ViaPlay Cup semi-final Celtic vs Kilmarnock
Official Matchday Programme of the Scottish Professional Football League Celtic vs Kilmarnock | ViaPlay Cup Semi-Final Saturday 14th January, 2023 | Hampden Park
Official Matchday Programme of the Scottish Professional Football League
Celtic vs Kilmarnock | ViaPlay Cup Semi-Final
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<strong>Cup</strong><br />
SEMI-FINAL 2022/23<br />
Saturday 14 January, 2023 | Hampden Park | Kick-off 5.30pm<br />
CELTIC v<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
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CELTIC v<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
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<strong>Cup</strong><br />
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Chief Executive<br />
Neil Doncaster<br />
Chairman<br />
Murdoch MacLennan<br />
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In this issue...<br />
4 Setting the scene<br />
48 Semi-<strong>final</strong> flashbacks<br />
6 Road to the <strong>semi</strong>s<br />
52 Frank McGarvey<br />
10 Ange Postecoglou<br />
14 Matt O’Riley<br />
18 Derek McInnes<br />
22 Rory McKenzie<br />
26 Season so far<br />
54 Previous meetings<br />
56 League <strong>Cup</strong> records<br />
62 Semi-<strong>final</strong> bosses<br />
64 Semi-<strong>final</strong>s since 1990<br />
66 Squad lists<br />
30 Big Picture<br />
34 In Numbers<br />
40 <strong>Celtic</strong> 2000/01<br />
44 <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> 2011/12<br />
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SCENE SETTER<br />
We meet again. <strong>Celtic</strong> and <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> went<br />
head to head in the East End of Glasgow a week<br />
ago – with the Hoops winning 2-0 – and part<br />
two is under the Hampden floodlights.<br />
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A<br />
t stake is a place in the Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong><br />
<strong>final</strong> on Sunday February 26 against<br />
either Rangers or Aberdeen – who<br />
meet in the second <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> tomorrow,<br />
kick-off 3.00pm. This is the 77th season of the<br />
competition and <strong>Celtic</strong> are the favourites to<br />
reach the <strong>final</strong> for the 36th time while their<br />
opponents from Ayrshire are seeking a seventh<br />
appearance in the showpiece.<br />
Ange Postecoglou’s men are the current<br />
holders, having beaten St Johnstone by a<br />
single James Forrest goal in last season’s<br />
<strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> before going on to defeat Hibernian<br />
2-1 in the decider. <strong>Celtic</strong> have won six of the<br />
last eight League <strong>Cup</strong>s – only Ross County<br />
(twice) have beaten them in that period.<br />
The Hoops are the reigning cinch Premiership<br />
champions and have suffered only one<br />
defeat in domestic football all season – a<br />
2-0 loss at St Mirren on September 18. They<br />
began 2023 with a 2-2 draw in the New<br />
Year derby at Ibrox to remain nine points<br />
clear at the top. Postecoglou’s side booked<br />
their <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> berth with emphatic<br />
wins at Ross County and Motherwell.<br />
Kyogo Furuhashi is <strong>Celtic</strong>’s top scorer with 16<br />
goals in all competitions but they have abundant<br />
attacking options, including Liel Abada, Jota,<br />
Daizen Maeda, Giorgios Giakoumakis and<br />
League <strong>Cup</strong> specialist Forrest. The Parkhead<br />
boss has recently added to his talented<br />
squad – Canada full-back Alistair Johnston<br />
made his debut at Ibrox while J-League<br />
Player of the Year Tomoki Iwata, who can<br />
play in defence or midfield, has arrived from<br />
Yokohama F Marinos. The Japanese market<br />
has also yielded Yuki Kobayashi – a central<br />
defender previously with Vissel Kobe.<br />
Derek McInnes has also bolstered his squad<br />
since the window opened, with former<br />
Peterborough and Rotherham striker Kyle<br />
Vassell putting pen to paper after a spell in<br />
the United States with San Diego Loyal. Danny<br />
Armstrong and Oli Shaw have scored the bulk<br />
of Killie’s goals in this season’s competition and<br />
they are boosted by the return of Kyle Lafferty.<br />
Killie’s first game in the Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> was<br />
at Fraserburgh back in July – they came<br />
through their group then knocked out<br />
Hearts at Tynecastle before a Rugby Park<br />
victory over Dundee United ended their<br />
long wait for a return to Hampden Park.<br />
This is the club’s first appearance at this<br />
stage since beating rivals Ayr United on<br />
the way to winning the trophy in 2011/12.<br />
Last season was the only one in 30 years that<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> were not in the top flight and there<br />
was much work to do when McInnes took<br />
charge on January 4, 2022 but the experienced<br />
gaffer secured the title with a dramatic win over<br />
Arbroath in the penultimate game. <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
have been strong at home this term – five wins,<br />
three draws and two defeats – and will surely<br />
improve on their current ninth position if they<br />
can pick up more points on their travels.<br />
McInnes was a Hampden regular during his<br />
time as Aberdeen boss when <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>s and<br />
<strong>final</strong>s became the norm but it was at <strong>Celtic</strong> Park<br />
when he ended the Dons’ 19-wait for silverware<br />
with victory over Inverness CT. It would be<br />
quite an achievement if he could go on and<br />
repeat the feat with the Ayrshire club, who<br />
famously got their hands on the iconic trophy<br />
in March 2012 when a late goal from substitute<br />
Dieter Van Tornhout defeated <strong>Celtic</strong> 1-0.<br />
This is only the second time the clubs<br />
have crossed paths at this stage of the<br />
League <strong>Cup</strong>. It was <strong>Celtic</strong> who prevailed<br />
on a cold February evening in 2000 when<br />
Lubo Moravcik got the only goal for Kenny<br />
Dalglish’s side just a week after the shock of<br />
the Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> defeat to Caley Thistle.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> are in a very different place now<br />
and will be backed by a huge support this<br />
evening. They are expected to win, but in<br />
football you just never know. The winners,<br />
and the losers, won’t have much time to<br />
dwell on the outcome – on Wednesday night<br />
it’s back to league business as <strong>Celtic</strong> host<br />
St Mirren and <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> face Rangers.<br />
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CELTIC’S ROAD TO<br />
THE SEMI-FINALS<br />
Holders <strong>Celtic</strong> have reached the last four of the Viaplay<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> in style, scoring eight goals away from home to<br />
book a return to Hampden…<br />
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31<br />
VIAPLAY CUP SECOND ROUND<br />
1-4<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> began their defence of the trophy<br />
with a comfortable win in Dingwall, just<br />
three days after putting an incredible nine<br />
goals past Dundee United at Tannadice.<br />
Ange Postecoglou rang the changes and saw<br />
his side net four times against the Staggies.<br />
The Hoops twice struck the woodwork<br />
before skipper Callum McGregor opened<br />
the scoring from a David Turnbull corner<br />
midway through the first half. Giorgos<br />
Giakoumakis quickly added the second goal<br />
with a low shot from just inside the box.<br />
Alex Iacovitti gave Malky Mackay’s men<br />
hope with a close-range header after 68<br />
minutes but Daizen Maeda pounced to net<br />
a rebound five minutes later. Substitute<br />
James Forrest grabbed a late fourth goal<br />
following an assist from Anthony Ralston.<br />
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19<br />
VIAPLAY CUP QUARTER-FINAL<br />
0-4<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> went into this one having scored<br />
six against Hibernian at the weekend,<br />
and their attacking threat was again<br />
evident in the early kick-off at Fir Park.<br />
The visitors went close on a number<br />
of occasions – including a long-range<br />
effort from Kyogo Furuhashi that hit<br />
the underside of the bar – before Liel<br />
Abada tapped in the opener from a Greg<br />
Taylor cross just before the break. The<br />
Israeli winger struck again with a smart<br />
first-time finish in 56 minutes then Reo<br />
Hatate claimed the third from close<br />
range following a brilliant piece of skill.<br />
Abada almost completed his hat-trick<br />
with 15 minutes remaining but his<br />
shot bounced off the post and Kyogo<br />
converted the rebound.<br />
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KILMARNOCK’S ROAD<br />
TO THE SEMI-FINALS<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> campaign began in<br />
Fraserburgh back on July 9 and victories over Hearts<br />
and Dundee United in the knock-out stages have<br />
earned them a <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> place…<br />
GROUP STAGE<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> qualified for the last 16<br />
as one of the three best runners-up<br />
after picking up 10 points in Group<br />
B, which was topped by Partick<br />
Thistle. Killie kicked off with a long<br />
haul north to face Highland League<br />
champions Fraserburgh and ran<br />
out 3-1 winners thanks to goals<br />
from Oli Shaw, Fraser Murray and<br />
Kyle Lafferty. Next up was a home<br />
game against Partick Thistle that<br />
finished 1-1. Liam Donnelly’s early<br />
opener was cancelled out by Aaron<br />
Muirhead and the Jags picked up<br />
the bonus point with a 5-4 win in<br />
the shoot-out. <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> defeated<br />
Montrose 3-0 at Links Park on<br />
matchday three, with Kerr McInroy,<br />
Daniel Armstrong and Shaw on<br />
target. The Ayrshire club sealed a<br />
knock-out place courtesy of a 4-1<br />
victory over Stenhousemuir at the<br />
BBSP Stadium, Rugby Park. Liam<br />
Polworth scored early on, Shaw<br />
bagged a double and Armstrong<br />
was also on the mark.<br />
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31<br />
VIAPLAY CUP SECOND ROUND<br />
0-1<br />
Tynecastle had been a happy<br />
hunting ground for <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> in<br />
recent years and that was the case<br />
once again as they notched up a<br />
fifth straight away win over Hearts.<br />
One goal was enough to settle<br />
the game in Killie’s favour and it<br />
came midway through the first<br />
half when Innes Cameron got on<br />
the end of a Liam Polworth cross<br />
and sent a header beyond Craig<br />
Gordon. Hearts pressed for an<br />
equaliser but Derek McInnes’ men<br />
defended well to secure another<br />
memorable result in the capital.<br />
TUESDAY OCTOBER 18<br />
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2-1<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> had drawn with<br />
Dundee United on the opening<br />
day of the cinch Premiership<br />
season but went one better<br />
to reach their first League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> for 11 years.<br />
In a frantic start to the match,<br />
Kyle Lafferty gave Killie the<br />
lead from the spot in eight<br />
minutes after Liam Smith was<br />
penalised for handball but Glenn<br />
Middleton equalised with a fine<br />
finish two minutes later. There<br />
was never much between the<br />
teams but Daniel Armstrong<br />
proved to be the home hero,<br />
heading in a Jordan Jones cross<br />
with 17 minutes remaining to<br />
send Killie to Hampden.<br />
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ANGE POSTECOGLOU:<br />
ALWAYS<br />
STRIVING FOR<br />
MORE<br />
Ange Postecoglou led <strong>Celtic</strong> to League <strong>Cup</strong> success in<br />
2021/22 and is hoping to book a return trip to Hampden<br />
Park for another <strong>final</strong> next month.<br />
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he Hoops defeated<br />
T<br />
Hibernian 2-1 in last<br />
season’s decider and<br />
scored four times against<br />
both Ross County and Motherwell<br />
to reach this evening’s <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong><br />
against a <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> side who are<br />
appearing at this stage for the first<br />
time since lifting the cup in 2012.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> won 2-0 when the sides<br />
met in the cinch Premiership a<br />
week ago but Postecoglou isn’t<br />
reading too much into that game<br />
and expects a tough contest<br />
against Derek McInnes’side.<br />
He said: “The <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> of any cup<br />
competition is always a bit different<br />
to a league game – everyone<br />
knows what’s at stake. You are on<br />
the doorstep of getting to a cup<br />
<strong>final</strong> and playing for a trophy. Last<br />
year against St Johnstone in the<br />
<strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> it was a very tight game.<br />
There is an edge to these games<br />
and I would expect <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> to<br />
be a little bit more aggressive in<br />
their approach (than last week).<br />
“Rarely do one side dominate these<br />
games and they can be cagey<br />
affairs until maybe a goal goes in<br />
and the game opens up. We will<br />
do our work to prepare for the<br />
opposition and also make sure<br />
we play our football on the day.<br />
“It was a great experience for us last<br />
year. It was an important trophy<br />
for us to win with a new team and<br />
accelerate some of our growth.<br />
In the <strong>final</strong>, Hibs scored first and<br />
we had to really work hard to hit<br />
back quickly and we did that with<br />
two great goals from Kyogo.<br />
“Hampden is a venue I like – you<br />
know you are going there for a<br />
special occasion and you have<br />
supporters of both sides giving it<br />
great colour and atmosphere so<br />
we are looking forward to it. Your<br />
enjoyment sometimes depends<br />
on the outcome and we had a<br />
couple of really nice experiences<br />
there last season and obviously<br />
one not so nice (against Rangers<br />
in the Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>).<br />
“The last one was a disappointing<br />
day for us because we were in<br />
really good form leading into it<br />
and after it – it was a pretty tight<br />
game and we lost in extra time.<br />
When you get so close to a <strong>final</strong><br />
you certainly feel that defeat and<br />
it was a great motivator for us to<br />
finish our league season strong.”<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> have been relentless again<br />
this season, winning 19 of their 21<br />
league games, and reaching this<br />
<strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> while their Scottish <strong>Cup</strong><br />
campaign kicks off at home to<br />
Morton next weekend. However,<br />
there is no danger of any laurels<br />
being rested on with Postecoglou<br />
in charge - and his players have<br />
clearly bought into his vision.<br />
He added: “What we’ve tried to do<br />
is set up a platform for our players<br />
to constantly look to be better.<br />
Whatever we have achieved so far,<br />
our goal is to be stronger every<br />
week. We have had a really strong<br />
first half of the year domestically<br />
and our goal is to finish stronger.<br />
If we do that, we know that<br />
Hampden is a<br />
venue I like –<br />
you know you<br />
are going there<br />
for a special<br />
occasion and<br />
you have<br />
supporters<br />
of both sides<br />
giving it great<br />
colour and<br />
atmosphere so<br />
we are looking<br />
forward to it<br />
”<br />
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success will come our way. But<br />
the players are pretty good at<br />
making sure they are focused on<br />
whatever the next challenge is.”<br />
The World <strong>Cup</strong> in Qatar saw a<br />
change to the calendar, with <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
having more than four weeks<br />
away from Premiership action<br />
but they resumed as they went<br />
into the shutdown – by winning.<br />
The manager said: “The break<br />
was an interesting one. We had<br />
a really hectic schedule leading<br />
into it domestically and in the<br />
Champions League. Such a long<br />
break in the season is unusual and<br />
you worry whether the players<br />
maybe lose an edge in sharpness<br />
but we have come back and<br />
looked strong and that probably<br />
means the lads have benefited<br />
from a little bit of time off.<br />
“We went to Australia and that<br />
helped shorten the break for us. It<br />
was good for the club to get our<br />
brand on the global stage and<br />
give back to the communities<br />
who support us. Some of the<br />
players are fairly new to the<br />
club and for them to see how<br />
popular the club is on the other<br />
side of the world was great.”<br />
The <strong>Celtic</strong> manager has<br />
bolstered his squad this month<br />
with the arrivals of Alistair<br />
Johnston, Yuki Kobayashi and<br />
Tomoki Iwata at Parkhead.<br />
He added: “Sometimes when<br />
things are going well there might<br />
be a little bit of a reluctance to<br />
sort of push on because you fear<br />
upsetting what you have already<br />
got but my belief is that we are<br />
still building a team here. We<br />
are only into the second year of<br />
building a team, and a squad, and<br />
these things take time. I think<br />
we’ve seen progression in the<br />
whole 18 months or so I’ve been<br />
here and that is the key for us. If<br />
we continue to do that, we don’t<br />
need to worry about measuring<br />
up against particular targets.”<br />
CELTIC’S<br />
FIXTURES UNTIL<br />
THE SPLIT<br />
Wednesday January 18<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v St Mirren<br />
Saturday January 21<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> fourth round<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Greenock Morton<br />
Sunday January 29<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Dundee United v <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Wednesday February 1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Livingston<br />
Sunday February 5<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
St Johnstone v <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Saturday February 11<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> fifth round<br />
Saturday February 18<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Aberdeen<br />
Saturday February 25<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Hearts<br />
Saturday March 4<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
St Mirren v <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Saturday March 11<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
Saturday March 18<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Hibernian<br />
Saturday April 1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Ross County v <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Saturday April 8<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Rangers<br />
Saturday April 15<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Saturday April 22<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> v Motherwell<br />
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MATT O’RILEY:<br />
A YEAR TO<br />
REMEMBER<br />
It’s been quite a 12 months for Matt O’Riley, who joined<br />
the Parkhead club from MK Dons last January on a deal<br />
until summer 2026.<br />
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The midfielder made his<br />
senior debut for Fulham<br />
in an EFL <strong>Cup</strong> tie as a<br />
16-year-old in August 2017 –<br />
ironically on the same night <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
beat <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> 5-0 in the last<br />
League <strong>Cup</strong> meeting between the<br />
teams. He left Craven Cottage in<br />
the summer of 2020 and joined MK<br />
Dons in January 2021. The 22-yearold<br />
was an ever present for the<br />
English League 1 club in the first<br />
half of last season, netting seven<br />
goals and being named EFL Young<br />
Player of the Month for November.<br />
On this very weekend a year ago,<br />
although he didn’t know it at the<br />
time, O’Riley was making his last<br />
appearance for the Dons. Having<br />
scored the winner against AFC<br />
Wimbledon in midweek he helped<br />
his side win 2-1 away to Portsmouth,<br />
keeping them fifth in the table<br />
and very much in the promotion<br />
mix. They would eventually finish<br />
third but lost out to Wycombe<br />
Wanderers in the play-offs.<br />
As he returned home from Fratton<br />
Park 12 months ago, O’Riley was<br />
We have a good<br />
understanding<br />
of <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
having just<br />
played them<br />
so we’re going<br />
into it feeling<br />
really good. It’s<br />
always better if<br />
you can score<br />
early but over<br />
the course of<br />
the game, if we<br />
can play our<br />
football, I’m<br />
sure we’ll be in<br />
a good place<br />
”<br />
planning for upcoming games<br />
against Doncaster Rovers and<br />
Burton Albion but instead he would<br />
soon be heading north to seal a<br />
long-term contract with <strong>Celtic</strong>.<br />
His arrival was announced on<br />
Thursday January 20, 2022 when he<br />
became Ange Postecoglou’s fifth<br />
signing of the winter window after<br />
Daizen Maeda, Yosuke Ideguchi,<br />
Reo Hatate and Johnny Kenny.<br />
O’Riley recalled: “I remember that<br />
day against Portsmouth because<br />
it was a good result for a club of<br />
our size to go there and win. I<br />
didn’t know it was going to be my<br />
last game at the time. The <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
move came about very quickly<br />
– probably in the space of about<br />
two days. I found out one night<br />
and the next day I was travelling<br />
to London to do my medical.<br />
“My debut was against Hearts at<br />
Tynecastle. It was a good game<br />
and quite a hostile atmosphere.<br />
It was a game for me to adapt<br />
to the intensity of things so I<br />
remember that one really clearly.<br />
Another one that sticks out is the<br />
3-0 win against Rangers. That was<br />
only my third game at the club<br />
and the atmosphere was pretty<br />
crazy – it was a night game and<br />
I was really struck by the noise<br />
in the stadium. I got my first<br />
goal against Aberdeen not long<br />
after so that was good as well.”<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> will be backed by another<br />
huge following at the National<br />
Stadium but O’Riley can also<br />
count on some additional support<br />
from his family, who have been<br />
clocking up the miles this season.<br />
He said: “My mum and dad come<br />
to every single game – home and<br />
away. Even if it’s Ross County away,<br />
they will drive up. They moved to<br />
Glasgow when I signed for <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
and I don’t have any siblings so<br />
maybe that makes it a bit easier for<br />
them to follow the football. It’s good<br />
to have that support and they really<br />
enjoy it – they were even at the<br />
Champions League games abroad.”<br />
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O’Riley suffered a rare<br />
disappointment in his <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
career on his last visit to Hampden<br />
in April when Rangers won the<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>. He will be<br />
doing all he can to help <strong>Celtic</strong> take<br />
another step towards retaining the<br />
League <strong>Cup</strong> trophy they clinched<br />
before he signed last season.<br />
He came off the bench in last<br />
week’s 2-0 win over <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
but has started 19 of <strong>Celtic</strong>’s 21<br />
cinch Premiership matches this<br />
term, helping them to a ninepoint<br />
lead at the summit.<br />
O’Riley added: “We didn’t play<br />
our best game against Rangers<br />
in our last game at Hampden<br />
so hopefully we can make<br />
amends for that. We have a good<br />
understanding of <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
having just played them so we’re<br />
going into it feeling really good.<br />
It’s always better if you can score<br />
early but over the course of the<br />
game, if we can play our football,<br />
I’m sure we’ll be in a good place.<br />
“It would be great if we could go<br />
on and win the trophy. Lots of<br />
players don’t get the chance to<br />
My mum and<br />
dad come to<br />
every single<br />
game – home<br />
and away.<br />
Even if it’s Ross<br />
County away,<br />
they will drive<br />
up... It’s good<br />
to have that<br />
support and<br />
they really<br />
enjoy it<br />
”<br />
win any in their career so to only<br />
be one game away from the <strong>final</strong><br />
is exciting. It would be lovely to get<br />
my first goal of the season but I’m<br />
trying not to think about that any<br />
more. I’ve gone close quite a few<br />
times so I’m hoping that when one<br />
drops a few more will as well.”<br />
The recent month-long World<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> break was unusual but<br />
O’Riley – who has been capped<br />
by Denmark at U21 level – feels<br />
it has been beneficial going into<br />
the business end of the season.<br />
He said: “I don’t think it has affected<br />
us too much as a team, which is<br />
good. Personally I have managed<br />
to stay fit throughout the season so<br />
it has been positive in that sense.<br />
When you’ve played a lot of football<br />
it’s good to able to shut down the<br />
system and come back with a fresh<br />
body and, most importantly, a fresh<br />
mind because it’s quite full-on at<br />
this football club as we all know.<br />
“It’s relentless in that you are<br />
expected to win every game but<br />
that’s also great fun because it’s<br />
the competitive side we all want to<br />
be a part of and it makes you play<br />
your best football. It’s something<br />
I am grateful to be part of. I feel<br />
like I’ve improved a lot as a player<br />
in my time here because of the<br />
manager and the staff around the<br />
club. It’s a great club to be part of.”<br />
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DEREK McINNES:<br />
NEW YEAR,<br />
SAME<br />
DEMANDS<br />
By Andrew Fitzsimmons | <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> FC Marketing and Media Co-ordinator<br />
‘If you fancy a trip to Hampden Park, sign Derek<br />
McInnes as manager’ was the line that rang out of the<br />
Rugby Park press box as <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> ended a decadelong<br />
wait for a trip to the National Stadium.<br />
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ilmarnock supporters will<br />
K<br />
return to Mount Florida<br />
for the first time in over<br />
10 years, with memories<br />
of Dieter Van Tornhout’s late winner<br />
in the 2012 League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> still<br />
replaying in their minds.<br />
During their period of prolonged<br />
absence, the man who they now<br />
call ‘the gaffer’ became very well<br />
acquainted with the Hampden<br />
Park dug-out, where he will once<br />
again position himself on Saturday<br />
evening in hope of extending<br />
an already impressive record<br />
in knock-out competitions.<br />
The man who won this trophy<br />
with Aberdeen in 2013/14 said: “I’ve<br />
just always liked cup football. It<br />
presents the best opportunity for<br />
real tangible success. I think that<br />
I’ve been lucky to manage a lot of<br />
good teams, and a lot of squads<br />
with very competitive players,<br />
who see the bigger picture. It’s all<br />
about having good players who<br />
get you to the latter stages.”<br />
Throughout his playing career,<br />
McInnes was also a prominent<br />
figure at national <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>s.<br />
To this day, memories of those<br />
experiences come to mind as he<br />
casually reels off his past record:<br />
“Lost a <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> to Hibs as a player<br />
with St Johnstone, beat Hibs in a<br />
<strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> with Dundee United…”<br />
It’s evident that years down the<br />
line, an abundance of experience<br />
in Glasgow’s Southside has shaped<br />
the 51-year-old’s mindset to<br />
approach a trip to Hampden in the<br />
same way as any regular fixture<br />
- a mentality he’s aiming to instil<br />
across the core of Rugby Park, from<br />
the stands to the dressing room.<br />
He said: “I think your mentality<br />
going into a cup competition<br />
should be ‘why not us?’. Somebody<br />
has got to win it and I feel that<br />
if we’re good enough for 90<br />
minutes we can beat anybody.<br />
At Aberdeen, trips to Hampden<br />
became familiar to the players<br />
and supporters, and that helped<br />
us to feel that we belonged there.<br />
In time, I would love to get to<br />
that stage with <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>.<br />
“I want to leave our mark on<br />
cup competitions and reference<br />
them as an important part of<br />
our campaigns. I don’t want us<br />
just to be fulfilling fixtures and<br />
not fulfilling our potential. We<br />
must enter each competition<br />
with the mindset that we’re in<br />
with a chance of winning it, and<br />
I said that to the players in our<br />
first game up at Fraserburgh. Yes,<br />
you’ve got to go through a group<br />
stage and win another couple<br />
of rounds, but before you know<br />
it you could arrive at Hampden,<br />
and that’s where we are.”<br />
From thousands lining John<br />
Finnie Street to celebrate the<br />
cup-winning heroes of 1997 and<br />
2012, to last term’s Championshipwinning<br />
triumph resulting in<br />
more than 5,000 season tickets<br />
When you<br />
try to sell the<br />
story for future<br />
players to come<br />
to <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>,<br />
you can say<br />
‘we won a<br />
league’, ‘we got<br />
to Hampden’<br />
and hopefully<br />
even ‘we got<br />
to a <strong>final</strong>’<br />
”<br />
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being sold – for the first time<br />
since the early 90s – the success of<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> FC always reverberates<br />
across the community. In the<br />
eyes of the manager, the tremors<br />
of cup success can also have an<br />
impact much further afield.<br />
He added: “When you try to sell<br />
the story for future players to<br />
come to <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>, you can<br />
say ‘we won a league’, ‘we got to<br />
Hampden’ and hopefully even ‘we<br />
got to a <strong>final</strong>’. All of these things<br />
are used as bona fide evidence of<br />
what the club is capable of, and<br />
with the new training ground<br />
proposal, you add new layers to<br />
our selling point to attract players.”<br />
A short stroll up the tight corridors<br />
towards the manager’s office<br />
provides a constant reminder<br />
that McInnes is walking in the<br />
footsteps of former Killie bosses<br />
who have defied the odds in cup<br />
competitions to earn a place<br />
between picture frames which<br />
decorate the walls of Rugby Park.<br />
He said: “You can’t come to work<br />
every day without knowing that<br />
those cup teams will always be<br />
revered. I remember Bobby’s<br />
cup-winning side having played<br />
against them often enough.<br />
Kenny’s team in 2012 also shows<br />
what can be done - nobody would<br />
have fancied them against <strong>Celtic</strong>.<br />
With that in mind, it wouldn’t<br />
be the biggest shock for it to<br />
happen again, and that’s belief<br />
that we need to hang on to.<br />
“At 5.30pm on Saturday, players<br />
and supporters alike should be<br />
out there feeling positive. We’re<br />
there on merit, we’re there as<br />
a Premiership club and we’re<br />
there to try and get the job done.<br />
At times, we’re going to have<br />
to suffer possession and <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
will have a lot of the ball. I would<br />
give the same message to the<br />
supporters as I would to the fans<br />
- we must believe that we have<br />
a good enough performance<br />
in us to win the game.”<br />
KILMARNOCK’S<br />
FIXTURES UNTIL<br />
THE SPLIT<br />
Wednesday January 18<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v Rangers<br />
Saturday January 21<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> fourth round<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v Dumbarton<br />
Saturday January 28<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Ross County v <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
Wednesday February 1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v Dundee Utd<br />
Saturday February 4<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Livingston v <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
Saturday February 11<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> fifth round<br />
Saturday February 18<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Hibernian v <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
Saturday February 25<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v Motherwell<br />
Saturday March 4<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Rangers v <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
Saturday March 11<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
Saturday March 18<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v St Johnstone<br />
Saturday April 1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v Hearts<br />
Saturday April 8<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
Aberdeen v <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
Saturday April 15<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> v <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Saturday April 22<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
St Mirren v <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
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RORY McKENZIE:<br />
HE’S ONE OF<br />
THEIR OWN<br />
By Andrew Fitzsimmons | <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> FC Marketing and Media Co-ordinator<br />
The 2007 League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> line-ups were littered<br />
with emerging talent that would go on to become<br />
household names north and south of the border. For<br />
on-looking school pupil Rory McKenzie, it was an<br />
introduction to a now adoring <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> support.<br />
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A<br />
young Steven Naismith<br />
stole the show when<br />
his hat-trick against<br />
Falkirk’s on-loan<br />
goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel<br />
sent <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> into the League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> against Hibs. However,<br />
it’s uncommon knowledge that<br />
the next product to emerge from<br />
the <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> FC youth academy<br />
also found the net that evening.<br />
Reflecting on a cold midweek tie<br />
under the Fir Park floodlights,<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> stalwart Rory McKenzie<br />
recalls his first involvement in a<br />
national <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>, as a fresh-faced<br />
14-year-old, no less: “Our youth<br />
team were involved in the halftime<br />
challenge that day: running<br />
from the halfway line with the<br />
aim of beating the opposition<br />
goalkeeper in a one-on-one<br />
situation. I think that I scored as<br />
well! It was probably my last goal!”<br />
The resulting cup <strong>final</strong> turned out<br />
to be a day to forget for the Ayrshire<br />
side, with supporters forced to<br />
wait another five years before the<br />
club <strong>final</strong>ly put fingerprints on<br />
Before the<br />
Championshipwinning<br />
game against<br />
Arbroath,<br />
finishing third<br />
in the league<br />
and qualifying<br />
for Europe<br />
was definitely<br />
the high point<br />
in my career.<br />
I think the<br />
dream is now<br />
to win a trophy<br />
at Hampden<br />
”<br />
the League <strong>Cup</strong> trophy in 2012:<br />
a triumph that would complete<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s quest to claim all<br />
three major Scottish titles since<br />
being established in 1869.<br />
By the time <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s eventual<br />
League <strong>Cup</strong> success came around,<br />
McKenzie was learning his trade<br />
in the lower leagues, which was<br />
an experience that would arm him<br />
with the tools to amass more than<br />
300 appearances for his local club.<br />
Discussing how he followed the<br />
famous 2012 cup run, McKenzie<br />
recalls: “I was out on loan at Brechin<br />
the last time we reached Hampden.<br />
I think our match got called off on<br />
the day of the <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> because<br />
I remember listening to the Ayr<br />
game in the car with my dad. On<br />
the day of the <strong>final</strong>, all the youth<br />
team lads got to go along and sit<br />
together. It was a huge upset and<br />
what a day it turned out to be.”<br />
Throughout the successful 2012 cup<br />
run, ‘Believe to Achieve’ was the<br />
campaign line used by manager<br />
Kenny Shiels, who would later<br />
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go on to give McKenzie his club<br />
debut. According to <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s<br />
homegrown utility man, the<br />
spirit of the 2012 team led by<br />
two fellow local lads – Garry Hay<br />
and James Fowler – has given<br />
the current squad reason to<br />
believe that another underdog<br />
story could be written in the<br />
stars above Mount Florida.<br />
“I think that’s what you need to<br />
hang on to. <strong>Celtic</strong> have shown<br />
that they’re an extremely strong<br />
team, but we need to grab<br />
on to something to keep the<br />
belief high. It’s a one-off game<br />
and anything can happen as<br />
the lads showed 10 years ago. I<br />
think that, if we’re honest, not<br />
even Killie fans expected us to<br />
get a result that day and it just<br />
shows you what can be done.”<br />
Despite making his debut more<br />
than a decade ago, McKenzie<br />
is preparing to step on to the<br />
Hampden Park turf for the very<br />
first time as <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> make a<br />
long-awaited return to Glasgow’s<br />
Southside. When asked about<br />
the club’s prolonged absence<br />
from the National Stadium, Killie’s<br />
No.7 ironically nodded to the<br />
influence of his current boss.<br />
He said: “It was usually the<br />
manager of the Aberdeen team<br />
who put us out just before<br />
Hampden. That happened a few<br />
times in extra-time and penalties.<br />
During a cup run, you need<br />
everything to go in your favour<br />
and the manager has definitely<br />
played a big part in guiding us<br />
along the way. When it comes<br />
to winning cup competitions,<br />
he’s been there and done it.”<br />
Despite having worked under<br />
11 different managers prior to<br />
McInnes, the 29-year-old has<br />
always remained a key member<br />
of the squad, experiencing<br />
highs including last season’s<br />
Championship-winning campaign<br />
but McKenzie has far from settled<br />
with his current silverware.<br />
The former Scotland U21 player<br />
said: “Before the Championshipwinning<br />
game against Arbroath,<br />
finishing third in the league<br />
and qualifying for Europe was<br />
definitely the high point in my<br />
career. I think the dream is now<br />
to win a trophy at Hampden.<br />
“This is just the <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> and<br />
we need to be very conscious of<br />
that. Yes, it’s a big game, but if<br />
you do well there’s still another<br />
game to come. The fact it will be<br />
a full house and a live game on TV<br />
makes it an absolutely amazing<br />
experience, but the ultimate dream<br />
is of course to win a trophy.<br />
“It’s not going to get any tougher<br />
than playing <strong>Celtic</strong> at Hampden<br />
in front of that sort of crowd. My<br />
message to the fans ahead of<br />
the game would be stick with us.<br />
There’s going to be times in the<br />
game when <strong>Celtic</strong> have much more<br />
of the ball, and we’ll be sitting off<br />
defending. It’s going to be a hell<br />
of a task, but with the supporters<br />
behind us we have half a chance.”<br />
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SUNDAY AUGUST 14, 2022<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> 0-5 <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
WE’VE<br />
MET<br />
BEFORE<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> and <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> have<br />
met twice in the cinch<br />
Premiership this season,<br />
with the Hoops winning at<br />
Rugby Park in August and<br />
at Parkhead last weekend…<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> ran out convincing winners in the Ayrshire sunshine<br />
to extend their unbeaten run in the cinch Premiership to<br />
35 matches. Kyogo Furuhashi opened the scoring early on<br />
and Jota doubled the lead in 35 minutes with a stunning<br />
strike from distance. Moritz Jenz added the third goal<br />
with an acrobatic effort in first-half stoppage time and<br />
Carl Starfelt made it 4-0 following a corner in 76 minutes.<br />
Giorgos Giakoumakis rounded off a great afternoon’s work<br />
for the visitors when he found the net with an overhead<br />
kick eight minutes from time.<br />
SATURDAY JANUARY 7, 2023<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> 2-0 <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
Ange Postecoglou’s side made it 10 home wins out of 10<br />
in the cinch Premiership this season when they overcame<br />
stubborn first-half resistance from Derek McInnes’ men to<br />
secure another three points. Jota broke the deadlock after<br />
45 minutes when he turned in a Daizen Maeda cross for his<br />
eighth goal of 2022/23. It was all over six minutes into the<br />
second period when Reo Hatate sent in a dangerous cross<br />
from the right and Ash Taylor diverted it into his own net<br />
under pressure from Kyogo Furuhashi. The Hoops passed<br />
up a number of great chances to increase their lead<br />
but James Forrest and Giorgos Giakoumakis rattled the<br />
woodwork and Sam Walker made some fine saves.<br />
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RESULTS IN 2022/23<br />
31/07/22<br />
ABERDEEN (H) W 2-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
06/08/22<br />
ROSS COUNTY (A) W 3-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
14/08/22<br />
KILMARNOCK (A) W 5-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
21/08/22<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN (H) W 2-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
28/08/22<br />
DUNDEE UNITED (A) W 9-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
31/08/22<br />
ROSS COUNTY (A) W 4-1<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> Round 2<br />
03/09/22<br />
RANGERS (H) W 4-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
06/09/22<br />
REAL MADRID (H) L 0-3<br />
Champions League Group F<br />
14/09/22<br />
SHAKHTAR DONETSK (A) D 1-1<br />
Champions League Group F<br />
18/09/22<br />
ST MIRREN (A) L 0-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
01/10/22<br />
MOTHERWELL (H) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
05/10/22<br />
RB LEIPZIG (A) L 1-3<br />
Champions League Group F<br />
08/10/22<br />
ST JOHNSTONE (A) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
11/10/22<br />
RB LEIPZIG (H) L 0-2<br />
Champions League Group F<br />
15/10/22<br />
HIBERNIAN (H) W 6-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
19/10/22<br />
MOTHERWELL (A) W 4-0<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> quarter-<strong>final</strong><br />
22/10/22<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN (A) W 4-3<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
25/10/22<br />
SHAKHTAR DONETSK (H) D 1-1<br />
Champions League Group F<br />
30/10/22<br />
LIVINGSTON (A) W 3-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
02/11/22<br />
REAL MADRID (A) L 1-5<br />
Champions League Group F<br />
05/11/22<br />
DUNDEE UNITED (H) W 4-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
09/11/22<br />
MOTHERWELL (A) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
12/11/22<br />
ROSS COUNTY (H) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
17/12/22<br />
ABERDEEN (A) W 1-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
21/12/22<br />
LIVINGSTON (H) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
24/12/22<br />
ST JOHNSTONE (H) W 4-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
28/12/22<br />
HIBERNIAN (A) W 4-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
02/01/23<br />
RANGERS (A) D 2-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
07/01/23<br />
KILMARNOCK (H) W 2-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
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RESULTS IN 2022/23<br />
09/07/22<br />
FRASERBURGH (A) W 3-1<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> Group B<br />
13/07/22<br />
PARTICK THISTLE (H) D 1-1<br />
4-5 PENS<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> Group B<br />
16/07/22<br />
MONTROSE (A) W 3-0<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> Group B<br />
23/07/22<br />
STENHOUSEMUIR (H) W 4-1<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> Group B<br />
30/07/22<br />
DUNDEE UNITED (H) D 1-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
06/08/22<br />
RANGERS (A) L 0-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
14/08/22<br />
CELTIC (H) L 0-5<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
20/08/22<br />
ROSS COUNTY (A) L 0-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
27/08/22<br />
MOTHERWELL (H) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
31/08/22<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN (A) W 1-0<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> Round 2<br />
03/09/22<br />
HIBERNIAN (A) L 0-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
17/09/22<br />
LIVINGSTON (A) L 0-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
01/10/22<br />
ABERDEEN (A) L 1-4<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
05/10/22<br />
ST JOHNSTONE (H) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
09/10/22<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN (H) D 2-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
15/10/22<br />
ST MIRREN (A) D 0-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
18/10/22<br />
DUNDEE UNITED (H) W 2-1<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> quarter-<strong>final</strong><br />
22/10/22<br />
ROSS COUNTY (H) W 1-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
29/10/22<br />
ST JOHNSTONE (A) L 0-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
04/11/22<br />
LIVINGSTON (H) L 2-3<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
09/11/22<br />
DUNDEE UNITED (A) L 0-4<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
12/11/22<br />
HIBERNIAN (H) W 1-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
17/12/22<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN (A) L 1-3<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
23/12/22<br />
MOTHERWELL (A) D 2-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
28/12/22<br />
ABERDEEN (H) W 2-1<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
02/01/23<br />
ST MIRREN (H) D 0-0<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
07/01/23<br />
CELTIC (A) L 0-2<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
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Saturday May 18, 1985 | Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong><br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> 2-1 Dundee United<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> have enjoyed many memorable occasions at<br />
Hampden Park and this was another as Davie Hay’s side<br />
came from behind to beat Dundee United in the 100th<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong>. Stuart Beedie gave Jim McLean’s<br />
men the lead but Davie Provan equalised with a brilliant<br />
free-kick and the late, great Frank McGarvey headed in a<br />
dramatic 84th-minute winner from a Roy Aitken cross to<br />
the delight of the <strong>Celtic</strong> fans in the 60,346 crowd.<br />
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Saturday January 28, 2012 | League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong><br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> 1-0 Ayr United<br />
An Ayrshire derby for a place in a cup <strong>final</strong>. The stakes<br />
could hardly have been higher and <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s<br />
patience was eventually rewarded as they beat their<br />
First Division opponents in front of 25,057 fans at the<br />
National Stadium. Ayr defended doggedly and Kevin<br />
Cuthbert pulled off a number of fine saves for Brian<br />
Reid’s men but Dean Shiels <strong>final</strong>ly broke the deadlock 11<br />
minutes from the end of extra time. It was a memorable<br />
afternoon for Killie and there was even better to come<br />
when they stunned <strong>Celtic</strong> in the <strong>final</strong> two months later.<br />
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<strong>Celtic</strong> are the current holders of this competition. They won the League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> for the 20th time by beating Hibernian 2-1 here 13 months ago. Paul<br />
Hanlon gave Hibs the lead but Kyogo Furuhashi quickly equalised then<br />
grabbed the winner with 18 minutes left. <strong>Celtic</strong>’s first League <strong>Cup</strong> success<br />
was in 1956/57 when they beat Partick Thistle 3-0 in a replay.<br />
CELTIC<br />
IN NUMBERS<br />
5<br />
Kyogo<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> won the League <strong>Cup</strong> five<br />
years in a row from 1965 onwards,<br />
beating Rangers (twice), Dundee,<br />
Hibernian and St Johnstone during<br />
Jock Stein’s time as manager.<br />
15<br />
Furuhashi is <strong>Celtic</strong>’s leading<br />
scorer in the cinch Premiership this<br />
season, with 15 league goals. He<br />
scored a late equaliser in the New<br />
Year derby at Ibrox to keep his side<br />
nine points clear at the top of the<br />
table. He was also on target in the<br />
quarter-<strong>final</strong> win at Motherwell in<br />
this competition.<br />
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46<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> are appearing<br />
in their 46th League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> - they<br />
have reached the <strong>final</strong><br />
on 35 occasions. Ange<br />
Postecoglou’s side<br />
beat St Johnstone<br />
1-0 at this stage last<br />
season.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> have lifted the Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> a record 40<br />
times, including in 2016/17 when Tom Rogic<br />
scored a dramatic late winner against Aberdeen<br />
in the last match of the invincible season.<br />
9<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> notched up an incredible 9-0 win over<br />
Dundee United at Tannadice at the end of<br />
August, helped by hat-tricks from Liel Ababa<br />
and Kyogo Furuhashi. It was the club’s biggest<br />
ever away victory.<br />
52<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> have won the<br />
league title on 52<br />
occasions. They are<br />
the current leaders<br />
and the reigning<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
champions – the<br />
Hoops ended the<br />
2021/22 season<br />
four points clear of<br />
Rangers and were<br />
unbeaten at home.<br />
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KILMARNOCK<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> are the current holders of this competition. They won the League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> for the 20th time by beating Hibernian 2-1 here 13 months ago. Paul<br />
Hanlon gave Hibs the lead but Kyogo Furuhashi quickly equalised then<br />
grabbed the winner with 18 minutes left. <strong>Celtic</strong>’s first League <strong>Cup</strong> success<br />
was in 1956/57 when they beat Partick Thistle 3-0 in a replay.<br />
CELTIC<br />
IN NUMBERS<br />
5<br />
Kyogo<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> won the League <strong>Cup</strong> five<br />
years in a row from 1965 onwards,<br />
beating Rangers (twice), Dundee,<br />
Hibernian and St Johnstone during<br />
Jock Stein’s time as manager.<br />
15<br />
Furuhashi is <strong>Celtic</strong>’s leading<br />
scorer in the cinch Premiership this<br />
season, with 15 league goals. He<br />
scored a late equaliser in the New<br />
Year derby at Ibrox to keep his side<br />
nine points clear at the top of the<br />
table. He was also on target in the<br />
quarter-<strong>final</strong> win at Motherwell in<br />
this competition.<br />
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46<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> are appearing<br />
in their 46th League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> - they<br />
have reached the <strong>final</strong><br />
on 35 occasions. Ange<br />
Postecoglou’s side<br />
beat St Johnstone<br />
1-0 at this stage last<br />
season.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> have lifted the Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> a record 40<br />
times, including in 2016/17 when Tom Rogic<br />
scored a dramatic late winner against Aberdeen<br />
in the last match of the invincible season.<br />
9<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> notched up an incredible 9-0 win over<br />
Dundee United at Tannadice at the end of<br />
August, helped by hat-tricks from Liel Ababa<br />
and Kyogo Furuhashi. It was the club’s biggest<br />
ever away victory.<br />
52<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> have won the<br />
league title on 52<br />
occasions. They are<br />
the current leaders<br />
and the reigning<br />
cinch Premiership<br />
champions – the<br />
Hoops ended the<br />
2021/22 season<br />
four points clear of<br />
Rangers and were<br />
unbeaten at home.<br />
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KILMARNOCK<br />
IN NUMBERS<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> have reached the League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> on six occasions. They<br />
famously beat <strong>Celtic</strong> 1-0 to lift the trophy for the first and only time in<br />
2011/12. Killie have been runners-up five times - to Dundee (1952/53),<br />
Rangers (1960/61), Hearts (1962/63), <strong>Celtic</strong> (2000/01) and Hibernian (2006/07).<br />
3<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> have won the Scottish<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> three times, most recently in<br />
1997 when Paul Wright scored the<br />
only goal in a 1-0 win over Falkirk<br />
at Ibrox. They also lifted the trophy<br />
back in 1920 and 1929.<br />
4<br />
Oli Shaw is Killie’s leading scorer<br />
in the Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> this season with<br />
four goals, one more than Daniel<br />
Armstrong. Shaw’s strikes all came<br />
in the group stage – his first came<br />
after just six minutes of the 3-1 win<br />
at Fraserburgh on matchday one.<br />
The former Hibs hitman was also<br />
on target in the 3-0 victory away to<br />
Montrose and he bagged a double<br />
in the 4-1 win over Stenhousemuir.<br />
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<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> famously<br />
won their only<br />
Scottish League title<br />
in 1964/65 with a 2-0<br />
win over Heart of<br />
Midlothian on the last<br />
day of the season. The<br />
result meant Willie<br />
Waddell’s men pipped<br />
Hearts to the trophy<br />
on goal average, with<br />
both clubs having<br />
finished a point<br />
ahead of Dunfermline<br />
Athletic.<br />
10<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s last win over <strong>Celtic</strong> came more<br />
than four years ago - on Sunday September 23,<br />
2018. Leigh Griffiths gave the Hoops a first-half<br />
lead at Rugby Park but Chris Burke equalised<br />
and Stuart Findlay grabbed a last-minute goal<br />
to secure a 2-1 victory for Steve Clarke’s side. At<br />
the time it was a fourth match without defeat for<br />
Killie against <strong>Celtic</strong>.<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> have reached the last four of this<br />
competition on 10 previous occasions. Their first<br />
<strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> appearance was in October 1952 when<br />
they beat Rangers 1-0 thanks to a late goal from<br />
Willie Jack in front of 45,715 fans at Hampden.<br />
The result was a big shock as the Ibrox side<br />
went on to win the title and the Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> in<br />
1952/53, while Killie finished fourth in Division B.<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s last League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> was 11<br />
years ago when they beat Ayr United 1-0.<br />
2018<br />
217<br />
Distance in miles<br />
between Rugby Park<br />
and Bellslea Park,<br />
home of Fraserburgh,<br />
where <strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
kicked off this season’s<br />
competition on July 9.<br />
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CAUGHT IN TIME<br />
Saturday April 16, 1994 | Premier Division<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> 2-0 <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
Tom Black beats <strong>Celtic</strong> keeper Carl Muggleton from<br />
the penalty spot to give <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> the lead in front of<br />
11,499 fans at Rugby Park towards the end of the 1993/94<br />
season. Tom Brown added a late second goal as Tommy<br />
Burns’ side earned a crucial win in their battle against<br />
relegation. Killie eventually stayed up on goal difference<br />
as St Johnstone, Raith Rovers and Dundee went down,<br />
with the top flight reducing to 10 clubs for 1994/95. <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
finished in fourth place.<br />
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FROM THE<br />
ARCHIVES<br />
2000/01<br />
LEAGUE CUP FINAL<br />
Swede dreams<br />
Season 2000/01 was a momentous one for<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> as they swept all before them to clinch<br />
the third Treble in their history, in what was<br />
Martin O’Neill’s first season as manager.<br />
The first leg of that trophy haul<br />
came at Hampden Park on<br />
Sunday March 18, 2001 when<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> were beaten 3-0 in<br />
the League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> thanks to<br />
a Henrik Larsson hat-trick.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> beat Hearts 5-2 after extra<br />
time at Tynecastle in their quarter<strong>final</strong><br />
then saw off Rangers 3-1 in<br />
the <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>s, with a double<br />
from Larsson and a goal from<br />
Chris Sutton. Lubo Moravcik and<br />
Ibrox duo Claudio Reyna and<br />
Michael Mols were all sent off in<br />
the closing minutes of the game.<br />
The Hoops were strong favourites<br />
when they lined up against Bobby<br />
Williamson’s men in the <strong>final</strong>. Killie<br />
had beaten St Mirren 3-0 in their<br />
last-four tie at the National Stadium<br />
but went into the big game on the<br />
back of defeats to Hibernian in the<br />
Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> and Hearts in the SPL.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> had lost just one domestic<br />
game all season and, although it<br />
was goalless at half-time, super<br />
Swede Larsson took centre stage<br />
after the break with three more<br />
goals in a glittering season. He fired<br />
the opener past Gordon Marshall<br />
early in the second half and even<br />
the loss of Sutton to a red card on<br />
the hour mark for a challenge on<br />
Gary Holt didn’t disrupt the Hoops.<br />
Larsson put the match beyond<br />
Killie in 74 minutes then completed<br />
his hat-trick with a superb solo<br />
goal nine minutes from the end.<br />
It was a day to remember for<br />
O’Neill’s side and there was much<br />
more to come. <strong>Celtic</strong> went on to<br />
take the title, finishing 15 points<br />
clear of Rangers and they sealed<br />
a first Treble since the Jock<br />
Stein era with a 3-0 victory over<br />
Hibernian in the Scottish <strong>Cup</strong><br />
<strong>final</strong>. Larsson grabbed a double<br />
in that game to take his tally for<br />
2000/01 to an incredible 53 goals,<br />
of which 35 came in the SPL.<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> also finished the<br />
season on a high, beating <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
1-0 at Rugby Park with an Alan<br />
Mahood goal to finish fourth in the<br />
table and qualify for the UEFA <strong>Cup</strong>.<br />
Jonathan Gould<br />
Ramon Vega<br />
Johan Mjallby<br />
Joos Valgaeren<br />
Colin Healy<br />
Paul Lambert<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
Lubo Moravcik<br />
(Jamie Smith 83)<br />
Bobby Petta<br />
(Stephen Crainey 13)<br />
(Tom Boyd 88)<br />
Chris Sutton<br />
Henrik Larsson<br />
Subs (not used)<br />
Dmitri Kharine (GK)<br />
Tommy Johnson<br />
Gordon Marshall<br />
Gus MacPherson<br />
Freddie Dindeleux<br />
(Peter Canero 73)<br />
Kevin McGowne<br />
Chris Innes<br />
Garry Hay<br />
Gary Holt<br />
Ian Durrant<br />
(Mark Reilly 39)<br />
Alan Mahood<br />
Christophe Cocard<br />
(Andy McLaren 52)<br />
Craig Dargo<br />
Subs (not used)<br />
Colin Meldrum (GK)<br />
Ally McCoist<br />
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FROM THE<br />
ARCHIVES<br />
2011/12<br />
LEAGUE CUP FINAL<br />
Unlikely hero<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> lifted the League <strong>Cup</strong> for the first time in<br />
their history in season 2011/12 thanks to a 1-0 win over<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> on an unforgettable day for the Ayrshire club.<br />
It was a triumph against the<br />
odds for Kenny Shiels’ team<br />
and it came courtesy of a late<br />
goal from substitute Dieter Van<br />
Tornhout and a man-of-the-match<br />
display by keeper Cammy Bell.<br />
The Belgian striker arrived at Rugby<br />
Park in January 2012 after a spell<br />
in Cyprus and would move on in<br />
the summer to join Antwerp. He<br />
scored just twice in 13 appearances<br />
for <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> – his second goal<br />
came in a 4-2 loss to St Mirren but<br />
his first could hardly have been<br />
more important or dramatic.<br />
There were just seven minutes left<br />
at Hampden when Van Tornhout –<br />
on as a substitute for Gary Harkins<br />
some 10 minutes earlier – found<br />
the net with a header from a Lee<br />
Johnson cross. It was quite a way<br />
to celebrate his 27th birthday,<br />
which fell on the same day as the<br />
<strong>final</strong> – Sunday March 18, 2012.<br />
With captain Manuel Pascali out<br />
injured, James Fowler captained<br />
a Killie side who had knocked out<br />
Queen of the South, East Fife and<br />
Ayr United en route to the <strong>final</strong>.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> had accounted for Ross<br />
County, Hibernian and Falkirk as<br />
they looked to make up for defeat<br />
to Rangers in the 2011 <strong>final</strong>.<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> went into the game<br />
having taken just two points<br />
from their previous four SPL<br />
outings but they had recently<br />
won 1-0 at Ibrox and had also led<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> 3-0 at Rugby Park back<br />
in October before Neil Lennon’s<br />
men rallied to force a 3-3 draw.<br />
Bell made some big saves,<br />
notably from Gary Hooper and<br />
Anthony Stokes, but Killie also<br />
carried a threat and Dean Shiels<br />
missed a great chance before<br />
the decisive moment arrived in<br />
the 83rd minute. Ben Gordon<br />
fed Johnson down the left and<br />
the midfielder’s perfect cross<br />
was met by Van Tornhout at<br />
the back post – his header gave<br />
Fraser Forster no chance. <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
pressed hard for an equaliser but<br />
this was <strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s day and<br />
they held on for a famous win.<br />
The Hoops would go on to take<br />
the 2011/12 SPL title by a distance,<br />
getting over the line in style with<br />
a 6-0 success at Rugby Park in the<br />
<strong>final</strong> fixture before the split, with<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> finishing seventh.<br />
Cammy Bell<br />
James Fowler<br />
Mohamadou Sissoko<br />
(Zdenek Kroca 86)<br />
Michael Nelson<br />
Ben Gordon<br />
Liam Kelly<br />
Danny Buijs<br />
(Lee Johnson 20)<br />
Gary Harkins<br />
(Dieter Van Tornhout 73)<br />
Garry Hay<br />
Dean Shiels<br />
Paul Heffernan<br />
Subs (not used)<br />
Kyle Letheren (GK)<br />
James Dayton<br />
Fraser Forster<br />
Adam Matthews<br />
Thomas Rogne<br />
(Ki Sung-Yueng 56)<br />
Kelvin Wilson<br />
Charlie Mulgrew<br />
James Forrest<br />
Victor Wanyama<br />
Scott Brown<br />
Joe Ledley<br />
(Kris Commons 86)<br />
Anthony Stokes<br />
Gary Hooper<br />
(Georgios Samaras 80)<br />
Subs (not used)<br />
Lukasz Zaluska (GK)<br />
Cha Du-Ri<br />
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2011/12 LEAGUE CUP FINAL: KILMARNOCK 1-0 CELTIC<br />
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SEMI-FINAL<br />
FLASHBACK<br />
SEMI-FINAL<br />
FLASHBACK<br />
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2021<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> 1-0 St Johnstone<br />
In-form <strong>Celtic</strong> booked their place<br />
in the League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> after<br />
knocking out the holders in front<br />
of a Saturday evening crowd of<br />
42,298 at the National Stadium.<br />
In the first match after the<br />
international break, Ange<br />
Postecoglou’s men were deserved<br />
winners but it took a 73rdminute<br />
goal from substitute<br />
James Forrest to get the better<br />
of Callum Davidson’s side.<br />
The Hoops wore No 10 on their<br />
shorts as a tribute to Lisbon<br />
Lion Bertie Auld and there was<br />
a minute’s applause before the<br />
game to mark the passing of a<br />
great player and character.<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> started positively, with<br />
Jota at the heart of much of<br />
their good work, but Saints<br />
held firm and there were only<br />
17 minutes remaining when the<br />
deadlock was <strong>final</strong>ly broken.<br />
Jota’s cross was only partially<br />
cleared and Forrest – only on<br />
the pitch for a few minutes<br />
as a replacement for Liel<br />
Abada – thumped the ball past<br />
Zander Clark from six yards.<br />
The Hoops went on to beat 2-1<br />
Hibernian in the <strong>final</strong> on Sunday<br />
December 19, coming from behind<br />
to clinch the silverware thanks<br />
to a Kyogo Furuhashi double.<br />
STARTING<br />
LINE-UP<br />
Joe Hart<br />
Anthony Ralston<br />
Stephen Welsh<br />
Cameron Carter-Vickers<br />
Josip Juranovic<br />
Callum McGregor<br />
Nir Bitton<br />
David Turnbull<br />
Liel Abada<br />
Kyogo Furuhashi<br />
Jota<br />
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SEMI-FINAL<br />
FLASHBACK<br />
SEMI-FINAL<br />
FLASHBACK<br />
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TUESDAY JANUARY 30, 2007<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> 3-0 Falkirk<br />
Jim Jefferies’ side had beaten<br />
Falkirk 2-0 in an SPL match on the<br />
Saturday and went one better at<br />
Fir Park three days later, watched<br />
by 10,772 fans.<br />
Steven Naismith was the Killie hero,<br />
scoring a hat-trick past on-loan<br />
Manchester City keeper Kasper<br />
Schmeichel as the Ayrshire club<br />
reached the League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> for<br />
the fifth time in their history.<br />
John Hughes’ men enjoyed<br />
some good spells early on but it<br />
was <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> who broke the<br />
deadlock after half an hour when<br />
Naismith latched on to a flick from<br />
Colin Nish to fire past Schmeichel.<br />
The Scotland U21 striker grabbed<br />
the second goal with 20 minutes<br />
left and completed his hat-trick<br />
from the penalty spot in 78<br />
minutes after being brought down<br />
by Darren Barr.<br />
There was to be disappointment<br />
in March’s <strong>final</strong> as John Collins’<br />
Hibs side ran out 5-1 winners at<br />
Hampden but this <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong><br />
triumph will live long in the<br />
memory. The club also enjoyed a<br />
top-six finish, ending the 2006/07<br />
campaign in fifth place.<br />
STARTING<br />
LINE-UP<br />
Alan Combe<br />
James Fowler<br />
Frazer Wright<br />
Gordon Greer<br />
Simon Ford<br />
Allan Johnston<br />
Peter Leven<br />
Momo Sylla<br />
Rocco Quinn<br />
Steven Naismith<br />
Colin Nish<br />
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IN MEMORIAM<br />
Frank McGarvey<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> and Scottish football lost an iconic<br />
figure on New Year’s Day when Frank<br />
McGarvey passed away at the age of 66.<br />
Frank was brought to <strong>Celtic</strong> from<br />
Liverpool by Billy McNeil in March<br />
1980 for a then Scottish record fee<br />
of around £250,000. He scored his<br />
first goal for the club in a 4-0 win<br />
over Hibernian at the end of that<br />
month and headed a late winner<br />
against Rangers a few days later.<br />
Over a successful five years at<br />
Parkhead, he won two league<br />
titles, two Scottish <strong>Cup</strong>s and also<br />
claimed the League <strong>Cup</strong> with<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong>, helping them beat Rangers<br />
2-1 in the 1982/83 <strong>final</strong>. He played<br />
a total of 245 games for <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
and contributed 109 goals.<br />
Frank’s last goal for the Hoops was<br />
probably his most famous - a diving<br />
header to secure a 2-1 victory over<br />
Dundee United in the 1985 Scottish<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> after Davie Provan’s<br />
free-kick had levelled the scores.<br />
That summer he returned to<br />
St Mirren, where his senior career<br />
began in 1974/75. In his first spell<br />
at Love Street, Frank helped Alex<br />
Ferguson’s side win the 1976/77<br />
First Division title and a decade<br />
later he was part of Alex Smith’s<br />
team who beat Dundee United<br />
in the 1987 Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong>,<br />
having scored the winner in<br />
the <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> against Hearts.<br />
In all he made 341 appearances,<br />
scoring 102 goals, across his two<br />
spells with the Paisley club.<br />
n Frank in action for Scotland<br />
j Playing for <strong>Celtic</strong> in the 80s<br />
r With Davie Provan celebrating<br />
the 1985 Scottish <strong>Cup</strong> win<br />
Frank’s talent saw him earn seven<br />
caps for Scotland – the first as<br />
a substitute in a 1-0 win over<br />
Northern Ireland in the Home<br />
International Championship in<br />
May 1979. A fortnight later he was<br />
in the starting line-up for a friendly<br />
against Argentina when a young<br />
Diego Maradona made his mark<br />
at Hampden. His <strong>final</strong> appearance<br />
in the dark blue was a 2-1 victory<br />
over Wales in February 1984.<br />
He will always be synonymous<br />
with <strong>Celtic</strong> and St Mirren, where<br />
he is revered by the supporters<br />
of both clubs, but Frank also had<br />
spells with Queen of the South<br />
and Clyde in the latter stages of<br />
his career. His contribution to the<br />
game will never be forgotten.<br />
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CELTIC v<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
Previous League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> meetings<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> and <strong>Kilmarnock</strong> have met on 11 previous<br />
occasions in the League <strong>Cup</strong> – the Hoops<br />
have won seven of those matches including<br />
the only previous <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> clash.<br />
That was on a bitterly cold<br />
night on Wednesday<br />
February 16, 2000 when<br />
Lubo Moravcik (pictured right)<br />
scored the only goal midway<br />
through the second half in front<br />
of 22,926 fans. Kenny Dalglish<br />
was in charge following the<br />
departure of John Barnes the<br />
previous midweek. In a game of<br />
few chances, Bobby Williamson’s<br />
Killie had Christophe Cocard<br />
sent off 18 minutes from the<br />
end. <strong>Celtic</strong> went on to beat<br />
Aberdeen 2-0 in the <strong>final</strong>.<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong>’s two wins came<br />
in the group stage in 1964/65<br />
– a season when they won the<br />
league title under Willie Waddell<br />
– and the <strong>final</strong> in 2011/12.<br />
The most recent meeting was a last-<br />
16 tie in August 2017 when <strong>Celtic</strong><br />
won 5-0 thanks to goals from Leigh<br />
Griffiths (2), Anthony Ralston, Kieran<br />
Tierney and Stuart Armstrong.<br />
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1963/64<br />
First round (group stage)<br />
KILMARNOCK 0-0 CELTIC<br />
CELTIC 2-0 KILMARNOCK<br />
1964/65<br />
First round (group stage)<br />
CELTIC 4-1 KILMARNOCK<br />
KILMARNOCK 2-0 CELTIC<br />
1983/84<br />
Third round (group stage)<br />
CELTIC 1-1 KILMARNOCK<br />
KILMARNOCK 0-1 CELTIC<br />
2008/09<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong><br />
KILMARNOCK 1-3 CELTIC<br />
2011/12<br />
Final<br />
KILMARNOCK 1-0 CELTIC<br />
2017/18 n<br />
Second round<br />
CELTIC 5-0 KILMARNOCK<br />
1999/00 j<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong><br />
CELTIC 1-0 KILMARNOCK<br />
2000/01<br />
Final<br />
CELTIC 3-0 KILMARNOCK<br />
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CELTIC & KILMARNOCK<br />
LEAGUE CUP STATISTICS<br />
CELTIC’S LEAGUE CUP RECORD SINCE 1990/91<br />
1990/91<br />
Runners-up<br />
1998/99<br />
Third round<br />
2006/07<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2014/15<br />
WINNERS<br />
1991/92<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
1999/00<br />
WINNERS<br />
2007/08<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2015/16<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
1992/93<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2000/01<br />
WINNERS<br />
2008/09<br />
WINNERS<br />
2016/17<br />
WINNERS<br />
1993/94<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2001/02<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2009/10<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2017/18<br />
WINNERS<br />
1994/95<br />
Runners-up<br />
2002/03<br />
Runners-up<br />
2010/11<br />
Runners-up<br />
2018/19<br />
WINNERS<br />
1995/96<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2003/04<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2011/12<br />
Runners-up<br />
2019/20<br />
WINNERS<br />
1996/97<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2004/05<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2012/13<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2020/21<br />
Second round<br />
1997/98<br />
WINNERS<br />
2005/06<br />
WINNERS<br />
2013/14<br />
Third round<br />
2021/22<br />
WINNERS<br />
KILMARNOCK’S LEAGUE CUP RECORD SINCE 1990/91<br />
1990/91<br />
Third round<br />
1998/99<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2006/07<br />
Runners-up<br />
2014/15<br />
Third round<br />
1991/92<br />
Third round<br />
1999/00<br />
Semi-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2007/08<br />
Third round<br />
2015/16<br />
Third round<br />
1992/93<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2000/01<br />
Runners-up<br />
2008/09<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2016/17<br />
Group stage<br />
1993/94<br />
Second round<br />
2001/02<br />
Third round<br />
2009/10<br />
Third round<br />
2017/18<br />
Second round<br />
1994/95<br />
Third round<br />
2002/03<br />
Second round<br />
2010/11<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
2018/19<br />
Second round<br />
1995/96<br />
Third round<br />
2003/04<br />
Second round<br />
2011/12<br />
WINNERS<br />
2019/20<br />
Quarter-<strong>final</strong>s<br />
1996/97<br />
Second round<br />
2004/05<br />
Third round<br />
2012/13<br />
Second round<br />
2020/21<br />
Group stage<br />
1997/98<br />
Third round<br />
2005/06<br />
Third round<br />
2013/14<br />
Second round<br />
2021/22<br />
Second round<br />
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2016/17 <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>: Moussa Dembele<br />
celebrates his winner against Rangers<br />
<strong>Cup</strong><br />
<strong>Cup</strong><br />
2000/01 <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>: Andy McLaren<br />
scores in the 3-0 win over St Mirren<br />
2023/24<br />
Dates were recently<br />
confirmed for next<br />
season’s Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong>,<br />
which will begin in mid-<br />
July and conclude here<br />
at Hampden Park on<br />
Sunday December 17.<br />
GROUP STAGE<br />
MD1: Weekend of<br />
July 15/16, 2023<br />
MD2: Midweek of<br />
July 18/19, 2023<br />
MD3: Weekend of<br />
July 22/23, 2023<br />
MD4: Midweek of<br />
July 25/26, 2023<br />
MD5: Weekend of<br />
July 29/30, 2023<br />
SECOND ROUND<br />
Weekend of August<br />
19/20, 2023<br />
QUARTER-FINALS<br />
Midweek of September<br />
26-28, 2023<br />
SEMI-FINALS<br />
Weekend of November<br />
4/5, 2023<br />
FINAL<br />
<strong>Cup</strong><br />
Sunday December 17,<br />
2023<br />
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FACTS +<br />
FIGURES<br />
WINNERS<br />
27<br />
RANGERS<br />
20<br />
CELTIC<br />
6<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
4<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN<br />
3<br />
DUNDEE<br />
EAST FIFE<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
2<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
1<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
PARTICK THISTLE<br />
RAITH ROVERS<br />
ROSS COUNTY<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
<strong>Cup</strong><br />
RUNNERS-<br />
UP<br />
15<br />
CELTIC<br />
9<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
8<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
RANGERS<br />
5<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
3<br />
DUNDEE<br />
DUNFERMLINE<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
PARTICK THISTLE<br />
2<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
1<br />
AYR UNITED<br />
FALKIRK<br />
INVERNESS CT<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
MORTON<br />
RAITH ROVERS<br />
THIRD LANARK<br />
SEMI-FINAL APPEARANCES<br />
55<br />
RANGERS<br />
46<br />
CELTIC<br />
27<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
22<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
21<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
19<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
12<br />
DUNDEE<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
11<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
7<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
6<br />
DUNFERMLINE<br />
FALKIRK<br />
5<br />
AYR UNITED<br />
MORTON<br />
PARTICK THISTLE<br />
4<br />
EAST FIFE<br />
The first ever League <strong>Cup</strong><br />
<strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong>s took place in March<br />
1947. Aberdeen thrashed Heart<br />
of Midlothian 6-2 at Easter<br />
Road and Rangers ran out 3-1<br />
winners against Hibernian at<br />
Hampden Park before going<br />
on to defeat the Dons 4-0 in<br />
the <strong>final</strong>.<br />
The highest-scoring League<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong> came in<br />
the 1959/60 competition<br />
when Heart of Midlothian<br />
hammered Cowdenbeath 9-3<br />
at Easter Road. Ian Crawford<br />
scored four of the goals for<br />
Tommy Walker’s side, who<br />
beat Third Lanark in the <strong>final</strong>.<br />
There has not been a goalless<br />
draw in a League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong><strong>final</strong><br />
since season 2008/09<br />
when <strong>Celtic</strong> and Dundee<br />
United met at Hampden. It<br />
was 0-0 after 120 minutes, then<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> won a marathon penalty<br />
shoot-out 11-10 to reach the<br />
<strong>final</strong>, where they beat Rangers.<br />
3<br />
CLYDE<br />
HAMILTON ACCIES<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
2<br />
COWDENBEATH<br />
INVERNESS CT<br />
QUEEN OF SOUTH<br />
RAITH ROVERS<br />
1<br />
ARBROATH<br />
BERWICK RANGERS<br />
BRECHIN CITY<br />
DUMBARTON<br />
FORFAR ATHLETIC<br />
MEADOWBANK<br />
MONTROSE<br />
ROSS COUNTY<br />
STIRLING ALBION<br />
THIRD LANARK<br />
2022/23<br />
VIAPLAY<br />
CUP TOP<br />
SCORERS<br />
4<br />
JONAH AYUNGA n<br />
St Mirren<br />
VICENTE BESUIJEN<br />
Aberdeen<br />
ALEX JAKUBIAK<br />
Dundee<br />
CONOR SAMMON<br />
Alloa Athletic<br />
OLI SHAW<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong><br />
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THE MEN<br />
IN CHARGE<br />
League <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>semi</strong>-<strong>final</strong><br />
managers of the past 30 years<br />
1990/91<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Alex Smith &<br />
Jocky Scott<br />
CELTIC<br />
Billy McNeill<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Jim McLean<br />
RANGERS<br />
Graeme Souness<br />
1991/92<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS<br />
Alex MacDonald<br />
DUNFERMLINE<br />
ATHLETIC<br />
Jocky Scott<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Alex Miller<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
1992/93<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Willie Miller n<br />
CELTIC<br />
Liam Brady<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Alex Totten<br />
1993/94<br />
CELTIC<br />
Liam Brady<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Ivan Golac<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Alex Miller<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
1994/95<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Willie Miller<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS<br />
Alex MacDonald<br />
CELTIC<br />
Tommy Burns<br />
RAITH ROVERS<br />
Jimmy Nicholl<br />
1995/96<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Roy Aitken<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS<br />
Alex MacDonald<br />
DUNDEE<br />
Jim Duffy<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
1996/97<br />
DUNDEE<br />
Jim Duffy<br />
DUNFERMLINE<br />
ATHLETIC<br />
Bert Paton<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Jim Jefferies<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
1997/98<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Roy Aitken<br />
CELTIC<br />
Wim Jansen<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Tommy McLean<br />
DUNFERMLINE<br />
ATHLETIC<br />
Bert Paton<br />
1998/99<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS<br />
Alex MacDonald<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Jim Jefferies<br />
RANGERS<br />
Dick Advocaat<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Sandy Clark<br />
1999/00<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Ebbe Skovdahl<br />
CELTIC<br />
Kenny Dalglish<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Paul Sturrock<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
Bobby Williamson<br />
2000/01<br />
CELTIC<br />
Martin O’Neill<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
Bobby Williamson n<br />
RANGERS<br />
Dick Advocaat<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
Tom Hendrie<br />
2001/02<br />
AYR UNITED<br />
Gordon Dalziel<br />
CELTIC<br />
Martin O’Neill<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Franck Sauzee<br />
RANGERS<br />
Alex McLeish<br />
2002/03<br />
CELTIC<br />
Martin O’Neill<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Ian McCall<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Craig Levein<br />
RANGERS<br />
Alex McLeish<br />
2003/04<br />
DUNDEE<br />
Jim Duffy<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Bobby Williamson<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
Davie Hay<br />
RANGERS<br />
Alex McLeish<br />
2004/05<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Ian McCall<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
John Robertson<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
Terry Butcher<br />
RANGERS<br />
Alex McLeish<br />
2005/06<br />
CELTIC<br />
Gordon Strachan<br />
DUNFERMLINE<br />
ATHLETIC<br />
Jim Leishman<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
Paul Lambert<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
Terry Butcher<br />
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2006/07<br />
FALKIRK<br />
John Hughes<br />
2014/15<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Derek McInnes<br />
2018/19<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Derek McInnes<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
John Collins<br />
CELTIC<br />
Ronny Deila<br />
CELTIC<br />
Brendan Rodgers<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
Jim Jefferies<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Owen Coyle<br />
2007/08<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Jimmy Calderwood<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Craig Levein<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Stevie Frail<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
2008/09<br />
CELTIC<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Craig Levein<br />
FALKIRK<br />
John Hughes<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
2009/10<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Jim Jefferies<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Derek McInnes r<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
Gus MacPherson<br />
2010/11<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Craig Brown<br />
CELTIC<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
Stuart McCall<br />
RANGERS<br />
Walter Smith n<br />
2011/12<br />
AYR UNITED<br />
Brian Reid<br />
CELTIC<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
FALKIRK<br />
Steven Pressley<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
Kenny Shiels<br />
2012/13<br />
CELTIC<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
John McGlynn<br />
INVERNESS CT<br />
Terry Butcher<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
Danny Lennon<br />
2013/14<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Derek McInnes<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Gary Locke<br />
INVERNESS CT<br />
John Hughes<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Tommy Wright<br />
DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Jackie McNamara<br />
RANGERS<br />
Kenny McDowall<br />
2015/16<br />
CELTIC<br />
Ronny Deila<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Alan Stubbs<br />
ROSS COUNTY<br />
Jim McIntyre<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Tommy Wright<br />
2016/17<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
Derek McInnes<br />
CELTIC<br />
Brendan Rodgers n<br />
MORTON<br />
Jim Duffy<br />
RANGERS<br />
Mark Warburton<br />
2017/18<br />
CELTIC<br />
Brendan Rodgers<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
MOTHERWELL<br />
Stephen Robinson<br />
RANGERS<br />
Pedro Caixinha<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Craig Levein<br />
RANGERS<br />
Steven Gerrard<br />
2019/20<br />
CELTIC<br />
Neil Lennon<br />
HEART OF<br />
MIDLOTHIAN<br />
Austin MacPhee<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Paul Heckingbottom<br />
RANGERS<br />
Steven Gerrard<br />
2020/21<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Jack Ross<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
David Martindale<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Callum Davidson<br />
ST MIRREN<br />
Jim Goodwin<br />
2021/22<br />
CELTIC<br />
Ange Postecoglou<br />
HIBERNIAN<br />
Jack Ross<br />
RANGERS<br />
David McCallum<br />
ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Callum Davidson<br />
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CELTIC v<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
SEMI-FINAL<br />
RESULTS<br />
SINCE 1990<br />
1990/91<br />
CELTIC 2-0 DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Hampden Park – 49,975<br />
RANGERS 1-0 ABERDEEN<br />
Hampden Park – 40,855<br />
1991/92<br />
DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC 1<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS 1 (AET)<br />
(Dunfermline won 3-2 on penalties)<br />
Tynecastle – 10,662<br />
HIBERNIAN 1-0 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 40,901<br />
1992/93<br />
RANGERS 3<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 1<br />
Hampden Park – 30,062<br />
ABERDEEN 1-0 CELTIC<br />
Hampden Park – 40,618<br />
1993/94<br />
HIBERNIAN 1<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 0<br />
Tynecastle – 19,024<br />
RANGERS 1-0 CELTIC<br />
Ibrox Stadium – 47,420<br />
1994/95<br />
RAITH ROVERS 1<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS 1 (AET)<br />
(Raith Rovers won 5-4 on penalties)<br />
McDiarmid Park – 7,260<br />
CELTIC 1-0 ABERDEEN (AET)<br />
Ibrox Stadium – 44,000<br />
1995/96<br />
ABERDEEN 2-1 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 26,131<br />
DUNDEE 2<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS 1<br />
McDiarmid Park – 8,930<br />
1996/97<br />
RANGERS 6<br />
DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC 1<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> Park – 16,791<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 3<br />
DUNDEE 1<br />
Easter Road – 15,653<br />
1997/98<br />
CELTIC 1<br />
DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC 0<br />
Ibrox Stadium – 27,796<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 3<br />
ABERDEEN 1<br />
Tynecastle – 10,459<br />
1998/99<br />
RANGERS 5<br />
AIRDRIEONIANS 0<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> Park – 21,171<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 3<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 0<br />
Easter Road – 12,027<br />
1999/00<br />
ABERDEEN 1<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 0<br />
Dens Park – 10,169<br />
CELTIC 1-0 KILMARNOCK<br />
Hampden Park – 22,926<br />
2000/01<br />
KILMARNOCK 3<br />
ST MIRREN 0<br />
Hampden Park – 9,203<br />
CELTIC 3-1 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 50,019<br />
2001/02<br />
RANGERS 2-1 CELTIC (AET)<br />
Hampden Park – 43,457<br />
AYR UNITED 1<br />
HIBERNIAN 0 (AET)<br />
Hampden Park – 11,779<br />
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2002/03<br />
RANGERS 1<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 0<br />
Hampden Park – 31,609<br />
CELTIC 3-0 DUNDEE UNITED<br />
Hampden Park – 18,856<br />
2003/04<br />
LIVINGSTON 1-0 DUNDEE<br />
Easter Road – 7,231<br />
HIBERNIAN 1<br />
RANGERS 1 (AET)<br />
(Hibernian won 4-3 on penalties)<br />
Hampden Park – 27,954<br />
2004/05<br />
MOTHERWELL 3<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 2<br />
(AET)<br />
Easter Road – 14,069<br />
RANGERS 7<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 1<br />
Hampden Park – 25,622<br />
2005/06<br />
DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC 1<br />
LIVINGSTON 0<br />
Easter Road – 4,360<br />
CELTIC 2-1 MOTHERWELL<br />
Hampden Park – 22,595<br />
2006/07<br />
KILMARNOCK 3-0 FALKIRK<br />
Fir Park – 10,722<br />
HIBERNIAN 3<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 1 (AET)<br />
Tynecastle – 16,112<br />
2007/08<br />
RANGERS 2<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 0<br />
Hampden Park – 31,989<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 4<br />
ABERDEEN 1<br />
Tynecastle – 12,046<br />
2008/09<br />
RANGERS 3-0 FALKIRK<br />
Hampden Park – 24,507<br />
CELTIC 0<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 0 (AET)<br />
(<strong>Celtic</strong> won 11-10 on penalties)<br />
Hampden Park – 19,258<br />
2009/10<br />
ST MIRREN 1<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 0<br />
Fir Park – 9,170<br />
RANGERS 2<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 0<br />
Hampden Park – 17,971<br />
2010/11<br />
CELTIC 4-1 ABERDEEN<br />
Hampden Park – 38,085<br />
RANGERS 2-1 MOTHERWELL<br />
Hampden Park – 23,432<br />
2011/12<br />
KILMARNOCK 1<br />
AYR UNITED 0 (AET)<br />
Hampden Park – 25,057<br />
CELTIC 3-1 FALKIRK<br />
Hampden Park – 30,259<br />
2012/13<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 1<br />
INVERNESS CALEDONIAN<br />
THISTLE 1 (AET)<br />
(Hearts won 5-4 on penalties)<br />
Easter Road – 16,336<br />
ST MIRREN 3-2 CELTIC<br />
Hampden Park – 24,417<br />
2013/14<br />
ABERDEEN 4<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 0<br />
Tynecastle – 16,761<br />
INVERNESS CALEDONIAN<br />
THISTLE 2<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 2<br />
(AET)<br />
(Inverness CT won 4-2 on penalties)<br />
Easter Road – 12,762<br />
2014/15<br />
DUNDEE UNITED 2<br />
ABERDEEN 1<br />
Hampden Park – 29,608<br />
CELTIC 2-0 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 50,925<br />
2015/16<br />
HIBERNIAN 2<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 1<br />
Tynecastle – 16,971<br />
ROSS COUNTY 3-1 CELTIC<br />
Hampden Park – 22,130<br />
2016/17<br />
ABERDEEN 2-0 MORTON<br />
Hampden Park – 16,183<br />
CELTIC 1-0 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 50,697<br />
2017/18<br />
CELTIC 4-2 HIBERNIAN<br />
Hampden Park – 39,813<br />
MOTHERWELL 2<br />
RANGERS 0<br />
Hampden Park – 44,506<br />
2018/19<br />
CELTIC 3<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 0<br />
Murrayfield – 61,161<br />
ABERDEEN 1-0 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 46,186<br />
2019/20<br />
CELTIC 5-2 HIBERNIAN<br />
Hampden Park – 46,782<br />
RANGERS 3<br />
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 0<br />
Hampden Park – 49,310<br />
2020/21<br />
ST JOHNSTONE 3<br />
HIBERNIAN 0<br />
Hampden Park<br />
LIVINGSTON 1-0 ST MIRREN<br />
Hampden Park<br />
2021/22<br />
CELTIC 1-0 ST JOHNSTONE<br />
Hampden Park – 42,298<br />
HIBERNIAN 3-1 RANGERS<br />
Hampden Park – 45,014<br />
VIAPLAY CUP SEMI-FINAL<br />
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CELTIC v<br />
KILMARNOCK<br />
Manager:<br />
Ange Postecoglou<br />
1 Joe Hart (GK)<br />
2 Alistair Johnston<br />
3 Greg Taylor<br />
4 Carl Starfelt<br />
6 Moritz Jenz<br />
<strong>Cup</strong><br />
7 Giorgos Giakoumakis<br />
8 Kyogo Furuhashi<br />
9 Sead Haksabanovic<br />
11 Liel Abada<br />
13 Aaron Mooy<br />
14 David Turnbull<br />
16 James McCarthy<br />
17 Jota<br />
18 Yuki Kobayashi<br />
20 Cameron Carter-Vickers<br />
21 Yosuke Ideguchi<br />
24 Tomoki Iwata<br />
25 Alexandro Bernabei<br />
28 Oliver Abildgaard<br />
29 Scott Bain (GK)<br />
31 Benjamin Siegrist (GK)<br />
33 Matt O’Riley<br />
35 Scott Robertson<br />
38 Daizen Maeda<br />
41 Reo Hatate<br />
42 Callum McGregor<br />
49 James Forrest<br />
50 Bosun Lawal<br />
56 Anthony Ralston<br />
57 Stephen Welsh<br />
69 Rocco Vata<br />
88 Josip Juranovic<br />
Manager:<br />
Derek McInnes<br />
1 Zach Hemming (GK)<br />
2 Lewis Mayo<br />
3 Jeriel Dorsett<br />
4 Alan Power<br />
5 Ash Taylor<br />
6 Chris Stokes<br />
7 Rory McKenzie<br />
8 Blair Alston<br />
9 Oli Shaw<br />
10 Jordan Jones<br />
11 Daniel Armstrong<br />
14 Jack Sanders<br />
15 Fraser Murray<br />
16 Scott Robinson<br />
17 Brad Lyons<br />
18 Calum Waters<br />
19 Joe Wright<br />
20 Sam Walker (GK)<br />
21 Kerr McInroy<br />
22 Liam Donnelly<br />
23 Kyle Vassell<br />
25 Ryan Alebiosu<br />
26 Christian Doidge<br />
27 Innes Cameron<br />
28 Kyle Lafferty<br />
29 Bobby Wales<br />
31 Liam Polworth<br />
32 Steven Warnock<br />
33 Ben Chrisene<br />
34 David Watson<br />
MATCH<br />
OFFICIALS<br />
Referee:<br />
William Collum<br />
Assistant Referee 1:<br />
Dougie Potter<br />
Assistant Referee 2:<br />
Gordon Crawford<br />
Fourth official:<br />
Grant Irvine<br />
VAR:<br />
Greg Aitken<br />
Assistant VAR:<br />
John McCrossan<br />
In the event of a draw<br />
If the scores are level<br />
after 90 minutes, extra<br />
time of 30 minutes will<br />
be played. Thereafter,<br />
if necessary, kicks<br />
from the penalty<br />
mark will determine<br />
the outcome.<br />
Goal-line technology<br />
The Hawk-Eye system<br />
will be in operation<br />
at today’s game at<br />
Hampden Park.<br />
Viaplay <strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong><br />
The 2022/23 Viaplay<br />
<strong>Cup</strong> <strong>final</strong> will take<br />
place at Hampden Park<br />
on Sunday February<br />
26, kick-off TBC.<br />
Mascots<br />
<strong>Celtic</strong> mascot:<br />
Oscar Mearns<br />
<strong>Kilmarnock</strong> mascot:<br />
Ryan Stanovitch<br />
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