A week later, on Sunday, August 11, Brendan Rodgers travels to Edinburgh to face Hibs at Easter Road in the Scottish Premiership’s first away encounter of the season 2024-25.
Matchday 3 is also away, this time to Paisley to face St Mirren on August 24 ahead of the season’s first Glasgow Derby on August 31 at Celtic Park, but the kick-off time will very surely shift from 3pm to 12.30pm on Saturday, September 1st.
Matchday five sees Celtic take on Hearts at Celtic Park on Saturday 14 September.
Our first visit to Ibrox is in Thursday 2 January 2025, assuming that their stadium has re-opened by then. The second Glasgow Derby at Celtic Park is scheduled for Saturday 15 March, 2025 but again that is likely to be changed for television broadcast reasons, presumably to Sunday 16 March.
All fixture details are available on our sister site Celtic Shorts. Celtic start with four matches against top six sides from last season plus an away trip to Easter Road. That suits us just fine and it gives us the chance to get off to our usual flying start and establish a lead as we look for a fourth successive title and a 13th in 14 seasons. A remarkable record.