Season trivia for Scottish Premiership 2025/2026
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 2025/2026 Scottish Premiership season in Scotland.
Note that the season is not finished yet, and therefor the information below is not necessarily the final version.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2025/2026 season were the players Tawanda Maswanhise - Elijah Just (Motherwell) and Elijah Just - Callum Slattery (Motherwell). Together they scored 5 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 2025/2026 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Tyreece John-Jules, playing for Kilmarnock, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 37 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Kilmarnock-St Mirren.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2025/2026 was 5 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Tawanda Maswanhise (Motherwell) - January 2026
Joe Hugill (Kilmarnock) - May 2026
Daizen Maeda (Celtic) - May 2026
Most braces by player
Youssef Chermiti in Rangers scored (at least) two goals in a match five times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2025/2026 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2025/2026 season was Tawanda Maswanhise in Motherwell, in total he did it nine times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were six players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, four times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
James Tavernier (Rangers)
Mikey Moore (Rangers)
Lawrence Shankland (Hearts)
Cláudio Braga (Hearts)
Daizen Maeda (Celtic)
Kelechi Iheanacho (Celtic)
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2025/2026 season was Apostolos Stamatelopoulos, in total he scored five penalties for his Motherwell.
Most penalty goals by team
Motherwell was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2025/2026 season, in total they scored eight of their goals from penalties.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2025/2026 season was Yevhen Kucherenko, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Scottish Premiership, which he did three times.
Most own goals by team
Dundee United scored five own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2025/2026 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Daizen Maeda in Celtic scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Daizen Maeda in Celtic scored or assisted in 6 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Tawanda Maswanhise in Motherwell who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 13 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Youssef Chermiti in Rangers scored a total of 10 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Scottish Premiership during the 2025/2026 season.
Most matches in a row without losing
Rangers were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2025/2026 season, playing 16 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Kilmarnock had a streak of 6 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Scottish Premiership during the 2025/2026 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Livingston managed the feat of not winning a single match in 31 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 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 Celtic were best at during the 2025/2026 season, they came back to win six matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Motherwell and Livingston were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in four different matches during the 2025/2026 season.