United are First Visitors to Celtic Park.

Ayr United's opening first division match for the 1913/14 season was also the inaugeral first division match at Celtic Park, Glasgow, the home of Glasgow Celtic FC. The Ayr United team that day was Herbertson, Bell, McStay, Rennie, Connell, McLaughlin, Middleton, Robertson, Phillips, McGowan and Gray.

The crowd for this match on 16th August 1913 is reported in various journals as being between 20,000 and 25,000 people with the kick off being delayed for 10 minutes to let the crowd in.

Alas it was all too much for Ayr as Celtic rattled in 5 for a solitary Ayr goal scored by Robertson. Sam Herberston thought it was his Christmas dreams come true being selected to play for Ayr against Celtic at Somerset Park on 27th December 1913 for only is second game for the club. He was wrong! A large following had used car, bike and train to get to Ayr from Glasgow for the match to see a 6-0 win the Bhoys.

Over the next 7 years Ayr managed only two more goals as Celtic recorded a combination of wins by 4-1, 5-0 and 3-1. The closest match occurred on 7th September 1918 when the hoops won by only 1-0.

However, it wasn't long before Ayr did manage their first win at the hallowed ground - and what a win it was. On 11th November 1922 the super U's banged in 4 goals to win 4-1. Who could have forecast such a score with Ayr having had a bad run of defeats up to September. The arrival of Fred Howard had changed their fortunes as Nisbet, Smith, McLoy, Hogg, McLeod, Gibson, Kilpatrick, Slade, Howard, McKenzie and McLean lined up at Celtic Park.

The half time score of 1-0 to Ayr after a McKenzie drive thrilled the away support. Not for long. A Minute after the interval Nisbet's thrown ball hit his defender Smith on the arm and the referee awarded a penalty to Celtic. 1-1.

In the 54th minute Hogg restored Ayr's lead with a mazy run round three Celtic defenders. Mc Kenzie taunted the Celtic defence and after hitting the bar had a goal disallowed. However, in the 83rd minute he made it 3-1 for Ayr and Slade wrapped up a memorable day with a long range goal. 4-1 to Ayr.

Ayr's success was not to be repeated until 24th March 1934. Holland and McGibbons put Ayr into a 2-0 interval lead with McGibbons making it 3-0 in the second half.

It was a nice reprieve for Ayr as the next two years ended in 7-0 and 6-0 wins for Celtic.

The war years gave Ayr a 1-1 and 3-3 draw and a 3-1 regional league win for Ayr on 13th January 1940. It was another 19 years before Ayr recorded their 4th win at Celtic Park by 3-2 on 7th November 1959.

Ayr United's only recent win was a relegation saving 2-1 win on 24th April 1976 which helped secure Ayr's premier league survival that season.