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- "Nine in a row" is a topic which has dominated football in Scotland at club level since the 1970s. The term refers to one club winning the national league championship nine times in a row, a mark which 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 by local rivals 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 and prevent their record being broken. After the two Glasgow clubs, known collectively as the Old Firm due to their longstanding domination of Scottish football and the mutual economic benefits of this rivalry, 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), Celtic then went on another run of championships from 2011–12 to 2019–20; however Rangers, who had been out of the top division for four seasons of that period after their commercial body was liquidated (the only spell in the league's history that either club had not been present), managed to strengthen sufficiently to 'stop the 10' with a dominant, unbeaten season. Similar and longer winning runs have been recorded in other countries: in Europe alone, 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. 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. Celtic are 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). Women's football in Scotland had a separate tale of dominance, with Glasgow City (unconnected to either Old Firm club) winning 14 consecutive Scottish Women's Premier League titles in the early 21st century; as the sport became more prominent, both Celtic and Rangers offered professional contracts to women's players from 2019, and Rangers ended the Glasgow City sequence in 2021–22. (en)
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