Celtic 3-1 Hamilton Academical: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 2 October 2010

Result

Celtic 3-1 Hamilton Academical

Premiership · Saturday 2 October 2010, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Celtic 3-1 Hamilton Academical: match report

Celtic defeated Hamilton Academical 3-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 2 October 2010. The half-time score was 1-1.

Mark McLaughlin opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Celtic's goals came from Shaun Maloney (25'), Shaun Maloney (64') and G. Hooper (71'). Hamilton Academical scored through Mark McLaughlin (3').

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 18 points from 6 and Hamilton Academical 11th on 5 points from 6. Celtic went on to finish that season 2nd with 92 points, and Hamilton Academical 12th with 24.

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

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Mark McLaughlinHamilton Academical · 0-1
  • 25'Goal · Shaun MaloneyCeltic · 1-1
  • 51'Yellow card · Simon MensingHamilton Academical
  • 64'Goal · Shaun MaloneyCeltic · 2-1
  • 71'Goal · G. HooperCeltic · 3-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Scott BrownCeltic

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Celtic 6, draws 0, Hamilton Academical 0.

Team news

Celtic line-up

Fraser Forster, Efraín Juárez Váldez, Daniel Majstorovic, Cha Du-Ri, Glenn Loovens, Joe Ledley, Sung-yueng Ki, Georgios Samaras, Gary Hooper, Scott Brown, Shaun Maloney

Hamilton Academical line-up

Tomas Cerny, Mark McLaughlin, David Buchanan, Simon Mensing, Dougie Imrie, Jon Routledge, Grant Gillespie, Nigel Hasselbaink, J. Goodwin, Martin Canning, Flávio Paixão