Celtic FC’s 10 best seasons: Where do they rank?

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2. 2016 – 2017

Trophies: Scottish Premiership, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup

League Play: 1st Place by 30 points over Aberdeen, +81 GD with a European league record total of 106 points.

Winning the club’s fourth domestic treble, the Hoops went on an unprecedented tear during the 2017 campaign. Scoring a total of 150 goals behind the likes of Moussa Dembélé, Scott Sinclair, Leigh Griffiths, and Stuart Armstrong, the squad went unbeaten through 47 domestic matches and setting a thus stringing together a British record of 69 unbeaten domestically. This was the first unbeaten campaign in Scottish football since 1899. The squad competed in an incredibly challenging Champions League group, being knocked out of the group stages by FC Barcelona, Manchester City, and Borussia Mönchengladbach.

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1. 1966 – 1967

Trophies: Scottish First Division, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup, Glasgow Cup, European Cup.

League Play: Won by 3 points over Rangers, with a +78 GD

Hoops fans are no doubt incredibly familiar with the Lisbon Lions of 1967. The only team to complete a European quintuple, they took home trophies from the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the Glasgow Cup and culminated the season in their 2-1 win over Inter Milan in the club’s first and only European Championship (as well as the first team from the British Isles to do so). Winning the league with a +78 goal differential, the club truly dominated play suffering only two defeats (both 3-2 to Dundee United). In the Glasgow Cup, they carried a 16-0 goal differential over three matches against Rangers, Queen’s Park, and Partick Thistle. The squad also became one of only two that have won the European Championship with a team consisting of all local players.