Celtic 4-0 Hamilton Academical: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 4 April 2009

Result

Celtic 4-0 Hamilton Academical

Premiership · Saturday 4 April 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Celtic 4-0 Hamilton Academical: match report

Celtic won against Hamilton Academical 4-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 4 April 2009. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Georgios Samaras opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Celtic's goals came from Georgios Samaras (4'), Aiden McGeady (22'), Georgios Samaras (66') and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (83'). Hamilton Academical did not score.

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

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 64 points from 29 and Hamilton Academical 8th on 33 points from 30. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Hamilton Academical 9th with 41.

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

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 1-0
  • 22'Goal · Aiden McGeadyCeltic · 2-0
  • 66'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 3-0
  • 80'Yellow card · James McArthurHamilton Academical
  • 83'Goal · Jan Vennegoor of HesselinkCeltic · 4-0

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Celtic 2, draws 0, Hamilton Academical 0.

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