Celtic and Hearts face off in a decisive match for the Scottish Premiership title. Hearts can win their first title since 1960 with a draw, while Celtic aims to defend their championship with a victory.
Key points
Celtic and Hearts face a title-deciding match
Hearts can win their first title since 1960
Celtic aims to defend their championship
Hearts have not lost to Celtic this season
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It is the title race the world is watching and it all comes down to one final showdown, live on Sky Sports.
If Hearts avoid defeat at Celtic Park, they will be crowned Scottish Premiership champions for the first time since 1960. However, the Hoops know a win at home will see them successfully defend the title.
Hearts have led the way virtually all season, and can take confidence into Saturday's decider in the knowledge that they have not lost to Celtic this campaign.
What do Hearts need to do to win the Scottish Premiership title?
Hearts need to avoid defeat against Celtic at Celtic Park to be crowned champions.
When was the last time Hearts won the Scottish Premiership?
Hearts last won the Scottish Premiership title in 1960.
How has Hearts performed against Celtic this season?
Hearts have not lost to Celtic in any match this season.
What is at stake in the final match between Celtic and Hearts?
The match will determine the Scottish Premiership champion, with Celtic aiming to defend their title and Hearts seeking their first championship in over six decades.
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But Celtic, with Martin O'Neill having returned twice this season to steady the ship, have dragged themselves right back into title contention.
Since losing to Dundee United at Tannadice Park in March, they have won seven in a row in all competitions, with six in the league cutting Hearts' lead at the top to a solitary point.
Do not expect a straightforward afternoon in the East End of Glasgow.
Wild Wednesday to a deciding day
Saturday's title decider didn't need any ramping up. However, it got it.
For 10 minutes on Wednesday night, the Jambos were in dreamland as they led Falkirk, while Celtic trailed at Motherwell. Hearts' lead was set to be three points going into Saturday, plus they would have had a better goal difference of six.
However, last-gasp penalty controversy at Fir Park saw the Hoops move to within a point and will make it five-in-a-row with victory. It has been a season like no other.
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VAR awarded Celtic in the dying seconds of the game as the ball appeared to hit Motherwell's Sam Nicholson hand after throw-in, which Kelechi Iheanacho makes no mistake from the spot.
VAR awarded Celtic a penalty in the dying seconds of the game at Fir Park.
O'Neill: Everyone wants Hearts to win
Debate has raged since the decision to award Celtic that match-winning penalty at Fir Park.
For O'Neill the reaction has added to the determination to retain the league title.
"I'm not surprised because everybody wants Hearts to win. It's really as simple as that.
"Everybody outside Celtic and the Celtic diaspora wants Hearts to win. And if it wasn't Hearts, it'd be Rangers, it'd be somebody else. That's the nature of it.
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MOTHERWELL, SCOTLAND - MAY 13: Celtic manager Martin O'Neill at full time during a William Hill Premiership match between Motherwell and Celtic at Fir Park, on May 13, 2026, in Motherwell, Scotland. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)
Celtic manager Martin O'Neill has not been surprised by the fallout from their stoppage-time penalty at Motherwell.
"If Hearts win or draw the game, then they deserve to win the league. If we can win, then somewhere along the way, I think we deserve to win it.
"It's the number of points that you end up with at the end of the season that determines these things.
"In terms of the atmosphere, it will be electric. There's no question about it.
"We seem to have a bit of a unified situation at Celtic Park, which has been massive for the side. I don't think it should be underestimated.
"This [handball rule] should be a major point of discussion in the summer time to have a look again to see what they're doing. Sometimes in European football, it's a bit different to ours. It shouldn't be, it should be uniform and straightforward.
"This accidental handball, hands in unnatural positions, people being pushed into situations - all of that has to be looked at. But as the rules stand at this minute, that was a penalty."
McInnes ready to 'rip up the script'
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Celtic vs Hearts: Derek McInnes: Questions need to be asked but focused on title decider
Derek McInnes feels questions need to be asked about the VAR controversy from Celtic's win over Motherwell but he is fully focused on this weekend's title decider at Celtic Park
Hearts could feel hard done by after being denied a penalty in their 1-1 draw at Motherwell before Celtic were awarded a late spot-kick in Lanarkshire.
But for Hearts boss Derek McInnes, the focus is on clinching the title and not on hard luck stories.
"It's been perfect in the sense that it's the full kind of outcome of drama. The two teams who can win the title head-to-head, they couldn't get scripted any better than that," he told Sky Sports News.
"It's unusual in that sense. For us, at the start of the week, it was two big games and we wanted to make sure we were in this position with a chance to win it on Saturday. We expected Celtic to win their game.
DUNDEE, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 11: Hearts' Claudio Braga (R) celebrates scoring to make it 1-0 with teammate Lawrence Shankland during a William Hill Premiership match between Dundee and Heart of Midlothian at Dens Park, on January 11, 2026, in Dundee, Scotland. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)
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Could Lawrence Shankland and Claudio Braga be key to Hearts' final title push?
"Martin has done a great job. The players have done a good job to drag themselves back into it.
"They will think probably that everything's back on script, a home game to win the title, when they've won so many titles over the last wee while. But, it's up to us.
"Can we keep ripping the script up?
"We have ripped the script up this season and I think from the first game of the season, nobody would have anticipated that we could be in this position.
"But we deserve to be there and we go there confident and bullish and full of belief that we can get the result."
'Impossible to predict' - what the pundits say
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Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton preview the Scottish Premiership title decider between Celtic and Hearts at Celtic Park
Sky Sports' Kris Boyd
"It's incredible for Scottish football. It just sums up this season. From start to finish, it's been one hell of a story," said Boyd.
"For Hearts, what a story it would be. They have been outstanding all season
"But Celtic, they've never went away and they've just kept on going.
"What an opportunity they've got to deliver a fifth league title as well.
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Hearts have not lost to Celtic so far this season
"Both clubs will go into it feeling that they can get the result."
Sky Sports' Chris Sutton
"Hearts are in a position where they go to Celtic Park and get their point and that'll be enough for them to secure it. They've been a phenomenal story.
"Everybody talks about the Jamestown and I get that, but Derek McInnes has done an incredible job.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 10: Celtic's Callum McGregor celebrates at full time during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Rangers at Celtic Park, on May 10, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)
Callum McGregor is hoping to lead his side to their fifth successive title
"I think in truth we all felt early on in the season, there'll be some point in the season where Hearts fall away and they haven't.
"People talk about the drop-off at Celtic and Rangers, but Hearts have just concerned themselves with themselves and they've had such a brilliant season.
"Celtic have just somehow clung on it. Under Martin O'Neill, just shown the spirit and resilience.
"Now going into the final game, Celtic at home, there's supposed harmony now in there at Celtic Park and that may carry weight.
Martin O'Neill won three league titles during his first spell as Celtic boss
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Martin O'Neill won three league titles during his first spell as Celtic boss
"But there could yet be another twist and turn and it'll be absolutely epic on Saturday.
"For a long while now, I've thought that Celtic are not going to find a way and they've got to this point.
"But I wouldn't rule Hearts out. They've got Claudio Braga, they've got Lawrence Shankland, who's the best finisher in the league.
"Hearts go into this game in good form and they need to take that confidence to Celtic Park.
"I've tipped Hearts for a while now, but I think it's impossible to predict."
