Post Split fixtures ( merged )

[Ricardo Quaresma]

So, h1b5 Absolutely and most definitely 'Owe' Us a Home Game; whether that be a switch involving falkirk or a 3rd Home Derby IDK 

[Bozi]

6 hours ago, Jambo-Fox said:

I think our fixtures will be;

 

A H A H A …….

 

Our season is going to have a very Alan Partridge-esque finish ….. “Back of the Net!” in every match …..

That scares the living daylights out of me, at least we will see the sun shining on TV when they take on us 😉

[Sooperstar]

It's impossible to balance the fixtures so that all of the top 6 have an even split of 19/19 come the end of the season. I assume the same will be the case for the bottom 6.

 

Logical outcome seems to be to have Falkirk getting an extra home game.

[busbyfth]

On 13/02/2026 at 17:44, tamanov said:

 

Based on the current top 6, if everyone was to play each other home and away twice the fixtures are as detailed below. 
However, this means we would have one less home game over the season and HIBS would have one extra home game.
If they change any other fixtures other than the last derby it penalises other teams, so the ONLY thing they can do, to ensure every team gets 19 home and 19 away games is to make Hibs come to us a third time!! 
The seethe and fury is going to be legendary 😂😂

Imagine winning the league against Hibs at Tynie 👍

 

Fixtures after the split if every team played each other twice home and away:-

 

Hearts - 1 Home Game 

Hearts v Rangers

Falkirk v Hearts

Motherwell v Hearts

Hibs v Hearts

Celtic v Hearts

            

Hibs - 4 Home Games

Hibs v Celtic

Hibs v Motherwell

Hibs v Hearts

Hibs v Falkirk

Rangers v Hibs

            

Falkirk - 3 Home games

Falkirk v Celtic

Falkirk v Hearts

Falkirk v Motherwell

Hibs v Falkirk

Rangers v Falkirk

            

Rangers - 3 Home games  

Rangers v Hibs

Rangers v Falkirk

Rangers v Motherwell

Celtic v Rangers

Hearts v Rangers

 

Celtic - 2 Home Games

Celtic v Rangers

Celtic v Hearts

Hibs v Celtic

Motherwell v Celtic

Falkirk v Celtic

 

Motherwell - 2 Home Games 

Motherwell v Celtic

Motherwell v Hearts

Hibs v Motherwell

Falkirk v Motherwell

Rangers v Motherwell

If Labrokes offered you/me even money that its Hearts v Falkirk I'd bite their hands off - a cert 

[Ricardo Quaresma]

2 hours ago, busbyfth said:

If Labrokes offered you/me even money that its Hearts v Falkirk I'd bite their hands off - a cert 

 

That's definitely the default choice, but when have they ever went for the default choice?

 

Remember we finished 3rd at split 3 years ago and were seemingly certs to get the midden at Home, but it was weirdly given to the 5heep, then they won 3-0, red card and sealed 3rd with that result, then got gubbed 5-0 by the mhanks on the last day, the mhanks of course wrapping up the title at Tynecastle, again, even though we were all over them, Cochrane red, 0-2 etc...

 

I'm not really getting too much of a collum whiff of late, though; a very concerning amount of sevco-minded refs / officials all over our games like a tramp on chips, though, possibly more than their own games

[gwd1957]

On 13/02/2026 at 15:10, boag1874 said:

Don't 

Will never happen ,the Police will make sure that is not the last fixture of the season  

[gwd1957]

On 13/02/2026 at 19:04, tamanov said:

The league reconstruction debate surfaces every year but the point here is that I can’t see any other option other than Hibs being forced to come to Tynie for a third time. 
many people saying that the league will change our Falkirk fixture so that they come to us for a third time but that means they will play more away games than home games so there would be knock on effect to other fixtures. One team has too many home games and one team too few. Hibs are coming back to tynie. 

How many times have we been sent to Celtic 3 times ,plenty .

[heartsfc_fan]

Chances of Hibs being 6th going into the split and being sent to Tynecastle for a third time 😁

[Poseidon]

Assuming we're away at Fir park again after the split, What's the chances of Hearts trying to take the ticketing admin and doing it by LPs? 

 

Assume it's probably nil but will be an almighty free-for-all when they go in sale and some folks won't be happy I'm sure

[bigdav]

On 18/02/2026 at 18:50, heartsfc_fan said:

Chances of Hibs being 6th going into the split and being sent to Tynecastle for a third time 😁

Nil. They won't switch a derby game.

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

On 18/02/2026 at 22:31, Sooperstar said:

It's impossible to balance the fixtures so that all of the top 6 have an even split of 19/19 come the end of the season. I assume the same will be the case for the bottom 6.

 

Logical outcome seems to be to have Falkirk getting an extra home game.

Celtic, the vermin and Motherwell have 16 homes. We, along with Sevco and Falkirk have 17.

 

Everyone will have 19/19.

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

On 19/02/2026 at 05:43, gwd1957 said:

How many times have we been sent to Celtic 3 times ,plenty .

Yes but in those situations bar one (2006-07) we got Rangers at home a third time.

 

In 06-07 we got shafted with 3 homes and 5 aways against the gruesomes. I don't think that has ever happened to any other Top 6 team post split.

[soonbe110]

14 minutes ago, Poseidon said:

Assuming we're away at Fir park again after the split, What's the chances of Hearts trying to take the ticketing admin and doing it by LPs? 

 

Assume it's probably nil but will be an almighty free-for-all when they go in sale and some folks won't be happy I'm sure

Hearts would have to take on the ticket admin. Even if it cost money to do it.  To allow such a game to go straight to general sale would be a real kick in the teeth to the 1500 or so that have been going to virtually every away games for years and years. 

[Gershwin]

My guess for our fixtures is:

 

April 25th: Hibs Away

May 2nd: Rangers Home

May 9th: Celtic Away

May 12th: Falkirk Home

May 16th: Motherwell Away

 

Would prefer the last two fixtures on the 2nd and 3rd matchweeks as it probably gives us the best chance of getting it done before the last game. Eeek.

[Poseidon]

1 hour ago, soonbe110 said:

Hearts would have to take on the ticket admin. Even if it cost money to do it.  To allow such a game to go straight to general sale would be a real kick in the teeth to the 1500 or so that have been going to virtually every away games for years and years. 

Yep, would hope so

[Pasquale for King]

1 hour ago, bigdav said:

Nil. They won't switch a derby game.

If they have the least to play for it being a derby doesn’t matter. 

[tcjambo]

1 hour ago, Gershwin said:

My guess for our fixtures is:

 

April 25th: Hibs Away

May 2nd: Rangers Home

May 9th: Celtic Away

May 12th: Falkirk Home

May 16th: Motherwell Away

 

Would prefer the last two fixtures on the 2nd and 3rd matchweeks as it probably gives us the best chance of getting it done before the last game. Eeek.

I think Sevco will be second last and Falkirk second game.

[Sooperstar]

1 hour ago, Geoff Kilpatrick said:

Celtic, the vermin and Motherwell have 16 homes. We, along with Sevco and Falkirk have 17.

 

Everyone will have 19/19.

Motherwell will have had 17 home games when the split comes around. There will be 2 teams due 3 home games and 4 teams due 2 home games.

 

One team will have to receive an extra home game.

[Rudiculous]

1 hour ago, soonbe110 said:

Hearts would have to take on the ticket admin. Even if it cost money to do it.  To allow such a game to go straight to general sale would be a real kick in the teeth to the 1500 or so that have been going to virtually every away games for years and years. 

Completely agreed as someone who would have no chance of getting a ticket and rightfully so. Guys who have been going home and away should be first in line for a game of such magnitude. I also think they should be considering a loyalty points restriction + one per account for the post split home games.

[David McCaig]

6 minutes ago, Sooperstar said:

Motherwell will have had 17 home games when the split comes around. There will be 2 teams due 3 home games and 4 teams due 2 home games.

 

One team will have to receive an extra home game.

 

6 minutes ago, Sooperstar said:

Motherwell will have had 17 home games when the split comes around. There will be 2 teams due 3 home games and 4 teams due 2 home games.

 

One team will have to receive an extra home game.

Giving Falkirk the extra home game is probably the fairest option, although it might have a chaotic knock on effect to other fixtures given we probably need our away game against them reversed to ensure a 19-19 split.

[Ribble]

I'm guessing with the POTY dinner starting at 6pm on Sunday 3rd of May that the club think we'll be either at home for the 2nd round of fixtures or it'll be Parkhead for an early KO? Would be just our luck to be away from home and a 4pm KO for TV!

[Thumperbeni]

Can someone confirm if Motherwell sell tickets directly to us, can’t actually recall which clubs sell tickets directly to us as there’s no a few club that now do this, I’m hoping it isn’t Motherwell because when it comes to playing them there’s going to be a scramble for tickets even though we get a large allocation, I hope the loyalty points system is used because of the potential enormity of this fixture. 

[Serge Pizzorno]

Tickets for Motherwell have gone through Hearts the last 12 months thankfully

[haj]

I noticed yesterday there was a whole lot of empty seats at Parkhead. If Celtic do drop out of the title race i’d expect that trend to continue ten-fold and with us going there post split i’m sure there would be many a thousand of Hearts supporters keen to be in attendance. With this in mind, will celtic do the right thing and increase our usual paltry allocation? It’s just that empty seats makes scottish football look bad on the telly and besides, surely they should be grateful for our cash?

[Thumperbeni]

41 minutes ago, Serge Pizzorno said:

Tickets for Motherwell have gone through Hearts the last 12 months thankfully

I’m pretty sure we’ve had to buy directly from them in the past so hopefully it is through hearts and the LPs allow the folk who deserve tickets to get them when we travel there for why could be a title decider. 

[John Findlay]

36 minutes ago, haj said:

I noticed yesterday there was a whole lot of empty seats at Parkhead. If Celtic do drop out of the title race i’d expect that trend to continue ten-fold and with us going there post split i’m sure there would be many a thousand of Hearts supporters keen to be in attendance. With this in mind, will celtic do the right thing and increase our usual paltry allocation? It’s just that empty seats makes scottish football look bad on the telly and besides, surely they should be grateful for our cash?

Increase our seats? Never in a million years.

[ColinSmith1255]

3 hours ago, Poseidon said:

Assuming we're away at Fir park again after the split, What's the chances of Hearts trying to take the ticketing admin and doing it by LPs? 

 

Assume it's probably nil but will be an almighty free-for-all when they go in sale and some folks won't be happy I'm sure

Tickets were sold via Hearts e-tickets for the last away game at Motherwell.

[Saint Jambo]

Useful SPFL article from a year ago on the things they consider when setting post-split fixtures. Considerations not absolute rules in most cases.

https://spfl.co.uk/news/post-split-qa-season-202425

[Serge Pizzorno]

18 minutes ago, Thumperbeni said:

I’m pretty sure we’ve had to buy directly from them in the past so hopefully it is through hearts and the LPs allow the folk who deserve tickets to get them when we travel there for why could be a title decider. 

Last two visits have been through Hearts, visit there in October started at 80+ points IIRC

[rubyruby]

Im away to Turkey on the 8th may for a wk,booked it last June.I really hope we have the league wrapped up b4 I go.or when I get back.Dont want to miss the biggest party Gorgie has ever seen..since 98 & 2012

[hughesie27]

1 hour ago, Ribble said:

I'm guessing with the POTY dinner starting at 6pm on Sunday 3rd of May that the club think we'll be either at home for the 2nd round of fixtures or it'll be Parkhead for an early KO? Would be just our luck to be away from home and a 4pm KO for TV!

Doubt these things are considered as the venue will have been booked well in advance.

 

I remember 2 years ago Hibs had a POTY event arranged on the last day of the season when there was a chance they'd have been sent to Ross County away the same day. In the end they got Livi Away.

[PhoenixHearts]

On 17/02/2026 at 22:57, gregzy2k7 said:

Got a funny feeling we will get rangers first game at Tynecastle.

 

For me I think this will be the post split fixtures.

 

Rangers (H)

Hibs (A) 

Celtic (A)

Falkirk (H)

Motherwell (A)

 

I had a dream of us winning the league at Fir park with Braga scoring late on to win the game and the league.

 

Lets hope so 🙏 

 

Eh... let's NOT hope so 😬

 

I mean aye, it would be generational scenes, but I dont think my heart could take an 11th hour nailbiter.

 

Let's get this wrapped up by matchday 35-36 and soak it in/smoke a cigar for the remaining games.

[David McCaig]

The fairest correction to the fixture imbalance post-split is:

 

Before

Falkirk v Celtic

Rangers v Falkirk

Motherwell v Hearts

 

After 

Celtic v Falkirk

Falkirk v Rangers

Hearts v Motherwell

 

This gives everyone 19H v 19A except Falkirk who get a 20/18 split in their favour but are the side most likely to have nothing to play for.

 

The next challenge is then coming up with a fixture which doesn't have finishing either successive home games or away games!!

 

If we were to be given Falkirk at home it would also certainly mean Motherwell making a 3rd visit to Parkhead and being away to both the OF post split.  Switching 3rd v  4th would be inherently unfair.

Edited February 23 by David McCaig

[haj]

2 hours ago, John Findlay said:

Increase our seats? Never in a million years.

No. Tbh I was being sarcastic as that’s the kind of patronising mince they’ve been saying to us about their allocation at Tynecastle since we reduced it.

[haj]

1 hour ago, rubyruby said:

Im away to Turkey on the 8th may for a wk,booked it last June.I really hope we have the league wrapped up b4 I go.or when I get back.Dont want to miss the biggest party Gorgie has ever seen..since 98 & 2012

If we win the actual league it’ll be bigger than those two combined

[bigdav]

3 hours ago, Pasquale for King said:

If they have the least to play for it being a derby doesn’t matter. 

It does because it means at least an extra £100k for Hibs so they're not going to take that off them.

[Pasquale for King]

21 minutes ago, bigdav said:

It does because it means at least an extra £100k for Hibs so they're not going to take that off them.

That isn’t a consideration, they sent us to Ibrox 3 times one year, that cost us money. The rules do say they try not to reverse big city derbies but only the weegie version is foolproof.
The team who has the least to play for will probably be sent back to us for another game, most likely to be Falkirk but possibly Hibs depending who finishes 5th and 6th. 

Edited February 23 by Pasquale for King
Spelling

[David McCaig]

11 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

That isn’t a consideration, they sent us to Ibrox 3 times one year, that cost us money. The rules do say they try not to reverse big city derbies but only the weegie version is foolproof.
The team who has the least to play for will probably be sent back to us for another game, most likely to be Falkirk but possibly Hibs depending who finishes 5th and 6th. 

Unlikely to be Hibs as they are the only side in the top 6 who currently have a balanced fixture list post split.

 

As far as I can see 3 games need to be switched to come as close as possible to a balance and even then it is unavoidable that one side will get 20 home games. It probably makes most sense for this to be Falkirk if they are a distant 6th... although it would look pretty shit in terms of tv presentation if a game at Falkirk on the last of the season was pivotal to the title - especially if it rained!!

 

Rangers v Falkirk will be switched to Falkirk for certain and then the SPFL has to give Celtic/Hearts a 3rd home game against Motherwell/Falkirk.  If Celtic are 3rd going into the split it would be very hard to justify flipping their match against 4th placed Motherwell to Parkhead.

 

I think it is pretty much impossible to give all sides a guaranteed home/away fixture for the last two matches as well.

 

In summary the allocation of post split fixtures could still be a huge influence on the final destination of the trophy.

Edited February 23 by David McCaig

[1971fozzy]

3 hours ago, haj said:

I noticed yesterday there was a whole lot of empty seats at Parkhead. If Celtic do drop out of the title race i’d expect that trend to continue ten-fold and with us going there post split i’m sure there would be many a thousand of Hearts supporters keen to be in attendance. With this in mind, will celtic do the right thing and increase our usual paltry allocation? It’s just that empty seats makes scottish football look bad on the telly and besides, surely they should be grateful for our cash?

Absolutely zero chance …..

edit. Sorry saw your reply

Edited February 23 by 1971fozzy

[David McCaig]

Not having Hearts/Hibs or Rangers/Celtic playing at home at the same time whilst not having sides playing a run of 3 successives game at home or 3 successive games away is going to be challenging as well.

[Locky]

Apologies if this has already been highlighted, but it seems as though Sky still have a stupid rule of only showing 5 matches from each stadium. We've had 4 already, which means only one home game in the split can be televised. Rangers seems the obvious one, but surely they're also going to want to televise our final home game incase we do win the league as that would be trophy day.

 

Premier Sports don't seem to have any such rule, but they're limited to 20 games a season (plus 2 extra bottom 6 matches) but I can't be arsed figuring or finding out how many games they've already shown or scheduled.

 

Seems as though the 2 home games we get in the split will obviously be Falkirk and Rangers. Falkirk would be a 3rd Tynie meeting, but arguably seems the least controversial option to even the fixtures up. A lot of people seem to think that will be our final game, but for Sky to televise that, they'd have to completely shun the Rangers game which I can't see them doing.

 

As an aside, there's no TV picks yet for matchdays 32 and 33. I can see our trip to Livi being moved for Sky. FA Cup weekend, so wouldn't be surprised if it was an 8pm Saturday game.

 

Motherwell on matchday 33 could also be televised, but it would have to be Premier who cover it, assuming they still have quota left. Worth nothing that Celtic are away at Dundee on week 32, with Rangers travelling to Falkirk on week 33, which is obviously going to pique interest.

 

To summarise, the Scottish league setup and TV deal is a bit of a pain in the arse.

[Pasquale for King]

26 minutes ago, David McCaig said:

Unlikely to be Hibs as they are the only side in the top 6 who currently have a balanced fixture list post split.

 

As far as I can see 3 games need to be switched to come as close as possible to a balance and even then it is unavoidable that one side will get 20 home games. It probably makes most sense for this to be Falkirk if they are a distant 6th... although it would look pretty shit in terms of tv presentation if a game at Falkirk on the last of the season was pivotal to the title - especially if it rained!!

 

Rangers v Falkirk will be switched to Falkirk for certain and then the SPFL has to give Celtic/Hearts a 3rd home game against Motherwell/Falkirk.  If Celtic are 3rd going into the split it would be very hard to justify flipping their match against 4th placed Motherwell to Parkhead.

 

I think it is pretty much impossible to give all sides a guaranteed home/away fixture for the last two matches as well.

 

In summary the allocation of post split fixtures could still be a huge influence on the final destination of the trophy.

Looks that way atm 👍🏾

[132goals1958]

18 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

That isn’t a consideration, they sent us to Ibrox 3 times one year, that cost us money. The rules do say they try not to reverse big city derbies but only the weegie version is foolproof.
The team who has the least to play for will probably be sent back to us for another game, most likely to be Falkirk but possibly Hibs depending who finishes 5th and 6th. 

 If it’s Hibs there would be a stooshie if we gave them the whole of the Roseburn

[Pasquale for King]

1 minute ago, 132goals1958 said:

 If it’s Hibs there would be a stooshie if we gave them the whole of the Roseburn

That agreement stands, unfortunately.

[John Findlay]

If a team has to come to Tynecastle a third time, it will either be Falkirk or Motherwell.

[Philfigo]

7 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

That agreement stands, unfortunately.

Not sure it does with an extra game at Tynecastle. Would go completely against what Roseburn season ticket holders purchased at start of season as it states you get 17 home games. You would have then that they have purchased season ticket for the 17 games but only getting 16 home games if Hibs got the full stand at Tynecastle for a 3rd time in the season. Would think the club would be wide open for false advertising the Roseburn STs.

Edited February 23 by Philfigo

[NottsJambo]

Is there any good articles that explain how it works?

[hughesie27]

55 minutes ago, David McCaig said:

Unlikely to be Hibs as they are the only side in the top 6 who currently have a balanced fixture list post split.

 

As far as I can see 3 games need to be switched to come as close as possible to a balance and even then it is unavoidable that one side will get 20 home games. It probably makes most sense for this to be Falkirk if they are a distant 6th... although it would look pretty shit in terms of tv presentation if a game at Falkirk on the last of the season was pivotal to the title - especially if it rained!!

 

Rangers v Falkirk will be switched to Falkirk for certain and then the SPFL has to give Celtic/Hearts a 3rd home game against Motherwell/Falkirk.  If Celtic are 3rd going into the split it would be very hard to justify flipping their match against 4th placed Motherwell to Parkhead.

 

I think it is pretty much impossible to give all sides a guaranteed home/away fixture for the last two matches as well.

 

In summary the allocation of post split fixtures could still be a huge influence on the final destination of the trophy.

Perhaps make Falkirk play two Home games last 2 games.

[Quando, Quando, Quando]

Does anybody know the last time Celtic and Rangers met on the final day of the season?

[cookieboy]

41 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

That agreement stands, unfortunately.

for two games 

34 minutes ago, Philfigo said:

Not sure it does with an extra game at Tynecastle. Would go completely against what Roseburn season ticket holders purchased at start of season as it states you get 17 home games. You would have then that they have purchased season ticket for the 17 games but only getting 16 home games if Hibs got the full stand at Tynecastle for a 3rd time in the season. Would think the club would be wide open for false advertising the Roseburn STs.

this