Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1887 by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to raise funds for poor communities in the city's East End, and one of the most historically dominant clubs in Scottish football, having won a large majority of Scottish league championships in club history. Playing in green-and-white hooped shirts at Celtic Park, the club made history in 1967 by becoming the first British club to win the European Cup, doing so with a squad, nicknamed the "Lisbon Lions," composed entirely of players born within about 30 miles of the stadium, and shares a fierce, historically sectarian-tinged rivalry with Rangers FC known as the Old Firm.
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The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic (), is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.
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What made Celtic's 1967 European Cup win historic?
Celtic became the first British club to win the European Cup in 1967, with a squad nicknamed the Lisbon Lions born within about 30 miles of the stadium.
Celtic Football Club, founded in 1887 in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to raise funds for poor communities in the city's East End, made history in 1967 by becoming the first British club to win the European Cup. The squad, nicknamed the Lisbon Lions, was composed entirely of players born within about 30 miles of Celtic Park, and the club shares a fierce, historically sectarian tinged rivalry with Rangers FC known as the Old Firm.
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