Celtic Football Club 2024/25 Home Shirt

Adidas dressed the 2024/25 Celtic with museum grade elegance: sponsors in gold and cream, as if the advertising itself were asking the hoops for permission, and Celtic knotwork braided into the collar and cuff tape. It was a season of plentiful harvest with one bone stuck in the throat. With Brendan Rodgers in the second year of his return, Celtic won a fourth consecutive championship and took the League Cup from Rangers on penalties after a mad six goal final. In the Champions League's new league phase format they produced their best European campaign in over a decade: big home wins, qualification for the knockout play off and a tie with Bayern Munich decided only in second leg stoppage time, the Bavarian giant sighing with relief. The bone arrived in May, from the unlikeliest place: the Scottish Cup final lost on penalties to Aberdeen, who had not won it since 1990. A gala shirt for a nearly perfect team, proof that in Scotland even years of absolute dominance keep an ambush in store.

Here at Hoopster this shirt stands as elegance rewarded: discreet gold, Celtic knots in the taping and another championship on the shelf, with Europe ending at Bayern's feet in stoppage time. Losing like that is a form of greatness too.