Celtic Football Club

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish team that is based in Glasgow's Parkhead area. The club was founded in 1888 by an Irish Marist named Brother Walfrid. Brother Walfrid saw the club as an opportunity to raise money for a charity he had previously created, The Poor Children's Dinner Table.

At the meeting that saw the establishment of the football club, Brother Walfrid made the executive decision on calling the club Celtic, he did this as the wanted to connect the team to its Irish and Scottish roots.

The team of founders rented a patch of land, nearby to the current location of the stadium, for 50 per annum, the local community transformed the patch of ground into a football pitch. Just 6 months after putting the finishing touches to the pitch, Celtic played their first match and won it against Glasgow Rangers who have since become Celtic's biggest rival team. Together, today, the teams are known as the Old Firm as their growing rivalry dates back to 1888.

Today, Celtic play at Celtic Park, known also as Parkhead and Paradise to Celtic supporters. It has a maximum capacity of 60, 837. This is the biggest capacity for a stadium in Scotland.

In 1903 when things were beggining to really happen for the club and it was moving forward with great intensity, being recognised as Scotland most successful team of that period, members of the board developed the iconic strip that is the green and white stripes. Even today the team wear the green and white striped shirt for home games.

During the year of 1939, Celtic became record holders of having the largest home crowd of 92, 000 when they faced rivals Glasgow Rangers.

In the fantastic year of 1967, Celtic Football Club made history, they reached the final of the European Cup where they played against Inter Milan in Lisbon, this was a first for a British team, not only did Celtic get to the final but the even won the trophy at the end! This meant that Celtic became the first Scottish and British team to have won the European Cup! It's reported that the game was that of magic, the skills portrayed on the Lisbon pitch were outstanding at times. The team returned to Scotland and were hailed by supporters and Scottish people in general. The team of 1967 became known as "The Lisbon Lions"

All in all Celtic Football Club have won numerous trophies over the years since their establishment. The team have won 42 Scottish League Championships, 34 Scottish Cups, 14 League Cups, along with the European Cup. not only have Celtic won those Cups but have won various others in many different countries too mayn to mention!

Not only have the team as a whole been put in the record books but some individuals have been noted, the team have 13 players in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.

Henrik Larsson was voted by the supporters as Celtic's best ever foreign player.

At the moment the club is run by Chief Executive Peter Lawwell, Chairman John Reid and a board of directors, the main man being Dermot Desmond who is the clubs major stake holder. The current manager is Tony Mowbray who took over this year and is hoping for a very successful run.

Celtic is currently strip sponsored by Nike and Carling. However, in a bid to stop under-age drinking the club signed up to an initiative to stop advertising alcohol on their children size strips.