Aberdeen, founded in 1903 and long settled at Pittodrie Stadium, remain one of the more familiar fixtures in Scottish football for Celtic supporters. Their 2024/25 Scottish Cup win gives the current side recent silverware, while this season has also taken them to the League Cup semi-finals.
The 2026/27 Premiership campaign has been more awkward. After 13 of 38 rounds, Aberdeen sit eleventh with 11 points, with 20 matches still to play. Recent league form has been poor: defeats to Hibernian, Falkirk and Dundee United followed a 3-1 win over St Mirren, with a 1-1 draw at Hibernian also in the recent run.
The squad is listed at around £13.5m by Transfermarkt, with 30 players and an average age of 26. Kevin Nisbet has carried much of the scoring burden with 13 goals, well clear of Brad Lyons, Ayoub Mouloua and Connor Ronan on two each.
There is some early threat – Aberdeen have scored first inside 20 minutes in five of 11 league matches – but the wider numbers are uneven. They average 0.7 goals scored and 1.3 conceded at home, while away from Pittodrie they score 1.4 and concede 1.8 per match. For Celtic, they remain a side with enough quality to punish slackness, but one currently defined by fragility and poor league position.
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⚔️ How they compare to Celtic
Against Celtic, Aberdeen are clear underdogs: Celtic hold the edge in attack and defence — scoring well over two goals per match at home and conceding under one per match overall — while Aberdeen rely on set pieces and sporadic away performances to remain competitive; the gap is most pronounced in home attacking output where Celtic are far superior.
