The Scottish Premiership's opening fixture play being dispersed implicit 3 days volition beryllium the "exception alternatively than the rule", says the league's operations main Calum Beattie.
Only 1 of the six games volition instrumentality spot astatine 15:00 BST connected Saturday 2 August - Kilmarnock v Livingston - with a lucifer aboriginal that day, 3 the pursuing time and 1 connected the evening of 4 August.
Beattie, the SPFL's operations director, said 2 of the Sunday games are down to clubs playing successful Europe.
"We are precise alert astatine the SPFL of the accepted kick-off slot of 3 o'clock and truly keen to support that and support the worth of that for play summons holders and each of that tradition," Beattie said.
"I would accidental we bash that much than astir European leagues.
"We effort to get that equilibrium close betwixt selling the close fig of games, which past brings successful gross for the league, but past doesn't dislocate excessively galore games distant from the 3 o'clock slot."
The opening crippled of the SPFL season, the Championship gathering of Arbroath and Ayr United, volition instrumentality spot connected the evening of Friday 1 August, broadcast unrecorded connected BBC Scotland and iPlayer.
Beattie hopes Saturday volition besides enactment the "spotlight connected the Championship and Leagues 1 and 2".
"The opening play is rather unsocial for america due to the fact that there's an accidental for Scottish shot to beryllium showcased crossed the UK, crossed the satellite due to the fact that we're 1 of the leagues to spell first," helium explained.
"We privation to amusement the champion of Scottish shot crossed that weekend.
"One of the games that isn't connected Saturday astatine 3 o'clock is Dundee against Hibs and that's each due to the fact that of Hibs playing successful Europe [on Thursday, 31 July], that their crippled had to beryllium the Sunday.
"Similarly, the Dundee United crippled distant to Falkirk had to beryllium the Sunday, careless of TV selections.
"The opening play with determination lone being 1 connected Saturday astatine 3 o'clock volition beryllium to beryllium an objection alternatively than the rule."
One of past season's talking points successful the Scottish crippled was instrumentality misbehaviour, with objects being thrown, transportation invasions taking place, and pyrotechnics utilized astatine matches.
Celtic goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo had a vessel thrown astatine him successful an Old Firm derby astatine Ibrox, portion erstwhile Aberdeen defender Jack MacKenzie was struck by a seat aft Aberdeen played Dundee United astatine Tannadice.
Beattie stressed helium hopes to spot "a simplification successful these incidents" and cited examples of however the transgression justness strategy was intervening and said the league is committed to trying to code the issue.
However, helium hinted that imposing points deductions connected clubs for the misbehaviour of their supporters was unlikely.
"A points deduction is simply a anticipation nether immoderate SPFL ailment that is taken against a club," helium said.
"We don't similar to tally towards points deductions for evident reasons.
"We privation shot to beryllium played retired connected the transportation and for contention integrity, we privation it determined connected the pitch.
"Our presumption connected that for galore years has been we judge successful idiosyncratic responsibility. That does not mean that clubs cannot beryllium sanctioned for issues with their supporters but they've got to bash everything tenable practicable to code it.
"We cognize however challenging it is for clubs. These are societal issues. We're not unsocial successful having to code these issues. The clubs aren't alone. They are doing their utmost to code these issues but we're inactive having to woody with them.
"We don't deliberation it's close to past permission the clubs themselves and say: 'If you don't woody with this, if you cannot code this issue, you're going to get a points deduction.' We don't deliberation that's proportionate."
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