Celtic FC Fixtures 2015/2016

Manager: Ronny Deila

Assistant Manager: John Collins
First Team Coach: John Kennedy

Team Captain: Scott Brown

Scottish Premiership: Champions

Scottish FA Cup: Semi-Final

Scottish League Cup: Semi-Final

Champions League: Play-off Round

Europa League: Group Stage

Competitive Fixtures 2015/2016

Opponents	Comments
STJARNAN 15/07/15	2-0. Boyata, Johansen. UEFA Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round, 1st Leg. Competative debuts for Dedryck Boyata and Nadir Ciftci. Leigh Griffiths missed a penalty.
Stjarnan 22/07/15	4-1- Bitton, Mulgrew, Griffiths, Johansen. Celtic win 6-1 (agg). UEFA Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round, 2nd Leg.
FK QARABAG 29/07/15	1-0. Boyata. UEFA Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round, 1st leg. Celtic Park.
ROSS COUNTY 01/08/15	2-1. Grifffiths, Johansen. Ladbrokes Premiership 1 Celtic Park.
FK Qarabag 05/08/15	0-0. UEFA Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round, 2nd leg. Tofiq Bahramov Stadium Celtic qualify for the Play-off round 1-0 on agg
PARTICK 09/08/15	2-0. Rogic, Commons. Ladbrokes Premiership 2, Firhill Stadium.
Kilmarnock 12/08/15	2-2. Griffiths 3, Bitton. Ladbrokes Premiership 3. Rugby Park.
INVERNESS 15/08/15	4-2. Lustig, Griffiths, Armstrong (2). Ladbrokes Premiership 4 Celtic Park.
MALMÖ FF 19/08/15	3-2, Griffiths, Bitton. UEFA Champions League Play-off Round, 1st leg. Celtic Park.
Dundee Utd 22/08/15	3-1. Griffiths, Durnan og, McGregor. Ladbrokes Premiership 5. Tannadice. Scott Allan debut.
Malmö FF 25/08/15	0-2. UEFA Champions League Play-offs Round, 2nd leg. Played at Malmö New Stadium. Celtic drop into the Europa League, beaten 3-4 on aggregate.
ST JOHNSTONE 29/08/15	3-1. Griffiths, Rogic , Mulgrew. Ladbrokes Premiership 6. Celtic Park.
Aberdeen 12/09/15	1-2. Ladbrokes Premiership 7 Pittodrie.
Ajax 17/09/15	2-2. Europa League Group Match 1. Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam. No official programme.
DUNDEE 20/09/15	6-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 8. Celtic Park
RAITH ROVERS 23/09/15	2-0. Scottish League Cup 3rd Round Celtic Park
HEARTS 26/09/15	0-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 9 Celtic Park
FENERBACHE 01/10/15	2-2. Europa League Group Match 2. Celtic Park
Hamilton 04/10/15	2-1. Ladbrokes Premiership 10 New Douglas Park, Hamilton Boyata's first competative domestic goal.
Motherwell 17/10/15	1-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 11 Celtic Park.
Molde FK 22/10/15	1-3. Europa League Group Match 3. Molde Stadion, Molde Chris Commons displayed anger towards the Celtic coaching staff after being replaced with Nadir Ciftci in this match. He later apologised through the official Celtic website “I’d like to apologise for my reaction last night, something that should never be shown publicly on the field. I was very frustrated at how the night had gone. However, I did not handle this in the right way. My frustration at losing games and my desire to win will never change."
DUNDEE UTD 25/10/15	5-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 12 Fir Park.
Hearts	28/10/15 2-1. Scottish League Cup quarter-final.
ABERDEEN 31/10/15	3-1. Ladbrokes Premiership 13 Celtic Park.
MOLDE 05/11/15	1-2. Europa League Group Match 4. Celtic Park Hestad, 40, became the oldest player to score in a UEFA Europa League match.
Ross County 08/11/15	4-1. Ladbrokes Premiership 14. Victoria Park.
KILMARNOCK 21/11/15	0-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 15. Celtic Park.
AJAX 26/11/15	1-2. Europa League Group Match 5. Celtic Park
Inverness CT 29/11/15	3-1. Ladbrokes Premiership 16. Caledonian Stadium, Inverness
HAMILTON 05/12/15	p-p. Ladbrokes Premiership 17 Celtic Park Match postponed. Some programmes issued. Programme not officially issued but some copies were sold
Fenerbahçe SK 10/12/15	1-1. Europa League Group Match 6. Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul No official programme.
St Johnstone 13/12/15	3-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 18 McDairmid Stadium, Perth
MOTHERWELL 19/12/15	1-2. Bitton. Ladbrokes Premiership 19 Celtic Park.
Hearts 27/12/15	2-2. Ladbrokes Premiership 20 Tynecastle, Edinburgh
Dundee 30/12/15	Postponed. Ladbrokes Premiership 21 Dens Park. Programme issued (some programmes were sold). The programme was also used for the rearranged match with a single-sheeet wrap around cover.
PARTICK 02/01/16	1-0. Grifiths Ladbrokes Premiership 22 Celtic Park.
Stranraer 10/01/16	Scottish Cup Round 3
Dundee Utd 15/01/16	Ladbrokes Premiership 23 Tannadice Stadium, Dundee
ST JOHNSTONE 23/01/16	Ladbrokes Premiership 24 Celtic Park.
Aberdeen 30/01/16	Ladbrokes Premiership 25 Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen Postponed because Celtic are in the League Cup semi-final. No programme
Ross County 31/01/16	1-3 - Mackay-Steven. Scottish League Cup semi-final Hampden Park, Glasgow Ambrose sent off in 13th minute. Mackay-Stevens scored after only 26 seconds. www.bbc.co.uk
Aberdeen 03/02/16	1-2- Griffiths Ladbrokes Premiership 25 (postponed fixture) Pittodrie Stadium
East Kilbride 07/02/16	2-0. Scottish Cup Round 4 Played at the Excelsior Stadium, Airdrie
ROSS COUNTY 13/02/16	2-0 - Boyata, Griffiths Ladbrokes Premiership 26 Celtic Park
INVERNESS CT 20/02/16	3-0. Mackay-Steven 54, Griffiths 59, 93 Ladbrokes Premiership 27 Celtic Park
Hamilton 26/02/16	1-1. Griffiths 35 pen Ladbrokes Premiership 28 New Douglas Park.
DUNDEE 02/03/16	0-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 29 Celtic Park.
MORTON 06/03/16	3-0. Griffiths 14, Mackay-Steven 25, McGregor 35 Scottish Cup Round 5. Celtic Park
Partick 12/03/16	2-1. Griffiths 45, McGregor 54 Ladbrokes Premiership 30 Firhill.
Kilmarnock 19/03/16	1-0. Rogic (90) Ladbrokes Premiership 31 Rugby Park.
HEARTS 02/04/16	3-1, Mackay-Steven (15), Roberts (35, 49) Ladbrokes Premiership 32 Celtic Park
Dundee 05/04/2016	0-0. Ladbrokes Premiership 21. Rearranged match. Original match programme sold with a new wrap around cover.
Motherwell 09/04/16	2-1. Griffiths 44, 75 Ladbrokes Premiership 33.
POST SPLIT LEAGUE FIXTURES
Rangers 19/04/2016	2-2 (aet), Sviatchenko 50, Rogic 106 Rangers won 5-4 on penalties. Scottish Cup Semi-Final. Miller 16, McKay 96 scored for Rangers. www.bbc.co.uk
ROSS COUNTY 24/04/16	1-1. Griffiths Ladbrokes Premiership 34 Celtic Park
Hearts 30/04/16	3-1. Kazim-Richards, Roberts, Griffiths, Ladbrokes Premiership 35 Celtic are 9 points in front of Aberdeen and have a 35 goal difference advantage with only three games to be played.
ABERDEEN 08/05/16	3-2 Ladbrokes Premiership 36 Celtic are officialy champions after this result (only a draw needed).
St Johnstone 11/05/16	1-2. Ladbrokes Premiership 37
MOTHERWELL 15/05/16	7-0 - Tierney (21), Rogic (26), Lustig (28), Armstrong (50), Roberts (54), Christie (59), Aitchison (77) Ladbrokes Premiership 38 Referee: Euan Anderson Attendance: 49,050 This equals Celtic's record score against Motherwell last done in the 1982/83 season.Kieran Tierney scored his first Celtic goal and so did Ryan Christie. Jack Aitchison (99) is now Celtic's youngest ever debutant at 16 years and 71 days. He then became Celtic's youngest ever goal scorer by scoring the 7th goal in this match. Ronnie Deila last game as manager.

Celtic Friendlies 2015/2016

Opponents	Comments
Den Bosch 01/07/2015	2-0. Mackay Steven, Verlaan (o.g.). Played at St Mirren Park, Paisley while Renovation works are carried out at Celtic Park. Celtic issued a match programme that will cover all 3 friendlies at St Mirren Park. Debuts for Leo Fasan, Luke Donnelly and Dedryck Boyata.
Dukla Prague 04/07/2015	3-5. Griffiths, Mackay-Steven, van Dijk. St Mirren Park
Real Sociedad 10/07/2015	1-0. Mackay-Steven St Mirren Park Nadir Ciftci debut. Saidy Janko debut.
Greenock Morton 13/07/2015	3-1. Scepovic, Donnelly, Stokes. Cappielow Park, Greenock Celtic XI. Andy Bryan Testimonial Match.
SD Eibar 18/07/2015	4-1. Ambrose, Griffiths (3). Pre-season friendly at the Ipurua Football Stadium (capacity - 6,267 all-seated), Eibar, Gipuzkoa. SD Eibar's 75th anniversary Celebration. Logan Bailly debut
Turriff Utd 18/07/2015	2-1. Currie, Hendry. Played at The Haughs. Celtic XI mainly development squad players. Programme issued.
Raith Rovers 21/07/2015	1-1. Joe Thomson. Opening of the Turnbull Hutton Stand at Stark's Park. Celtic XI mainly development squad players. Ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown attended this match.
STADE RENNES 25/07/2015	2-0. Griffiths, Mackay-Steven. Celtic Park Free entry to season ticket holders, tiny crowd, match tickets very scarce.
East Kilbride Thistle 25/07/15	4-2. Celtic XI . Played at the Kpark, East Kilbride.

Celtic F.C. First Team Player Pool 2015/2016

including shirt numbers

Goal

1.Craig Gordon, 26.Logan Bailly, 38.Leo Fasan.

Defence

21.Charlie Mulgrew, 3.Emilio Izaguirre, 23.Mikael Lustig, 4.Efetobore Ambrose Emuobo, 5.Virgil van Dijk, 34.Eoghan O'Connell, 20.Dedryck Boyata, 22.Saidy Janko, 2. Tyler Blackett.

Midfield

8.Scott Brown, 49.James Forrest, 15.Kris Commons, 18.Tom Rogić, 6.Nir Biton, 11.Derk Boerrigter, 25.Stefan Johansen, 42.Callum McGregor, 14.Stuart Armstrong, 16.Gary Mackay Steven, 19.Scott Allan.

Offence

10.Anthony Stokes, 9.Leigh Griffiths, 12.Stefan Šćepović, 7. Nadir Ciftci.

Out on loan

59.Calum Waters (Dumbarton), 35.Stuart Findlay (Kilmarnock), 53.Liam Henderson (Hibernian), 41.Darnell Fisher (St Johnstone).

CELTIC TRANSFER TIMELINE FOR 2015/2016

17/06/2015 - Lukasz Zaluska released. Lukasz was signed from Dundee United in 2009. He was unlucky in his six years at the club as he was competing for the goalkeeping spot with 3 excellent keepers in Artur Boruc, Fraser Forster and Craig Gordonduring that time. Although he never commanded the No1 spot and played just 51 times in the hoops he managed to win 7 medals. Thanks and good luck Lukasz. Once a tim, always a tim.

02/06/2015 - 24-year old Belgian centre-half Dedryck Boyata signed from Manchester City on a four-year deal.

06/2015 - Celtic agree to terminate Amido Balde's contract with two years still to run. 16/07/15 Balde signed signed a two year contract with FC Metz.

19/06/2015 - Teemu Pukki transferred to Brondby IF. Pukki joined Celtic in 2013 from Shalke. He scored on his competitive debut when he came on as a sub in a 3-1 against Hearts and followed this, in his first start, with another in a 2-1 victory against St Johnstone the following week. He scored a total of 9 goals in 37 appearances in the Hoops before going on loan to Bronby IF last season. Thanks and good luck.

01/07/2015 - Saidy Janko signed on a 4 year contract from Manchester United.

02/07/2015 - Holmbert Fridjonsson to KR Reykjavik on a free.

03/07/2015 - Paul McMullan loaned to St Mirren until the end of the season.

03/07/2015 - Connor McManus and Michael Duffy joined Alloa Athletic on loan. Full season for McManus, Duffy returns in January 2016.

03/07/2015 - Adam Matthews transferred to Sunderland for a reported fee of £2M. [BBC report]

08/07/2015 - 29-year-old Belgian goalkeeper Logan Bailly signed on a 3 year deal from OH Leveun for a reported £300,000.

08/07/2015 - Calum Waters on a season long loan to Dumbarton.

09/07/2015 - 23 year old Nadir Ciftci signed from Dundee United on a 4 year contract for a reported £1.5M.

09/07/2015 - Stuart Findlay on loan to Kilmarnock FC until the end of the season.

28/07/2015 - Jackson Irvine transferred to Ross County for a compensation fee.

14/08/2015 - Scott Allan signed from Hibs on a four year deal for a reported £275,000. Dylan McGeouch and Liam Henderson have respective permanent and loan moves to Hibs as part of the deal.

14/08/2015 - Dylan McGeouch transferred to Hibs.

14/08/2015 - Liam Henderson season long loan to Hibs.

25/08/2015 - Darnell Fisher to St Johnstone on a season-long loan.

29/08/2015 - Tyler Blackett signed on a season-long loan from Manchester United.