2000 Scottish League Cup final
# 2000 Scottish League Cup final

The 2000 Scottish League Cup final was played on 19 March 2000 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 53rd Scottish League Cup. The final was contested by Aberdeen and Celtic. Celtic won the match 2–0, thanks to goals from Vidar Riseth and Tommy Johnson.

This was the first League Cup final in many years to be played in March, as previous finals had taken place in November; this format continued until the 2016–17 season (coincidentally the same teams would also contest that final).

The match was something of a Scandinavian affair, with Aberdeen's Danish manager Ebbe Skovdahl selecting three Norwegian players (one of whom, Thomas Solberg, was dismissed); Celtic fielded another Norwegian (Riseth, who opened the scoring) plus a Swede and a Dane. The Glasgow club's famous Swedish striker of the time, Henrik Larsson, was absent recovering from a broken leg.

## Match details

### Teams

ABERDEEN : :

| GK | 1 | Jim Leighton (c) |
| - | - | - |
| RB | 2 | Mark Perry |
| CB | 15 | Russell Anderson |
| CB | 5 | Thomas Solberg | 61' |
| LB | 30 | Jamie McAllister |
| RM | 14 | Paul Bernard |
| CM | 8 | Eoin Jess | 74' |
| CM | 26 | Cato Guntveit | 45' |
| LM | 12 | Andy Dow |
| CF | 47 | Hicham Zerouali | 53' |
| CF | 46 | Arild Stavrum |
| Substitutes: ||||
| MF | 43 | Rachid Belabed | 45' |
| MF | 10 | Andreas Mayer | 74' |
| FW | 9 | Robbie Winters | 53' |
| Manager: ||||
| Ebbe Skovdahl ||||

CELTIC : :

| GK | 1 | Jonathan Gould |
| - | - | - |
| RB | 4 | Jackie McNamara |
| CB | 35 | Johan Mjällby |
| CB | 2 | Tom Boyd (c) |
| LB | 3 | Stephane Mahe |
| RM | 30 | Vidar Riseth 15' |
| CM | 11 | Morten Wieghorst |
| CM | 19 | Stiliyan Petrov |
| LM | 25 | Ľubomír Moravčík | 74' |
| CF | 12 | Tommy Johnson 90' 58' |
| CF | 36 | Mark Viduka |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 21 | Stewart Kerr |
| DF | 6 | Alan Stubbs | 74' |
| MF | 10 | Eyal Berkovic 90' |
| Manager: ||||
| Kenny Dalglish ||||
