UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic FC Stade Rennais FC Group I - Matchday 4 Celtic Park, Glasgow Thursday 3 November 2011 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Team facts.........................................................................................................................5 Squad list...........................................................................................................................7 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................9 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................12 Match officials..................................................................................................................14 Legend............................................................................................................................15 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html Celtic FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/10/11 GS Stade Rennais FC - Celtic FC 1-1 Rennes Cha Du-Ri 31(og); Ledley 70 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Celtic FC 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Stade Rennais FC 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Celtic FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/12/03 GS Olympique Lyonnais - Celtic FC 3-2 Lyon Elber 6, Juninho 52, 86(p); Hartson 24, Sutton 75 30/09/03 GS Celtic FC - Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Glasgow Miller 70, Sutton 78 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/11/00 R2 Celtic FC - FC Girondins de Bordeaux 1-2 Glasgow Petta 54; Laslandes 80, 116 ET agg 2-3 (aet) 26/10/00 R2 FC Girondins de Bordeaux - Celtic FC 1-1 Bordeaux Dugarry 21; Larsson 24(p) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/99 R2 Celtic FC - Olympique Lyonnais 0-1 Glasgow Vairelles 17 agg: 0-2 21/10/99 R2 Olympique Lyonnais - Celtic FC 1-0 Lyon Blanc 63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/11/95 R2 Celtic FC - Paris Saint-Germain FC 0-3 Glasgow Loko 36, 42, Nouma 68 agg: 0-4 19/10/95 R2 Paris Saint-Germain FC - Celtic FC 1-0 Paris Djorkaeff 76 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/10/68 R1 Celtic FC - AS Saint-Étienne 4-0 Glasgow Gemmell 44(p), Craig 59, Chalmers 65, agg: 4-2 McBride 87 18/09/68 R1 AS Saint-Étienne - Celtic FC 2-0 Saint-Etienne Keita 15, Revelli 36 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/66 R2 Celtic FC - FC Nantes 3-1 Glasgow Johnstone 13, Chalmers 56, Lennox 78; agg: 6-2 Georgin 43 30/11/66 R2 FC Nantes - Celtic FC 1-3 Nantes Magny 17; McBride 23, Lennox 50, Chalmers 66 Stade Rennais FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/09/71 R1 Rangers FC - Stade Rennais FC 1-0 Glasgow McDonald 37 agg: 2-1 15/09/71 R1 Stade Rennais FC - Rangers FC 1-1 Rennes Redon 58; Johnston 68 Record versus clubs from opponents' country Last updated 01/11/11 12:40:06CET 2 Previous meetings Celtic FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Celtic FC 6 3 0 3 7 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 13 4 2 7 17 17 Stade Rennais FC 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 3 Last updated 01/11/11 12:40:06CET 3 Previous meetings Celtic FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Match background Celtic FC and Stade Rennais FC are in need of a first Group I victory after drawing 1-1 in France on matchday three of the UEFA Europa League. Previous meetings • The sides met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three. • Cha Du-Ri (31) put the ball past his own goalkeeper Fraser Forster to give Rennes the lead but a Joe Ledley header (70) evened the score. • In Rennes' only previous tie against Scottish opponents, they took on Celtic's Old Firm rivals Rangers FC in the 1971/72 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round; they lost 1-0 in Glasgow after a 1-1 draw in France. Rangers went on to win the competition, beating FC Dinamo Moskva 3-2 in the final at the Camp Nou. • Celtic's 13 games against French sides have ended W4 D2 L7 (W3 D1 L3 at home). They have lost three of their last four home matches against Ligue 1 opposition. Match background • Celtic are unbeaten in five European home games (four wins and a draw) since losing 1-0 to Hamburger SV in the UEFA Europa League group stage on 22 October 2009. • Rennes have lost all five of their UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage away games. This is their third campaign in this phase of the competition, having previously reached the group stage in 2005/06 and 2007/08. Team facts • Two former Rennes players have connections with Celtic: Stéphane Mahé (1997-2001) and Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé (2007-09), who scored the only goal in the 2007 Scottish Cup final, when Celtic beat Dunfermline Athletic FC. • Rennes' youth team features an 18-year-old Celtic fan, goalkeeper Niall Burdon. Born in Paris to a French mother and an Irish father, he said before the first leg: "Rennes might be the club that I'm signed to and who pay my wages, but Celtic are the club in my heart. My dream since I was small has been to play for them one day." • Once a player for SC Bastia in his native Corsica, Rennes coach Frédéric Antonetti took charge of Bastia (1994-98), AS Saint-Étienne (2001-04) and OGC Nice (2005-09) before being handed his current job in 2009. Prior to the current campaign, he had not featured in Europe since leading Bastia from the UEFA Intertoto Cup to the second round of the UEFA Cup in 1997/98. • Celtic boss Neil Lennon was capped 40 times as a midfielder by Northern Ireland. Initially a trainee at Manchester City FC, he made his name with Leicester City FC before moving to Celtic alongside his manager and countryman Martin O'Neill. He went on to win five league titles, three Scottish Cups and two league cups during his time as a player at Celtic (2000-07). Last updated 01/11/11 12:40:06CET 4 Match background Celtic FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Team facts Celtic FC Formed: 1888 Nickname: The Hoops, The Bhoys UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champions Clubs' Cup: 1967, (1970) • UEFA Cup: (2003) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 42 (2008) Scottish Cup: 35 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: play-offs (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: group stage (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League group stage 2007/08: UEFA Champions League first knockout round 2006/07: UEFA Champions League first knockout round 2005/06: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2004/05: UEFA Champions League group stage 2003/04: quarter-finals (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League group stage) 2002/03: runners-up (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2001/02: third round (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League first group stage) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Celtic v KPV Kokkola 16/09/70, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Waterford AFC v Celtic 21/10/70, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Celtic v Paris Saint-Germain FC 02/11/95, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: FC Artmedia Petržalka v Celtic 27/07/05, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 8-1: Celtic v FK Sūduva 19/09/02, first round first leg 7-0: Celtic v AS Jeunesse Esch 24/08/00, qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-6: Cwmbran Town FC v Celtic 12/08/99, qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Celtic v Hamburger SV 10/09/96, first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Neuchâtel Xamax FC v Celtic 22/10/91, second round first leg 4-0: FC Utrecht v Celtic 26/08/10, play-off second leg Last updated 01/11/11 12:40:06CET 5 Team facts Celtic FC - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Stade Rennais FC Founded: 1901 Nickname: Les Rouge et Noir (The Red and Blacks) UEFA club competition honours • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2008 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) French Cup: 2 (1971) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2009/10: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2008/09: first round (having transferred from the UEFA Intertoto Cup) 2007/08: group stage 2006/07: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2005/06: group stage 2004/05: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2003/04: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2002/03: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2001/02: UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-finals Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Rennes v 1.