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1977–78 Celtic F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ30643201 ↗
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During the 1977–78 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish Premier Division.

Despite not achieving any major honour this season, Celtic played the Scottish League Cup Final for the 14th season in a row, which is still a record as of 2025. No other team has played more than 5 League Cup Finals in a row.

This was the club's last season under manager Jock Stein, and the first season in which Danny McGrain was captain.

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The public source identifies “1977–78 Celtic F.C. season” as season of football team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Celtic, season and football.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Celtic, season and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1977–78 Celtic F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.