Top 100 Appearances for Celtic

Extra little list. Top 10 players trophy haul with Celtic FIRST TEAM.
It's for trophy haul but this will include all first team competitions including Glasgow Cup up until 1988/89 season where that competition stopped being for first team. It includes ALL FIRST TEAM competitions they entered throughout the clubs history.
Current list as of 19/05/2025 with trophies in brackets and current players in bold

1) Jimmy McMenemy (37)
2) Alec McNair (35)
3) Billy McNeill (29)
4) James Forrest (26)
5) Bobby Lennox (25)
=8) Callum McGregor (24)
=8) Jimmy Johnstone (24)
=8) Bobby Murdoch (24)
9) Scott Brown (22)
=12) Jim Young (1903) (21)
=12) Tommy Gemmell (21)
=12) Joe Dodds (21)

Win the treble this season and CalMac will move to = 5th, level with Bobby Lennox and Forrest will be in 4th, 2 trophies short of Cesar's total.

 

Assuming we get to next season’s Scottish Cup final and Scottish League Cup final and same round of Champions League and Forrest and CalMac play in all they would be in 12th and 13th positions in the list.
That would be 59 games played:
38 league
5 SLC
4 SC
12 CL
Although I would rather they played in 66 games without replays as that would mean they got to CL final

 

Updated list for start of season 2025/26

1-10
809 Billy McNeill (29)
718 Alec McNair (35)
680 Paul McStay (9)
675 Roy Aitken (14)
673 Danny McGrain (16)
647 Pat Bonner (13)
619 Scott Brown (22)
607 Bobby Lennox (25)
605 Bobby Hogg (5)
600 Bobby Evans (13)

11-20
589 Jimmy McMenemy (37)
544 James Forrest (26)
537 Callum McGregor (24)
529 Jimmy Johnstone (24)
522 Patsy Gallacher (14)
519 Jimmy McStay (8)
513 Jim Young (1903) (21)
511 Tommy Burns (15)
501 Jimmy McGrory (16)
498 Bobby Murdoch (24)

21-30
497 Alec Thomson (10)
497 Bertie Peacock (7)
495 Charlie Shaw (13)
486 Andy McAtee (14)
480 Peter Grant (5)
456 Adam McLean (7)
440 Peter Wilson (5)
434 Tommy Gemmell (21)
427 Joe Dodds (21)
426 Stevie Chalmers (16)

31-40
424 John Hughes (16)
405 Murdo McLeod (8)
405 Tom Boyd (8)
393 Jimmy Quinn (17)
390 Willie McStay (1912) (12)
381 Charlie Geatons (6)
376 Malcolm MacDonald (3)
367 Tom McAdam (5)
361 Peter McGonagle (6)
360 Willie Loney (14)

41-50
355 Jackie McNamara (9)
351 Charlie Tully (6)
347 Bobby Collins (6)
345 Jim Brogan (14)
344 Jimmy Delaney (5)
336 John McFarlane (5)
335 John Clark (17)
334 Paddy Connolly (4)
332 Davie Adams (13)
327 Kenny Dalglish (11)

51-60
322 Joe Kennaway (6)
321 George Paterson (3)
316 Harry Hood (12)
313 Henrik Larsson (8)
310 Willie Fernie (5)
310 Johnny Crum (6)
309 Stiliyan Petrov (10)
307 Johnny Campbell (7)
307 Willie Miller (0)
304 Neil Lennon (11)

61-70
303 Sandy McMahon (9)
303 Davie Provan (8)
300 Davie Hamilton (17)
298 James Hay (10)
294 Neil Mochan (5)
287 Bertie Auld (15)
285 Peter Latchford (6)
285 Tommy Callaghan (14)
284 Davie Hay (9)
275 Derek Whyte (4)

71-80
274 John Collins (1)
273 Paul Lambert (8)
273 Mikael Lustig (16)
273 Tom Rogic (16)
271 Sean Fallon (6)
271 Nir Bitton (18)
271 Emilio Izaguirre (12)
269 Peter Somers (13)
264 Frank Murphy (6)
261 Leigh Griffiths (14)

81-90
260 Peter Johnstone (7)
259 Mike Haughney (3)
258 Roddy MacDonald (12)
257 Jim Kennedy (3)
256 George Connolly (15)
252 Georgios Samaras (7)
252 Aiden McGeady (7)
249 Charlie Nicholas (3)
248 Frank McGarvey (6)
248 Duncan McKay (7)

91-100
244 John Divers(1959) (3)
242 Craig Gordon (12)
241 Willie Cringan (5)
240 John Browning (7)
239 John McMaster (10)
239 Willie Wallace (14)
238 Tommy McInally (8)
236 Jim Craig (17)
236 Fraser Forster (7)
234 Bobo Balde (10)


Currently Forrest 12th on list with Cal Mac 13th

Players below the top 100 to see the target on how close our current players need to reach except of course Forrest and CalMac


227 Kris Commons (8)
227 Alan Thompson (8)


As requested, below are the current squad including those out on loan that have played at least 1 senior match (not on bench).
CalMac and Forrest not on it as they are on the other list.
All figures below are from wiki



185 Kieran Tierney (8)
173 Daizen Maeda (8)
170 Cameron Carter-Vickers (9)
156 Rep Hatate(8)
121 Anthony Ralston (14)
116 Liam Scales (6)
115 Alistair Johnston (7)
98 Jota (6)
80 Paulo Bernardo (4)
74 Yang Hyun-Jun (4)
69 Arne Engels (2)
68 Stephen Welsh (9)
61 Kaspar Schmeichel (2)
52 Luke McCowan (1)
48 Luis Palma (4)
43 Auston Trusty (2)
18 Johnny Kenny (1)
18 Benjamin Nygren(0)
17 Maik Nawrocki (4)
16 Odin Thiago Holm (2)
12 Sebastian Tounekti (0)
10 Adam Montgomery (2)
10 Michel-Ange Balikwisha (0)
9 Dane Murray (0)
8 Viljami Sinisalo (2)
8 Colby Donovan (0)
8 Kelechi Iheanacho (0)
8 Marcelo Saracchi (0)
6 Shin Yamada (0)
2 Sean McArdle (0)
2 Callum Osmond (0)
1 Francis Turley (0)
1 Jude Bonnar (0)
1 Hayato Inamura(0)
0 Ross Doohan (0)
0 Jahmai Simpson-Pusey (0)

 

Even if KT manages to play all season in every match he will not join the top 100 list until next season unless we get to every final in all 4 competitions. It will also take KT until end of 2031/32 season at least to get on to top 10 list.
Will take Forrest and CalMac until halfway through next season at least before they can join top 10 list.

 

@Drakhan Was today Scales #100th game?

Transfermarkt has him sitting on 98 before today.

There was press done with Scales through the week but no mention of it being his 100th in any of those either, so just wanted to check.

Also today was Yamada's official debut.

 

On wiki Scales was on 99 games as of 3rd August so today was his 100th
Just updated the list for Scales

 

Forrest will be 12th place for rest of season at best but 13th at worst if CalMac overtakes him.

 

8 more games and CalMac will overtake Greatest ever Celt, the late Great Jimmy Johnstone and move into 13th on list just 1 place behind Forrest assuming Forrest keeps getting picked.

 

By all first team, does the trophy pre-season this year or * like Wembley Cup under Mowbray count?

 

KT has a lot less games than it feels like. Taylor has a lot more, and it makes sense but doesn’t feel that’s right that.


edit: I know it is right btw, not questioning that just surprising

EDIT 2: Broony doing that in modern football and the demands on the body, having signed at 22? 23? That’s such a massive achievement

 

No.

 

Currently Forrest needs a further 69 games and CalMac needs a further 78 games to get in to top 10.
To overtake Broony, Forrest needs 88 games and CalMac needs 97 more games.
That means they both need to play almost every game for this seasons and next season.

 

If he had stayed with us he would be somewhere between 15th and 25th on the list

 

Assuming CalMac plays next 2 matches he will draw level with Greatest ever Celt Jimmy Johnstone on the list against Red Star Belgrade.
Hope we have same 5-1 scoreline that happened when Jinky played against them scoring 2

 

Just checked and if KT manages to play every game for rest of 2025 he could possibly play his 200 th Celtic match against the Huns at Celtic park in the new year league match.

 

KT, I think you meant? (Just to confirm)

 

Edited it

 

If KT keeps getting picked it's possible that he will play his 200th Celtic match against the huns in New Years game at Celtic Park or at the away EL match against Bologna.
Cal Mac could play his 550 match also against the huns and Forrest could play his 550th match against Dundee also at Celtic Park.