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Celtic have set a firm standard against Falkirk, with the competitive balance strongly in their favour. Celtic won 2–1 in the Premiership on 29 August 2026, followed by a 4–0 league victory on 29 October 2025. A 5–2 League Cup result on 22 September 2024 adds a wider margin. The sequence leaves Celtic as clear favourites, while reminding readers that dominance can appear through different scorelines.
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Starting eleven
Substitutes Celtic
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31G
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6D
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47D
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19F
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62M
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49M
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17F
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24F
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14M
Falkirk Substitutes
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G
1
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D
4
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D
6
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D
17
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M
21
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M
27
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F
9
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F
24
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F
47
Match events
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4'Camilo Duran Goal confirmed
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4'⚽C. Duran Normal Goal
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5'Camilo Durán Goal confirmed
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29'⚽C. Duran Normal Goal (Asst: K. Tierney)
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35'Lewis Neilson Yellow Card
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44'Leon McCann Yellow Card
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45' +2Colby Donovan Yellow Card
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60'J. Murrell B. Parkinson
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63'J. Forrest H. Hassan
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69'Conor McLeod Ethan Ross
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69'Aodhan Doherty Calvin Fodrey
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69'Scott Tanser Leon McCann
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69'S. Tanser L. McCann
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69'C. McLeod E. Ross
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69'A. Doherty C. Fodrey
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70'A. Trusty K. Tierney
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70'C. Osmand C. Duran
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72'⚽C. Donovan Own Goal
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77'Connor McLeod Yellow Card
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78'Luke McCowan Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
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78'Deniss Meļņiks Ben krauhaus
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78'Sebastian Tounekti Yang Hyun-Jun
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78'S. Tounekti Yang Hyun-Jun
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78'L. McCowan A. Oxlade-Chamberlain
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78'D. Melniks B. Krauhaus
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82'Aodhan Doherty Yellow Card
Stats for this game
Matchup Celtic VS Falkirk
Celtic’s broad superiority
The balance remains strongly tilted toward Celtic, whose results include wins by narrow and substantial margins. Their 4–1 League Cup victory on 15 August 2025 sits between the 2–1 and 4–0 examples above, reinforcing the same direction without suggesting one permanent scoreline. Falkirk’s counterpoint is therefore about resistance rather than an established reversal. The pairing’s main question is less about ownership than about how closely Falkirk can contest Celtic’s advantage.
The margin remains the question
Future meetings can ask whether Falkirk can narrow the gap or whether Celtic will continue to convert their superior standing into another win. Celtic’s authority is clear, but the examples also show that a close result and a wide result belong to the same pairing. The hierarchy is firm but remains contestable. That range gives Falkirk a meaningful standard to challenge and keeps the fixture relevant beyond a simple assumption of the outcome.