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One sunny evening in Lisbon
The 1966/67 season started with a 4-1 win over Manchester United at a packed Celtic Park and ended with 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in Alfredo Di Stefano’s testimonial in front of 110,000 passionate Spaniards who paid unadulterated homage to the team in green and white from the frozen north.
In between times though, there were one or two other notable victories in the 62 competitive games played, with the scintillating Celts racking up 51 wins with eight draws and only three defeats.
They won the league by netting 111 goals while losing only 33 at the other end in their 34 games, with Dundee United being the only side to beat the Celts that season.
The League Cup was captured with 10 straight wins and a goals tally of 36 to only seven conceded while the Glasgow Cup arrived courtesy of three consecutive 4-0 wins
The Scottish Cup was also added to the silverware showcase as six games produced 20 Celtic goals and five clean sheets with only Queen’s Park finding a way past the Celtic rear-guard.
A four-trophy season would generally be more than enough for any team – but this simply wasn’t ANY team…
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This was a band of men who were destined to go down in history as the Lisbon Lions and now, 56 years later, we still sing their praises on high and 100 years from now that will still be the case.
In all, they played nine European matches in their very first foray on the continent’s top stage – eight of those were won, one was lost and one was drawn. with 18 goals netted and only five scored against…
However, by far the most important statistic from season 1966/67 was Celtic 2 Inter Milan 1 – a result recorded on a beautifully sun-drenched Thursday, May 25 in the Estadio Nacional in the Portuguese capital.
The world’s top club competition, for more than a decade, had been the bastion of the Latin teams and, at the start of the season, the idea of any side from outside that triumvirate lifting the trophy, far less 11 Scotsmen born within a 30-mile radius of Celtic Park, was far flung indeed…
But win it they did, and the stout Italian cattenachio chain was ripped asunder by Jock Stein’s marauding Celts who won AND entertained AND enthralled at the same time.
Hail, Hail to the Lisbon Lions, and Hail, Hail to the spirit of the Lions that continues to this day.
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Celtic’s 1966/67 stats
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