A Glasgow football club founded in 1887 by Brother Walfrid to raise money for the poor, which plays at Celtic Park and runs a professional women's team and a community foundation.
Celtic is a professional football club in Glasgow. It plays at Celtic Park in the Parkhead area, an all-seater stadium that holds just over 60,000 people and is the largest in Scotland. It was the first British football stadium with a rail-seating (safe standing) area, in July 2016. The first team trains at the Lennoxtown training centre, which opened in October 2007. Celtic also has a women's team, launched in 2007, and a pathway for girls that begins at age 11. In December 2018 it became the first professional women's team in Scotland.
The club was founded on 6 November 1887 at St Mary's church hall in Calton, Glasgow, by Brother Walfrid, an Irish Marist Brother born Andrew Kerins in Ballymote, County Sligo. He wanted to raise money for the Poor Children's Dinner Table, a charity he had started to feed people in Glasgow's East End. He chose the name "Celtic" to link Scottish and Irish communities. The club's first official match, against Rangers on 28 May 1888, ended in a 5-2 win for Celtic. The Foundation's page says the club "opens its doors to all", whatever their faith, colour, creed or race.
Celtic's work is centred on Glasgow, and the sources also mention charitable projects in other countries. Celtic PLC, the club's company, is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The Celtic Charity Fund was formed in 1995 to revive the club's charitable traditions, and it later merged with the Celtic Foundation to form the Celtic FC Foundation. The Foundation honours Brother Walfrid's legacy by tackling the root causes of poverty and giving people the tools to reduce inequality. It runs Walfrid's Wish, a monthly giving scheme starting at £3, and the page highlights 67 kitchens built in Africa.
On values, Wikipedia records anti-sectarian campaigns such as Bhoys Against Bigotry, launched in 1996, and Youth Against Bigotry, which aims to teach young people "respect for all aspects of the community, all races, all colours, all creeds". The club has an annual charity fashion show at Celtic Park. We did not find a staff-focused culture page or headcount, so what we know about working life is limited to these community values, which are the club's own claims.
The jobs at a club like this are wide. There are coaches and academy staff, women's football staff, groundstaff, stadium and matchday teams, community and charity workers at the Foundation, and the club's media, commercial, finance and company-secretarial teams, which the status as a listed company makes necessary. If you are interested in using football to help people, the Foundation's links with Brother Walfrid's original mission may suit you. For openings, check the club's website and the Foundation's pages.
Website: www.celticfc.com
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