Rangers 3-2 Celtic: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 25 March 2012

Result

Rangers 3-2 Celtic

Premiership · Sunday 25 March 2012, 12:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Rangers 3-2 Celtic: match report

Rangers beat Celtic 3-2 in the Premiership on Sunday 25 March 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Sone Aluko opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Rangers's goals came from Sone Aluko (11'), Andrew Little (72') and Lee Wallace (77'). Celtic scored through Scott Brown (89', penalty) and Thomas Rogne (90+2').

Discipline: Rangers received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Celtic received no yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Rangers were 2nd on 64 points from 30 and Celtic 1st on 75 points from 30. Rangers went on to finish that season 2nd with 83 points, and Celtic 1st with 93.

Rangers lined up in a 3-5-2 and Celtic in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Rangers wins, 3 draws and 4 for Celtic.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Sone AlukoRangers · 1-0
  • 29'Red card · Cha Du-RiCeltic
  • 57'Red card · Victor WanyamaCeltic
  • 72'Goal · Andrew LittleRangers · 2-0
  • 77'Goal · Lee WallaceRangers · 3-0
  • 80'Yellow card · Salim KerkarRangers
  • 88'Red card · Carlos BocanegraRangers
  • 89'Penalty goal · Scott BrownCeltic · 3-1
  • 90+2'Goal · Thomas RogneCeltic · 3-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Rangers 3, draws 3, Celtic 4.

Team news

Rangers line-up (3-5-2)

Allan McGregor, Sasa Papac, Steven Whittaker, Carlos Bocanegra, Maurice Edu, Steven Davis, Rhys McCabe, Sone Aluko, Dorin Nicolae Goian, Lee McCulloch, Lee Wallace

Celtic line-up (4-4-2)

Fraser Forster, Adam Matthews, Cha Du-Ri, Charlie Mulgrew, Thomas Rogne, Joe Ledley, Sung-yueng Ki, Victor Wanyama, Georgios Samaras, Anthony Stokes, Scott Brown