CELTIC FC 1978/79

Celtic Fixtures, Results and Programmes 1978/1979

Scottish League:	Champions
Scottish FA Cup:	Quarter-Final
Scottish League Cup:	Semi-Final
Anglo-Scottish Cup:	Quarter-Final

Manager: Billy MCNEILL (1978 - 1983)

10 Men Won The League tra, la, la, la, la

Opponents	Comments
CLYDE	03/08/78 Anglo-Scottish Cup 2-1 - Conn, Burns.
Clyde	05/08/78 Anglo-Scottish Cup 6-1 - Conn (2), McAdam (2), Glavin (2).
Morton	12/08/78 PL 2-1. Glavin, MacDonald.
DUNDEE	16/08/78 LC 3-1. McAdam (2), Glavin. Pat Stanton leaves Celtic to become ass't manager with Aberdeen.
HEARTS	19/08/78 PL 4-0. McAdam, Burns, Conn (2).
Dundee	23/08/78 LC 3-0. Doyle (2), Conn.
Motherwell	26/08/78 PL 5-1. Conn (2), Aitken (2), McAdam.
Dundee United	30/08/78 LC 3-2. Lynch, MacDonald, Conroy.
DUNDEE UNITED	02/09/78 LC 1-0. Glavin.
RANGERS	09/09/78 PL 3-1. McAdam (2), McCluskey. Att: 60,000.
Burnley	12/09/78 Anglo-Scottish Cup 0-1
HIBERNIAN	16/09/78 PL 0-1. Four days after this match Paul Wilson was sold to Motherwell. Davie Provan arrived from Kilmarnock for a Scottish record fee of £120,000 on Sept 18. He went on to win 4 League titles, 2 Scottish Cups and a League Cup with Celtic in the next 7 seasons. He was the Scottish Professional Football Association's Player of the year for 1979/80. He won 10 caps for Scotland and was a member of the 1982 World Cup squad in Spain.
Partick Thistle	23/09/78 PL 3-2. Davie Provan makes his Celtic debut in front of 22,000 fans at Firhill.
BURNLEY	27/09/78 Anglo-Scottish Cup 1-2 Bobby Lennox makes his second debut for Celtic after resigning. Next day Joe Craig is sold to Blackburn Rovers.
ST MIRREN	30/09/78 PL 2-1.
MOTHERWELL	04/10/78 LC 0-1.
Aberdeen	07/10/78 PL 1-4.
Motherwell	11/10/78 LC 4-1.
Dundee United	14/10/78 PL 0-1.
MORTON	21/10/78 PL 0-0.
Hearts	28/10/78 PL 0-2.
MOTHERWELL	04/11/78 PL 1-2. Murdo MacLeod debut, signed on Nov 2.
Montrose	08/11/78 LC 1-1
Rangers	11/11/78 PL 1-1. Played at Hampden Park. New Copland Road stand being built at Ibrox.
MONTROSE	15/11/78 LC 3-1
Hibernian	18/11/78 PL 2-2. Davie Provan's first goal for Celtic.
PARTICK THISTLE	25/11/78 PL 1-0.
St Mirren	02/12/78 PL (Postponed) Programme issued
ABERDEEN	09/12/78 PL 0-0.
Rangers	13/12/78 LCSF 2-3 a.e.t. Doyle, McAdam. Promising Celtic youngster Jim Casey scored the winning goal (og) for Rangers with 7 minutes of extra-time to be played. This defeat ended a run of 153 successive League Cup games (this cup tie would have been 154) without being eliminated from the competition, The run stretched from the 1964/65 season until this match and includes a World record 14 League Cup Finals in a row (6 as winners - 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1975).
DUNDEE UNITED	16/12/78 PL 1-1
Morton	23/12/78 PL 0-1
HEARTS	30/12/78 PL (Postponed) Programme issued
Motherwell	01/01/79 PL (Postponed) Programme issued
RANGERS	06/01/79 PL (Postponed) No programme. This game wasn't re-arranged until the last game of the season. On 21 May 1979 John Doyle was sent off and the remaining ten went on to beat Rangers 4-2 and win the league.
HIBERNIAN	13/01/79 PL (Postponed) No programme
Partick Thistle	20/01/79 PL (Postponed) The programme for this game was sold at the re-arranged fixture (07/05/79) with the original datestill on it
Montrose	31/01/79 SC 4-2. McCluskey (3), Lynch. Att: 3,060. Programme Dated Jan 27th, the original date for the tie.
ST MIRREN	03/02/79 PL (Postponed) No programme
Aberdeen	10/02/79 PL (Postponed) No programme
BERWICK RANGERS	17/02/79 SCR3 (Postponed). The original date for this round was Jan 27 but was postponed due to bad weather. No programme
Dundee United	24/02/79 PL (Postponed). New programme issued for rearranged game.
BERWICK RANGERS	26/02/79 SCR3 3-0
MORTON	03/03/79 PL Re-arranged, played on Mar 28. No programme
ABERDEEN	03/03/79 PL 1-0. Conn. Danny McGrain back from long-term injury. Att:26,000.
Hearts	10/03/79 PL Re-arranged to make way for postponed Scottish Cup tie from Feb 17. Feb 17 was the date for fourth round ties but this date was used for the third round tie. No programme
Aberdeen	10/03/79 SCR4 1-1. Doyle. Roy Baines sold to Morton for a £10,000 fee.
ABERDEEN	14/03/79 Scottish Cup Replay 1-2 - Lennox.
MOTHERWELL	17/03/79 PL 2-1 - Lennox (2). Packie Bonner debut. Att: 16,000.
Hearts	21/03/79 PL (Postponed due to snow). Re-arranged match from Mar 10. Rare programme
Rangers	24/03/79 PL (Postponed) Ibrox under reconstruction, Hampden unplayable because of snow covered terracing.
MORTON	28/03/79 PL 3-0 - Provan (6), Burns (43), Glavin (80). Tommy Burns scored directly from a corner. Re-arranged match from Mar 3. Att: 16,000.
Hibernian	31/03/79 PL 1-2 - Glavin. Celtic in 7th place in the league after this result. Att:17,000.
Motherwell	04/04/79 PL 4-3. Vic Davidson makes his second debut for Celtic after rejoining from Blackpool and scores the third goal in a 4-3 win. Re-arranged match from Jan 1.
PARTICK THISTLE	07/04/79 PL 2-0.
Dundee United	11/04/79 PL 1-2. Re-arranged match from Feb 24. Original programme issued
St Mirren	14/04/79 PL 1-0.
Hearts	18/04/79 PL 3-0. Re-arranged match from Mar 21.
Aberdeen	21/04/79 PL 1-1. Two different covers for this programme.
ST MIRREN	25/04/79 PL 2-1.
DUNDEE UNITED	28/04/79 PL 2-1
HIBERNIAN	02/05/79 PL 3-1. Re-arranged match from Jan 13.
Rangers	05/05/79 PL 0-1. At Hampden. Re-arranged match from Mar 24. Original date on the programme has been redacted
Partick Thistle	07/05/79 PL 2-1. (Postponed programme issued). Re-arranged match from Jan 20.
St Mirren	11/05/79 PL 2-0. Re-arranged match from Dec 2. New programme issued. Played at Ibrox Park because of ground reconstruction work at St Mirren Park.
HEARTS	14/05/79 PL 1-0 Re-arranged match from Dec 30
RANGERS	21/05/1979 Premier League 4-2 - Aitken, McCluskey, Jackson (o.g.), MacLeod Re-arranged match from Jan 6. 52,000 watched ten men win the league in this game. Celtic 36-48, Rangers 36-45. On June 5th Ronnie Glavin was sold to Barnsley for £50,000. Alfie Conn was released.

Celtic Non-Competitive Fixtures

Opponents	Comments
Montrose	29/07/78 3-1 Celtic team: Latchford, Sneddon, Burns, Stanton, MacDonald, Aitken, Conn (Mackie), Edvaldsson, McAdam, Lumsden, McCluskey (Doyle). Scorers: Roy Aitken 23, George McCluskey 56, 74. No programme
ARSENAL	08/08/78 0-3
Queen's Park	07/08/78 1-1 No programme
LIVERPOOL	14/08/78 2-3. Jock Stein Testimonial
East Stirlingshire	22/08/78 1-0 No programme
Forfar Athletic	30/10/78 3-0 Alex Brash Testimonial.
Estoril	16/01/79 4-0 Danny McGrain comeback from injury. No programme
Clyde	23/01/79 3-0 - Turnbull 12 (o.g), Doyle 36, 84 Team: Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, Fillipi, MacDonald, Edvaldsson, Provan, MacLeod, McCluskey, Lennox, Doyle. No programme
Queen of the South	24/01/79 2-3. Team: Baines, Sneddon, Russell, Aitken, Young, Burns, Glavin, Weir, McAdam, Conroy, Conn. Subs: Bonnar, Dowie, Lumsden, Mackie, Casey. Scorers: Glavin 9, Aitken 28. No programme
Stirling Albion	28/02/79 1-1. No programme
Falkirk	07/03/79 3-1 - McAdam (2), McCluskey. No programme
Albion Rovers	unknown date and score No programme

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Celtic FC 1978/79
Player Pool and Appearance Stats

PLAYER	L	LC	SC	ASC	Total
Roy Aitken	36	9	3	4	52 (7)
Johannes Edvaldsson	34	9	4	4	51 (2)
Tommy Burns	28	8	3	4	43 (5)
Peter Latchford	27	6	4	4	41
Andy Lynch	27	7	4	3	42 (13)
David Provan	30	5	4	1	40 (4)
Tom McAdam	24	9	0	4	37 (15)
John Doyle	23	6	4	1	34 (5)
Roddie MacDonald	18	9	4	2	33 (3)
Joe Filippi	19	8	1	1	29
Murdo MacLeod	23	0	4	0	27 (3)
Mike Conroy	20	3	0	2	25 (5)
Danny McGrain	18	1	4	1	24 (2)
Alfie Conn	12	5	2	3	22 (10)
George McCluskey	16	1	2	3	22 (8)
Ronnie Glavin	9	4	0	3	16 (7)
Vic Davidson	12	0	0	0	12 (2)
Roy Baines	7	3	0	0	10
Bobby Lennox	6	1	1	1	9 (6)
Alan Sneddon	4	1	0	2	7
Pat Bonner	2	0	0	0	2
Jim Casey	1	1	0	0	2
Jim Lumsden	0	0	0	1	1
Paul Wilson	0	1	0	0	1

CELTIC FC 1978/79

Celtic Fixtures, Results and Programmes 1978/1979

Celtic Non-Competitive Fixtures

Celtic Related Publications

Celtic FC 1978/79 Player Pool and Appearance Stats

Celtic FC 1978/79
Player Pool and Appearance Stats