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Celtic crowned SPFL champions as season abandoned to dash Rangers' hopes

Celtic have been crowned champions after the Scottish Professional Football League decided to abandon the top-flight season.

A number of divisions up and down the UK have been hanging in the balance owing to the impact Covid-19 has had in recent months, with the English Football League announcing just a few days ago that League Two had been cancelled.

And now Scotland have followed suit, announcing Celtic, who held a 13-point lead over Rangers with eight, or in some cases nine, games to play in the competition, as the league winners.

It is Celtic's ninth title in a row, while it was also announced that Hearts will be relegated, with the final standings having been calculated via a points-per-game method.

The decision was taken at a board meeting on Monday after the 12 clubs agreed that it simply wasn't feasible to complete the campaign.

"The focus will now turn to how we get football up and running again safely as soon as possible," SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said. "Nobody should be under any illusion as to how complicated and difficult a challenge it will be to return Scottish football to normality."

It means the end of the season for the likes of Christian Doidge, the Hibs striker hopeful of breaking into Ryan Giggs' Wales squad, and Cardiff City's Ciaron Brown, who is on loan at Livingston.

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