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

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

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

Teams

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