25-459: Fitzwater is a patronymic surname of English origin, being a variant of Fitz Walter, 'son of Walter'. Notable people with the surname include: Jack Fitzwater (born 1997), English footballer Marlin Fitzwater (born 1942), former press secretary for presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush Paul Fitzwater (born 1959), Republican member of
50-501: A defender for EFL League One club Exeter City . Fitzwater is a product of the West Bromwich Albion academy and was named academy player of the year for the 2014–15 season. On 11 September 2015, Fitzwater signed on loan for Chesterfield for one month. He made his Football League debut for Chesterfield on 12 September 2015, coming on as a 19th-minute substitute for Gboly Ariyibi against Colchester United at
75-527: A day. Since his diagnosis, Fitzwater has become a member of Crohn's and Colitis UK, and has received a special card and a master key which grants him access to over 9,000 locked public toilets. This biographical article related to association football in England, about a defender born in the 1990s, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Scottish Premiership The Scottish Premiership ( Scots Gaelic : Prìomh Lìog na h-Alba) known as
100-481: A large variation between the wages offered by teams in the Scottish Premiership, with champions Celtic paying an average annual salary of £735,040, per player, whilst traditional rivals Rangers could only pay £329,600 and league runners-up Aberdeen offered £136,382. The lowest salary offered by any of the twelve member clubs was Hamilton's £41,488—one seventeenth that of Celtic, whose wages were close to
125-457: A new two-year contract in June 2018. He returned on loan to Walsall for a second spell in 2018, and was recalled by West Bromwich Albion on 3 January 2019. He returned for a third loan spell at Walsall on 31 January 2019. After being released by West Brom, Fitzwater joined Scottish Premiership club Livingston on 8 July 2020. Fitzwater made over 100 appearances at Livingston. At the end of
150-617: A restaurant and former stop along the Underground Railroad Thomas Fitzwater Elementary School , located in the Upper Dublin School District of Pennsylvania [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Fitzwater . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to
175-882: The William Hill Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League . There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. Sixteen clubs have played in
200-530: The 2000–01 season , the longest period without change in the history of the Scottish football league system . During this period the Scottish Premier League, and now the Scottish Premiership, has operated a "split" format, that is, split in two phases as is explained below. This is used to prevent the need for a 44-game schedule, based on playing each other four times. That format was used in
225-467: The Proact Stadium . This turned out to be his only appearance for the club and he returned to West Bromwich Albion on 9 October after his loan expired. On 22 July 2017, Fitzwater signed for League Two club Forest Green Rovers on loan until January 2018. On 31 January 2018, Fitzwater signed on loan for League One club Walsall . Upon his return to West Bromwich Albion, Fitzwater signed
250-539: The Scottish Championship , provided that the winner satisfies Premiership entry criteria. With the creation of the SPFL, promotion and relegation play-offs involving the top flight were introduced for the first time in seventeen years. The Premiership club in eleventh place plays the Championship play-off winners over two legs, with the winner earning the right to play in the Scottish Premiership
275-752: The Scottish Football Association , determined by Scotland's position in the UEFA country coefficient rankings. The Scottish Football Association in turn allocates a number of these European places to final Scottish Premiership positions. At the end of the 2020–21 season, Scotland was ranked 11th in Europe—granting them two teams in the UEFA Champions League , one team in the UEFA Europa League , and two teams in
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#1732780227189300-487: The Scottish Premier Division in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, but it is now too high a number of games in a league season. A season, which runs from August until May, is divided into two phases. During the first phase, each club plays three games against every other team, either once at home and twice away or vice versa. After this first phase of matches, by which time all clubs have played 33 games,
325-779: The UEFA Europa Conference League . At the end of the 2022–23 season , the Scottish Premiership winners (Celtic FC) gained qualification to the UEFA Champions League group stage, whilst the second placed team (Rangers FC) entered at the third qualifying round. The third placed team (Aberdeen FC) entered the Europa League in the playoff round, while the fourth place (Heart Of Midlothian FC) got UEFA Europa Conference League 3rd Qualifying Round and fifth place (Hibernian FC) got UEFA Europa Conference League 2nd Qualifying Round. Scotland's place in
350-466: The 2022-23 season, Fitzwater became a free agent after deciding not to renew his contract with Livingston. Fitzwater returned to England and on the 5 September 2023 signed a two-year deal for EFL League One side Exeter City on a free transfer. In a February 2024 interview with the BBC, Fitzwater revealed that he was diagnosed with severe ulcerative colitis and had been going to the toilet up to 40 times
375-593: The Europa League is awarded to the winners of the Scottish Cup . Should the winners of that competition have already qualified for European competition, then the fifth placed team also enters the Europa Conference League second qualifying round, while third placed team (unless they are cup winners themselves) are promoted from Europa Conference League to the Europa League third qualifying round. The 2017 'Global Sports Salaries Survey' report found
400-506: The Missouri House of Representatives Rodger Fitzwater (born 1962), Democrat member of the Missouri House of Representatives Sidney A. Fitzwater (born 1953), American jurist Travis Fitzwater (born 1981), Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives Darryl Fitzwater , American Anglican bishop See also [ edit ] Fitzwater Wray (1869–1938), British cycling journalist Fitzwater Station ,
425-418: The Scottish Premiership during the 2024–25 season. UEFA 5-year Club Ranking after 2023/24 season: awarded As of 2024, Scotland's top-flight league championship has been won 55 times by Rangers , 54 times by Celtic . Nine other clubs have won the remaining 19 championships, with three clubs tied for third place with 4 apiece. The last time the championship was won by a club other than Rangers or Celtic
450-430: The Scottish Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season . Celtic are the current league champions, having won the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership . Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then goal difference , and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned league champion . If
475-461: The following season. This enables two clubs to be relegated from the Premiership each season, with two being promoted. Prior to the creation of the Scottish Premiership, only a single club could be relegated each season - with only the second tier champions being promoted. The Scottish Football League had used play-offs amongst its three divisions since 2007. UEFA grants European places to
500-437: The league splits into two halves – a "top six" section and a "bottom six" section. Each club plays a further five matches, one against each of the other five teams in their own section. Points achieved during the first phase of 33 matches are carried forward to the second phase, but the teams compete only within their own sections during the second phase. After the first phase is completed, clubs cannot move out of their own half in
525-407: The league, even if they achieve more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked team, respectively. At the beginning of each season, the SPFL 'predicts' the likely positions of each club in order to produce a fixture schedule that ensures the best possible chance of all clubs playing each other twice at home and twice away. This is known as the league 'seeding' and is based on clubs' performance in
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#1732780227189550-410: The link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzwater&oldid=1249811172 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jack Fitzwater Jack Joseph Fitzwater (born 23 September 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as
575-443: The points, goal difference, goals scored, and head-to-head results between teams are equal, a play-off game held at a neutral venue shall be played to determine the final placings. The play-off will only occur when the position of the teams affects the outcome of the title, European qualification, relegation, or second stage group allocation and shall not occur otherwise. The top flight of Scottish football has contained 12 clubs since
600-407: The previous season. If the clubs do not finish in the half where they are predicted to finish, then anomalies can be created in the fixture list. Clubs sometimes play another three times at home and once away (or vice versa), or a club can end up playing 20 home (or away) games in a season. The bottom placed Premiership club at the end of the season is relegated and swaps places with the winner of
625-581: The sum of the other eleven clubs combined. The report stated that this disparity was the third-greatest from the 18 leagues surveyed, and that the Scottish Premiership offered the third-lowest salaries of those leagues; by contrast, Celtic's opponents in the Champions League that year paid average wages of £6.5m ( Paris Saint-Germain ) and £5.2m ( Bayern Munich ), seven times higher than the Scottish club. The 12 clubs listed below will compete in
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