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The Scottish Premier League experimented briefly with playoffs in the mid-1990s, with only one team-Dundee United-achieving promotion through it ( Partick Thistle were relegated at their expense ).

Currently, the bottom team is relegated to the First Division of the Scottish Football League, and the top team from there is promoted.

In the First / Second and Second / Third Division, while the champions are automatically promoted and the bottom team relegated, there are playoffs of the second-bottom teams against the second, third and fourth placed teams from the league below.

Home and away ties decide semi-finals and a final, and the overall winner plays in the higher league the following season, with the loser in the lower league.