Brendan Rodgers has named his first Celtic team of pre-season for tonight's friendly against Ayr United - and there's several big-hitters included.

The Parkhead boss leads his side out at Somerset Park against Scott Brown's Championship outfit for their opening fixture of a packed summer schedule.

Scott Bain gets a rare outing in goal, while star striker, Kyogo Furuhashi, leads the line up front. 


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Tomoki Iwata, Mike Nawrocki, Stephen Welsh and Nicolas Kuhn are among the well-known players also involved.

Following tonight's fixture, Celtic take on Queen's Park on Wednesday before matches against DC United, Manchester City and Chelsea in America later this month.


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CELTIC XI: Bain, Dede, Welsh, Nawrocki, Kobayashi, Tomoki, Ure, Holm, Kuhn, Kyle, Kyogo

SUBTITUTES: Oluwayemi, Clarke, Yang, Oh, Kwon, Lawal, Frame, Murray, Agbaire, Bonnar, Donovan, Hatton

AYR UNITED XI: Stone, McAllister, Reading, Dowds, Dempsey, Oakley, Stanger, Henderson, McKenzie, Rus, McMann

SUBSTITUTES: Ecrepont, Musonda, Murdoch, Bryden, Syla, Walker, Tomlinson, Watret