Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club managed by Gordon Strachan and is based in Glasgow, who currently play in the Scottish Premier League. Celtic are the football champions of Scotland, having completed a hat-trick of titles on 22 May 2008, the final day of the 2007-08 season.

The full name of the club is The Celtic Football Club. Until 1994, the club’s full name was The Celtic Football and Athletic Company Ltd, whilst outside of Scotland they are often referred to as Glasgow Celtic. Unlike the Celtic language which is pronounced Kel-tick the name of the football club is pronounced Sell-tick. Celtic play home games at Celtic Park (commonly referred to as Parkhead) which has a capacity of 60,832, making it the largest football stadium in Scotland. In 2006-07, Celtic Park attracted an average attendance of 57,543, Together with their rivals, Rangers F.C., they form the Old Firm which is one of the most famous and most fierce rivalries in sport. Celtic has traditionally been linked with its founding roots which originate from the Irish immigrant community in Glasgow.

In 1967, Celtic became the first northern European team to win the European Champions Cup, which had previously been the preserve of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish clubs. Managed by Jock Stein, Celtic won every competition that they entered that season: the Scottish League, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the European Cup and the Glasgow Cup.

Celtic are the only club ever to win the trophy with a team composed entirely of home-grown talent.; as all of the players in the side were Scottish, and all were born within a 30-mile radius of Celtic Park and they are the only club in history to win a Continental Quintuple.[citation needed] Celtic again reached the European Cup final in 1970, only to be beaten by Feyenoord in extra time. In 2003 Martin O’Neill led the team to the UEFA Cup final in Seville where they lost 3-2 to F.C. Porto after extra time. Close to 80,000 Celtic supporters travelled to Seville for the final, believed by UEFA to be the largest foreign travelling support in history at the time.
The club’s traditional playing colours are green and white hooped shirts and white shorts with white socks.

Celtic have an estimated fan base of nine million, across the world including, one million in North America.

Current squad

1    GK    Artur Boruc
2    DF    Andreas Hinkel
3    DF    Lee Naylor
5    DF    Gary Caldwell (vice-captain)
6    DF    Bobo Baldé
8    MF    Scott Brown
9    FW    Giorgios Samaras (On-Loan from Manchester City)
10    FW    Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (vice-captain)
11    MF    Paul Hartley (vice-captain)
12    DF    Mark Wilson
14    FW    Derek Riordan
15    MF    Evander Sno
16    MF    Thomas Gravesen
17    DF    Steven Pressley
18    MF    Massimo Donati
19    MF    Barry Robson
21    GK    Mark Brown
23    FW    Ben Hutchinson
24    DF    Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé
25    MF    Shunsuke Nakamura
27    FW    Scott McDonald
29    MF    Koki Mizuno
33    FW    Chris Killen
41    DF    John Kennedy
44    DF    Stephen McManus (Captain)
45    MF    James O’Brien
46    MF    Aiden McGeady
47    GK    Michael McGovern
48    DF    Darren O’Dea
49    DF    Scott Cuthbert
52    DF    Paul Caddis