Celtic are Scottish Premiership champions for a fifth straight season | OneFootball

Celtic have been officially confirmed as Scottish Premiership champions for a fifth consecutive season – the club’s own announcement delivering the clean, definitive confirmation that a dramatic, hard-fought campaign so richly deserves.

Celtic Football Club have confirmed via their official channels that the Hoops are Scottish Premiership champions for the fifth season in succession – 14 titles in the last 15 years, the latest secured in the most nerve-shredding of circumstances on the final day of the campaign. It is the official confirmation supporters have been waiting for, and it is every bit as sweet as it should be.

To understand the scale of what this club has achieved, consider this: since 1985–86, Celtic have now captured 23 Scottish top-flight titles to the Ibrox club’s 18 – no other club has won the league in that period. This fifth consecutive title also draws Celtic level with Rangers on 55 overall Scottish league championships. The next one puts us ahead outright. Let that sit for a moment.

The season itself – under Martin O’Neill, returning from retirement in the most extraordinary of circumstances – was anything but comfortable. O’Neill inherited a side six points behind Hearts and turned the campaign on its head, finishing two points clear after a final-day win to claim what Sky Sports described as Celtic’s “fifth in a row and 14th in 15 seasons.” As we flagged all along, this was a three-way title race with no certainty until the very last kick – Celtic, Hearts, and the Rangers all in the mix deep into the run-in.

We were on the knife’s edge going into the final day – Hearts sitting a point ahead on 80 points, Gorgie rocking with belief that the title was theirs. The spirit of ’86 had been looming over Hearts’ title hopes all season, and in the end it came for them again. The Bhoys delivered when it mattered – that dramatic win at Fir Park the moment the trophy turned green. We were there for every agonising, glorious minute of it.

The official Celtic FC announcement confirmed the championship with the pride it deserves – the club recognising not just the title, but the character shown across an entire campaign to drag it home when Hearts made them fight for every single point. This one was earned the hard way.

Now we look ahead – to a summer of reinforcement, to building on the Champions League knockout breakthrough against Bayern Munich that showed the world Celtic belong at that level again, and to the prospect of title number 56 that would put us ahead of the Ibrox club in the all-time standings for good.

But right now? Right now we celebrate. Five in a row. Champions of Scotland. Again.

Mon The Hoops.

The Celtic Star