Celtic FC manager Ange Postecoglou will bring his team to Australia to play in a four-team tournament at the end of November during the five-week break for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (21 November to 18 December). Another team that will be playing in the tournament are the Hoops’ eternal foes, Glasgow Rangers.

According to the Scottish newspaper, the Daily Record, Celtic and Rangers are set to play at Stadium Australia in Sydney.

The visit from Celtic will also serve as a homecoming for Postecoglou who has not been home for the past three years.

The Celtic FC website reported that the team had a big support base in Australia that had been further strengthened when Postecoglou was appointed manager in June, 2021.
The Celtic mentor said the tournament in Australia would help the squad to stay in form when Scottish Premiership action resumed in December.

Celtic will take part in a new four-team mini-series named the Sydney Super Cup, featuring two high-profile international clubs taking on Sydney FC and the Western Sydney Wanderers.

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Celtic will join arch rivals Rangers in the inaugural tournament, which will see the first time the two have contested their famous derby outside of Scotland. The Sydney Super Cup will be contested again in 2025.

“I haven’t been home for almost three years by the time this comes around so I’m super-excited. The club’s obviously been down there a couple of times before and I know just how passionate the Celtic fans are about the football club, so we’re looking forward to it,” Postecoglou told Celtic FC. “It is a homecoming in many respects. That’s where my roots are, that’s where I grew up and I know that since I’ve been in this position at Celtic, people have been following my journey, whether they know me or not, and I’ll have a great sense of pride going back to Australia as manager of Celtic.

“It will be special. The club has always had a strong connection with Australia, and I know how passionate the supporters’ groups are down there and how they follow the club, whether that’s been with Tommy Rogic or Scotty McDonald, or Jackson Irvine – people who have passed through the club – and now I am manager of the club.

“It’s enormously important because I don’t take for granted the distance between here and back home, and you need to understand that, for people to be that passionate about a football club that’s halfway around the world – most of them are watching our games in the middle of the night.” Postecoglou said.

“So, for them to be able to share it with other people that they follow this club with and watch the team live will be a special moment for them.
“And it will create, I think, a unique atmosphere which only a Celtic crowd can provide. So, for Australia sporting followers, they realise it’s something special.

“Just being back on home soil and bringing this great football club to my shores will be special.”