With response to all you so called fans who dont regard the famous Glasgow Celtic Football Club as top european side let us teach you all a bit of history about the 1st team to bring the european cup to british soil and team that all you lesser clubs look towards for your testimonials and your pre season friendlies to fill your stadiums that you cant fill even on your "BIG UEFA CUP" nights .
Celtic Football Club are a team soaked in history on and off the park that cannot be bought and a set of fans unrivaled in world football , your foreign investors can only dream of such a thing . The club has a worldwide fan base of well over 10 million ......... are you all getting the picture ?
read some facts and figures and maybe you could think twice about moaning about paying ONLY 20 pound to see one of europes most famous sides and most supported team playing at your below average club . FTQ
The Scottish Cup final win against Aberdeen in 1937 was attended by a crowd of 146,433 at Hampden Park in Glasgow, which remains a record for a club match in European football.
Celtic currently hold the UK record for an unbeaten run in professional football: 62 games (49 won, 13 drawn), from 13 November 1915 until 21 April 1917 - a total of 17 months and four days in all (they lost at home to Kilmarnock on the penultimate day of the season).
Celtic hold the SPL record for an unbeaten run of home matches (77), from 2001 to 2004.
Record home attendance: 92,000 against Rangers on 1 January 1938. A 3–0 victory for Celtic.
Most capped current player: 41, Artur Boruc
Most capped player (Scotland): 102, Kenny Dalglish
Record appearances: Billy McNeill, 790 from 1957–1975
Most goals in a season (all competitions): Jimmy McGrory, 59 (1926/1927) (49 League/10 Scottish Cup)
Most goals in a season (league only): Jimmy McGrory, 50 (1935/36)
Record scorer: Jimmy McGrory, 468 (1922/23 - 1937/38)
Most goals scored in one Scottish top-flight league match by one player: 8 goals by Jimmy McGrory against Dunfermline in 9–0 win on 14 January 1928
First British club to reach the final of the European Cup
Only Scottish, and first British team to win the European Cup
The highest score in a domestic cup final: Celtic 7–1 Rangers, Scottish League Cup Final 1957
The highest attendance for a European club competition match: Celtic v Leeds United in the European Cup semi-final, 15 April 1970 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Official attendance 136,505
Fastest hat-trick in European Club Football - Mark Burchill vs Jeunesse Esch in 2000; 3 minutes (between 12th minute and 15th minute), a record at the time.[17]
Earliest SPL Championship won. Twice won with 6 games remaining, against Kilmarnock on 18 April 2004 and Hearts on 5 April 2006.[citation needed]
First weekly club publication in the UK, The Celtic View
Biggest margin of victory in the SPL. 8–1 against Dunfermline Athletic, February 2006 and 7-0 against St Mirren on 28 February 2009.[citation needed]
Celtic and Hibernian hold the record for the biggest transfer fee between two Scottish clubs. Celtic bought Scott Brown from Hibernian on 16 May 2007 for £4.4m[18][19]
First European club to sign a player from the Indian sub-continent.
Appeared in 14 consecutive League Cup finals, from season 1964/65 to 1977/78 inclusive, a world record for successive appearances in the final of a major football competition.