The 2026-27 Scottish Premiership's Money Table, Where Celtic Play a Different Game
Celtic's turnover alone is bigger than that of the eight other clubs outside Glasgow that disclose one, added together. Below the Old Firm, a good season is one where the books roughly balance.
This table covers the 12 clubs in the 2026-27 Scottish Premiership: the 11 who survived 2025-26, including St Mirren through the play-off, plus St Johnstone, promoted as Championship winners a year after going down. The figures come from each club's latest filed accounts, with year ends in May or June 2025, so they cover the 2024-25 season, when Celtic won the league and League Cup, Aberdeen won the Scottish Cup and Rangers reached a Europa League quarter-final.
The gap at the top is the story. Celtic's turnover of around £140m is around £50m more than Rangers', and Rangers' around £90m is almost four times that of Hearts, the biggest earner outside Glasgow at around £24m. Of the 11 clubs that disclose a profit figure, only four made one: Celtic, St Mirren, Falkirk and St Johnstone. Outside Celtic, those profits came from European nights, promotion or tight cost control, not a structural edge.
Several clubs file small-company accounts that leave out key lines. Dundee's filing gives no turnover, profit or staff costs, and Hibernian's filed figures don't include a turnover line, so those cells are marked n/d rather than estimated. Falkirk's accounts don't break out staff costs. Figures for Falkirk and St Johnstone cover a season in the Championship, not the top flight.
How to read this: every figure is for the year covered by each club's latest accounts (year ends May or June 2025), ranked by turnover; clubs that don't disclose turnover sit at the foot. Values are rounded to protect the precision of the source filings: to the nearest £10m between £50m and £500m, the nearest £1m between £5m and £50m, and the nearest £0.5m below £5m. Click any club to read the full story behind its numbers.
| Rank | Club | Turnover | PBT | Cash | Net Assets | Staff Costs | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Celtic→ | £140m | £46m | £80m | £160m | £70m | 1,008 |
| 2 | Rangers→ | £90m | -£15m | £31m | £45m | £60m | 326 |
| 3 | Hearts→ | £24m | -£2m | £10m | £28m | £19m | 325 |
| 4 | Aberdeen→ | £22m | -£2m | £9m | £25m | £15m | 183 |
| 5 | Dundee United→ | £11m | -£0.5m | £0.5m | -£5m | £6m | 88 |
| 6 | Kilmarnock→ | £9m | -£1m | £0.5m | £6m | £6m | 195 |
| 7 | St Mirren→ | £9m | £0.5m | £2m | £9m | £5m | 131 |
| 8 | Motherwell→ | £7m | -£0.5m | £0.5m | £5m | £6m | 231 |
| 9 | St Johnstone→ | £7m | £0.5m | £2.5m | £2m | £4.5m | 236 |
| 10 | Falkirk→ | £4.5m | £1.5m | £1.5m | £4.5m | n/d | 53 |
| 11 | Hibernian→ | n/d | -£6m | £3.5m | £28m | £12m | 162 |
| 12 | Dundee→ | n/d | n/d | £0.5m | -£0.5m | n/d | 85 |
Scottish top-flight football is two businesses: a Celtic that can make £46m in a year, and eleven other clubs for whom breaking even is a good season.