Past meetings between Celtic and Rangers in Scottish Cup final

There have been 15 derby meetings in the final with seven victories apiece.

Here, the PA news agency looks back at some of those occasions.

Rangers 3 Celtic 1 (1894)

Rangers and Celtic’s first Scottish Cup final meeting is something of a watershed in the history of the tournament. Rangers defeated holders Queen’s Park in the semi-finals and the Spiders have never added to their 10 triumphs. Their victory at the second Hampden Park, which later became Third Lanark’s Cathkin Park, was the Ibrox club’s first in the final. Celtic, who had won the cup two years earlier, scored through Willie Maley, who was among their first players and would go on to manage the team for 43 years.

Celtic 3 Rangers 2 (1904)

The build-up to this final marks the first time the term ‘Old Firm’ was documented. A cartoon in the Scottish Referee newspaper pictured a man with a billboard showing ‘Patronise the Old Firm’. The weary-looking nature of the man suggested some people were growing tired of the pair’s dominance even then, and the term also highlights the fact many viewed their competition as a mutually beneficial money-spinner. The match is also notable for being the first final at the third Hampden, where the redeveloped stadium sits today. Celtic came from two goals down to win thanks to a hat-trick from Jimmy Quinn, who would become the first player to score 200 goals for the club.

Rangers 1 Celtic 1 (1909)

There was no winner this year after fans joined forces to riot in protest at the fact extra-time was not played after this replay. Many had expected an extra 30 minutes but the rules stated this would only come into play after a second replay. Goalposts and fences were torn down and pay booths at Hampden were set alight and reports claimed about 130 people were injured, including police and firemen, after the two-hour riot. The cup was withheld and no second replay took place.

Rangers 4 Celtic 0 (1928)

Rangers had not won the cup for 25 years before the pair met again in the final, with the rivalry now fiercer and more sectarian. A then-record crowd of 118,000 saw the Light Blues triumph after they capitalised on strong winds far better than Celtic had, to score four second-half goals through captain Davie Meiklejohn, Bob McPhail and former Fife miner Sandy Archibald, who hit two.

Rangers 3 Celtic 0 (1963)

It was another 35 years before the teams met again at the same stage. Gers forward Ralph Brand and Bobby Murdoch were on target in front of almost 130,000 fans in a 1-1 draw before the Govan side triumphed in the replay. Brand scored twice and Davie Wilson grabbed the other as Rangers clinched their third consecutive cup. Celtic had not won the competition or the league since 1954 but their golden era was not far off.

Celtic 4 Rangers 0 (1969)

Jock Stein’s side clinched their second treble in three seasons thanks to goals from Billy McNeill, Bobby Lennox, George Connelly and Stevie Chalmers, which took their tally in the competition that season to 25. The game spelled the end of Alex Ferguson’s career at Ibrox after he failed to jump with McNeill as the Celtic captain headed home a third-minute corner. The striker would join Falkirk a few months later.

Rangers 3 Celtic 2 (1973)

Tam Forysth netted the winner from a yard out as as Rangers clinched only their third major trophy in seven seasons – one of them was the previous year’s European Cup Winners’ Cup. Also on target for Rangers was Alfie Conn, who would go on to help Celtic beat the Light Blues in the 1977 final.

Celtic 1 Rangers 0 (1980)

Fans fought running battles on the Hampden pitch after an extra-time goal from George McCluskey decided the seventh Scottish Cup final meeting between the teams in 18 years. Mounted police struggled to regain control as bottles flew and BBC commentator Archie Macpherson likened it to a “scene out of Apocalypse Now”. The incident sparked an alcohol ban in Scottish football grounds which remains in place.

Rangers 3 Celtic 2 (2002)

Martin O’Neill’s Celtic had won the treble the previous season and retained the league but Peter Lovenkrands headed home his second goal of the game in the closing seconds as manager Alex McLeish secured a cup double in his first six months in charge. Lovenkrands and Barry Ferguson earlier levelled after John Hartson and Bobo Balde had each headed Celtic in front.