MATCH 1709 - Saturday 19 August 2017

SEASON 2017/18

SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Venue:  RUGBY PARK

KILMARNOCK  0  CELTIC  2

Scorers: Forrest, McGregor

A rare Celtic away day for me.

MATCH 1708 - Wednesday 16 August 2017

 SEASON  2017/18

Qualifying Rounds 1st Leg

CELTIC PARK

CELTIC  5  ASTANA  0

Scorers: Own goal, Sinclair(2), Forrest, Own goal

Another five star performance from Celtic.  This time in the Champions League qualifying round to give them an excellent chance of reaching the group stage.

MATCH 1707 - Tuesday 8 August 2017

SEASON 2017/18

SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP 2nd Round

Venue:  CELTIC PARK

CELTIC  5  KILMARNOCK  0

Scorers: Griffiths(2), Ralston, Tierney, Armstrong

Another strong Celtic performance with the highlight a cracking left-foot long range effort into the postage stamp corner from Kieran Tierney.  Anthony Ralston scores his first Celtic goal.

MATCH 1706 - Saturday 5 August 2017

 SEASON 2017/18

SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Venue:  CELTIC PARK

CELTIC  4  HEARTS  1

Scorers: Griffiths(2), Sinclair, McGregor; Esmael Goncalves

Celtic celebrate the raising of their 6th league flag in a row with a fine opening day victory over Hearts.

Pre-match

MATCH 1705 - Saturday 29 July 2017

SEASON 2017/18

FRIENDLY

Venue: STADIUM OF LIGHT

SUNDERLAND  0  CELTIC  5

Scorers:  McGregor(3), Hayes, Armstrong

A smashing day out in Sunderland for the 8,000 Celtic fans as a confident Celtic side stroll to victory against a sorry Sunderland in this Pre-season friendly encounter.  Callum McGregor shows this class by netting a hat-trick.

The match was arranged to celebrate 20 years at Sunderland "new" ground.

SUNDERLAND (4-2-3-1): Steele; Jones (Matthews 75), Browning, Kone (O’Shea 53), Galloway; Cattermole (Gibson 75), Ndong; Grabban (Asoro 66), Khazri (Honeyman 31), McGeady; Vaughan. 

Manager: Simon Grayson.        

CELTIC (4-2-3-1): de Vries; Ralston, Ajer (Benyu 70), Tierney (Hill 64), Miller (McCart 70); Kouassi (Aitchison 81), Ntcham (Bitton 46); Hayes (Rogic 46), McGregor (Henderson 73), Sinclair (Armstrong 46); Forrest (Ciftci 64). 

Manager: Brendan Rodgers

MATCH 1704 - Wednesday 26 July 2017

 SEASON  2017/18

Qualifying Rounds 1st Leg

CELTIC  0  ROSENBORG  0

A disappointing night at Celtic Park as Celtic fail to gain an advantage over their Norwegian opponents.

MATCH 1703 - Wednesday 19 July 2017

 SEASON  2017/18

Qualifying Rounds 2nd Leg

CELTIC  4  LINFIELD  0

Scorers: Sinclair(2), Rogic, Armstrong

Celtic faced a new foe in Linfield from the dark side of Ireland.  Leading 2-0 from the first leg Celtic increase the aggregate score to 6-0 to progress to the next qualifying round of European football premier competition.