Rangers and Celtic will both play their next Scottish Cup home ties behind closed doors after the clubs’ respective appeals against the sanction was dismissed.<\/p>\n
The Glasgow clubs presented their cases to a Scottish FA appellate tribunal on Monday, but have failed to overturn a ban on supporters.<\/p>\n
They will also be required to pay \u00a3100,000 to the visiting club in their respective home ties in the national cup competition.<\/p>\n
However, a suspended ban on fans in the case of further infractions was set aside by the tribunal.<\/p>\n
Celtic criticised, external<\/a> what they called an “excessive and disproportionate punishment” and claimed a “false equivalence” has been drawn between the behaviour of their own fans entering the pitch “at a moment of emotion and celebration” and that of Rangers supporters.<\/p>\n The club also said it had no responsibility for stadium safety arrangements at Ibrox, and so should not have been punished in the same way as Rangers.<\/p>\n The stadium closure penalty was announced in late August following the disorder at the end of last season’s quarter-final tie at Ibrox, which Celtic won after a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n Supporters threw fireworks and other missiles and police officers were injured, while 43 arrests had been made<\/a> by 25 August.<\/p>\n