{"id":491140,"date":"2026-02-19T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491140\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:15:07","slug":"celtic-given-7500-tickets-for-scottish-cup-tie-against-rangers-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491140\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic given 7,500 tickets for Scottish Cup tie against Rangers in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers have agreed to give Celtic fans the Broomloan Road stand for the upcoming Scottish Cup quarter-final tie on 8 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means about 7,500 away fans will have access to an Old Firm derby at Ibrox or Celtic Park for the first time since 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision was taken after consultation between both clubs and the police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Away supporter allocations had been limited to around 800 tickets, with that increasing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c201z9q2wvdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2500 around a year ago<\/a> following a period of no away fans at the fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is believed Rangers reached the decision after assurances Celtic would reciprocate for any upcoming cup matches at Celtic Park. Scottish FA rules state away clubs should be entitled to a 20% supporter allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers have agreed to give Celtic fans the Broomloan Road stand for the upcoming Scottish Cup quarter-final tie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-491140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}