Celtic were founded on 6 November 1887 and have made Celtic Park the fixed point of Scottish football life since. The scale is familiar, but it still matters: a club built on domestic expectation, European memory and a support that measures seasons by standards most others are spared.
The 2025/2026 Premiership title was Celtic’s sixteenth in the competition, following the 2024/2025 league and League Cup double and earlier Premiership wins in 2022/2023 and 2021/2022. The broader record includes eight Scottish Cups and eight League Cups, enough silverware to make success feel less like a surprise than a requirement.
The current squad is valued at around £105m by Transfermarkt, with 33 players and an average age of 25. It is a large, relatively young group, carrying the usual burden of being judged not only by results, but by rhythm, authority and whether opponents are made to look as limited as they often are.
Early in the 2026-27 Premiership campaign, Celtic sit fifth with three points after one round, with 32 league fixtures still to play. The wider recent league sequence is strong: wins over Dundee, Hearts, Motherwell, Rangers, Hibernian and Falkirk, with Celtic Park offering little away defensively and the side having scored first inside 20 minutes in six of 19 league matches.
The season has also included the League Cup second round and the Champions League qualifying play-offs. For Celtic supporters, the position is simple enough: the campaign is young, the standards are old, and the table will be expected to reflect that soon enough.
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