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Rangers vs Celtic
31 Aug 2025, 12:00 · Premiership · 2025/2026
Referee
Don RobertsonPremiership 2025/2026 · 22 matches
As it happened
Match timeline
RangersMin
Celtic- VAR
John Souttar
VAR · Goal Disallowed
34′ Mikey Moore
Yellowcard
Foul
63′- 65′⇄
James Forrest
Substitution
Off: Michel-Ange Balikwisha
- 65′⇄
Shin Yamada
Substitution
Off: Arne Engels
Mohamed Diomandé
Yellowcard
Foul
67′- ⇄
Oliver Antman
Substitution
Off: Mikey Moore
72′ - ⇄
Cyriel Dessers
Substitution
Off: Bojan Miovski
72′ - 72′⇄
Marcelo Saracchi
Substitution
Off: Kieran Tierney
- ⇄
Nedim Bajrami
Substitution
Off: Thelo Aasgaard
76′ - ⇄
Findlay Curtis
Substitution
Off: Djeidi Gassama
82′ - ⇄
Joe Rothwell
Substitution
Off: Connor Barron
82′ Nasser Djiga
Yellowcard
Foul
88′- 88′⇄
Luke McCowan
Substitution
Off: Reo Hatate
The numbers
Fixture statistics
Green marks the higher recorded number; grey means level. This does not always mean a better performance. A dash means no reported value, not zero.
Individual contributions
Player ratings & full match stats
| Player | Min | G | A | Shots | Key | Tackles | Saves | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 6.74 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 6.76 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 7.03 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.55 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | — | 6.91 | |
| 82 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 6.89 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 6.84 | |
| 82 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 6.45 | |
| 76 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 6.66 | |
| 72 | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | — | 6.41 | |
| 72 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 6.55 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.48 | |
| 18 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 6.59 | |
| 14 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 6.40 | |
| 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.37 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.47 | |
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Before this match
Recent form
Select W, D or L to see that match’s stats. Pink outline = 2025/2026.
Rangers
Latest: Dundee · 1–1
Match stats
9 Aug 2025, 17:45 · Home vs Dundee · 2025/2026
Celtic
Latest: Aberdeen · 2–0
Match stats
10 Aug 2025, 12:30 · Away vs Aberdeen · 2025/2026
The rivalry
Head-to-head record
At Rangers’s ground: 23 previous meetings, 9 home wins. Past results don’t predict the next match.
Matchup context
Home vs away this season
Compare Rangers’s home games with Celtic’s away games. For older matches, these season totals may include games played later.
Only stats recorded for both clubs are shown. In the key stats, green marks the more favourable figure, or the higher number where neither is better. Grey means the figures are level.
The number after / is how many matches had that stat.
More team stats
Results & goals
Goal frequencies
Corners
Cards
Shots & play
Chance quality
Season xG
Choose all, home or away games for each club. Green marks higher xG or lower xG against; grey means level.
These are past-match averages, not a prediction for this fixture.
Players
Top scorers and assist makers
Season totals for 2025/2026. These players are not a confirmed lineup.
Rangers
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Celtic
Goals
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Expected goals and shot quality
Match counts are shown beside each player.
Expected goals (xG)
Chance quality before the shot.
Rangers
Celtic
xG on target (xGoT)
Chance quality of shots that reached the target.
Rangers
Celtic
Shooting performance (xGoT - xG)
Shows whether a player made their chances better or worse with the quality of their shooting. Positive means they generally produced better-placed shots; negative means the shots were worse than the chances suggested.
Rangers
Celtic
Previous meetings
Select any result to see that fixture’s score, events and statistics.