Celtic 3-1 Aberdeen: result and report

Celtic 3-1 Aberdeen

Premiership · Sunday 21 December 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Celtic defeated Aberdeen 3-1 in the Premiership on Sunday 21 December 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Benjamin Nygren opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Celtic's goals came from Benjamin Nygren (39'), Kieran Tierney (88') and James Forrest (90+2'). Aberdeen scored through Kenan Bilalovic (74').

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Aberdeen received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 32 points from 16 and Aberdeen 6th on 24 points from 16. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 82 points, and Aberdeen 9th with 40.

Celtic lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Aberdeen in a 5-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kieran Tierney of Celtic (8.6), ahead of Benjamin Nygren (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Celtic wins, 2 draws and 0 for Aberdeen.

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