Celtic 2-1 Kilmarnock: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 24 December 2011

Result

Celtic 2-1 Kilmarnock

Premiership · Saturday 24 December 2011, 13:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

Celtic · Kilmarnock · Premiership predictions

Celtic 2-1 Kilmarnock: match report

Celtic beat Kilmarnock 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 24 December 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Georgios Samaras opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Celtic's goals came from Georgios Samaras (45+2') and Georgios Samaras (53'). Kilmarnock scored through Danny Racchi (87').

Discipline: Celtic received 1 yellow card; Kilmarnock received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 2nd on 44 points from 19 and Kilmarnock 7th on 23 points from 18. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and Kilmarnock 7th with 47.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Celtic wins, 2 draws and 1 for Kilmarnock.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Yellow card · B. KayalCeltic
  • 30'Yellow card · M. PascaliKilmarnock
  • 45+2'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 1-0
  • 53'Goal · Georgios SamarasCeltic · 2-0
  • 84'Yellow card · Momo SissokoKilmarnock
  • 87'Goal · Danny RacchiKilmarnock · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Celtic 7, draws 2, Kilmarnock 1.

Team news

Celtic line-up

Fraser Forster, Cha Du-Ri, Charlie Mulgrew, Joe Ledley, Sung-yueng Ki, Beram Kayal, Victor Wanyama, Georgios Samaras, James Forrest, Gary Hooper, Scott Brown

Kilmarnock expected line-up

Cammy Bell, Manuel Pascali, Zdenek Kroca, Rory McKeown, Garry Hay, Liam Kelly, Paul Heffernan, Dean Shiels, James Fowler, Gary Harkins