2016–17 in Scottish football 2016–17 in Scottish football The 2016–17 season was the 120th season of competitive football in Scotland. The domestic season began on 16 July 2016, with the first round of the 2016–17 Scottish League Cup. The 2016–17 Scottish Professional Football League season commenced on 6 August. Celtic, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian qualified for European competition. Jane Ross and Caroline Weir were both nominated for the (English) PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year award. The Scotland women's national football team qualified for a major tournament for the first time. A loss by Finland against Portugal confirmed that Scotland would
Name of Joan of Arc Name of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc did not come from a place called "Arc", but was born and raised in the village of Domrémy in what was then the northeastern frontier of the Kingdom of France. In the English language her first name has been repeated as "Joan" since the fifteenth century because that was the only English equivalent for the feminine form of "John" during her lifetime. Her surviving signatures are all spelled "Jehanne" without surname. In French her name is today always rendered as "Jeanne d'Arc", reflecting the modern spelling of her first name. The surname