The 1998 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 29 November 1998 at Celtic Park

Celtic Park

Celtic Park is a football stadium in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which is the home ground of Celtic FC. Celtic Park, an all-seater stadium with a capacity of 60,832, is the largest football stadium in Scotland and the sixth-largest stadium in the United Kingdom, after Murrayfield, Old Trafford,...

 in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 and was the final of the 52nd Scottish League Cup. The final was contested by Rangers

Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...

 and St. Johnstone. Rangers won the match 2–1, thanks to goals from Stéphane Guivarc'h

Stéphane Guivarc'h

Stéphane Guivarc'h is a retired French footballer that played as striker. He featured in the France squad that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil....

 and Jörg Albertz

Jörg Albertz

Jörg Albertz is a retired German professional footballer. Between 1996 and 1998 he played three international games for the German national football team.-Career:...

.

Match details

Teams

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	RANGERS :
1	Antti Niemi
2	Sergio Porrini Sergio Porrini Sergio Porrini is an Italian former football coach and former player, mostly famous for his periods at Juventus and Scottish club Rangers...
3	Lorenzo Amoruso Lorenzo Amoruso Lorenzo Pier Luigi Amoruso is a former Italian Assocation footballer who played for seven teams during his footballing career but is perhaps best known for his six-year spell with Glasgow side Rangers...
4	Colin Hendry Colin Hendry Edward Colin Hendry is a retired Scottish footballer and manager, who played as a defender. Hendry started his career with Dundee in 1983 and spent spells at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Rangers, Coventry City, Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool...
5	Arthur Numan Arthur Numan Arthur Numan is a retired Dutch footballer. He played as a left back and was a regular fixture in Netherlands national football team...
6	Andrei Kanchelskis Andrei Kanchelskis Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis is a Ukrainian-born Russian football manager and former association footballer who played as a right winger. Kanchelskis is the only player in history to have scored in each of the Glasgow, Merseyside and Manchester local derbies.Currently, he is managing FC...
7	Barry Ferguson Barry Ferguson Barry Ferguson MBE is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Blackpool.Ferguson has made 82 appearances in European competitions, all for Rangers, which makes him the record European appearance holder at the club. He was also inducted into the Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame...
8	Giovanni van Bronckhorst Giovanni van Bronckhorst Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst OON , known as Gio in Spain, is a retired Dutch footballer of Moluccan descent who served as the captain of the Dutch national team from August 2008 until his retirement....
9	Jörg Albertz Jörg Albertz Jörg Albertz is a retired German professional footballer. Between 1996 and 1998 he played three international games for the German national football team.-Career:...
10	Stéphane Guivarc'h Stéphane Guivarc'h Stéphane Guivarc'h is a retired French footballer that played as striker. He featured in the France squad that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil....
11	Rod Wallace Rod Wallace Rodney Seymour "Rod" Wallace is a retired English footballer.Wallace played predominantly as a striker or part of an attacking forward line. He started his career at Southampton in 1988 playing 128 league games scoring 45 goals. This form earned him a transfer to Leeds where he won the first...
Substitutes:
12	Tony Vidmar Tony Vidmar Anthony "Tony" Vidmar is an Australian former professional football player of Slovenian origin. He was a member of the Australian national team, competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for his native country, and is currently Australia's third highest capped player...
14	Ian Ferguson
15	Gordon Durie Gordon Durie Gordon Scott Durie , known as Jukebox after the TV programme 'Jukebox Jury', is a Scottish former professional footballer, a utility player who usually played as a striker.- Playing career :...
Manager:
Dick Advocaat Dick Advocaat Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat is a Dutch football manager and former player currently the manager of the Russia national football team.He has been moderately successful as a football player and as a coach, which included two stints with the Dutch national football team...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> ST. JOHNSTONE : 1   Alan Main

Alan Main

Alan David Main is a Scottish football goalkeeper.Main made his debut in the Highland Football League aged just fifteen and went on to a professional career exceeding twenty years. He has played for Dundee United, Cowdenbeath, East Stirlingshire, St. Johnstone, Livingston, Gretna and Ayr United...

2   John McQuillan

John McQuillan

John McQuillan is a Scottish former professional footballer.-Career:McQuillan, a right-back, began his career with his hometown club Stranraer in 1986, despite having already played for Dundee United's victorious youth side in the Milk Cup earlier that year...

3   Darren Dods

Darren Dods

Darren Dods is a professional footballer currently playing as a defender for Scottish First Division side Falkirk.-Career:...

4 Alan Kernaghan

Alan Kernaghan

Alan Kernaghan is an Irish former footballer. Since retiring he has become a coach and manager. Since January 2007 he has been a youth coach at Rangers....

5   Gary Bollan

Gary Bollan

Gary Bollan is a retired Scottish professional footballer, and now the current manager of Livingston in the Scottish Football League. He played for seven senior Scottish clubs in his career, and is a former Under-21 internationalist.-Career:Bollan came up through the youth system and into the...

6   John O'Neil

John O'Neil (footballer)

John Thomas O'Neil is a Scottish former professional association football player. He represented Scotland once, and played for Dundee United, St. Johnstone, Hibernian and Falkirk in the top division.-Career:...

7   Philip Scott

Philip Scott

Philip Scott is a retired Scottish professional footballer.After playing junior football for Scone Thistle, Scott signed professional terms for Alex Totten's St. Johnstone in 1991 after coming through the Perth youth system. Scott established himself as a mainstay in the midfields of John...

8   Nick Dasovic

Nick Dasovic

Nick Robert Dasovic is a retired professional Canadian soccer player of Croatian descent. He was most at Toronto FC, acting as interim head coach until January 2011 and North American head scout until May 2011....

9   Paul Kane

Paul Kane (footballer)

Paul Kane is a Scottish former professional footballer.-Career:A midfielder, Kane began his career with Hibernian in 1982. In eight years at Easter Road, he made 247 league appearances and scored 33 goals. In 1991 he joined Oldham Athletic and went on to make 21 appearances for the Boundary Park...

10   Miguel Simão

Miguel Simão

Miguel Angelo da Cruz Simão is a Portuguese professional football player. He plays as a left winger.After beginning his career at C.D. Aves, he joined Scottish club St. Johnstone. He made his debut on August 29, 1998, in a 4-0 loss to Rangers at Ibrox, which proved to be St. Johnstone manager...

  11   George O'Boyle

George O'Boyle

George O'Boyle is a Northern Irish former professional footballer.O'Boyle, a striker, began his career with Linfield. He left Northern Ireland in 1988 to join French club Bordeaux. The following year, he joined Dunfermline Athletic for £250,000. In 1994, he was signed by St. Johnstone manager Paul...

  Substitutes: 12   Allan Preston

Allan Preston

Allan Preston is a retired Scottish professional footballer and manager. He is currently a radio sports pundit for BBC Scotland.- Playing career :...

14   Nathan Lowndes

Nathan Lowndes

Nathan Peter Lowndes is an English former football player. A forward, in a fourteen year professional career he scored 40 goals in 255 appearances....

  15   Roddy Grant  Manager:   Sandy Clark

Sandy Clark

Alexander "Sandy" Clark is a former professional football player and currently a pundit for BBC Scotland. He was a centre forward....