Top 100 Appearances for Celtic

I seriously do not envy this. So many especially in the 19th century got a game here or a couple of games there. Some spectacularly random names and numbers that will have a CS accredited to them. The closest deep dive I've done is based on GKs that played at least 20 games for Celtic, as was using that as a benchmark for a sample size.

Good luck with this mate.

 

What I really want is someone to be mental enough to try and gather old data on assists.

 

I'd love that as well, but it's impossible. Even in the era since Assist stats have been kept, I'll be damned if I'm going back through to tally all of those, lol. Some buggar who can actually see can deal with all of that, lol.

 

Any idea when they started being recorded?

 

See, even that is difficult to say definitively. Differs from country to country and club to club. I would be amazed if there are records for Celtic that go back even to WGS or MO'N time, without someone actually going back over through the footage of all those games/goals, or picking through newspaper articles etc in between, if they even mention them.

You could do it - I believe in you!

 

No thanks mate, I'll leave it to someone with much more free time than me.

 

You’ve just volunteered as the whole site think you’re mental

 

CalMac needs 19 to get into top 20 and Forrest needs 90 to get into top 10

 

Before we get to play our first Scottish Cup match CalMac should be in top 20 and Forrest could be in 12th place.

 

It’s taking me a while for the clean sheet stats as only up to 1901/02 season for the moment.
Using the stat book plus Celtic website.
This will have amount of competitive games played as won’t be including friendlies.
Also amount of goals scored for and against with clean sheets total and clean sheets against deadco.
Although the first match was against deadco in a 5-2 friendly the first competitive match against them was a 6-1 win.

 

1-10
809 Billy McNeill
718 Alec McNair
680 Paul McStay
675 Roy Aitken
673 Danny McGrain
647 Pat Bonner
619 Scott Brown
607 Bobby Lennox
605 Bobby Hogg
600 Bobby Evans

11-20
589 Jimmy McMenemy
526 Jimmy Johnstone
522 Patsy Gallacher
519 Jimmy McStay
513 James Forrest
513 Jim Young (1903)
511 Tommy Burns
501 Jimmy McGrory
498 Bobby Murdoch
497 Alec Thomson

21-30
497 Bertie Peacock
495 Charlie Shaw
486 Andy McAtee
483 Callum McGregor
480 Peter Grant
456 Adam McLean
440 Peter Wilson
434 Tommy Gemmell
427 Joe Dodds
426 Stevie Chalmers

31-40
424 John Hughes
405 Murdo McLeod
405 Tom Boyd
393 Jimmy Quinn
390 Willie McStay (1912)
381 Charlie Geatons
376 Malcolm MacDonald
367 Tom McAdam
361 Peter McGonagle
360 Willie Loney

41-50
355 Jackie McNamara
351 Charlie Tully
347 Bobby Collins
345 Jim Brogan
344 Jimmy Delaney
336 John McFarlane
335 John Clark
334 Paddy Connolly
332 Davie Adams
327 Kenny Dalglish

51-60
322 Joe Kennaway
321 George Paterson
316 Harry Hood
315 Henrik Larsson
310 Willie Fernie
310 Johnny Crum
309 Stiliyan Petrov
307 Johnny Campbell
305 Willie Miller
304 Neil Lennon

61-70
303 Sandy McMahon
303 Davie Provan
300 Davie Hamilton
298 James Hay
294 Neil Mochan
287 Bertie Auld
285 Peter Latchford
285 Tommy Callaghan
284 Davie Hay
275 Derek Whyte

71-80
274 John Collins
273 Paul Lambert
273 Mikael Lustig
273 Tom Rogic
271 Sean Fallon
271 Nir Bitton
271 Emilio Izaguirre
269 Peter Somers
264 Frank Murphy
261 Leigh Griffiths

81-90
260 Peter Johnstone
259 Mike Haughney
258 Roddy MacDonald
257 Jim Kennedy
256 George Connolly
252 Georgios Samaras
252 Aiden McGeady
249 Charlie Nicholas
248 Frank McGarvey
248 Duncan McKay

91-100
244 John Divers(1959)
242 Craig Gordon
241 Willie Cringan
240 John Browning
239 John McMaster
239 Willie Wallace
238 Tommy McInally
236 Jim Craig
236 Fraser Forster
234 Bobo Balde


Currently Forrest 15th on list with Cal Mac 24th

 

Just got to 1910/11 season for clean sheets but also went through every season until now for total competitive matches played and currently after the 4-1 hearts game last night Celtic have played more than 6,500 matches since their first match.

 

Be interesting to see how high Callum can go, is 600 a realistic target ?

 

I think he has more of a chance of getting into the top 10 than Jamesy does. He’s probably got another 2/3 seasons in him at over 50 games a year. I reckon he will be targeting Broony in that list.

 

This season and all next season will bring him close so season 2026/27 could see him reach 600 and possibly overtake Broony but nowhere near Cesar.
Don’t think Forrest will reach 600

 

Taking a break from the stats.
Currently after the first 19 seasons Celtic have averaged 105 goals a season and 10 goals a season against Deadco.

 

I’m currently at 1926/27 season with the stats but waiting to finish up to this season before putting the keepers on the spread sheet.

 

Pretty certain Calmac hits top 10, Jamesy gets to 12th but will be overtaken by Calmac and go to 13th.

 

Looking through stats book finding errors plus using Celtic website a lot of seasons are missing matches that are in stats book and viseversa

 

Just one for a bit of context to just how many games Cesar played,

For Calmac to match that record he would have to average over 55 games a season for the next 6 years. He's currently averaging 40 a season over the last 12 years (including the 13/14 season where he was on loan at notts county but not counting the number of games he played there) would be 43.7 if we exclude that season at Notts

McNeill averaged 49 games a season for 18 seasons. That's mental.