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The stadium attendance records for Rangers' Ibrox (118,567, January 1939) [224] [225] and Celtic's Celtic Park (officially 83,500 but estimated at 92,000 with around 10,000 more locked out, January 1938) [226] [227] were both set at Old Firm matches; however while the Ibrox figure is the Rangers club record (and the record for any domestic ...
Shortly after this two smaller groups of Hibs and Celtic casuals were involved in street battles that took them into the Barras area of the city. The fighting became more vicious and eventually a Celtic boy was knocked out when a sandwich board was used to strike him on the head. [3] 10 November 1986 Hibernian v Celtic, Easter Road
The Quality Street Gang was a term used by the Scottish media to describe the Celtic reserve team of the late 1960s. Several of the group eventually replaced members of the Lisbon Lions team that had won the European Cup in 1967.
Celtic have been in the Scottish top division since the inaugural Scottish Football League season in 1890. [3] The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic (/ ˈ s ɛ l t ɪ k /), [a] is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football.
Celtic's record appearance-maker is Billy McNeill, who made a total of 790 appearances in major competitions over an 18-year playing career. Alec McNair holds the record at Celtic for most league appearances, and is also the oldest player to have competed for the club. Jimmy McGrory is the club's top goalscorer with 472 goals in major ...
Celtic F.C., a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow Celtic F.C. Women; Bangor Celtic F.C., Northern Irish, defunct Belfast Celtic F.C., Northern Irish ...
Supporters of Celtic (left) and Rangers during an Old Firm match at Celtic Park in 2008. The Union Jack flags signify the Unionist political views of many Rangers supporters. Sectarianism in Glasgow takes the form of long-standing religious and political sectarian rivalry between Catholics and Protestants. A major contributor to this scenario ...
Celtic was founded as a charity for poor Irish immigrants in Glasgow by Brother Walfrid, a Marist Brother originally from County Sligo, Ireland. [77] Consequently, Celtic is strongly associated with Scotland's Irish Catholic community [78] [79] and have a significant number of supporters in Ireland and among members of the Irish diaspora elsewhere.