Celtic 3-1 Hibernian: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 24 January 2009

Result

Celtic 3-1 Hibernian

Premiership · Saturday 24 January 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Celtic 3-1 Hibernian: match report

Celtic defeated Hibernian 3-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 24 January 2009. The half-time score was 2-1.

S. McDonald opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Celtic's goals came from S. McDonald (3'), S. McManus (9') and S. McDonald (76'). Hibernian scored through Rob Jones (17').

Discipline: Celtic received no yellow cards; Hibernian received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 51 points from 22 and Hibernian 6th on 30 points from 22. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Hibernian 7th with 47.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Celtic wins, 2 draws and 3 for Hibernian.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 1-0
  • 9'Goal · S. McManusCeltic · 2-0
  • 17'Goal · Rob JonesHibernian · 2-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Sol BambaHibernian
  • 76'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 3-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Jonatan JohanssonHibernian

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 5, draws 2, Hibernian 3.

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