Player dossier
Premiership · 2026/2027
Liam Scales
Liam Scales- Team
- Celtic
- Role
- Centre back
- Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- Date of birth
- 08 Aug 1998 (age 28)
- Shirt number
- 5
- Competition
- Premiership (Scotland)
- Season
- 2026/2027
Match history
Completed fixtures with recorded minutes, most recent first.
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Min | Rating | G | A | YC | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Oct 2026 | Motherwell2–0 | Away | 90 | 8.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60.1 |
| 20 Sept 2026 | Rangers0–1 | Home | 89 | 6.71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41.6 |
| 09 Sept 2026 | St. Johnstone1–0 | Away | 87 | 6.95 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38.2 |
| 05 Sept 2026 | St. Mirren2–1 | Away | 90 | 7.39 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 49.4 |
| 02 Sept 2026 | Aberdeen3–0 | Home | 90 | 7.53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50.7 |
| 29 Aug 2026 | Falkirk2–1 | Home | 90 | 7.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58.9 |
Goals, assists and yellow cards are counted from recorded match events, so a 0 means the event did not occur. A dash means the provider sent no value. It never means zero. Match impact is only shown for appearances of at least 30 minutes with sufficient metric coverage.
Season context
- Competition
- Premiership
- Season
- 2026/2027
- Team
- Celtic
- Appearances
- 6
- Minutes
- 536
- Average opponent strength
- 44.4Minutes-weighted, 0–100 team strength scale. Contextual only. It does not adjust the scores above.
Recent opponents: Motherwell, Rangers, St. Johnstone, St. Mirren, Aberdeen, Falkirk.
Season on season
Stored season figures for this season next to the previous season of the same competition. Presentation only. No new score is calculated.
2026/2027 season in progress · 48 of 198 fixtures completed. Differences below are not full-season comparisons while the season is incomplete.
| Measure | 2025/2026 | 2026/2027 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact Score | 68.8 | 48.5 | −20.3 |
| Minutes played | 3,098 | 536 | −2,562 |
| Appearances | 37 | 6 | −31 |
| Starting share | 91.9% | 100.0% | +8.1% |
| Average opponent strength | 47.4 | 44.4 | −3.0 |
| Touches per 90 | 100.92 | 102.59 | +1.67 |
| Passes per 90 | 86.92 | 81.60 | −5.32 |
| Accurate passes per 90 | 79.40 | 73.21 | −6.19 |
| Passes in final third per 90 | 10.52 | 11.42 | +0.90 |
| Key passes per 90 | 0.44 | 1.18 | +0.74 |
| Chances created per 90 | 0.32 | 1.18 | +0.86 |
| Shots per 90 | 0.38 | 1.34 | +0.97 |
| Shots on target per 90 | 0.09 | 0.50 | +0.42 |
| Successful dribbles per 90 | 0.23 | 0.34 | +0.10 |
| Tackles per 90 | 0.93 | 1.34 | +0.41 |
| Interceptions per 90 | 1.13 | 1.01 | −0.13 |
| Clearances per 90 | 6.33 | 4.37 | −1.97 |
| Ball recoveries per 90 | 4.44 | 2.52 | −1.93 |
| Duels per 90 | 9.88 | 8.40 | −1.48 |
| Fouls drawn per 90 | 0.49 | 1.01 | +0.51 |
| Goals per 90 | Not available | 0.17 | Not available |
| Assists per 90 | 0.09 | Not available | Not available |
| Possession lost per 90 | 8.72 | 10.91 | +2.20 |
| Errors leading to a shot per 90 | 0.06 | Not available | Not available |
| Pass accuracy | 91.3% | 89.7% | −1.6% |
| Dribble success rate | 66.7% | 66.7% | 0.0% |
| Duel win rate | 61.2% | 62.0% | +0.8% |
| Aerial duel win rate | Not available | 50.0% | Not available |
| Tackle success rate | Not available | 62.5% | Not available |
| Shot on target rate | 23.1% | 37.5% | +14.4% |
| Long ball accuracy | 53.3% | 43.9% | −9.4% |
- Role
- Same role in both seasons · Centre back
- Team
- Same team · Celtic
Presentation only: each figure is the stored season value for that season. No season-to-season index or score is calculated.
Methodology
Data source
Match, lineup, event and player statistics come from Sportmonks and are stored per fixture. Only completed fixtures with recorded minutes are aggregated. Announced lineups and future fixtures are excluded.
Per 90 minutes
A per-90 value scales a season total to a full match: total × 90 ÷ minutes played. It is not calculated when minutes are missing or zero.
Missing data
The provider omits some statistics instead of sending a zero. A missing value is shown as "not available" and never converted to 0, so rates and percentiles are only produced where the underlying fields genuinely exist.
Impact Score
The Football Performance Lab Impact Score is an experimental in-house model that combines role-relative percentile families with explicit weights. It is not an official rating and not a measure of transfer value.
Minimum samples
Values are calculated internally from 180 minutes, but a player is only shown publicly with a ranked Impact Score from 360 minutes and 5 appearances, with at least 90% metric coverage and an established role. A single appearance contributes a match impact observation from 30 minutes.