Scottish football will effectively go behind closed-doors from Boxing Day as the Scottish Government introduced new measures to try to curb Covid.
Reacting to the spread of the Omicron variant, Nicola Sturgeon announced the busy festive schedule, which includes the January 2 Old Firm derby between Celtic and Rangers, will see games take place in front of a maximum of 500 people.
With this figure including the likes of press and club staff - the number of supporters will be significantly lower, to the point games will effectively become closed-doors.
The measures are set to be in place for an initial three-week period, but the Premiership starts a two-week winter break from January 3.
The new restrictions will also affect the Championship, League One, League Two and the rest of the pyramid system.
The First Minister said: "While our core advice is to reduce socialising and stay at home as much as feasible, Cabinet’s judgment is that we must also take some further steps to make the places where people might still gather as safe as possible.
"That is why we are proposing some additional protections.
"None of these are being proposed lightly, but we consider them necessary to help stem the increase in cases, safeguard health and protect the NHS, the emergency services and the economy while we complete and get the full effect of the booster programme.
"First, from 26 December - inclusive - for a period of three weeks, we intend to place limits on the size of public events that can take place. This does not apply to private life events such as weddings.
"For indoor standing events the limit will be 100; for indoor seated events it will be 200; and for outdoor events it will be 500 seated or standing.
"Physical distancing of 1 metre will be required at events that go ahead within these limits.
"This will of course make sports matches, including football, effectively spectator-free over this three week period."
