Celtic 1-4 VfB Stuttgart: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 19 February 2026

Result

Celtic 1-4 VfB Stuttgart

Europa League · Thursday 19 February 2026, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

Celtic · VfB Stuttgart · Europa League predictions

Celtic 1-4 VfB Stuttgart: match report

Celtic lost to VfB Stuttgart 1-4 in the Europa League on Thursday 19 February 2026. The half-time score was 1-2.

Bilal El Khannouss opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Celtic's goal came from Benjamin Nygren (21'). VfB Stuttgart scored through Bilal El Khannouss (15'), Bilal El Khannouss (28'), Jamie Leweling (57') and Tiago Tomás (90+3').

Discipline: Celtic received no yellow cards; VfB Stuttgart received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Celtic were 28th on 11 points from 8 and VfB Stuttgart 18th on 15 points from 8. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Celtic lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and VfB Stuttgart in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Bilal El Khannouss of VfB Stuttgart (8.2), ahead of Deniz Undav (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Celtic win, 0 draws and 1 for VfB Stuttgart.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Bilal El KhannoussVfB Stuttgart · 0-1
  • 21'Goal · Benjamin NygrenCeltic · 1-1
  • 28'Goal · Bilal El KhannoussVfB Stuttgart · 1-2
  • 50'Yellow card · Jeff ChabotVfB Stuttgart
  • 57'Goal · Jamie LewelingVfB Stuttgart · 1-3
  • 90+3'Goal · Tiago TomásVfB Stuttgart · 1-4

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Celtic 1, draws 0, VfB Stuttgart 1.

Team news

Celtic line-up (4-2-3-1)

Kasper Schmeichel, Julián Araujo, Auston Trusty, Liam Scales, Kieran Tierney, Callum McGregor, Paulo Bernardo, Daizen Maeda, Benjamin Nygren, Sebastian Tounekti, Tomas Cvancara

VfB Stuttgart line-up (4-2-3-1)

Alexander Nübel, Josha Vagnoman, Finn Jeltsch, Jeff Chabot, Ramon Hendriks, Atakan Karazor, Angelo Stiller, Bilal El Khannouss, Deniz Undav, Jamie Leweling, Ermedin Demirovic