| Matches: 2015 – 2016 | Champions League |
Trivia
- “We want to be in the Champions League. That’s the goal, I’ve said that since coming to this club.”- Ronny Deila
- Last season was a disaster in the competition, so a lot better was expected to recover from that shambles, but wasn’t to be.
- Celtic don’t make the group stages, and Ronny Deila is under major fire from all corners.
- Celtic need to go through three rounds of qualifiers after title win in 2014-15
- Easy enough v Stjarnan (Iceland), but then tougher v Qarabag (Kazakhstan).
- Celtic coasting v Malmo in first leg to then concede two late goals, and then lose away leg 2-0. Celtic out in the playoffs!
- Humiliatingly, ex-Celt Berget, who was a failure at Celtic, is the hero for Malmo and scores v Celtic and his goal is probably the key goal that spurred them for the aggregate win..
- Ronnie loses against Malmo, a side he said no to becoming their manager to instead come to Celtic.
- Two seasons in a row Celtic don’t make the group stages. This is a very low point especially as this run this time should have been achievable.
- “Celtic players behaved like ‘pigs’ and ‘children’”, says Malmo’s Johan Wiland. He later retracts it a bit, as claims in Swedish it’s how you say someone played dirty and just sounds more offensive translated. He was talking rubbish though.
- Support frustrated, and Ronny as per the above quote said the Champions League was his goal. He has failed twice, and in this case, he had a relatively manageable run which his sides failed in.
- To be the beginning of the end for Ronny (but board kept him for the full season).
- Van Dijk was kept for these matches then sold off.
- Celtic dropped down to the Europa League group stages.
- Ajax, one of the grand old ladies of European football, knocked out in second round qualifiers. Highlights struggle of big clubs from smaller countries whilst big clubs in the major league sides in England, Spain and Germany have it so much easier and certain.
Matches
| Date | Competition | Home Team | Score | Score | Away Team | Report | Pictures | Notes |
| JUL | ||||||||
| 15th |
European Cup |
Celtic |
2 |
0 |
Stjarnan |
Report | Pictures | KO: 19:45 1st leg |
| 22nd |
European Cup |
Stajarnan |
1 |
4 |
Celtic |
Report | Pictures | KO: 18:15 2nd Leg (agg 6-1 to Celtic) |
| 29th |
European Cup |
Celtic |
1 |
0 |
Qarabag |
Report |
Pictures |
KO: 19:45 1st Leg |
| AUG | ||||||||
| 5th |
European Cup |
Qarabag |
0 |
0 |
Celtic |
Report | Pictures | KO: 17:30; 2nd Leg, (agg 1-0 to Celtic) |
| 19th |
European Cup |
Celtic |
3 |
2 |
Malmo |
Report | Pictures | KO: 19:45; 1st Leg |
| 25th |
European Cup |
Malmo |
2 |
0 |
Celtic |
Report |
Pictures |
KO: 19:45; 2nd Leg (agg 3-4), Celtic out |