| Matches: 2007 – 2008 | Champions League |
Trivia
- Celtic as SPL champions previous year had to still play in one qualifying round
- Away game v Spartak Moscow was played on a plastic pitch.
- WGS ranked the home game v Spartak Moscow (2nd leg) as the game he is most likely to look back on in 25 years time.
- First time we’ve won on penalty kicks in a European KO game.
- Celtic in pot 3 for groups.
- Celtic beat the current European Cup holders (AC Milan) their first defeat in the tournament since winning it!
- 3 home games, 3 wins, 2 of which were last minute!
- 3 away games, 3 losses and no goals away from home.
- Scored only 5 goals in 6games to go through (none away from home).
- Qualifed for second round with Benfica beating Shaktar in last game.
- Rangers knocked out of CL, after getting 7pts in first 3 games (lost last 3, the only one of 6 UK teams not to make it through).
- Celtic scored just one goal away from home in this tournament, and that was the first game.
- After the Barcelona away game, a Scottish journalist tried to stoke problems by sending a video of Celtic fans to UEFA, which was laughed “out of court” as you can say, and the Celtic officials to their credit released a strongly worded statement (see Barcelona game page).
3rd Qualifying Round
August
15th, Spartak Moscow 1-1 Celtic, first leg Live on Setanta
29th, Celtic 1-1 Spartak Moscow (after ET, Celtic won 4-3 on pens), second leg Live on BBC, 7.45pm
Aggregate 2-2, Celtic go through on penalties.
Celtic Qualify for group stages!
Group D:
AC Milan
Benfica
Celtic
Shakhtar Donetsk
Match Day 1
Tuesday, September 18th
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Celtic
AC Milan 2-1 Benfica
Match Day 2
Wednesday, October 3rd
Celtic 2-1 AC Milan
Benfica 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Match Day 3
Wednesday, October 24th
Benfica 1-0 Celtic
AC Milan 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Match Day 4
Tuesday, November 6th
Celtic 1-0 Benfica
Shakhtar Donetsk 0-3 AC Milan
Match Day 5
Wednesday, November 28th
Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Benfica 1-1 AC Milan
Match Day 6,
Tuesday, December 4th
AC Milan 1-0 Celtic
Shaktar Donetsk 1-2 Benfica
Celtic Qualify for Knock-out stages for second year in a row!
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | AC Milan | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | Celtic | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 9 |
| 3 | Benfica | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 4 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 6 |
First Knockout Round
Wednesday, Feb 20th
Celtic 2-3 Barcelona
Tuesday, March 4th
Barcelona 1-0 Celtic
Celtic knocked out 4-2 on aggregate by Barcelona!
