Will Celtic or Rangers be at home on Premiership final day? How the SPFL decide with title on the line

It's not a problem the SPFL fixture schedulers have had to deal with on too many occasions in the last 20 years but it could give them a bit of a headache this season - who should be at home on the final day when the post-split games are announced?

There is nothing better than a team holding aloft that giant Scottish Premiership trophy in front of a full house of their own fans. And it's something those on Hampden's sixth floor at the league governing body have the power to at least try and make happen thanks to the split, unlike in most other leagues around Europe.

But how do they go about predicting it? Record Sport has taken a look back at some of the closest title races in the last two decades and where the teams stood at the time of the post split fixtures being announced. And for all the talk of computers and randomised fixtures it seems the logic is pretty simple - the team sitting at the top of the table before the league splits is handed a home fixture. That is, unless, both of the top two finish up with an away game as was the case on two occasions when Rangers and Celtic battled it out on the final day. With the fierce rivals now level on points and separated only on goals scored with eight games to play - including an Old Firm derby at Ibrox - before the split we look at SPFL post split fixture methodology clues from the past.

The post split fixtures were published on April 25 and at that point Rangers were ahead of rivals Celtic who were juggling both domestic and European affairs on their march to the UEFA Cup final in Seville. But the Light Blues were favourites to win it when the fixtures were published and were handed a home game against Dunfermline and that meant they got to lift the trophy at Ibrox