| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
August
| 1st | 1950: Goalkeeper Willie Miller leaves Celtic and joins Clyde.
1951: Celtic defeat Aberdeen 3-2 (having been two goals behind) at Hampden to claim the St Mungo Cup. |
| 2nd | 1981: Celtic beat Dukla Prague 2-1 in Rotterdam to win the final of the Feyenoord Tournament |
| 3rd | 1974: Celtic beat Rangers 4-2 on penalties at Hampden to win the Drybrough Cup final for the one and only time. The game finished 2-2 after extra time, Jimmy Johnstone scored the winning penalty.
1997: Henrik Larsson makes his Celtic debut in a 2-1 defeat at Hibernian. |
| 4th | 1888: Celtic played Hibernians for the first time in a 3-1 Friendly win at Easter Road. The match had to be abandoned due to a crowd disturbance amongst the Hibernians fans.
1891: Neil McCallum missed Celtic’s first ever penalty kick. Morton 2-5 Celtic |
| 5th | 1951: Gil Heron signs a full time contract with Celtic after a successful trial
1995: Return to Paradise – Celtic Park re-opens with a friendly against Newcastle United. Rod Stewart opens the new 26,000 seater North Stand. 2009: Tony Mowbray records his first win as Celtic boss with a superb 2-0 victory at Dinamo Moscow as the Hoops record a 2-1 aggregate triumph in a Champions League qualifier. 2013: Green Brigade Section 111 closed by Celtic FC (temporarily) |
| 6th | 1960: Celtic take on Sedan in the Anglo-Franco-Scottish-Friendship Cup. The first-leg game is played in Lens and the French club are victorious by 3-0. As part of the tournament rules Celtic wear yellow numbers on the back of their hooped shirts. The second-leg at Parkhead in October would end a 3-3 draw. |
| 7th | 1993: U2 play first of two concerts at Celtic Park. Q Magazine ranked this as one of the best gigs of all time!
2002: A Shaun Maloney goal helps Celtic to a 1-1 draw in a friendly with Tottenham Hotspur. |
| 8th | 1950: Chic Geatons resigns as coach
1979: Celtic beat the China national side at Parkhead by 6-1 in a pre season friendly. 1981: Willie Garner makes his debut, possibly the worst nightmare for any player, scored two own goals in 3-1 defeat to St Mirren! 2001: Celtic beat Ajax 3-1 in Champions League qualifier in Amsterdam. |
| 9th | 1987: A crowd of 43,000 attend Celtic Park for the Tommy Burns testimonial in which Liverpool defeat the Bhoys 1-0. |
| 10th | 1891:Dan Doyle signs from Everton.
1895:Barney Battles makes his debut in a 2-1 victory over Dundee. 1935:The future Celtic Captain Willie Lyon makes his debut against Aberdeen. 1977: Kenny Dalglish leaves Celtic and signs for Liverpool in a £440,000 deal. |
| 11th | 1962:Lisbon Lion Bobby Murdoch made a scoring debut for Celtic in a 3-1 victory over Hearts at Celtic Park.
1965: First issue of the Celtic View published. 1979: The 1979 League flag is unfurled at Parkhead before Celtic’s 3-2 win over Morton. |
| 12th | 1972: Jock Stein tackles sectarianism on the Celtic terraces
2007: Celtic Ladies play their first ever game as they lose 2-1 to Hamilton at Barrowfield |
| 13th | 1938: Celtic thump Kilmarnock 9-1 in a league encounter at Parkhead.
1960: John “Yogi” Hughes makes his Celtic debut in a League Cup game against Third Lanark which Celtic won 2-0. 1977: Celtic raise League flag before opening game of the season v Dundee United (0-0). They wore the Celtic badge on the hoops for the first time ever and this did not go down well with some fans. 2003: Henrik Larsson creates new British record for European goals scored with one club (31) |
| 14th | 1965: Brazilians Fernando Consul and Yorge Fara arrieve at Celtic Park for trials.
1978: Jock Stein is given a terrific send off when 62,000 fans turn out for his testimonial game against Liverpool. Celtic lost 3-2 on the night. 1992 – Celtic make three signings in one day as boss Liam Brady unveils new Bhoys Rudi Vata, Andy Payton and £1.5 million man Stuart Slater 2011: A statue and remembrance garden in memory of Jimmy Johnstone opened in the legendary winger’s home village of Viewpark. |
| 15th | 1903: Celtic wear the Hoops for the first time as they defeat Partick Thistle 2-1 in a league tie at Parkhead.
1990: Dick Beattie the Celtic goalkeeper in the famous 7-1 League Cup Final victory over Rangers in 1957 died in Old Kilpatrick aged 54 years. |
| 16th | 1890: First Scottish League match, Celtic 1-4 Renton (and it ended up being voided!)
2008 – Celtic sign Dutch defender Glenn Loovens from Cardiff City. |
| 17th | 1944: Bobby Murdoch born in Bothwell, Lanarkshire. |
| 18th | 1934 – Celtic fans witness the debut of a future all-time great when Jimmy Delaney makes his competitive Hoops debut in a 0-0 league draw with Hearts.1951: Celtic 2-0 Morton, debut of Giles Heron, first non-white player to have played for Celtic’s first team.
1951: Gil Heron’s debut, first non-white player to play for Celtic’s first team. 1979: 10 man Celtic come from 2-0 down to snatch a draw with two late goals at Ibrox on the day that Rangers opened their new Copland Road stand. Aitken was ordered off but Sneddon and McAdam scored the goals. 1983: John Kennedy – the grandson of the great Jimmy Delaney – is born, Bellshill, Scotland |
| 19th | 1987: Not The View fanzine started; seminal fanzine that set the benchmark & ethic for Celtic fan led media. |
| 20th | 1892: Celtic Park opened.
1968: Prague Spring begins. Bob Kelly in time to stand up and protest against sides from Western Europe to play in Eastern Europe. Celtic won out in a major moral victory. 2005: Ref Stuart Dougals sends off Alan Thompson and Neil Lennon as Celtic are defeated 3-1 by Rangers in a controversial league clash at Ibrox. |
| 21st | 1983: Scott McDonald born, Melbourne, Australia
2002: The BBC in Belfast receive a phone call claiming to be from the Loyalist Volunteer Force warning that Neil Lennon would be “seriously hurt” if he played for Northern Ireland that night against Cyprus |
| 22nd | 1890: Peter Dowds becomes the first Celtic player to net a hat-trick in the league as the Bhoys defeat Cambuslang 5-2.
1908: Ex-Celtic player Bobby Templeton wins a bet to step in a lion’s cage and twist its tail! |
| 23rd | 1880: Jimmy McMenemy born in Rutherglen
1958: Billy McNeill makes his debut in a 2-0 win over Clyde in a League Cup Tie. |
| 24th | 2000: Mark Burchill scores the fastest hat-trick in Celtic history with three goals in a little under four minutes as the Hoops thumped Jeunesse d’Esch in the UEFA Cup at Parkhead. |
| 25th | 1993: Andy Payton becomes the first – and so far only – Celtic substitute to come off the bench and bag a hat-trick as the Hoops crush Arbroath 9-1 in a League Cup tie
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| 26th | 1970: Danny McGrain makes his debut in a 2-2 against Dundee United at Tannadice.
1997: UEFA CUP 2nd Qualifying Rnd, 2nd Leg. Celtic beat FC Tirol Innsbruck 6 – 3 at Celtic Park. |
| 27th | 2000: Celtic thrash Rangers 6-2 at Parkhead. |
| 28th | 1994:Neil Mochan dies in Falkirk Infirmary |
| 29th | 1973: Bobby Murdoch plays his last game for Celtic at Gayfield Park as Celtic beat Arbroath 3-1. He moved to Middlesbrough a couple of weeks later.
1987: A Billy Stark goal gives Celtic a 1-0 victory over Rangers at Parkhead. |
| 30th | 1943: Bobby Lennox born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire. |
| 31st | 1949: Bertie Peacock the Captain of the famous 7-1 team made his debut in a 3-1 defeat to Aberdeen.
1986: The first live TV broadcast of a Celtic and Rangers league clash sees the Bhoys lose 1-0 at Ibrox. |