CELTIC have won the Scottish Cup a record 42 times.
A LATE goal from Adam Idah won the trophy for Brendan Rodgers’ team last season as they overcame Ibrox opposition 1-0 at Hampden on the iconic date of May 25.
IT WAS a second successive triumph after the team, managed for the last time by Ange Postecoglou, had beaten Inverness Caley Thistle 3-1 the previous term with goals from Kyogo Furuhashi, Liel Abada and Filipe Jota.
CELTIC have claimed the silverware 12 times in the 21st Century.
CUP THAT CHEERS…Adam Idah fires past Jack Butland for last season’s winner.
MARTIN O’NEILL got the ball rolling in his debut 2000/01 campaign with a 3-0 win over Hibs. Henrik Larsson (2) and Jackie McNamara scored the goals the sealed that season’s domestic clean sweep, the first time the treble had been achieved since Jock Stein’s side in 1968/69. The Hoops routed Rangers 4-0 in the showpiece finale with goals from Billy McNeill, Bobby Lennox, George Connelly and Stevie Chalmers.
JOCK STEIN led Celtic to their first treble in the all-conquering crusade of 1966/67. Goals from Willie Wallace have them a 2-0 win over Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup Final.
CELTIC have won seven of their eight Scottish Cup meetings with St Johnstone, today’s semi-final opponents. Their only loss came in in a 2-1 reverse in February 1936.
CUP THAT CHEERS…Henrik Larsson, watched by Didier Agathe, lashes in No.2 in the 3-0 win over Hibs in 2000/01.
RYAN CHRISTIE scored the only goal in Celtic’s win in the latest Scottish Cup meeting between the sides, in a March 2020 quarter-final at McDiarmid Park.
CELTIC won the only previous Scottish Cup semi-final between the sides, 2-1 in April 2007, when Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored either side of a Martin Hardie equaliser.
JAMES FORREST was the marksman when Celtic won their latest semi-final encounter with Saints, in the League Cup in November 2021.
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