Celtic 2-0 Aberdeen: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 18 April 2009

Result

Celtic 2-0 Aberdeen

Premiership · Saturday 18 April 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Celtic 2-0 Aberdeen: match report

Celtic won against Aberdeen 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 18 April 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Celtic's goals came from Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (43') and S. McDonald (55'). Aberdeen did not score.

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Aberdeen received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 71 points from 32 and Aberdeen 4th on 48 points from 32. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Aberdeen 4th with 53.

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

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 43'Goal · Jan Vennegoor of HesselinkCeltic · 1-0
  • 55'Goal · S. McDonaldCeltic · 2-0
  • 69'Yellow card · S. McDonaldCeltic

Head-to-head

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

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