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December
| 1st |
2013: Celtic defeat Hearts 7-0 in Scottish Cup match, and chant: “When the Celts go up to lift the Scottish Cup….you’ll be deid, you’ll be deid!” (in reference to Hearts administration….)
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| 2nd | 1911: Patsy Gallacher makes his Celtic debut in a 3-1 home league win over St Mirren. |
| 3rd | 1938: Celtic defeat Hibernian 5-4 in thrilling league clash at Celtic Park |
| 4th | 1951: Jock Stein signs for Celtic from Llanelly.
1982: Celtic lift the League Cup after a 2-1 win over Rangers at Hampden. |
| 5th | 1973: Harry Hood hits a hat-trick as Celtic beat Rangers 3-1 in the League Cup semi-final at Hampden Park. |
| 6th | 1966: Celtic sign Willie Wallace from Hearts for a fee of £30,000 |
| 7th | 1966: Celtic beat Nantes 3-1 in Glasgow to qualify for the quarter-final of the European Cup. |
| 8th | 1888: Celtic 9-2 Clyde in the Scottish Cup 5th Rd
1951: Jock Stein makes his Celtic debut in a 2-1 home league win over St Mirren. 1979: Celtic’s game at Dens Park is postponed. Some fans make their way back to Hampden where Aberdeen draw 0-0 with Dundee United in the League Cup final. |
| 9th | 1933: Celtic’s Peter Scarff dies at the age of 25 after suffering from TB.
2022: Celtic’s Juranovic plays a MOTM performance to help push his side to a shock victory over Brazil in the World Cup quarter-finals in Qatar. |
| 10th | 1966: Celtic 4-2 Motherwell League, Stevie Chalmers scores a hat-trick
1997: Celtic sign Harald Brattbakk from Rosenborg 2015: Fernerbahce 1-1 Celtic, UEFA Cup – first ever competitive match for Celtic v Turkish sides |
| 11th | 1974: A crowd of 30,000 attend Parkhead to watch Celtic take on Benfica for the Children’s Cup (UNICEF Cup). This one-off fund-raising match is won by the Portugese side on penalties after an exciting 3-3 draw. An impressive £20,000 was raised for charity on the night.
1999: Celtic hammer Aberdeen 6-0 in the league |
| 12th | 1880: All time Celtic great Jimmy Hay born in Beith, Ayrshire
2012: Celtic qualify for the Champions League KO Stages for the third time after a 2-1 win, a nervy display v Spartak Moscow. |
| 13th | 1913: Raith Rovers 1-2 Celtic, League; Raith score what was to be the last goal the great Charlie Shaw was to concede for an estimated 1287 minutes! A record that lasted for around 90 years in British football.
1958: John Colrain grabs a hat-trick as Celtic win home league tie with Stirling Albion 7-3! |
| 14th | 1895: Scottish League: Celtic 6-2 Rangers, Celtic demolish Rangers over festive Period which effectively set Celtic up for league title
1957: The Shawfield Disaster – Celtic v Clyde; Wall collapse at game led to the death of one young child, RIP. 1971: Tommy Gemmell moves to Nottingham Forest for a fee of £35,000 |
| 15th | 1888: Celtic 2-1 East Stirlingshire in the Scottish Cup 6th Rd
1917: Motherwell 3-4 Celtic, League. According to the Glasgow Herald match report, Celtic only had 7 players at the scheduled start and kicked off minus one player. Debut and sole game played by Arthur McInally, the elder brother of Celtic great Tommy McInally. |
| 16th | 1950: John McPhail scores a goal after only six seconds in a 6-2 victory over East Fife at Celtic Park.
2000: On-loan defender Ramon Vega scores twice on his Hoops debut as the Bhoys thrash Aberden 6-0 at Parkhead. |
| 17th | 1898: Celtic 3-2 Heart of Midlothian, League; notable landmark in Celtic history, as one of the players on the field was John Walker of Hearts: the first non-white player to have played in a Celtic First Team game (either for or against Celtic)
1921: Celtic thump Clydebank 6-0 at Parkhead 2017: Hearts defeat Celtic 4-0 to end Celtic’s record 69 games undefeated record. |
| 18th | 1971: Celtic defeat Motherwell 5-1 in league clash at Fir Park
1993: Celtic 1-0 Hibs, League, Celtic fans hold a classic protest banner via t-shirts bypassing the board’s efforts to stop protest at the ground to ‘Sack the Board’. |
| 19th | 1931: Jimmy McGrory scores four goals as Celtic win league tie 6-0 at Leith Athletic. The game would be Peter Scarff’s last for the Hoops.
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| 20th | 2002: Daily Record forced to make retraction of “Thugs & Thieves” front page after admitting their report was wrong.
1924: Celtic 0-2 Hamilton Academicals, League; Celtic said to have ben playing as if : “Celtic were like sheep without a shepherd”. 1997: Celtic 5-0 Hibernian, Premier Division; Celtic win with Burley double; partly overshadowed by another player spat with McCann 2009: Ten men Celtic take the lead but end up 2-1 losers in a league clash with Hearts at Tynecastle. 2020: Scottish Cup: Celtic 3-3 Hearts; Celtic win on penalties delayed Scottish Cup to complete a record fourth treble in succession, 12 trophies in a row. Quadruple Treble |
| 21st | 1935: Jimmy McGrory hits his fourth hat-trick of the season as Celtic defeat Aberdeen 5-3 in league clash at Parkhead. |
| 22nd | 1956: Airdrie 3-7 Celtic, League, Celtic’s first floodlit league game. One of the highest scoring games Celtic have ever played in. |
| 23rd | 1893: Celtic win 5-4 in a league clash at Dumbarton.
1978: Ex-Celt Andy Ritchie scores the only goal as Celtic lose against Morton at Cappielow. This would be Celtic’s last league game until March 3rd 1979. |
| 24th | Games On Christmas Eve
1955: Celtic defeat Hibernian 3-2 in a league clash at Easter Road. |
| 25th | Games on Christmas Day
1965: Celtic thrash Morton 8-1 at Parkhead in a league tie. 1971: Celtic defeat Hearts 3-2 at Celtic Park in the last league fixture to have ever been played on Christmas day. *In total Celtic have played 20 times (16 times competitive matches) on Christmas day winning fourteen. |
| 26th | Games On Boxing Day/St Stephen’s Day
1883: Alec McNair born 1935: Stevie Chalmers born in Glasgow. |
| 27th | 1947: Severe sectarian violence spilt onto the pitch at a Belfast Celtic v Linfield match at Windsor Park, set in motion a chain of events that saw the demise of Belfast Celtic
2018: Celtic defeat Aberdeen 4-3 away in one of the most pulsating games between the two ever. Aberdeen awarded two penalties, with the second definitely not a penalty. Many Celtic fans say first shouldn’t have been a penalty too. Aberdeen came back twice to equalise, then scored a late consolation goal but Celtic hung on to win, 1969: Celtic thrash Partick Thistle 8-1 in a league clash at Parkhead. 1980: Celtic lose heavily by 4-1 at Pittodrie against Aberdeen. The team were 4-0 down when Charlie Nicholas scored the consolation and gets the biggest roar of the day from the huge faithful Celtic support. 1982: Charlie Nicholas scores his 30th goal of the season in the 5-1 home win over Morton on bank holiday Monday. He wins a prize from the Daily Record in the process for being the first Scottish player to hit 30 goals that season. |
| 28th | 1901: Celtic defeat Kilmarnock 4-2 in a league clash at Parkhead. |
| 29th | 1979: Rangers 1-1 Celtic at Ibrox in Celtic’s last game of the decade. Bobby Lennox has the distinction over scoring the last Celtic goal of the 70’s.
2007: In the Motherwell v Dundee Utd game, Phil O’Donnell fell to the ground near the end of Motherwell’s 5-3 victory, and sadly passed away that same day, aged only 35. RIP |
| 30th | 1961: Charlie Nicholas born in Cowcaddens |
| 31st | 1898: Celtic travel south of the Clyde to take on Third Lanark in a league tie the Bhoys win 4-2 |