Celtic 2-0 Hamilton Academical: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 26 December 2009

Result

Celtic 2-0 Hamilton Academical

Premiership · Saturday 26 December 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Celtic 2-0 Hamilton Academical: match report

Celtic defeated Hamilton Academical 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 26 December 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Glenn Loovens opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Celtic's goals came from Glenn Loovens (13') and Niall McGinn (90'). Hamilton Academical did not score.

Discipline: Celtic received no yellow cards; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 31 points from 16 and Hamilton Academical 10th on 14 points from 15. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 79 points, and Hamilton Academical 9th with 39.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Celtic wins, 0 draws and 0 for Hamilton Academical.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Glenn LoovensCeltic · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · Mark McLaughlinHamilton Academical
  • 90'Goal · Niall McGinnCeltic · 2-0

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Celtic 4, draws 0, Hamilton Academical 0.

Team news

Celtic line-up

Stephen McManus, Danny Fox, Glenn Loovens, Landry N'Guemo, Marc Crosas, Barry Robson, Aiden McGeady, Scott McDonald, Georgios Samaras, Artur Boruc, Andreas Hinkel

Hamilton Academical line-up

Tomas Cerny, Trent McClenahan, Richard Hastings, Mark McLaughlin, Simon Mensing, James Wesolowski, James McArthur, Mickaël Antoine-Curier, Marco Paixão, Martin Canning, A. Neil