Hearts and Partick Thistle will be within the Scottish Championship and League One respectively this season after an arbitration panel decided to now not overturn their relegations.

The clubs took reliable scuttle after being demoted when final timeframe ended early.

They wished the Courtroom of Session to reverse the promotions of Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers and relief them up as a change.

But a 3-strong panel ruled that the SPFL were entitled to act as they did.

Hearts and Thistle additionally wished as much as £10m in compensation, but might per chance also now face paying charges, with arbitration continuing for “submissions about charges”.

How did the SPFL react?

SPFL chief govt Neil Doncaster welcomed the “clear, entire and unanimous decision”.

He added: “I am completely gratified that our come has been vindicated throughout, following an intense length of reliable scrutiny and evaluate.

“It has been a truly annoying activity, but I had full self assurance within the actions and choices of the SPFL board and the SPFL govt personnel.”

SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan confirmed that three participants of the organisation’s govt personnel were interviewed by the panel and hundreds of pages of evidence were regarded as.

“I’d completely query all these enthusiastic to agree that no stone used to be left unturned, no allegation left unanswered,” he acknowledged, including that he has sympathy for Hearts, Thistle, and Stranraer, who were additionally relegated but selected to now not grasp reliable scuttle.

What about United, Raith & Cove?

The three clubs launched a similar statements wherein they welcomed the decision and outlined they got enthusiastic as they were “now not ready to face by and gape” their promotions be reversed.

They acknowledged they had “completely no desire to enter into costly reliable complaints” but felt they had to.

“Any recommendation that we entered complaints with out justification or to stoke division is every unjustified and insulting,” the clubs added.

How did we reach this point?

After a Courtroom of Session listening to earlier this month, Lord Clark decreed that an fair tribunal ought to hear the case below Scottish FA suggestions.

That started a week and a half of within the past, with every aspects deciding on a QC from an licensed list, and agreeing on a chair.

That panel has deliberated over the evidence and delivered its conclusion – lower than a week sooner than the Premiership season is scheduled to open on 1 August.