GLASGOW (AFP) -- Celtic players will pay tribute to club great Jimmy Johnstone by wearing his favorite number seven on their shorts during Sunday's League Cup final at Hampden Park.

The celebrated winger, who died on Monday, will also be commemorated by a minute's applause before the game against Dunfermline.

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said: "We have agreed with the league that we will have one minute of applause before the game, which will sum Jimmy's vibrancy up more than a silence. "The team have been allowed to wear the iconic number seven on their shorts and the league have been fantastic with this. In Jimmy's playing days, players only wore numbers on their shorts so this is a fitting tribute."

Johnstone, a member of Celtic's 1967 European Cup winning team, the Lisbon Lions, died aged 61 after a long battle with motor neurone disease. He was regarded by many fans as the greatest player ever to wear the famous green and white hoops.