2006 Scottish League Cup final

2006 Scottish League Cup final
Event	2005–06 Scottish League Cup
Date	19 March 2006
Venue	Hampden Park, Glasgow
Referee	Stuart Dougal
Attendance	50,090
	← 2005 2007 →

The 2006 Scottish League Cup final was a football match played on 19 March 2006 at Hampden Park in Glasgow. It was the final match of the 2005–06 Scottish League Cup and the 59th Scottish League Cup final. The final was contested by Dunfermline Athletic and Celtic. Celtic won the match 3–0, thanks to goals from Maciej Zurawski, Shaun Maloney and Dion Dublin.

The Celtic team all wore the number 7 on their shorts in honour of former player Jimmy Johnstone, who had died a week earlier.

Road to the final[edit]

Celtic

	Home team	Score	Away team
Round 3^[1]	Celtic	2 – 1	Falkirk
Quarter-final	Celtic	2 – 0	Rangers
Semi-final	Motherwell	1 – 2	Celtic

Dunfermline Athletic

	Home team	Score	Away team
Round 2^[1]	Gretna	0 – 1	Dunfermline
Round 3	Kilmarnock	3 – 4	Dunfermline
Quarter-final	Dunfermline	3 – 0	Hibernian
Semi-final	Dunfermline	1 – 0	Livingston

Match details[edit]

19 March 2006

Dunfermline Athletic	0–3	Celtic
	Report	Żurawski 43' Maloney 76' Dublin 90'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 50,090

Referee: Stuart Dougal

Dunfermline Athletic

Celtic


DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC:
GK	1	Allan McGregor
RB	2	Greg Shields (c)
CB	3	Scott Wilson
CB	19	Aaron Labonte
LB	25	Iain Campbell	62'
RM	23	Greg Ross	77'
CM	8	Gary Mason
CM	6	Scott Thomson
LM	26	Frederic Daquin	84'
AM	10	Lee Makel
CF	9	Mark Burchill
Substitutes:
GK	20	Bryn Halliwell
DF	18	Andy Tod
MF	11	Derek Young	62'
MF	14	Simon Donnelly	77'
FW	7	Bartosz Tarachulski	84'
Manager:
Jim Leishman


CELTIC :
GK	1	Artur Boruc
RB	2	Paul Telfer
CB	44	Stephen McManus
CB	6	Bobo Baldé
LB	33	Ross Wallace
RM	25	Shunsuke Nakamura
CM	18	Neil Lennon (c)
CM	16	Roy Keane	61'
LM	29	Shaun Maloney
AM	19	Stiliyan Petrov
CF	7	Maciej Żurawski
Substitutes:
GK	22	David Marshall
DF	23	Stanislav Varga
MF	11	Stephen Pearson
MF	8	Alan Thompson
FW	9	Dion Dublin	61'
Manager:
Gordon Strachan

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b SPL teams receive a bye to the second round; teams competing in Europe into the third.

[bye-1] SPL teams receive a bye to the second round; teams competing in Europe into the third.

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