reserve team
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of
Celtic Football Club
The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic (), is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which plays in the Scottish Premiership. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigran ...
. They are based in Airdrie and compete in the Lowland League. Celtic have run a reserve side since the early days of the club, comprising a combination of emerging youth players and first-team squad players. The current "B" side forms the highest level of the Academy structure at Celtic, beneath which there are four junior strands: Professional Academy (Under 18s), Intermediate Academy (Under 13s, 14s, 15s & 16s), Junior Academy (Under 10s, 11s & 12s) and Development Centres (five years old and above).
History of reserve and youth football
Reserve football
Celtic ran a reserve side from their early days, known at the time as the ''Crusaders''. Other clubs in the 1880s also gave their reserve sides distinctive names, with Rangers calling their Second XI the '' Swifts'', and Queens Park naming their reserves the ''Strollers''.
Celtic's first known involvement in reserve league football, was their participation in the Scottish Combination league in 1896. Several Scottish League clubs fielded 2nd XIs ('A' sides), as well as Queens Park Strollers. However, by the 1900s Celtic manager
Willie Maley
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was only using a small, if versatile, squad of players, and the decision was made to stop fielding a reserve team altogether. In 1909, a new Scottish Reserve League was set up, again often including at least one non-reserve side of a non-league club in each of its seasons. Celtic did not participate. The league was disbanded during
World War I
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, but effectively re-established in 1919 as the Scottish Alliance League. As with previous incarnations, this reserve league also contained the first XI of several non-league sides. Celtic took part for the first few seasons, and won the championship in 1921–22, however withdrew again after that for what is presumed were financial reasons. This appeared an unwise decision. Rangers went on to dominate Scottish football in the 1920s, and Celtic appeared to struggle without a reserve team to help blend younger players into the club's first team.
The club did re-introduce a reserve team in 1930, and won three Alliance championships in 1934, 1937 and 1938, and the Second XI Cup in 1935 and 1936.Malky MacDonald,
Johnny Crum
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Jimmy Delaney
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Willie Buchan
William Ralston Murray Buchan (17 October 1914 – 6 July 2003) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He played for Celtic, Blackpool, Hull City, Gateshead, Coleraine and East Stirlingshire.
Buchan signed professional fo ...
all emerged during this time from the reserve side and went on to form the nucleus of the Celtic first team that won the league championship in 1936 and 1938, and the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, In 1936, Celtic fielded trialist Mohammed Salim in two Alliance league matches, with him becoming the first footballer from the Indian sub-continent to play for a European club. A league AGM in 1938, resulted in the non-league sides being removed and the league became exclusive to First Division reserve sides. The advent of
World War II
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, however, once again saw the suspension of national reserve league football in Scotland, although regional leagues were set up.
The national Reserve League restarted at the end of the war, once again mirroring the sixteen club top-tier division. The subsequent years into the 1950s saw various changes to the leagues, but Celtic's achievements at reserve level were undistinguished, with two fourth-place finishes in 1952 and 1954 their highest positions. The Scottish (Reserve) League was set up in 1955, again mirroring the First Division although there were a number of seasons when not all of those clubs took part. This set-up, with minor variations, continued up until 1975.
Jock Stein
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's appointment in 1957 as reserve team coach saw an upturn in Celtic's commitment to reserve team football. Future star players such as Pat Crerand,
Billy McNeill
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Bertie Auld
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all emerged at Celtic during this time. The reserves won the Second XI Cup in 1958 (thrashing Rangers 8–2 on aggregate) and the reserve league title a year later. From 1958 up to 1966, Celtic also fielded a reserve side (effectively a 3rd XI) in the Combined Reserve League. Although Stein left in 1960 to manage
Dunfermline Athletic
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, promising players continued to emerge from the reserves, such as
Bobby Murdoch
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,
Jimmy Johnstone
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and George Connelly.
The mid 1960s saw the emergence of one of Celtic's most notable reserve sides, a group that became known as the Quality Street Kids. Several became regulars in the first-team side, winning major honours and going on to represent
Scotland
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at full international level, most notably Kenny Dalglish and
Danny McGrain
Daniel Fergus McGrain (born 1 May 1950) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played for Celtic, Hamilton Academical and the Scotland national team as a right back. McGrain is regarded as one of Scotland's greatest players and th ...
. In August 1968, the reserves needed to defeat Partick Thistle by at least seven goals to win their Reserve League Cup group section; Celtic won 12–0, with
Lou Macari
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scoring four goals. That same year, the Celtic reserves played the
Scotland national football team
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in a practice match; the young Celtic won 5–2. During season 1970–71, Celtic won all three main reserve honours - league, Reserve League Cup and Second XI Cup - scoring 157 goals in the process and becoming the first reserve team in Scotland to win the treble.
In
1975
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, the Scottish League was reorganized into Premier-
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- Second. The Premier clubs were assigned to the Premier Reserve League and the lower league clubs used varying regionalised sections and midweek competitions. Key players continued to emerge from the youths and reserves;
Roy Aitken
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Charlie Nicholas
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and
Paul McStay
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in the 1980s. When the Scottish Premier League was founded in 1998, the reserve league was replaced by an under 21 league with some overage players permitted. Various changes to this set-up were made in subsequent years, eventually leading to the
SPFL Development League
The SPFL Development League was the top level of youth football in Scotland, which was contested in various formats between 1998 and 2018.
History
A youth league was founded as the Scottish Premier under-18 League in 1998. Clubs fielded under-1 ...
which was contested by the Under-20 teams of 17 Scottish Professional Football League clubs, including Celtic, up to the end of season 2017–18. During the 2010s, James Forrest,
Callum McGregor
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and Kieran Tierney all progressed as youths at Celtic and became established first-team players at the club.
Tierney
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was later transferred to Arsenal for a transfer fee of £25m, a record fee for a Scottish footballer.
In July 2018, it was reported that reserve leagues would be reintroduced in lieu of the development leagues that had been in place since 2009. The top tier of the new
SPFL Reserve League
The SPFL Reserve League is the reserve team league for football in Scotland. The league began in 2018, as the SPFL Development League was replaced by a reserve team (i.e not age-restricted) format.
History
In its first season, 2018–19, the lea ...
featured 18 clubs, whilst a second-tier reserve League comprised nine clubs. Other than a minimum age of 16, no age restrictions applied to the leagues. At the end of its first season (2018–19), Celtic – along with several other clubs – intimated that they would withdraw from the Reserve League to play a variety of challenge matches. They later entered a small league (under-21 plus three overage) along with three other Scottish clubs and Brentford and
Huddersfield Town
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from the English leagues.
In May 2021, it was reported that Celtic (and Rangers) were in 'productive' talks with the
Lowland Football League
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(the fifth tier of the senior setup) to have colt teams playing in their division for the following season, with an earlier proposal to include them in an expanded
Scottish League Two
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(fourth tier) still under consideration by the SPFL for the year after that.
Cup competitions
There were numerous cup competitions for reserve sides since the earliest days; e.g. the Edinburgh 2nd XI Cup first played in the 1870s and the Scottish 2nd XI Cup which existed from 1882 to 1988. A plethora of cups were introduced during the 1880s but the advent of professionalism a decade later put pressure on club finances, and during the 1890s these tournaments gradually fell away. The Scottish 2nd XI Cup was first competed for during season 1881–82 and was competed for each season up until 1988. The Scottish Reserve League Cup was introduced in 1945 and was last held in season 2013–14. In June 2016, it was announced that the Challenge Cup would be expanded to include Under-20 sides from each
Scottish Premiership
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Cowdenbeath
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Celtic's U20s were the first Scottish participants in the NextGen Series - a youth tournament based on the
UEFA Champions League
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. In the 2011–12 season, Celtic were drawn against
Barcelona
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Marseille
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, and finished third in their group. Celtic confirmed that they would play in the
2012–13
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edition tournament as well; the team were again eliminated in the
Group Stage
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.
In 2013–14 Celtic's senior team qualified for the Champions League group stages, meaning that the youth squad could play in the first edition of the
UEFA Youth League
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. In the following season there was no chance to participate in that competition due to the first team's failure to qualify, but in 2015–16 an additional route into the tournament opened up to domestic youth (Under-17) champions, and Celtic qualified as the Scottish holders of that title. After navigating two rounds, Celtic were eliminated on penalties by
Valencia
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.
In 2016–17 the senior team succeeded in reaching the Champions League group stage, so the youth squad also entered that season's Youth League via that route (they had also qualified through the Under-17 path again in any case). In the Youth League, the
Group Stage
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mirrored the tough draw in the senior tournament, and Celtic collected just one point and finished fourth. Qualification was the same in 2017–18 – the Under-17s won the Scottish league but in any case the first team reached the Champions League groups.
Celtic also successfully applied to compete in the 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17 editions of the England-based
Premier League International Cup
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.
Youth football
A Youth Division was set by the Scottish League in 1993 and ran until 2012. This was an Under-18 league initially, but changed to Under-19s from 2003 onwards. Celtic Youths won the league for four consecutive seasons from 2002-03 to 2005-06.
The
Scottish Youth Cup The Scottish Youth Cup (also known as the SFA Youth Cup) is an annual Scottish football competition run by the Scottish Football Association for under-18 teams,
was set up in 1984 and open to all senior clubs in Scotland. It was initially an U19 tournament, but is now for U20 sides. Celtic are historically the most successful club in the competition, winning 14 finals. The
Glasgow Cup
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was for many years considered an important trophy for first-team sides in Glasgow, but by the 1980s had lost prestige and saw Celtic and Rangers usually fielding reserve sides. Due to lack of interest in the tournament as a senior competition, it was relaunched in 1989 as a youth tournament and is currently competed for by the U17 sides of senior league clubs in Glasgow.
Celtic B
As of August 2022
Note: squad numbers listed relate only to first team numbers. In "B" (or youth) matches, the team wear 1–11.
Out on loan
Under-18s
As of July 2022
Note: squad numbers listed relate only to first team numbers. In "B" (or youth) matches, the team wear 1–11.
Academy
The Celtic Youth Academy works with players from as young as five years of age, concentrating in early years on improving players technique, passing and possession. Players are actively encouraged to demonstrate their skills, including tricks and flicks, in match situations. The Academy also works in partnership with St Ninian's High School in Kirkintilloch, where players of secondary-school age benefit from nine coaching sessions per week.
The most promising players then progress to Celtic's Development Squad programme.
In 2017, the Celtic academy was one of eight across the country designated 'elite' status on the introduction of ''Project Brave'', an SFA initiative to concentrate the development of the best young players at a smaller number of clubs with high quality facilities and coaching than was previously the case.
The youth academy currently comprises four levels: Professional Academy (Under 18s), Intermediate Academy (Under 13s, 14s, 15s & 16s), Junior Academy (Under 10s, 11s & 12s) and Development Centres (five years old and above).
Facilities
Since 2007, the club's academy and reserve sides have trained at the Lennoxtown Training Centre. In 2019, Celtic announced plans to redevelop their older Barrowfield training ground in eastern Glasgow near
Celtic Park
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for use by the academy sides and their women's team, including an indoor pitch and a matchday venue, augmenting the Lennoxtown base which would continue to be used by the first team squad.
In July 2021, it was announced that the men's B-team (as well as the women's team) would play the majority of their home fixtures in 2021–22 at Airdrie's Penny Cars Stadium.
Staff
Honours
Reserves
League
*Scottish Reserve League: 9
Scottish Football Historical Archive. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
Jock Stein Friendship Cup
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: 9
:: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* John Reames Trophy: 1
:: 2010
* GFR Challenge Cup: 1
:: 2019
Third XI / B Team
* Combined Reserve League: 3
:: 1960–61, 1962 –63, 1963–64
* CRL Autumn Series: 1
:: 1963–64
* CRL Spring Series: 4
:: 1959–60 (West), 1961–62, 1962–63, 1965–66
2012
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2013
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,
2014
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,
2016
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*SPFL U19 League: 1
:: 2013In 2013–14 an under-19 league was run along with an under-20 league. Celtic promoted its under-17 team to as play as its under-19 team in 2013.
*SPFL/CAS U17 League:
:: 2015, 2016, 2017
*
Scottish Youth Cup The Scottish Youth Cup (also known as the SFA Youth Cup) is an annual Scottish football competition run by the Scottish Football Association for under-18 teams,
2012
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,
2013
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2017
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*SPFL U19 League Cup: 1
:: 2014In 2013–14 the under-19 league ran from August to December 2013. The under-19 league cup ran from January to May 2014.
*
Glasgow Cup
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: 11 (Youth competition since 1990)
:: 1990, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
International
* Blues Stars / FIFA Youth Cup: 1
:: 1986
*
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Charlie Nicholas
Charles Nicholas (born 30 December 1961) is a Scottish former professional footballer. A striker, Nicholas is best known for his spells at Celtic and Arsenal. He won 20 international caps for Scotland, including playing at the 1986 FIFA World ...
Darren O'Dea
Darren O'Dea (born 4 February 1987) is an Irish retired professional football player, who is currently the coach of Celtic B team. O'Dea has played as a centre back for clubs in Scotland, England, Canada, Ukraine and India, and represented th ...
Rocco Quinn
Rocco Quinn (born 7 September 1986 in Hamilton) is a Scottish retired professional football who played as a midfielder. Quinn has previously played for Celtic, Hamilton Academical, Queen of the South, Ross County and St Mirren, as well a ...
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Anthony Ralston
Anthony Ralston (born 16 November 1998) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Scotland national football team.
Club career
Part of the youth system at Celtic since the age o ...
Tony Shepherd
Anthony Shepherd (born 16 November 1966) is a Scottish former footballer. He was a midfielder coming from the Celtic Boys Club.
Shepherd signed with the senior Celtic side in August 1983 and debuted at Parkhead in a 2-1 Scottish Cup victory ...
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Cillian Sheridan
Cillian Sheridan (born 23 February 1989) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Scottish Championship side Dundee.
Sheridan began his career with Celtic in 2006, but a lack of first team opportunities saw him being loaned to other ...
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Paul Slane
Paul Slane (born 25 November 1991) is a Scottish media personality and former professional footballer. He has played for Motherwell, Celtic, Partick Thistle, Milton Keynes Dons, Ayr United, Clyde and Open Goal Broomhill. Slane also represente ...
Joe Thomson
Joseph McGeachy Thomson (6 May 1948 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish lawyer and academic. He was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Scottish Law Commission.
Early life
Thomson was born in Campbeltown and at ...
Lewis Toshney
Lewis Toshney (born 26 April 1992) is a Scottish professional footballer and coach, who is currently playing for Downfield. Toshney has previously played for Celtic, Ross County, Cowdenbeath, Raith Rovers, Kilmarnock, Brechin City, Dundee ...
Patrik Twardzik
Patrik Twardzik (born 10 February 1993) is a Czech footballer who plays as a midfielder for German club FC Gütersloh.
Early life
Twardzik was born in the Czech Republic but educated in Germany as his father played football there.
Club career
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Derek Whyte
Derek Whyte (born 31 August 1968) is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Celtic, Middlesbrough, Aberdeen and Partick Thistle. He also won twelve caps for Scotland during his 18-year playing career. He participated at Euro 1992, Euro 199 ...
UEFA Youth League
The UEFA Youth League is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) since 2013. In its current format, it is contested by the youth teams of the clubs competing in the UEFA Champions League ...