UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Celtic Park - Glasgow Thursday 30 September 2021 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Celtic FC Group G - Matchday 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Last updated 22/09/2021 17:01CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 9 Legend 11 1 Celtic FC - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Thursday 30 September 2021 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Celtic FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tierney 11, Édouard 08/11/2018 GS Celtic FC - RB Leipzig 2-1 Glasgow 79; Augustin 78 Matheus Cunha 31, 25/10/2018 GS RB Leipzig - Celtic FC 2-0 Leipzig Bruma 35 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers McGregor 74; Coman 31/10/2017 GS Celtic FC - FC Bayern München 1-2 Glasgow 22, Javi Martínez 77 Müller 17, Kimmich 18/10/2017 GS FC Bayern München - Celtic FC 3-0 Munich 29, Hummels 51 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - Stindl 32; Dembélé 01/11/2016 GS 1-1 Monchengladbach Celtic FC 76 (P) Celtic FC - VfL Borussia 19/10/2016 GS 0-2 Glasgow Stindl 57, Hahn 77 Mönchengladbach UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 05/11/2009 GS Hamburger SV - Celtic FC 0-0 Hamburg 22/10/2009 GS Celtic FC - Hamburger SV 0-1 Glasgow Berg 63 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/2003 GS1 Celtic FC - FC Bayern München 0-0 Glasgow Makaay 73, 86; 17/09/2003 GS1 FC Bayern München - Celtic FC 2-1 Munich Thompson 57 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tiffert 39, Hleb 76, 3-2 27/02/2003 R4 VfB Stuttgart - Celtic FC Stuttgart Mutzel 88; Thompson agg: 4-5 9, Sutton 11 Lambert 36, Maloney 20/02/2003 R4 Celtic FC - VfB Stuttgart 3-1 Glasgow 44, St.Petrov 68; Kuranyi 27 2 Celtic FC - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Thursday 30 September 2021 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Bäron 24, 24/09/1996 R1 Hamburger SV - Celtic FC Hamburg agg: 4-0 Breitenreiter 50 10/09/1996 R1 Celtic FC - Hamburger SV 0-2 Glasgow Bäron 2, Schupp 70 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Creaney 13; 03/11/1992 R2 Celtic FC - Borussia Dortmund Glasgow agg: 1-3 Chapuisat 53, Zorc 57 20/10/1992 R2 Borussia Dortmund - Celtic FC 1-0 Dortmund Chapuisat 71 3-0 McStay 37, Collins 40, 30/09/1992 R1 Celtic FC - 1. FC Köln Glasgow agg: 3-2 81 Jensen 25, 15/09/1992 R1 1. FC Köln - Celtic FC 2-0 Cologne Ordenewitz 82 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 08/11/1988 R2 SV Werder Bremen - Celtic FC Bremen agg: 1-0 26/10/1988 R2 Celtic FC - SV Werder Bremen 0-1 Glasgow Wolter 57 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 29/09/1987 R1 Borussia Dortmund - Celtic FC Dortmund Dickel 74, 86 agg: 3-2 Walker 4, Whyte 89; 15/09/1987 R1 Celtic FC - Borussia Dortmund 2-1 Glasgow Mill 64 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 17/03/1976 QF FSV Zwickau - Celtic FC Zwickau Blank 4 agg: 2-1 03/03/1976 QF Celtic FC - FSV Zwickau 1-1 Glasgow Dalglish 40; Blank 83 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Rangers 1-0 06/08/2020 R16 Leverkusen Diaby 51 FC agg: 4-1 Edmundson 75; Rangers FC - Bayer 04 Havertz 37 (P), 12/03/2020 R16 1-3 Glasgow Leverkusen Aránguiz 67, Bailey 88 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Rangers FC - Bayer 04 1-1 Johansson 56; Kirsten 05/11/1998 R2 Glasgow Leverkusen agg: 3-2 79 3 Celtic FC - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Thursday 30 September 2021 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow UEFA Cup Reichenberger 90; Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Rangers 22/10/1998 R2 1-2 Leverkusen Van Bronckhorst 45, FC Johansson 63 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Celtic FC 12 4 2 6 12 0 3 9 0 0 0 0 24 4 5 15 17 33 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 6 4 4 Celtic FC - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Thursday 30 September 2021 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Match background Having finished on the wrong end of a seven-goal thriller on Matchday 1, Celtic will be hoping to give the Parkhead faithful something to celebrate as they host a Bayer Leverkusen side with fond memories of a recent UEFA Europa League visit to Glasgow. • Goals from Albian Ajeti, Josip Juranović and Anthony Ralston were insufficient to prevent Celtic from losing away to Real Betis on Group G's opening night, the Spanish side recovering from a 0-2 deficit to prevail 4-3. Leverkusen, in contrast, came from behind at home to Ferencváros to win 2-1 thanks to an equaliser from Exequiel Palacios and a 69th-minute winner from 18-year-old Florian Wirtz. Previous meetings • This is the clubs' first encounter in UEFA club competition. • Celtic are familiar with German opposition, though they have won just four of the 24 matches, losing 15. The victories have all come on home soil, including a 2-1 success against RB Leipzig in the most recent, on Matchday 4 of the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League, which ended a run of three successive home defeats by Bundesliga sides. • Leverkusen's only four previous encounters with Scottish opposition have all been against Rangers, with a 3-1 win at Ibrox setting up a 4-1 aggregate triumph in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League round of 16. Charles Aránguiz scored the German side's second in Glasgow, Moussa Diaby getting the only goal of the second leg at the BayArena. Form guide Celtic • Celtic missed out on an unprecedented tenth successive Scottish league title last season, finishing 25 points adrift of arch-rivals Rangers as Premiership runners-up. Their European campaign ended in the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they came bottom of a section including AC Milan, LOSC Lille and Sparta Praha. • This term, under new manager Ange Postecoglou, Celtic were unable to negotiate the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase for the fourth successive summer, losing after extra time to Midtjylland in the second qualifying round (1-1 h, 1-2 a), but subsequent UEFA Europa League qualifying victories over Jablonec (4-2 a, 3-0 h) and AZ Alkmaar (2-0 h, 1-2 a) put them into the competition's group stage for the eighth time. The Glasgow giants have made further progress in just three of the previous seven participations, once as group winners (2019/20). • Celtic lost two of their three UEFA Europa League group stage matches at Celtic Park last season, winning the other, to make their all-time home record in the competition proper W11 D4 L10. Leverkusen • Sixth place in the 2020/21 Bundesliga earned Leverkusen a fourth successive participation in the UEFA Europa League. They were quarter-finalists in 2019/20 – after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League group – and round of 32 fallers last season, succumbing to Swiss champions Young Boys (3-4 a, 0-2 h), whose coach Gerardo Seoane is now in charge at the BayArena. • This is the 1987/88 UEFA Cup winners' seventh appearance in the UEFA Europa League proper and fifth in the group stage – both German records. They have never failed to progress to the knockout phase, finishing top of the group in their two most recent participations, including last season when, under former coach Peter Bosz, they amassed 15 points and scored 21 goals – one shy of Napoli's competition record – in dominating a section that also featured Slavia Praha, Nice and Hapoel Beer-Sheva. • Leverkusen have won eight of their last 17 European away fixtures (D4 L5) and have an all-time away record in the UEFA Europa League group stage of W7 D2 L3, although they have lost once on the road in each of their last three group campaigns, most recently to Slavia Praha (0-1) in 2020/21. Links and trivia • Dutch right-back Jeremie Frimpong joined Leverkusen from Celtic in January. He made 51 appearances in all competitions for the Bhoys, scoring three goals, and was a domestic treble winner in 2019/20. • Swiss international Aleti and his Celtic team-mate Christopher Jullien have both played briefly in Germany, for Augsburg and Freiburg respectively. • Leverkusen striker Patrik Schick scored both goals, one of them spectacularly from the halfway line, as the Czech Republic defeated Scotland 2-0 in their UEFA EURO 2020 opener at Hampden Park on 14 June this year. Celtic duo Callum McGregor and James Forrest were second-half substitutes for Scotland. • Vassilis Barkas and Georgios Giakoumakis of Celtic are Greek national team-mates of Leverkusen defender Panagiotis Retsos. • Celtic are one of four former European Cup/UEFA Champions League winners competing in this season's UEFA 5 Celtic FC - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Thursday 30 September 2021 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Europa League group stage – together with PSV Eindhoven (Group B), Marseille (E) and Crvena zvezda (F).