2000 Scottish League Cup final

2000 Scottish League Cup final

Event	1999–2000 Scottish League Cup
Aberdeen Celtic 0 2
Date	19 March 2000
Venue	Hampden Park, Glasgow
Referee	Kenny Clark
Attendance	50,073

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

19 March 2000

Aberdeen	0–2	Celtic
	Report	Riseth 15' Johnson 58'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

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