Celtic fc have been declared as Scottish Premiership champions for the ninth season in a row as Hearts are relegated – after the SPFL ended the season due to Covid 19 pandemic.
The decision was arrived at during a board meeting on Monday after all the 12 clubs agreed at the end of last week that completing the campaign was untennable.
Average points per game played has been used to determine final standings.
The only change to the table from when football was halted on 13 March is that St Johnstone go sixth, above Hibernian while others remain same.
Celtic were 13 points clear of the closest challengers Rangers – having played a game more – when the season was halted. Like most teams in the division, Celtic still had eight games to play.
Hearts were four adrift of Hamilton Academical at the bottom with a possible 24 points available.
However, the Tynecastle club do hold slim hopes of a reprieve after chair Ann Budge was given approval to work on a proposal for temporary league reconstruction, which would involve expanding the top flight.
SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan congratulated Celtic commiserated with Hearts and said the league were left with “no realistic option but to call” the season.
SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster added the “clear and unanimous view” of the club was that the games could not be played and that the league can now pay out around £7m of prize money immediately.
“The focus will now turn to how we get football up and running again safely as soon as possible,” he said. “Nobody should be under any illusion as to how complicated and difficult a challenge it will be to return Scottish football to normality.”
Football at all levels in Scotland is suspended until at least 10 June and Uefa had asked associations to either declare their season or lay out their resumption plans by 25 May.
Doncaster reiterated that the League Cup is scheduled to begin in mid-July, with the new league season due to begin on 1 August
