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Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Glasgow, which has regularly taken part in European competitions since its first appearance in the 1962-63 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Since then the club has competed in every UEFA organised competition, with the exception of the now defunct Intertoto Cup. The club is best known for their European Cup Final victory over Inter Milan in 1967, becoming the first British team and only Scottish team to win the trophy. The team that defeated Inter at the final held at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon have since become known as The Lisbon Lions. During the 1960s, Celtic also twice reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup, before reaching a further European Cup Final in 1970 where they lost 2–1 to Feyenoord after extra-time. In more recent years, Celtic reached the 2003 UEFA Cup Final in Seville, Spain, which they lost 3–2 after extra time to Porto, and have reached the last 16 of the Champions League on three occasions in seasons 2006-07, 2007–08 and 2012-13. Season 2015–16 sees Celtic participating in their 52nd European campaign. Billy McNeill, who captained the side in two European Cup finals, holds the club record for the most appearances, playing in 68 matches. Henrik Larsson, who scored twice in the 2003 UEFA Cup Final, is the club's record goalscorer, with 35 goals. ==Background== The first officially sanctioned European club tournament, the European Champion Clubs' Cup, was launched in 1955. Conceived by Gabriel Hanot, the editor of ''L'Équipe'', as a competition for winners of the European national football leagues, it is considered the most prestigious European football competition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Football's premier club competition )〕 Hibernian were amongst the 16 sides invited to take part in the tournament's first season, and they became the first British club to participate in European club competition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.europeancuphistory.com/euro56.html )〕 Rangers took part in the tournament the following season as champions of Scotland. The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was also established at the same time, and in 1960 Hibernian became the first Scottish club to participate, knocking out Barcelona en route to the semi-final where they lost to AS Roma.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://splstats.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/farewell-to-the-fairs-cup/ )〕 Season 1960–61 was also the inaugural year of the European Cup Winners' cup, with Rangers reaching the final. They were comfortably beaten over two legs by Fiorentina, but were still the first British club to reach a major European club final. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celtic F.C. in European football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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