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Background
A range of sides have worn the hoops not just Celtic. Below are a cross section of a select number who have also donned the hoops.
St.Anthony’s FC
“The Ants” were formed in 1902 and from their very earliest days played in green and white hooped shirts. It is claimed that one of the Celtic board took a shine to the hooped jersey whilst watching “The Ants” play and decided that the Bhoys should adopt the Hoops as their new kit.
Currently playing in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association “The Ants” are based at McKenna Park on Shieldhall Road, Glasgow.
http://www.theants.co.uk/links.html
Bradford Park Avenue
When Tom Maley became the manager of Bradford Park Avenue in 1911 their jerseys were changed to green and white hoops. Previously the club had played in red black and amber. They continued to wear the hoops until around 1924. However the hoops have been revived in recent years.
Real Betis
Background – One of Real Betis’s co-founders Manuel Ramos Asensio, one of whom returned from a business trip to Glasgow in 1912 with a set of green and black striped shirts, donated by Celtic, and proposed Betis take up the colours. Asensio apparently loved the look, and outfitted his side in green and white, but switched to stripes to give them their own sense of identity. However, to mark Andalusian Day on 28 February 2017, the Hoops will return to remember their humble beginnings.
SpVgg Greuther Fürth
SpVgg Greuther Fürthplay in Bundesliga 2, and are based in Fürth, Bavaria. The current club was formed in 1996 after the merging of SpVgg Fürth, founded in 1903 and TSV Vestenbergsgreuth, founded in 1974
website: http://www.greuther-fuerth.de/
Santos Laguna
Club Santos Laguna ( Santos Laguna or Santos) play in the Primera Division de Mexico. The club – who have an official partnership with the Bhoys – were founded in 1984 and debuted in Mexico’s top division in season 1988/89. They have won the league championship twice.
Official website: http://www.rincondelsantos.com
Sporting Lisbon
Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon) was established in 1902 as Sport Club de Belas, which became Campo Grande Sporting Club in 1904, changing it’s name to the current choice in 1906.
Sporting are one of the biggest and most succesful clubs in Portugal.
Official Website: http://www.sporting.pt/
FC Sete (France)
FC Sète 34 is a French football club found in 1900. They were managed by Scot Victor Gibson for a dozen seasons from 1912. A Celtic fan, Gibson’s influence lives on today with the club donning the famous green and white hoops.
Sete were the first French side to win the league and cup double in 1932.
Official website: http://www.fcsete.com
Agaza FC de Lomé (Togo)
Runners up to Al Moqaouloun al-Arabin 1983 for the Coupe des Coupes africaine
Donegal Celtic
Donegal Celtic is a football club playing in the Irish Football League in Northern Ireland. The club, founded in 1970, hails from Belfast and plays its home matches at Donegal Celtic Park.
Bloemfontein Celtic
Deportes Temuco
Deportes Temucois aChileanfootballclub based inTemuco. It currently plays in thePrimera B, holding home games at the newEstadio Municipal Germán Becker.
Official website:http://www.deportes-temuco.cl/
Yeovil Town
Buckie Thistle
Official Club Website -: http://www.buckiethistle.com/
Shamrock Rovers
Offficial website: http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/
Aylesbury United
Link
PFC Cherno More Varna
Cherno More are a football club in the top “A Grupa” Bulgarian league formed in 1945 through the merge of FC Vladislav and SK Ticha. The club play in green and white hooped tops and socks with black shorts and an away kit consisting of blue and white stripes with blue shorts and socks. “Cherno More” is Bulgarian for Black Sea, with Varna the largest of the sea’s coastal towns.
In the 2008-09 uefa cup the club almost pulled off a shock against VfB Stuttgart in the first round of the competition. With 79 minutes gone in the second leg, the score stood at 0:2 (2:3 on aggregate) in favour of the Bulgaria side. Late goals however from Thomas Hitzelsperger and Mario Gomez ultimately saw the Germans go through with a 4:3 aggregate victory.
Racing Club Mechelen (Belgium)
Official Club Site (Dutch)
Sporting da Covilhã (Portugal)
Official Club Site (Portugese)
Wikipedia Entry (English)
FC St. Gallen (Switzerland)
http://www.fcsg.ch/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-129/
Club Ferro Carril Oeste (Argentina) (Away kit)
(away kit)
http://www.ferrocarriloeste.com.ar/
SD Eibar (Spain)
http://www.sdeibar.com/
Racing de Santander (Spain)
(3rd top)
http://www.realracingclub.com/default.aspx
Associação Naval 1º de Maio
Lechia Gdansk (Poland)
Click above photo for link to the Lechia Wiki site.
Wiki page
TNS (Wales)
THE New Saints are one of the leading clubs in the Principality Welsh Premier League, the national domestic soccer league of Wales.
Immortalised by Sky TV presenter Jeff Stelling – “They’ll be dancing in the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight!” – the club started life in the small village of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, south west of Oswestry. The village had a football team for many years, but it was not until 1959 that the present club was set up. TNS won the Welsh league and cup double in 2009-10.
Sete de Setembro E. C (Brazil)
Bursaspor
2010-2011 away top.They could have worn this against Rangers in 2010-11 in the Champs lge.
FK Alberts
They play in the Latvian second division, and play in the hoops!
In 2008 FK Alberts won the second division in Vidzemes region (in Latvia second division is divided in to 7 regions), but in 2009-10 FK Alberts finished in 9th place. In their first seasons FK Alberts had gray shirts, then – black, but from 2007 they changed to green/white hoops because of Celtic!
Kibera Celtic
Kibera Celtic has no religious, ethnic or political allegiances. The football club currently has 1 men’s team and 1 women’s team, with 25 players in each squad. Both teams are currently champions of Nairobi and are entering the nationwide leagues, which start in March 2011. The average age of the men’s team is 17 and the women’s is 16. Already Kibera has found national success with 1 player in the men’s U20 Kenyan national squad, 5 players in the men’s U17 national squad and 5 players in the women’s U20 national squad. Official Site
St.Louis Lions
Based at the Tony Glavin Soccer Complex in Cottleville the team plays in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference. The PDL is the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. Official Site
Union Sportive Hostert
Valledupar F.C. (Colombia)
Vitoria da Conquista (Brazil)
Keynsham Town Ladies FC
Konyaspor (Turkey)
Catholic Utd Football Club
Link: http://www.catholicutd.co.uk/
Founded in 1959, Catholic United has a long history of football in Southend-on-Sea. Originally known in the 30’s as Southend Catholic and then later as Catholic Athletic.
Although the words Athletic and Southend have been dropped, what has remained firm and steadfast is the name Catholic and with it the reputation for all that is good in the game.
Back in the 60’s Celtic helped Catholic United by supplying a Celtic Kit when the Club reached the Charity Cup Final.
In honour of Celtics generosity for supplying what became a winning Cup Final Kit it is now written into the Club’s constitution that our club colours will always be the world famous green and white hoops.
In 2021, Celtic signed Cameron Carter-Vickers via Spurs. Cameron Carter-Vickers was a former Catholics Utd player.
Maccabi Haifa (Israel)
2013 alternate shirt
Links
- Another list of Green & White hoop tops (from Nunoni): http://www.verdebranco.net/en_estrangeiros.html