Let’s raise a glass to a fantastic year for both Celtic sides

The Celtic Star

·31 de diciembre de 2024

Let’s raise a glass to a fantastic year for both Celtic sides

Let’s raise a glass to a fantastic year. We head into 2025 with great optimism for both Brendan Rodgers and Elena Sadiku’s Celtic sides…

Brendan Rodgers with the Scottish Cup on 25 May 2024, after Celtic’s 1-0 win over theRangers in the final at Hampden Park. Photo Vagelis Georgariou

As the year comes to a close we can look back on the past 12 months with great satisfaction and head into the 2025 with great optimism.

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Celtic’s Wonderful Year

Three trophies have been won, and we’ve only tasted defeat in two competitive matches. Winning the league title, and two domestic cups both against our Rivals has seen us solidify our place as the best side in the country.

Celtic played 50 matches in 2024, achieving 41 wins and drawing seven matches, losing two.

Brendan Rodgers lifts the Scottish Premiership trophy in May 2024

Our only domestic defeat came in that controversial match at Tynecastle in March when Yang was harshly sent off for a high boot and Tomoki Iwata conceded a penalty when the ball hit the back of his arm. A disgraceful and ultimately incorrect decision.

Celtic went through 2024 unbeaten in all competitions – including the Champions League – at Celtic Park.

Brendan’s team scored 139 goals

Brendan’s team scored 139 goals, conceding only 36 so having a 2024 goal difference of 103.

With our ability and resources we should always expect to come out on top and that’s exactly what we’ve done, but we’ve also become more competitive on the European scene (Dortmund aside) and that has been one of the highlights of the year as we remain on course for a play off place and a place in the last 16 of Europe’s greatest club competition.

Kyogo, Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate with the Premier Sports Cup after Celtic’s victory over theRangers on 15 December 2024 at Hampden Park. Photo Kenny Ramsay

That’s all down to Brendan being allowed to invest in his squad and he’s done so by adding great quality, and we look very likely to add to that in the January transfer window.

That bodes very well for the future and we can all look forward to more success in 2025. Let’s raise a glass to a fantastic year.

Historic Year for Celtic FC Women

And 2024 was also a brilliant year for Celtic FC Women, winning the SWPL title for the first time ever with Elena Sadiku coming in at the start of the year to replace Fran Alonso, who had build up a huge goal difference advantage that turned out to be especially significant.

Celtic FC Women won the SWPL title for the first time ever in 2024. Photo AJ for The Celtic Star

Elena did brilliantly in the summer negotiating her way through the Champions League qualifiers to earn a well deserved place in group stages as one of Europe’s top 16 sides. Despite playing Real Madrid and 5IAR English Champions Chelsea (one of the favourites for the trophy), Celtic avoiding any hammerings (theRangers Women had lost 6-0 to Arsenal in the qualifiers) and will be all the better for the experience of elite level women’s football.

It’s a five way fight for the SWPL title in. 2025 and Celtic, with over £500,000 of additional income from the Champions League campaign (a huge amount of money in the women’s game) would be wise to invest in quality signings in the two transfer windows in 2025.