Celtic, Rangers & Well face SPFL charge over pyrotechnics

Celtic, Motherwell and Rangers are facing imaginable fines from the Scottish Professional Football League aft the extended "irresponsible" and "unacceptable" usage of pyrotechnics by their supporters during past month's Premier Sports Cup semi-finals astatine Hampden Park.

The clubs person been issued with notices of ailment by the league and volition beryllium called earlier an autarkic sheet astatine a proceeding aboriginal adjacent year.

Celtic's lucifer with Aberdeen was delayed by 14 minutes aft fans from the Glasgow club's extremity acceptable disconnected fireworks and flares.

The pursuing day's crippled betwixt Rangers and Motherwell was besides delayed by 5 minutes aft some sets of fans acceptable disconnected pyrotechnics.

A circumstantial instrumentality banning the usage of pyrotechnics wrong stadia successful Scotland was introduced successful 2023.

The SPFL says that, though "it was fantastic to person implicit 80,000 supporters attend" the League Cup semi-finals, "the large-scale, organised and amerciable pyrotechnics displays which were carried retired by a tiny number of supporters earlier the Celtic v Aberdeen and Motherwell v Rangers matches were wholly unacceptable".

The governing assemblage said "this irresponsible behaviour... caused important inconvenience to thousands of fans astatine the crippled and to supporters watching worldwide".

"The SPFL, Scottish FA, Police Scotland and different organisations person been wide that specified usage of pyrotechnics is amerciable and poses wide dangers and wellness and information risks to chap supporters, players and those moving astatine matches," it said successful a statement.

"There person been a fig of complaints from supporters astir these incidents and the SPFL and Scottish FA person been successful ongoing discussions with the clubs progressive successful the weeks since the semi-finals."

Celtic are owed to look Rangers successful the League Cup last astatine the nationalist stadium connected 15 December, erstwhile a capableness assemblage is expected.

"The SPFL and Scottish FA volition proceed to enactment intimately with the finalists successful the physique up to this showpiece juncture to reenforce the value of ensuring a harmless and enjoyable lucifer time acquisition for each supporters, successful the discourse of what is present an ongoing disciplinary process," the SPFL adds.