{"id":415951,"date":"2026-06-11T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=415951"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:19:52","slug":"oneill-confirmed-as-celtics-permanent-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/oneill-confirmed-as-celtics-permanent-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill confirmed as Celtic&#8217;s permanent manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Martin O&#8217;Neill has been confirmed as Celtic&#8217;s permanent manager following two interim spells in charge last season that resulted in a Premiership and Scottish Cup double.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 74-year-old has agreed to stay at Parkhead on a one-year contract with the option for a further year after talks with Celtic&#8217;s major shareholder Dermot Desmond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O&#8217;Neill returned to Celtic &#8211; 20 years after a successful five-year stint as manager &#8211; in late October on a temporary basis following Brendan Rodgers&#8217; departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He won all of the domestic games during eight matches in charge, with the only defeat to Midtjylland in the Europa League, but made way for Wilfried Nancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However the Frenchman left after six defeats in eight matches, leading to O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s return in early January until the end of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celtic beat long-time leaders Hearts 3-1 on the final day of the season to retain the Premiership title and at Hampden Park seven days later O&#8217;Neill claimed his ninth trophy as Celtic manager by beating Dunfermline Athletic 3-1 in the Scottish Cup final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across his two spells last season, O&#8217;Neill guided the side to 27 wins and four draws from 35 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His average of 2.56 points per game in the league matched his corresponding figure from 2000-05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Celtic player Robbie Keane had been linked with the job before and after his exit from Ferencvaros but several Celtic supporters&#8217; clubs stated their opposition to his appointment as a result of his time as Maccabi Tel Aviv head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jens Berthel Askou had also been linked with Celtic before leaving Motherwell for Toulouse but it is O&#8217;Neill who will lead Celtic into the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin O&#8217;Neill has been confirmed as Celtic&#8217;s permanent manager following two interim spells in charge last season that resulted in a Premiership and Scottish Cup double. The 74-year-old has agreed to stay at Parkhead on a one-year contract with the option for a further year after talks with Celtic&#8217;s major shareholder Dermot Desmond. O&#8217;Neill returned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415952,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415951\/revisions\/415952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}