Season trivia for Scottish Premiership 2014/2015
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2014/2015 Scottish Premiership season in Scotland.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2014/2015 season were the players Aleksei Eremenko - Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock), Anthony Stokes - Stefan Johansen (Celtic) and David Goodwillie - Adam Rooney (Aberdeen). Together they scored 4 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2014/2015 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Leigh Griffiths, playing for Celtic, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 19 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Celtic-Kilmarnock.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In April 2015, Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) scored 7 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2014/2015 season.
Most braces by player
Adam Rooney in Aberdeen scored (at least) two goals in a match 3 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2014/2015 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2014/2015 season was Adam Rooney in Aberdeen, in total he did it 10 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Adam Rooney in Aberdeen during the 2014/2015 season, in total he did this 6 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2014/2015 season was Nadir Çiftci, in total he scored 5 penalties for his Dundee United.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 2 players scored 2 goals in added time, and the players who did so were Jason Scotland (Hamilton Academical) and Greg Stewart (Dundee).
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 4 goals, which 2 teams managed to do, and these were Hamilton Academical and St Mirren.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
David Clarkson in Dundee scored in 7 consecutive matches during the 2014/2015 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Adam Rooney in Aberdeen who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 12 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Leigh Griffiths in Celtic scored a total of 10 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Scottish Premiership during the 2014/2015 season.
Most matches in a row without losing
Aberdeen were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2014/2015 season, playing 13 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2014/2015 season, there were 2 teams that had 7 consecutive losses, and those teams were Ross County and Kilmarnock.
Most matches in a row without a win
Hamilton Academical managed the feat of not winning a single match in 13 consecutive matches during the 2014/2015 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Inverness were best at during the 2014/2015 season, they came back to win 4 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Kilmarnock have managed this in 5 matches during the 2014/2015 season, more than any other team in Scottish Premiership.
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