were thought up quickly and without thought a little surprising.
First Division
Second Division
Third Division
Fourth Division
Radical or what?
Reaaaaaaaally?
Further testament to the fact that the people running our game don't have a scooby.
Championship
League One
League Two
...where have I heard that before? Bet those numpties spent hours coming up with it.
this proves yet again that they get overpaid for very little effort and work
Seriously Neil, the best you could do was to rip off the names of the bigger leagues down south? How unimaginative!
Different name... same old rubbish!
Looks like the ad agency has simply copied the Singapore national lion logo and changed the colour. That'll be £125,000 please Mr Doncaster!!!
When these names were rumoured the backlash was obvious. To still go ahead with it is arrogance and ignorance personified. No wonder Scottish football is in the mess it is.
*delete where appropriate when being either condescending or ripping them off.
I know I will.
I have to say that if there is an 'organisation' (if you can call it that) that is any less competent than the FA its the SFA.
Or am I being obtuse....??
Why can't we go back to 1,2,3,4? Or even just 1 and 2 while we're at it? You can polish a .... but it's still a ....
Oh I agree StrikeAyr, which is why our game needs so much more imagination than these clowns can provide.
I'm usually a pretty level headed poster but I am speechless at this. Its so sad its funny.
It just invites ctriticism and of course, scorn from English football.
Oh, and Brinsley, do you have nothing better to do than appear on Scottish fitba blogs winding people up ?