2013–14 SPFL U20 League

The 2013–14 SPFL Under 20 League was the sixteenth season of the highest youth Scottish football league, the second season under the new under 20 format and the first season since the inception of the Scottish Professional Football League. It began in August 2013 ended in May 2014.^[1] Celtic won the league championship, one point ahead of nearest challengers Rangers.^[2]

SPFL U20 League

Season	2013–14
Champions	Celtic
Top goalscorer	Jason Cummings (22)
← 2012–13 2014–15 →

Changes

This year the league was again expanded, this time from 15 teams to 16 teams. It retained 14 of the sides from the previous season, with newly promoted Scottish Premiership club Partick Thistle replacing relegated Dundee. Scottish League One side Rangers also returned to the league.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	30	21	2	7	60	27	+33	65
2	Rangers	30	19	7	4	62	30	+32	64
3	Hibernian	30	17	8	5	71	38	+33	59
4	Hamilton Academical	30	15	6	9	56	45	+11	51
5	Motherwell	30	15	3	12	61	54	+7	48
6	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	30	13	4	13	56	51	+5	43
7	Kilmarnock	30	11	6	13	48	53	−5	39
8	Falkirk	30	10	9	11	48	61	−13	39
9	Aberdeen	30	11	5	14	50	51	−1	38
10	Dunfermline Athletic	30	10	6	14	51	53	−2	36
11	St Johnstone	30	9	8	13	51	58	−7	35
12	Dundee United	30	10	4	16	40	43	−3	34
13	Ross County	30	10	4	16	43	63	−20	34
14	Partick Thistle	30	9	6	15	37	61	−24	33
15	St Mirren	30	9	5	16	37	53	−16	32
16	Heart of Midlothian	30	7	5	18	40	70	−30	26

Source: SPFL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Matches

Teams played each other twice, once at home, once away.

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	DUN	DNF	FAL	HAM	HOM	HIB	INV	KIL	MOT	PAR	RAN	ROS	STJ	STM
Aberdeen		2–2	2–1	3–0	0–2	3–1	4–0	1–6	0–1	3–0	3–2	2–3	1–2	1–3	1–4	2–3
Celtic	1–2		1–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–2	1–3	2–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	5–0	2–2	3–2
Dundee United	1–0	0–2		0–0	0–1	2–4	5–0	1–2	2–3	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	3–0
Dunfermline Athletic	2–0	1–0	3–0		2–2	3–4	5–0	3–3	0–3	2–3	4–3	1–1	0–2	3–0	3–0	3–2
Falkirk	2–2	2–3	3–1	1–0		3–1	4–2	2–2	2–0	4–2	1–5	0–4	0–4	2–1	1–1	0–0
Hamilton Academical	2–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	1–1		5–1	0–4	3–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	4–0
Heart of Midlothian	0–5	2–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	2–3		2–2	2–1	0–2	3–0	5–1	1–4	4–0	4–2	1–3
Hibernian	2–1	1–0	1–1	7–1	4–2	1–1	3–2		2–3	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	5–0	1–2	0–2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle	2–4	2–3	3–2	3–1	2–2	0–1	2–0	1–3		3–0	2–3	3–2	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–0
Kilmarnock	1–2	0–1	1–3	0–0	3–2	3–3	2–1	3–3	3–3		0–1	1–0	1–2	5–1	3–0	1–0
Motherwell	3–0	0–5	0–0	2–1	4–3	2–4	3–2	0–3	2–0	2–3		4–1	1–2	1–2	3–2	2–0
Partick Thistle	1–1	1–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–2	2–0	4–2	2–0	0–5		0–3	1–0	2–2	1–1
Rangers	0–2	0–2	1–0	5–4	5–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	4–0		1–0	2–2	4–0
Ross County	1–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	3–0	1–3	1–1	2–4	2–0	5–0	0–3	4–0	2–3		2–1	3–3
St Johnstone	3–1	0–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	1–3	2–0	1–3	2–2	2–2	3–3	4–1	2–2	6–1		2–0
St Mirren	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	4–2	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–6	1–2	0–3	1–2	0–1	3–0

Source: SPFL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals[3]
1	Jason Cummings	Hibernian	22
2	Kyle MacLeod	Ross County	16
	Chris Kane	St Johnstone	16
4	Adam Evans	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	13
	Craig Moore	Motherwell	13
	Tony Dingwall	Ross County	13
7	Ryan Christie	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	12
	Chris Duggan	Partick Thistle	12
9	Denny Johnstone	Celtic	11
	Andy Ryan	Hamilton Academical	11

References

1. "U20 League fixtures". www.spfl.co.uk. Scottish Professional Football League. 6 August 2013. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
2. Kyle, Gregor (9 May 2014). "Dundee United 0 Celtic 2: Celtic youths seal five-in-a-row in final day of drama in the Under-20 league". Daily Record. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
3. "U20 Top Scorers". www.spfl.co.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130805115826/http://spfl.co.uk/reserve-and-youth/