CELTIC SECURED A 52nd Scottish league title on Wednesday despite being held 1-1 by Dundee United.
Ange Postecoglou’s men only needed a point to win a 10th league title in 11 years as they also booked their place in next season’s Champions League group stage.
The Hoops realistically already had the title sewn up as they began the evening with a six-point lead over Rangers and a 20-goal superior goal difference with two games remaining.
Postecoglou was plucked from Yokohama Marinos when Eddie Howe turned his back on Celtic’s offer a year ago.
The Australian has overseen a remarkable turnaround between the Glasgow giants, as Celtic finished a distant 25 points behind Rangers last season.
After losing three of their first six games, Celtic are now unbeaten in 31 in the league.
But they dropped points for just the third time in 2022 at Tannadice.
Georgios Giakoumakis’ towering header early in the second half put the visitors on course for another three points.
But on-loan Manchester United midfielder Dylan Levitt’s sensational strike earned United a crucial point in their battle for European football.
Daizen Maeda missed a glorious chance to win the title in style in stoppage time, but a draw was enough to spark celebrations among the travelling support.
Meanwhile Rangers recorded a 4-1 win over Ross County in their final league outing of the season at Ibrox.
With appearances in both the Europa League and Scottish Cup finals to look forward to, Rangers enjoyed a momentum building win thanks to goals from Scott Wright, James Tavernier, Fashion Sakala and Amad Diallo.
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Champions again never thought I would be saying this at the start of the season. Hail Hail
Hail hail
Champions again, ole ole………
On The Bhoys
4 league titles behind Rangers now. Would be nice to see em catch up and over take em
@HarveyLemonade: Correction: 3 titles between them
@HarveyLemonade: but Rangers only have 1?
@Sam Murray: Sevco
Does anyone besides them and the Rangers ever win it?
@thomas walsh: Aberdeen was the last outside team to win it
@Tom kenny:And I think Fergie might have been managing them at the time.
@thomas walsh: The rangers have only won 6 out of the last 22.
@Peter Murphy: The rangers have only won 1! Don’t legitimise their lies.
@Tom kenny: I think Dundee Utd were the previous non old firm to win the league, also around the same time Fergie was at Aberdeen
Will Rangers Say No
Rod Stewart will be pleased.
Roll on Europe , another title .
Copy and paste article from the Scottish sun , lazy journalism from the journal, nothing new , albeit a great managerial success and well deserved from Celtic , straight into the group stages of the champions league and a summer without qualification which will help no end ….HH
Silly league,Celtic will find out how good they are when they are in the group stages of the Champions league.
@O’Brien Michael: says the born and bred Liverpool fan
@O’Brien Michael: why not just let people enjoy the victory?
@O’Brien Michael: football exists outside the prem you know. Your world class centre back wouldn’t be where he is today without that “silly league”
@O’Brien Michael: Silly comment considering the money difference between the leagues. The tryed and trusted statement says the league table never lies.
@O’Brien Michael: no worse than the Premiership!!!
2 horse race their as well !!!
@Tom Harrington: The Premiership is a 2 horse race?
Wha? Are u out of Ur mind Thomas my old son
@O’Brien Michael: Who else is in it ?.
@O’Brien Michael: Liverpool have beaten Celtic once in their last 6 meetings….klopp has 1 league title in 7 years but he’s the second coming apparently but you felt the need to comment anyway
Ah so they one yet another two horse race. What a pointless league.
@Peter: UAE and Saudi Arabia coming soon for the league in England.
@Peter: you should learn English
@Peter: Wow….that’s never been said before!! If its a pointless league why are you reading the article?
Celtic have more Co-efficient points than rangers over the 5 year period. It was a joint effort. Take either sides points away and Scotland falls out of the top 10 leagues in Europe and loses its automatic spots.
Pretty ironic that Rangers good runs in Europe over last three seasons has meant Celtic get into CL group stage automatically rather than having a qualifier.
@Alan Kenny: Celtic have more Co-efficient points than The Rangers over the last 5 years. It was a joint effort. Take either sides points away and Scotland falls out of the top 10 leagues in Europe and loses its automatic spots.
@Ciarán Rice: What? Rangers are 34th with 49.250 points. Celtic are 51st with 33.000 points. Celtic been terrible in Europe last 5 seasons.
Excellent!!