Celtic Winners And Runners-up In Competitive Trophies Each Decade.

 Glasgow Celtic Winners And Runners-up In Competitive Trophies Each Decade. 

Here is a small table that shows which decades have been the most successful and unsuccessful for Glasgow Celtic FC up to the end of season 2020-21. 

The table shows the winners and runners-up for Glasgow Celtic in all the major trophies. That is the Scottish top league, the Scottish FA Cup, Scottish League Cup, European Cup, UEFA Cup, Europa League, European Cup Winners Cup, Europa Conference League, the European Super Cup, the World Club Championship and Intercontinental Cup. 

Decade. Wins. Runners-up.

1880s.      0.         1. 

1890s.      6.         4.

1900s.      9.         5.

1910s.      9.         3.

1920s.      5.         6.

1930s.      4.         3.

1940s.      0.         0.

1950s.      3.         3.    

1960s.     13.         5.

1970s.     13.        11.

1980s.      9.         8.

1990s.      3.         7.

2000s.     14.         7.

2010s.     18.         3.   

2020s.      2.         1.

So the most successful trophy winning decade for Glasgow Celtic was the 2010s. The most successful runner-up decade was the seventies. 

The least successful decade was the 1940s when Celtic had no winners or runners-up successes in the tier 1 Scottish national trophies. 

Scottish League Tier One Champions :

Winners 51 times: 1893, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1926, 1936, 1938, 1954, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Runners-up 32 times: 1892, 1895, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1939, 1955, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2021.

Scottish Cup:

Winners 40 times: 1892, 1899, 1900, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Runners-up 18 times: 1889, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1902, 1926, 1928, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1973, 1984, 1990, 1999, 2002.

Scottish League Cup: I have listed the year the final was played in rather than the season. As Scottish League Cup finals have altered between being played in the early part of the season or the later part. So for instance Celtic appeared in two league cup finals in 1969.  

Winners 19 times: 1956, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969 April, 1969 October, 1974, 1982, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016 November, 2017, 2018, 2019

Runners-up 15 times: 1964, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2011, 2012.

International.

European Cup. 

Winners 1 time: 1967.

Runners-up 1 time: 1970.

UEFA Cup:

Runners-up 1 time: 2003.

Intercontinental Cup:

Runners-up 1 time: 1967.

Other notable trophies that could be added include the British League Cup of 1902. The Empire Exhibition Trophy of 1938. The Dubai Champions Cup of 1989. The Coronation Cup of 1953, The Wembley Cup of 2009. Plus The Bord Gàis Challenge Tournament of 1992.