The latest Scottish Premiership TV selections for August have been revealed ahead of the new campaign which starts this upcoming weekend.
Sky Sports has announced its plans for the top flight season, with ‘new pundits, exciting features and the first place to see all the goals on TV’.
It’s been announced on Tuesday that Eilidh Barbour will be presenting the coverage of up to 48 live matches from 2020 going into 2021.

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It was last season that Eilidh replaced Hayley McQueen on BT Sport as she initially brought in to cover Hayley during her maternity leave, though has impressed so much that she’s got the job permanently.
The refreshed lineup for the Sky Sports Scottish Premier team includes analyst Kris Boyd, James McFadden, former Rangers, St Johnstone and Kilmarnock striker Ally McCoist, former Scotland and Man Utd midfielder Darren Fletcher, and former Celtic striker John Hartson.
Fletcher is being described by fans as a bizarre inclusion to the Sky Sports Scottish pundit team, considering Darren played his whole career in England.
Retired footballer Kris Commons is no where to be seen having previously been a pundit for the Scottish football coverage.
The ever controversial Chris Sutton looks set to remain over at BT Sport to cover the English Premier League and it’s European football, the Champions League and Europa League.
The commentary box will be the much experienced Ian Crocker along with former footballer Andy Walker, who was once criticised by Celtic captain Scott Brown, labelling him a “poor man’s Gary Neville” in May 2016.
Sky Sports will showing every Saturday goal first on Sky Sports News at 6pm each weekend.
Like the English Premier League, new features will enhance the viewing experience, there will be the choice of crowd noise, as matches continue to be played behind closed doors.
There will also be a new weekly Scottish football podcast launched and hosted by Sky Sports, fair to say they are really going for it this upcoming season, though when it comes to advertising on the league, it’s been rather minimal.
Sky Sports director of football Gary Hughes said: “We’re delighted to be able to bring our customers comprehensive and exclusive coverage of the Scottish Premiership in this, the first year of a five-year contract. It promises to be a thrilling season and we can’t wait to get going on August 1 on the home of Scottish football.”
Steven Gerrard’s Rangers will be kicking off the opening round of fixtures on Sky Sports this Saturday with a trip to Aberdeen.
Champions Celtic will then unfurl the championship flag at home to Hamilton 24 hours later.
Monday night football sees Ross County host Motherwell at Dingwall at 7:45pm.
Latest Scottish Premiership TV selections for August
Sat Aug 1: Aberdeen vs Rangers – 12.30pm
Sun Aug 2: Celtic vs Hamilton – 4.30pm
Mon Aug 3: Ross County vs Motherwell – 7.45pm
Sat Aug 8: St Johnstone vs Aberdeen – 12.30pm
Sun Aug 9: Kilmarnock vs Celtic – 4.30pm
Tue Aug 11: Dundee Utd vs Hibernian – 6pm
Wed Aug 12: St Mirren vs Celtic – 6pm
Sat Aug 15: Hibernian vs Motherwell – 5.30pm
Sun Aug 16: Livingston vs Rangers – 4.30pm
Sat Aug 22: Dundee Utd vs Celtic – 5.30pm
Sun Aug 23: St Johnstone vs Hibernian – 4.30pm
Sky Sports – the new home of Scottish football – has announced its plans ahead of the Scottish Premiership season, which returns this weekend. Eilidh Barbour will present coverage of 48 live matches.
— Sky Sports (@SkySports) July 28, 2020
The SPFL will publish the fixtures for the Scottish Championship, League 1 and League 2 on Wednesday July 29 at 2.00pm…
The 2020/21 fixture launch for the three divisions will be covered live on Sky Sports News.
The Scottish Championship, Scottish League 1 and Scottish League 2 are all due to kick off on Saturday October 17, with clubs playing 27 matches each.
Scottish Football is something new we’ll be covering on the fanbanter.co.uk website from the 2020/21 season onwards, so keep an your eyes peeled for more SPFL articles.
Supporters gave their reaction to the latest Scottish Premiership TV selections for August, see what they had to say…
“At request of the broadcaster” basically translates to “we are sell outs and Sky run the fixtures now”
— Cammy ツ (@cameronw_94) July 21, 2020
https://t.co/iJgfqSNyzc free stream comes from our Dutch friends, that’s where I’m watching cos sky can sniff my ring
— Old Ben Kenobi ?????? (@AllanRo30526638) July 21, 2020
You didn’t seem too bothered when we had to scrap last season to get this season started.. Guess what? Because of sky….
— Jam (@Jamiest21886581) July 21, 2020
Fans won’t even be there yet they still find a way to screw us
— stuart orr (@stuartorr11) July 21, 2020
So these games will be behind closed doors tell me again why the season could not be finished?
— Greig Taylor (@greigtaylor1) July 6, 2020
You know, for all the support @SkySports @ScotlandSky have shown Scottish football of late, I’m amazed that there’s not been ONE mention or advert for the start of our league during their English coverage. I thought the idea was we all PROMOTE our game.
— Dr Jive (@drjive) July 26, 2020
Hot take. Nothing to do with the fact that fixture will generate the most interest and during a pandemic will likely attract hundreds of thousands of people to find ways of watching it together? By October you hope the virus is suppressed…
— RC. (@RadicalCelt) July 6, 2020
When are the Hearts fixtures being announced?
— Lick Neck (@Yuptae_Sasij) July 6, 2020
Your coverage is shit though @SkySports It was much better on @btsportfootball
— All Blues (@allblues12) July 6, 2020
Glad to see Scottish football making the move over to Sky Sports, will be making more of an effort to tune into those games. Got a soft spot for Celtic but fav player is Steven Gerrard, so should be good to watch the new season as a neutral. Happy with the choices of pundits too.
— Jason Lee ?? (@ForeverAYellow) July 28, 2020

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