Celtic Football Club was established in 1887 and is based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow at Celtic Park, which is the largest club stadium in Scotland, with a capacity of 60,832. Celtic have won the Scottish championship on no less than 42 occasions, which is second only to bitter rivals Rangers. They have also won the Scottish Cup 34 times.
The classic Celtic retro shirt is based around the famous green and white hoops, with white shorts and a pair of white socks. With so much success over the years it is hardly surprising that there are so many great looking vintage Celtic football shirts available, to help bring back happy memories and get nostalgic about the past.
You might expect the green and white hooped Celtic retro shirt to be at the centre of most of those key moments in history, but in actual fact there have been a number of different styles and colours that Celtic have worn through the years.
Below we take a look at some vintage Celtic football shirts from their glorious past, which will hopefully inspire you to choose a great looking Celtic retro shirt to cheer the guys on next season.
Celtic 1967 European Cup Shirt
These vintage Celtic football shirts commemorate Celtic’s finest hour, when the Lisbon Lions became the first British side to win the European Cup, when they beat Inter Milan, in 1967. In doing so Celtic became the first and so far only European club to win the Quadruple, by winning the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup and finally the European Cup that season, which remains an incredible achievement.
This is a classic Celtic retro shirt consisting of green and white hoops with the following embroidered text «EUROPEAN CUP FINAL LISBON 1967».
Celtic 1958 Shirt
This Celtic retro shirt is a cool looking away shirt from the 1950’s, which the team actually wore when they thrashed Old Firm rival, Rangers, 7-1 in the 1957 Scottish League Cup Final.
The vintage Celtic football shirts are based around white shirts with green sleeves and green collars and have a wonderful green shamrock as the logo.
Celtic 1900’s Shirt
These awesome looking Celtic retro shirts date all the way back to the 1900s and so are a really cool way to support your favourite team.
The retro Celtic football shirts are long-sleeved white jerseys with green collars that include a green tie-up.