Aberdeen 1-3 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 2 May 2009

Result

Aberdeen 1-3 Celtic

Premiership · Saturday 2 May 2009, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aberdeen 1-3 Celtic: match report

Aberdeen were beaten by Celtic 1-3 in the Premiership on Saturday 2 May 2009. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Chris Maguire opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Aberdeen's goal came from Chris Maguire (22'). Celtic scored through Gary Caldwell (44'), S. McDonald (72') and S. McDonald (90').

Discipline: Aberdeen received 1 yellow card; Celtic received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aberdeen were 5th on 48 points from 33 and Celtic 1st on 74 points from 33. Aberdeen went on to finish that season 4th with 53 points, and Celtic 2nd with 82.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aberdeen win, 0 draws and 9 for Celtic.

Going into the match Aberdeen's last five read L-W-D-D-W and Celtic's W-D-W-W-D.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Chris MaguireAberdeen · 1-0
  • 44'Goal · Gary CaldwellCeltic · 1-1
  • 72'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 1-2
  • 81'Yellow card · Peter PawlettAberdeen
  • 90'Yellow card · S. McDonaldCeltic
  • 90'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 1-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aberdeen 1, draws 0, Celtic 9.

Team news

Celtic expected line-up (4-4-2)

Stephen McManus, Barry Robson, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, Scott Brown, G. Caldwell, Andreas Hinkel, Mark Wilson, Shunsuke Nakamura, Shaun Maloney, Paul Hartley