Celtic Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigrant Irish population in the East End of Glasgow. Celtic have won the Scottish league championship 51 times, most recently in 2019–20, the Scottish Cup 39 times and the Scottish League Cup 19 times. Celtic’s greatest season was 1966–67, when they became the first British team to win the European Cup.
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Celtic Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigrant Irish population in the East End of Glasgow. Celtic are one of only five clubs in the world to have won over 100 trophies in their history. Celtic have won the Scottish league championship 51 times, most recently in 2019–20, the Scottish Cup 39 times and the Scottish League Cup 19 times. Celtic’s greatest season was 1966–67, when they became the first British team to win the European Cup. Celtic also reached the 1970 European Cup Final and the 2003 UEFA Cup Final, losing in both. Celtic and Rangers are known as the Old Firm, seen by some as the world’s biggest football derby. There are more than 160 Celtic supporters clubs in over 20 countries, and the club’s fanbase was estimated in 2003 as being around nine million worldwide. Celtic play in green and white throughout their history, adopting hoops in 1903, which have been used ever since. In 1897, the club became a Private limited company and Willie Maley was appointed as the first’secretary-manager’ Between 1905 and 1910, Celtic won six times in a row, the first time a Scottish club had ever won the double. The mid-1920s saw the emergence of Jimmy McGrory as one of the most prolific goalscorers in British football. Over a sixteen-year playing career, he scored 550 goals in 547 games, a British-record to this day. In January 1940, Jimmy McStay became a player-manager and then a secretary-manager for nearly 52 years.
He retired from the club at the age of 71 in January 1950, aged 71 years old and had served the club in various roles for nearly 50 years. In the same year, he became the youngest player to become a manager in the history of the Scottish Premier League, aged 52 years old. He was also the youngest manager in Scottish football, aged 51 years old, and served as a player and manager for almost 52 years in total. Celtic won their first ever match in May 1888, a friendly match against Rangers which Celtic won 5–2. In 1889 Celtic reached the final of theScottish Cup, this was their first season in the competition, but lost 2–1 in the final. In 1895, Celtic set the League record for the highest home score when they beat Dundee 11–0. Several months later the club moved to its new ground, Celtic Park, and in the following season won the Scotland League Championship for the first ever time. In 1892, Celtic defeated Queen’s Park 5–1 to win their first major honour, the Glasgow Cup. In 1903, Celtic adopted hoops as their club crest, which they have used since. The first kit consisted of a white shirt with a green collar, black shorts, and emerald green socks. The original club crest was a simple green cross on a red oval background, and a green oval background. Celtic played their first official game against Rangers and won 5-2 in what was described as a ‘friendly encounter’
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