1974 Scottish League Cup final

1974 Scottish League Cup final
Event	1974–75 Scottish League Cup
Date	26 October 1974
Venue	Hampden Park, Glasgow
Referee	John Gordon (Newport-on-Tay)
Attendance	53,848
	← 1973 1975 →

The 1974 Scottish League Cup final was played on 26 October 1974 and was the final of the 29th Scottish League Cup competition. It was contested by Hibernian and Celtic. Celtic won the match 6–3, with John "Dixie" Deans and Joe Harper scoring hat-tricks for each side.^[1]^[2] Jimmy Johnstone, Steve Murray and Paul Wilson scored Celtic's other goals.

Match details[edit]

26 October 1974

Hibernian	3–6	Celtic
Harper	Report	Deans Johnstone Murray Wilson

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 53,848


HIBERNIAN:
GK	1	Jim McArthur
DF	2	John Brownlie
MF	3	Des Bremner
DF	4	Pat Stanton
DF	5	Derek Spalding
DF	6	John Blackley
MF	7	Alex Edwards
MF	8	Alex Cropley
FW	9	Joe Harper
MF	10	Iain Munro
MF	11	Arthur Duncan
Substitutes:
DF	?	Bobby Smith
DF	?	Willie Murray
Manager:
Eddie Turnbull


CELTIC:
GK	1	Ally Hunter
DF	2	Danny McGrain
DF	3	Jim Brogan
MF	4	Steve Murray
DF	5	Billy McNeill
DF	6	Pat McCluskey
MF	7	Jimmy Johnstone
FW	8	Kenny Dalglish
FW	9	John "Dixie" Deans
MF	10	Harry Hood
MF	11	Paul Wilson
Substitutes:
FW	12	Bobby Lennox
DF	14	Roddie MacDonald
Manager:
Jock Stein

Media coverage[edit]

In Scotland highlights of the final were shown on BBC One Scotland on their Sportsreel programme in the evening and also on STV and Grampian Television on the former's Scotsport programme the following day.

References[edit]

^ Harper hit sour note with fans, Edinburgh Evening News, 8 November 2008. Accessed 26 April 2009. 2009-05-05.
^ "The elite players who scored cup final hat-tricks". The Scotsman. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

External links[edit]

Soccerbase Archived 6 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Harper hit sour note with fans, Edinburgh Evening News, 8 November 2008. Accessed 26 April 2009. 2009-05-05.

[elite-2] "The elite players who scored cup final hat-tricks". The Scotsman. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

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