Celtic vs Braga Preview & Prediction | 2025-26 UEFA Europa League | League Phase

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Celtic need to take advantage of playing at Celtic Park to get through to the knockout stages as the Bhoys prepare to welcome Sporting Braga to Glasgow this midweek.

Kick-off date/time: 2 October 2025 at 5:45 pm

How to watch on TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised

How to watch online: UK – discovery+ / US – Paramount+

Key stats

• The only previous UEFA competition matches between these teams were in the third qualifying round of the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League. When a 3-0 home win for Braga in the first leg was followed by a 2-1 victory at home for Celtic in the second leg.
• This is Celtic’s first UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League match (all rounds) against a Portuguese team since the 2003 UEFA Cup final when they lost 2-3 against Porto.
• Celtic are unbeaten in their previous 11 UEFA competition matches at home against Portuguese teams with nine wins and two draws.
• Celtic have drawn their last four UEFA competition matches.
• Celtic have lost only one of their last eight UEFA competition matches at home (W4 D3).
• Celtic are unbeaten in their last six UEFA group/league matches at home with four wins and two draws.
• Braga have won their last six UEFA competition matches and are unbeaten in eight (W7 D1).
• Braga have kept six clean sheets in their last eight UEFA competition matches.
• Braga have lost all their previous four UEFA matches away from home against Scottish teams.

Celtic vs Braga prediction

Brendan Rodgers is coming under a bit of pressure at Celtic after a poor summer transfer window and the performance level at the start of this season being fairly indifferent. The Hoops started their UEFA Europa League campaign with a 1-1 draw in Belgrade against Crvena Zvezda a couple of weeks ago.

Sporting Braga have spent a couple of seasons having just about missed out on breaking up ‘Os Tres Grandes’ in Portugal and having to settle for the UEFA Europa League. Braga started their UEFA Europa League campaign with a slender 1-0 victory over Feyenoord a couple of weeks ago in Portugal.

Celtic have not been playing with much fluency and they welcome a Braga side that will likely be quite content to leave Glasgow without a defeat, so it may not be overly entertaining.

Celtic vs Braga tip: Under 2.5 goals