Match ends, Celtic 2, Heart of Midlothian 0.
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Champions Celtic beat Hearts to become the first team to complete a Scottish top-flight season unbeaten for 118 years.
Leigh Griffiths and Stuart Armstrong secured a 34th win of the campaign for Brendan Rodgers' side, who were then presented with the Premiership trophy.
The feat was last achieved by Rangers in 1898-99, over an 18-game season.
And Celtic join Arsenal (2003-04) and Juventus (2011-12) in being unbeaten over a 38-game league season.
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Rodgers' side, who won the League Cup in November, will attempt to win the club's first domestic treble since 2001 when they take on Aberdeen in Saturday's Scottish Cup final.
Records tumble for new 'Invincibles'
Celtic, who have won six top-flight titles in a row, are unbeaten in 46 domestic games this season (38 in league, eight in cups), and 47 domestic matches overall including the final league game of last season.
And they are unbeaten in 31 games in all competitions since losing to Barcelona in the Champions League on 23 November.
With the win and goals against Hearts, Celtic set new records for the Scottish Premier League/Premiership era, including goals, points, wins and margin of victory.
Professional and proficient
With so much anticipated from the hosts, Hearts head coach Ian Cathro sought to frustrate Celtic, restricting them to long-range efforts.
Kieran Tierney and Callum McGregor came closest with those and Griffiths sent a free-kick into the side netting.
And it could have been Hearts that went in front, Bjorn Johnsen laying a free-kick off for Alexandros Tziolis to strike narrowly over.
When Celtic did get into the box, goalkeeper Viktor Noring was in fine form.
The Swedish stopper made an instinctive block to deny Dedryck Boyata at a corner and then punched away Patrick Roberts' dangerous cut-back.
However, Hearts' resistance was broken when Roberts danced clear on the right and set up Griffiths for a confident header.
And Griffiths was involved in the second, his cross not properly cleared and falling for Armstrong to finish.
Hearts restore some pride
Though sustaining a fourth straight defeat, Hearts competed well in Glasgow and fared much better than their 5-0 home loss to Celtic last month - the match that clinched the title for Rodgers' men.
Johnsen headed against the right-hand post from a Malaury Martin corner as Cathro's men sought consolation.
And substitute Martin's volley was then kept out by Craig Gordon late on.
Line-ups
Celtic
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 1Gordon
- 12GamboaSubstituted forRogicat 45'minutes
- 5SimunovicSubstituted forK Touréat 74'minutes
- 20Boyata
- 63Tierney
- 8Brown
- 14S ArmstrongSubstituted forSviatchenkoat 79'minutes
- 27Roberts
- 42McGregor
- 11Sinclair
- 9Griffiths
Substitutes
- 2K Touré
- 6Bitton
- 18Rogic
- 24de Vries
- 28Sviatchenko
- 49Forrest
- 88Kouassi
Hearts
Formation 3-5-2
- 13Noring
- 19Nowak
- 8BuabenBooked at 29minsSubstituted forWalkerat 66'minutes
- 5Hughes
- 29Brandon
- 15Cowie
- 4TziolisSubstituted forHendersonat 78'minutes
- 10Sutchuin-Djoum
- 24SmithBooked at 55mins
- 77Esmael GonçalvesSubstituted forMartinat 55'minutes
- 20Johnsen
Substitutes
- 1Hamilton
- 6Kitchen
- 7Walker
- 12Avlonitis
- 16El Ouriachi
- 49Henderson
- 88Martin
- Referee:
- John Beaton
- Attendance:
- 58,967
Match Stats
Home TeamCelticAway TeamHearts
- Possession
- Home66%
- Away34%
- Shots
- Home19
- Away7
- Shots on Target
- Home5
- Away2
- Corners
- Home3
- Away4
- Fouls
- Home10
- Away15
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Second Half ends, Celtic 2, Heart of Midlothian 0.
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Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Foul by Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian).
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(Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Foul by Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian).
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Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Craig Gordon.
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Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
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Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Erik Sviatchenko.
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Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Kieran Tierney.
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Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box.
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Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Scott Brown.
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Attempt blocked. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
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Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Arnaud Sutchuin-Djoum (Heart of Midlothian).
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Kieran Tierney (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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Foul by Euan Henderson (Heart of Midlothian).
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Foul by Kolo Touré (Celtic).
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Euan Henderson (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Attempt missed. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
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However 40 points between first and second is an embarrassment for the League.
That's why there is countless scouts attending Celtic park and getting linked with half the team?
Celtic refused Chelsea in Jan.
When Virgil Van Dijk played for Celtic he was "an average player that looks good in a poor league".
Moved to England and suddenly became world class and worth £50-60m.
That's the English self inflated mentality.
A fantastic achievement !!!!!!
If you don't like Scottish football, why are you more concerned with it than your own?
Great achievement by Celtic. The team is a quality side. I'm expecting good progress in Europe next season.
'Corbyn was talking publicly to Republicans, armed an unarmed. John Major did so in secret. Both did the right thing'
Didn't see the original comment @113, but Corbyn attended IRA funerals and has never condemned IRA atrocities, always switching the question around and blaming govt, Army and unionists.
Completely different to John Major.
When English teams play Celtic ... it's like the FA Cup 3rd round.
It will take consistant progress from the Champions League group stages to take them seriously.
Until then, its an easy ride for players who didnt make it in the premiership, are looking for an easy retirement or are building experience for the future
2nd I would like to thank all those idiots for their jealousy and silly remarks, what is wrong with you lot slagging off Scottish football is it because the team that you support did not win anything this year so y'all have to come in here and make yourself look like muppets, I take it mostly English or Rangers fan on here