It’s official, Celtic are Scottish Premiership champions for the 13th time in 14 seasons following their victory at Dundee United on Saturday.
It means manager Brendan Rodgers has wrapped up a fourth top-flight crown in Scotland and a fourth straight league title for the Parkhead club
Here, BBC Scotland looks at some of the numbers behind another top-tier triumph.
Early victory
Going by the calendar, the earliest Celtic have won the title was back in 2014 when they sealed victory on 26 March with seven Premiership games remaining.
This season, they have won it a month later with a 17-point margin and four games to spare after winning their first post-split fixture.
Magnificent Maeda
Celtic’s Daizen Maeda is the Premiership’s joint top scorer this season, despite playing mainly on the wing until fellow Japan forward Kyogo Furuhashi was sold to Rennes during the January transfer window.
The 27-year-old has 16 goals from 31 appearances – level with Dundee striker Simon Murray, who has played three games more.
Maeda also lead the assists table along with team-mate Alistair Johnston, with both of them on nine, meaning the forward’s total league goal contributions stand at 25 for the season.
Resolute defence, goals galore & ball hogging
As the saying goes, “attack wins games, defence wins titles.” Well, Celtic have both.
In 21 of their 34 league games, they have kept a clean sheet and conceded just 22 goals in total.
And at the other end, they are set to break their best goalscoring league season given they are already on 102 goals and their current record stands at 104.
Teams have a hard time getting the ball off Celtic, too. The champions have averaged 75% possession across their Premiership matches this term.
A 55th top-flight title
Celtic have ended a 95-year wait to draw level again with Rangers’ total of titles.
Their 55th league title, added to 42 Scottish Cups, 22 League Cups and one European Cup, takes their total of major trophies to 120 – now two more than Rangers – with 43 of those honours coming since 2000.
It makes the Parkhead side the second most successful team in the world behind Egyptian club Al-Ahly, who are on 125.
Relentless Rodgers adds 11th trophy
Rodgers has now won the Scottish title in each of his four seasons at Celtic.
Indeed, he has now won 11 of the 12 domestic trophies in which his side have competed during that time – the only miss being last season’s League Cup, won by Rangers.
Only Aberdeen – in the Scottish Cup final – can prevent Rodgers becoming the first Celtic manager to win three domestic trebles.
The Northern Irishman is the third most successful manager in the club’s history, with only Willie Maley (30) and Jock Stein (25) winning more.
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It’s official, Celtic are Scottish Premiership champions for the 13th time in 14 seasons following their victory at Dundee United on Saturday.
It means manager Brendan Rodgers has wrapped up a fourth top-flight crown in Scotland and a fourth straight league title for the Parkhead club
Here, BBC Scotland looks at some of the numbers behind another top-tier triumph.
Early victory
Going by the calendar, the earliest Celtic have won the title was back in 2014 when they sealed victory on 26 March with seven Premiership games remaining.
This season, they have won it a month later with a 17-point margin and four games to spare after winning their first post-split fixture.
Magnificent Maeda
Celtic’s Daizen Maeda is the Premiership’s joint top scorer this season, despite playing mainly on the wing until fellow Japan forward Kyogo Furuhashi was sold to Rennes during the January transfer window.
The 27-year-old has 16 goals from 31 appearances – level with Dundee striker Simon Murray, who has played three games more.
Maeda also lead the assists table along with team-mate Alistair Johnston, with both of them on nine, meaning the forward’s total league goal contributions stand at 25 for the season.
Resolute defence, goals galore & ball hogging
As the saying goes, “attack wins games, defence wins titles.” Well, Celtic have both.
In 21 of their 34 league games, they have kept a clean sheet and conceded just 22 goals in total.
And at the other end, they are set to break their best goalscoring league season given they are already on 102 goals and their current record stands at 104.
Teams have a hard time getting the ball off Celtic, too. The champions have averaged 75% possession across their Premiership matches this term.
A 55th top-flight title
Celtic have ended a 95-year wait to draw level again with Rangers’ total of titles.
Their 55th league title, added to 42 Scottish Cups, 22 League Cups and one European Cup, takes their total of major trophies to 120 – now two more than Rangers – with 43 of those honours coming since 2000.
It makes the Parkhead side the second most successful team in the world behind Egyptian club Al-Ahly, who are on 125.
Relentless Rodgers adds 11th trophy
Rodgers has now won the Scottish title in each of his four seasons at Celtic.
Indeed, he has now won 11 of the 12 domestic trophies in which his side have competed during that time – the only miss being last season’s League Cup, won by Rangers.
Only Aberdeen – in the Scottish Cup final – can prevent Rodgers becoming the first Celtic manager to win three domestic trebles.
The Northern Irishman is the third most successful manager in the club’s history, with only Willie Maley (30) and Jock Stein (25) winning more.
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