Scottish Premier League Teams

Celtic was formed in 1888 by Brother Walfred, who was an Irish monk that came over to Scotland so that he could give to the Irish that were living in Scotland something that they could be part of and proud of. His inspiration came from Edinburgh Hibernian so he decided to make his own football team. At first he was going to call his team Glasgow Hibernian but he settled on Glasgow Celtic Football Club.

Celtic first won the Scottish League champions in 1892-93 season and then went onto win in it the next three seasons in succession. In total the club has won this title 38 times with them dominating if from 1904 to 1910, when the team won five times in a row. And again three times in a row from 1997 to 2002. And in the between years.

They have also won the Scottish Cup 31 times with their first coming in 1892 the same year that they were Scottish League champions. The last time they won it was back in 2001. The team has again won this title the years in between.
And they have also won the Scottish League Cup 12 times the first of this title coming in the 1956-57 season with them winning it the following season in 1957-58. The Last time they won it was in 2000-01. This is the title that out of all of them that the team has not fared too well in even though from 1966 to 1970 they won the trophy four years running.

Celtic have also won the European Cup in 1966-67 but were runners-up in 1969-70 they are also winners of Glasgow Exhibition Cup: 1902, Scottish league commemorative shield: 1904/05 1909/10, Empire Exhibition Trophy: 1938, Victory in Europe Cup: 1945, St. Mungo Cup: 1951, Coronation up 1953.
Celtic play at Celtic Park in Glasgow and has the ground capacity of 60, 832. The club also has a record attendance of 92,000 vs. Rangers in 1983, a record victory of 11-0 vs. Dundee in 1985, a record defeat of 0-8 vs. Motherwell in 1937, they have the most league appearances by Paul McStay with 499 games and the highest scorer of 50 goals by Jimmy McGory. With their current manager is Martin O’ Neill.

The star players at Celtic are Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton, Alan Thompson, John Hartson, Shaun Malloney, Liam Miller, Varga, Didier Agathe, Dianbobo Balde, Paul Lambert, Stilian Petrov, John Kennedy, Ross Wallace, Jackie McNamara, Jamie Smith and Craig Beattie.

Celtic hopes to finish at the top of the Scottish Premier League and to get into the final and win the title of the Scottish Cup, Scottish League Champions and Scottish League Cup. Also to do well in next seasons UEFA.