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The 1967 Scottish League Cup
Scottish League Cup
The Scottish League Cup is a football competition open to all Scottish Football League and Scottish Premier League clubs. At present it is also known as the Scottish Communities League Cup owing to the sponsorship deal in place with the Scottish Government. In the past it has been sponsored by...

Final was played on 28 October 1967 at Hampden Park

Hampden Park

Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland...

in Glasgow

Glasgow

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and was the final of the 22nd Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Dundee

Dundee F.C.

Dundee Football Club, founded in 1893, are a football club based in the city of Dundee, Scotland. They are nicknamed The Dee or The Dark Blues and play their home matches at Dens Park. Their shirt colour is dark blue. Dundee currently play in the Scottish First Division, having been relegated from...

and Celtic

Celtic F.C.

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

, with Dundee becoming the first side from outside the Old Firm

Old Firm

The Old Firm is a common collective name for the association football clubs Celtic and Rangers, both based in Glasgow, Scotland.The origin of the term is unclear. One theory has it that the expression derives from Celtic's first game in 1888, which was played against Rangers. However, author,...

to reach a League Cup Final since the 1963 Final

1963 Scottish League Cup Final

The 1963 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 26 October 1963 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and it was the final of the 18th Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Rangers and Morton F.C.. Rangers won with a score of 5-0....

. Celtic won a high-scoring match by 5–3, with Stevie Chalmers

Stevie Chalmers

Stevie Chalmers is a former Scottish association football player who played as a centre forward. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal for Celtic in the 1967 European Cup Final against Inter Milan....

, John Hughes, Bobby Lennox

Bobby Lennox

Robert "Bobby" Lennox, MBE is a former Scottish professional footballer who played for Celtic Football Club and was a member of their 1967 European Cup winning team known as the Lisbon Lions. He also earned ten international caps for his national team Scotland...

and Willie Wallace

William Wallace (footballer)

William "Willie" Semple Brown Wallace is a former Scottish football player and coach.-Early career:He started his playing career with Stenhousemuir in 1958, moving to Raith Rovers a year later...

all scoring for Celtic. George McLean

George McLean (footballer born 1943)

George Tomlinson "Dandy" McLean is a Scottish former professional footballer. He played as a centre-forward....

and Jim McLean

Jim McLean

James Yuill McLean is a Scottish former football player and manager. He is best known for his 22-year spell as manager of Dundee United; the longest-serving and most successful manager in the club's history, he led them to three major honours and established them as a force in European competitions...

scored Dundee's goals.

Match details


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	DUNDEE:
GK		John Arroll
FB		Bobby Wilson
FB		Doug Houston Doug Houston Douglas Houston is a Scottish former footballer who played midfield. Houston, who played around half his career with Dundee, also played for Queen's Park, Rangers, Dundee United and St Johnstone, before becoming manager at Brechin City and then Forfar Athletic...
RH		Steve Murray Steve Murray (footballer) Steve Murray is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent the majority of his career in the north-east of Scotland, with Dundee and Aberdeen. Murray also enjoyed success with Glasgow club Celtic and represented Scotland once...
CH		George Stewart
LH		Alex Stuart
RW		Billy Campbell
IF		Jim McLean Jim McLean James Yuill McLean is a Scottish former football player and manager. He is best known for his 22-year spell as manager of Dundee United; the longest-serving and most successful manager in the club's history, he led them to three major honours and established them as a force in European competitions...
CF		Sammy Wilson Sammy Wilson (footballer) Sammy Wilson was a footballer who played for St. Mirren, Celtic, Millwall and Ross County.Although he only spent two years with Celtic, he is remembered for his role in one famous victory, when he scored their first goal in their record 7-1 victory over Rangers in the 1957 Scottish League Cup...
IF		George McLean George McLean (footballer born 1943) George Tomlinson "Dandy" McLean is a Scottish former professional footballer. He played as a centre-forward....
LW		Alex Bryce Alex Bryce Alex Bryce was a British screenwriter, cinematographer and film director.-Selected filmography:Director* Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle * Wedding Group * Servants All * The End of the Road...
Substitutes:
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Manager:
Bobby Ancell Bobby Ancell Robert Francis Dudgeon Ancell was a Scottish football player and manager. He played as a left back and was capped twice by the Scottish national side.-Player:...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> CELTIC: | GK

Ronnie Simpson

Ronald "Ronnie" Campbell Simpson was a Scottish football goalkeeper. He is mainly remembered for his time with Celtic, where he was one of the Lisbon Lions, the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967....

Jim Craig FB

Tommy Gemmell

Thomas Gemmell is a former Scottish footballer and manager.He played as left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. In October 1961, he joined Celtic from Coltness United. He was one of the 'Lisbon Lions' who won the European Cup in 1967. In the final he scored a spectacular goal that...

Bobby Murdoch

Bobby Murdoch was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Celtic and was one of the Lisbon Lions, the Celtic team who won the European Cup in 1967. He and Bertie Auld formed Celtic's central midfield....

Billy McNeill

William "Billy" McNeill MBE is a former Scottish footballer and manager. He is best known for captaining Celtic to the European Cup triumph in 1967 and he later went on to manage the club. He is now the official Club Ambassador at Celtic....

John Clark RW

Stevie Chalmers

Bobby Lennox

Willie Wallace

William Wallace (footballer)

William "Willie" Semple Brown Wallace is a former Scottish football player and coach.-Early career:He started his playing career with Stenhousemuir in 1958, moving to Raith Rovers a year later...

Bertie Auld

Robert "Bertie" Auld is a Scottish former football player and manager, perhaps most notable as a member of Celtic's Lisbon Lions side of 1967. As a player, he made more than 200 appearances in the Scottish League playing for Celtic, Dumbarton and Hibernian, and more than 100 in the Football League...

John Hughes Substitutes: FB

Willie O'Neill

William "Willie" O'Neill was a Scottish football player who played for Celtic and Carlisle United as a full-back....

Manager:

Jock Stein

John 'Jock' Stein CBE was a Scottish association football player and manager. He became the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967...

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