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The Celtic Star · Oct 24, 2018

Jim Craig – Bobby Carroll scored Celtic’s first ever goal in European football

Jim Craig – Bobby Carroll scored Celtic’s first ever goal in European football
Jim Craig – Bobby Carroll scored Celtic’s first ever goal in European football

Celtic had taken part in the rather unusual Anglo-Franco-Scottish Friendship Cup in 1960 but their first-ever tie in a major European tournament came on 26 September 1962, a Fairs Cities Cup tie in the Luis Casanova Stadium against Valencia, when Bobby Carroll, at centre-forward that night, became the first Celtic player to score in Europe...

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