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The 10 best and poorest games in Celtic's history
This is only a matter of opinion. Many Celtic fans would simply put 10 wins against Rangers and 10 defeats against Rangers. But I mean the best results in the opinion of a non old firm fan. Obviously some Old firms results will be included, but not many.
The 10 best results by Glasgow Celtic FC, in my opinion
1. Celtic 2 (Gemmel, Chalmers) Inter Milan 1 To win the european cup
Tournament: European Cup final
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Date 25th of May 1967:
2 Celtic 1 (McNeil) Racing Club 0
Tournament World club championship final first leg
Location: Celtic Park, Glasgow
Date: 18th of October 1967
Celtic went on to lose the tournament after losing in a play off match decider 1-0 to Racing Club, after drawing the second leg 2-1.
3. Celtic 2 (Murdoch, Connely) Leeds United 1
Tournament: European cup semi final second leg
Location: Hampden Stadium Glasgow
Date: April 15th 1970
Match puts Celtic through to European cup final in front of 130,000 people ther largest crowd for a European cup semi final.
4. Celtic 11(Meechan, Doyle, Beatles, Blessington(2), McMahon, Ferguson (5) Dundee 0
Tournament : Scottish football league division one match
Location: Celtic Park, Glasgow
Date: October the 26th 1895
Record victory by Celtic
5. Celtic 7 (Ferrie, McPhail (3), Mochan(2))Rangers 1
Tournament: League Cup final
Location: Hampden Stadium
Date: October the 19th 1956
6. Liverpool 0 Celtic 2
Tournament UEFA cup quarter final second leg
Location Anfield stadium Liverpool
Date: 20th March 2003
Celtic win UEFA cup tie, to become first Scottish side to win a two legged tie against Liverpool.
7. Celtic 4 St Etienne 0
Tournament European Cup first found
Location: Celtic Park, Glasgow
Date: October 2nd 1968
Celtic pull back from 2-0 down in first leg to win 4-0 against the champions of France.
8. Celtic 5 Sporting Lisbon 0
Tournament: Uefa cup second round second leg
Location: Celtic Park, Glasgow
Date: november 2nd 1983
Celtic come back from 2-0 down in the first leg to beat Portugese giants 5-2 on aggregate.
9. Celtic 3 Rangers 0
Location: Celtic Park
Date January the 1st 1938
Celtic win against Rangers in front of their record home crowd of 92,000
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10. Celtic 2 (Crum, Buchan) Aberdeen 1
Location: Hampden stadium
Date: April 24th 1937
Celtic win Scottish cup in front of world record crowd of 146,433
Poorest results by Glasgow Celtic's history in my opinion.
1. Artmedia Bratislava 5 Glasgow Celtic 0
Tournament: European champions league second qualifying league first leg
Location: Bratislava
Date: 27th July 2005
Celtic had their poorest display in Europe. They won the second leg 4-0.
2. Neuchatel Xamax 5 Glasgow Celtic 1 (O'Neil)
Tournmanet: UEFA cup Second round
Location: Neuchatel
Date: October 22nd 1991
Celtic have their second poorest result in Europe, they won the second leg 1-0.
3. Motherwell 8 Celtic 0
Tournament Division one
Location Fir Park
Date 20th april 1937
4. Rangers 4 Celtic 0
Tournament Scottish cup final
Location Hampden stadium
Date 14th april 1928
5. Rangers 5 Celtic 1
Tournament: Premier division
Location Ibrox Stadium
Date: August 1988
Rangers set their record win against Celtic at Ibrox. This was equalled in 26th November 2000, when Rangers again won 5-1 in the premier league, after Celtic has won 6-2 at Celtic park earlier in the year.
Rangers equal their record win again Celtic
6. Celtic 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3
Tournament Scottish cup
Location Celtic Park
Date 2000
Celtic lose to a side one division below them at home.
7. Celtic 0 Heart of Midlothian 5
Tournament Division one
Location Celtic Park
Date: September the 14th 1895
Record home defeat for Celtic
8. Celtic 1 Aberdeen 5
Tournament Division one
Location: Celtic Park
Date: January 2nd 1948
Record post world war two defeat
9. Kilmarnock 6 Celtic 0
Tournament: Division one
Location Rugby Park
Date: March 27th 1963
Record defeat in the last fifty years.
10. Celric 2 Aberdeen 3
Tournament premier division
Location Celtic Park
Date 21st April 2004
Second bottom of the table Aberdeen break Celtic's 3 year unbeaten home record. After Celtic had prevented Liverpool, Barcelona, Real Villareal, Juventus, Blackburn, Rangers, Stuttgart, Boavista, Anderlecht, Bayern Munich, and many other sides from Europe and the continent from winning at Celtic park. Aberdeen then won the next time they played at Celtic Park too. Their equal record defeat to Rangers came in the same year as they won 6-2 against Rangers.
Conclusion
Celtic have a habit of having their best and poorest results in the same period.
In 1895 they had their record win, and record home defeat.
Their record defeat came in the came in the same year that they won the scottish cup in front of a record crowd for a cup final.
Their record defeat in the last fifty years came only 4 years before they won the European cup.
Other notbale matches
The largest margin of victory for Celtic in European matches is 9 goals
In 1970 the side won 9-0 against KPV Kokkola of Finland at, Celtic Park in the European cup first round.
The second largest is 7 goals which have been done 3 times.
Against Sudova of Lithuania in the UEFA cup first round, in 2002 at Celtic Park, with an 8-1 victory for Celtic at Celtic Park.
Against Waterford of the Republic of Ireland in 1970, in the European cup second round, with a 7-0 victory in Waterford.
Against Valur Rejkavik of Iceland in 1975, in the European cup winners cup first round, with a 7-0 victory for Celtic at home.
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