1969 Scottish League Cup Final (April)

1969 Scottish League Cup Final
Event	1968–69 Scottish League Cup
Date	5 April 1969
Venue	Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance	74,240
	← 1967 October 1969 →

The 1968–69 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 5 April 1969 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 23rd Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Hibernian and Celtic. Celtic won a one-sided match by 6–2, with Bobby Lennox scoring a hat-trick.^[1] Bertie Auld, Jim Craig and Willie Wallace scored Celtic's other goals, while Jimmy O'Rourke and Eric Stevenson scored for Hibs.

The Final was originally scheduled for 28 October 1968, but was postponed until April because a fire destroyed part of the south stand at Hampden Park.^[2]

Match details[]

5 April 1969

Hibernian	2–6	Celtic
O'Rourke Stevenson		Lennox Auld Craig Wallace

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 74,240


HIBERNIAN:
GK		Thomson Allan
RB		Chris Shevlane
LB		Joe Davis
RH		Pat Stanton
CH		John Madsen
LH		John Blackley
RW		Peter Marinello
IF		Pat Quinn
CF		Peter Cormack
IF		Jimmy O'Rourke
LW		Eric Stevenson
Substitutes:
IF		Willie Hunter
Manager:
Bob Shankly


CELTIC:
GK	John Fallon
FB	Jim Craig
FB	Tommy Gemmell	45'
RH	Bobby Murdoch
CH	Billy McNeill
LH	Jim Brogan
RW	Jimmy Johnstone
IF	Willie Wallace
CF	Stevie Chalmers
IF	Bertie Auld
LW	Bobby Lennox
Substitutes:
LH	John Clark	45'
Manager:
Jock Stein

References[]

^ "The elite players who scored cup final hat-tricks". The Scotsman. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ Robertson & Ross, p. 129.

Sources

Robertson, Forrest; Ross, David. The First 100 Years of Hampden. First Press Publishing. ISBN 1-901603-18-0.

External links[]

Soccerbase

[elite-1] "The elite players who scored cup final hat-tricks". The Scotsman. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

[FOOTNOTERobertsonRoss129-2] Robertson & Ross, p. 129.

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