Nine in a row
Term referring to one club winning the national league championship nine times in a row / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Football in Scotland has been dominated by two clubs, Celtic and Rangers, both based in Glasgow and collectively known as the Old Firm due to the mutual economic benefits of the public interest in their longstanding rivalry, since the introduction of a national league system in 1890. While many of the league contests have been closely fought between the pair and have occasionally involved other clubs, periods of one-team dominance have occurred, most significantly three periods of nine championship wins in succession since the 1970s (twice achieved by Celtic, once by Rangers) which has led to the term "Nine in a row" becoming a commonly-used phrase, and a topic which has drawn much attention.[1][2][3]
The feat was first set by Celtic between the 1965–66 and 1973–74 seasons, during which they also became European champions in 1967. Their run was eventually stopped in 1975 by Rangers, who later received significant financial investment and matched the achievement between 1988–89 and 1996–97 – Celtic were the team to win the next title in 1998 and prevent their record being broken. After the two clubs exchanged the trophy regularly for 14 seasons (the same period as had elapsed between the end of the first sequence and the start of the second),[4] Celtic then went on another run of championships from 2011–12 to 2019–20, with Rangers out of the top division for four seasons of that period after their commercial body was liquidated in 2012 (the only spell in the league's history that either club had not been present) and little challenge from other clubs; however Rangers managed to strengthen sufficiently to 'stop the 10' in 2021 with a dominant, unbeaten season.
Similar and longer winning runs have been recorded in other countries;[5][6][lower-alpha 1] however it is in Scotland that the specific term has become most commonplace, having been part of the nation's football landscape since the 1970s, remaining prominent due to the same mark being achieved twice more – but never bettered – in subsequent generations.[8] Celtic is the only European club to win nine consecutive titles on two occasions, and in no other country has such a total been achieved more than twice (either by a single club or multiple clubs).[7]
- MTK of Hungary won ten consecutive championships (though interrupted by World War I), Bulgarians CSKA Sofia claimed nine in the early 1960s before Celtic did likewise, Rosenborg won the Norwegian title 13 times in succession in the same period as Rangers' run, Italian club Juventus claimed nine consecutive Serie A championships in the same seasons as Celtic's second sequence, Bayern Munich won their tenth Bundesliga in 2021–22, and in that same season Ludogorets won their eleventh Bulgarian title, having previously beaten the national record from CSKA the season before that.[7]