2000 Scottish League Cup final

2000 Scottish League Cup final
Event1999–2000 Scottish League Cup
Date19 March 2000
VenueHampden Park, Glasgow
RefereeKenny Clark
Attendance50,073
1998
2001

The 2000 Scottish League Cup final was played on 19 March 2000 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 53rd Scottish League Cup. The final was contested by Aberdeen and Celtic. Celtic won the match 2–0, thanks to goals from Vidar Riseth and Tommy Johnson.

This was the first League Cup final in many years to be played in March, as previous finals had taken place in November; this format continued until the 2016–17 season (coincidentally the same teams would also contest that final).

The match was something of a Scandinavian affair, with Aberdeen's Danish manager Ebbe Skovdahl selecting three Norwegian players (one of whom, Thomas Solberg, was dismissed); Celtic fielded another Norwegian (Riseth, who opened the scoring) plus a Swede and a Dane. The Glasgow club's famous Swedish striker of the time, Henrik Larsson, was absent recovering from a broken leg.

Match details

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Aberdeen0–2Celtic
Report Riseth 15'
Johnson 58'
Attendance: 50,073
Referee: Kenny Clark

Teams

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ABERDEEN :
GK 1 Scotland Jim Leighton (c)
RB 2 Scotland Mark Perry
CB 15 Scotland Russell Anderson
CB 5 Norway Thomas Solberg Red card 61'
LB 30 Scotland Jamie McAllister
RM 14 Scotland Paul Bernard
CM 8 Scotland Eoin Jess downward-facing red arrow 74'
CM 26 Norway Cato Guntveit downward-facing red arrow 45'
LM 12 Scotland Andy Dow
CF 47 Morocco Hicham Zerouali downward-facing red arrow 53'
CF 46 Norway Arild Stavrum
Substitutes:
MF 43 Morocco Rachid Belabed upward-facing green arrow 45'
MF 10 Germany Andreas Mayer upward-facing green arrow 74'
FW 9 Scotland Robbie Winters upward-facing green arrow 53'
Manager:
Denmark Ebbe Skovdahl
CELTIC :
GK 1 Scotland Jonathan Gould
RB 4 Scotland Jackie McNamara
CB 35 Sweden Johan Mjällby
CB 2 Scotland Tom Boyd (c)
LB 3 France Stephane Mahe
RM 30 Norway Vidar Riseth 15'
CM 11 Denmark Morten Wieghorst
CM 19 Bulgaria Stiliyan Petrov
LM 25 Slovakia Ľubomír Moravčík downward-facing red arrow 74'
CF 12 England Tommy Johnson downward-facing red arrow 90' 58'
CF 36 Australia Mark Viduka
Substitutes:
GK 21 Scotland Stewart Kerr
DF 6 England Alan Stubbs upward-facing green arrow 74'
MF 10 Israel Eyal Berkovic upward-facing green arrow 90'
Manager:
Scotland Kenny Dalglish