Celtic legends and supporters bid farewell to the ‘Lord of the Wing’
The ex-Hoops and Scotland winger died on Monday, aged 61, after a long battle with motor neurone disease.
Johnstone's funeral will take place at St John the Baptist Church, Uddingston at 10am before the cortege travels to Celtic Park to allow fans to pay their respects along the way.
The service will be attended by some of Johnstone's Lisbon Lions team-mates, such as Billy McNeill.
Current Old Firm managers Gordon Strachan and Alex McLeish will also pay their respects.
The procession will then travel through the east end of Glasgow on its way to Celtic Park where home and Scottish football fans have left messages, flags, banners, scarves and shirts in tribute to the player.
Strachan's team will pay tribute in the CIS Cup final against Dunfermline when they take to the field at Hampden Park wearing the number seven Johnstone's number on their shorts.
The Hoops' tracksuit tops will also bear the legend 'Johnstone 7' before the final.
Current Celtic players Stilian Petrov and Stephen McManus have already vowed to win the trophy in dedication to Johnstone.
Johnstone was revered as a player with Celtic under Jock Stein, with the pinnacle of his career coming in 1967 as he helped the Hoops become the first British team to win the European Cup.
The Lisbon Lions beat Italian giants Inter Milan 2-1 in the final in Portugal, where Tommy Gemmell and Stevie Chalmers scored the goals to create legends out of the players.
Johnstone earned the nickname Jinky on account of his amazing dribbling skills for both club and country.
He was part of the Celtic squad which also secured nine consecutive domestic league titles between 1965 and 1974.
The Celtic careers of Johnstone and the late Stein became entwined after the former Scotland manager moved to Glasgow from Hibernian.
Johnstone scored 129 goals in 515 appearances for Celtic and won 23 caps for Scotland.
After leaving Celtic Park, he played for San Jose Earthquakes, Sheffield United, Dundee, Shelbourne and Elgin City before retiring from football.
In November 2001, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease which eventually confined him to his home in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
But Johnstone continued his campaign for stem-cell research into the illness despite his deteriorating health.
In 2002, Johnstone was voted Celtic's greatest ever player in a poll among the club's fans, while a documentary about his life, Lord of the Wing, was released two years later.
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