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The 2024 Scottish League Cup final was an association football match took place at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 15 December 2024. It was the culmination of the 2024–25 Scottish League Cup, the 79th season of the Scottish League Cup (known as the Premier Sports Cup for sponsorship reasons), a competition for the 42 teams in the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL).
The 2024–25 Scottish Cup (known as the Scottish Gas Men's Scottish Cup for sponsorship reasons) [1] is the 140th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. Celtic are the defending champions after defeating Rangers in the 2024 final .
Match number Date Venue Opponents Score Competition Scotland scorers Att. Ref. 784 4 September 2020: Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) Israel 1–1 2020–21 Nations League
Celtic have been in the Scottish top division since the inaugural Scottish Football League season in 1890. [3] The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic (/ ˈ s ɛ l t ɪ k /), [a] is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football.
[1] [8] The Scottish Football League was formed in 1890, and Celtic were among the founding members, [9] finishing third behind joint-winner's Rangers and Dumbarton in the competition's inaugural season. [10] In 1891, Celtic won their second trophy when they beat Third Lanark 4–0 in the final of the Glasgow Cup. [11]
The Scottish League Cup was formed, operated by and named after the Scottish Football League (SFL), who continued to operate it after the top division clubs formed the Scottish Premier League (SPL) in 1998. The competition is now organised by the SPFL, the body formed by the merger of the SPL and SFL in 2013.
Dumbarton filled the void left by Queen's Park for a time, but like all Scottish football competitions, the Scottish Cup would come to be dominated by the Old Firm of Celtic and Rangers. In 1909 the cup was withheld by the Scottish Football Association after a riot broke out following a replay between Rangers and Celtic. The first match was ...
On 24 July 2013 the names of the four SPFL divisions were announced – Scottish Premiership, Scottish Championship, Scottish League One and Scottish League Two. [18] The merger was criticised by Alex Anderson of When Saturday Comes as bringing further uncertainty to Scottish football, holding the belief that the semi-professional clubs in the ...