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Background

A range of sides have worn the hoops not just Celtic. Below are a cross section of a select number who have also donned the hoops.

Bradford Park Avenue

When Tom Maley became the manager of Bradford Park Avenue in 1911 their jerseys were changed to green and white hoops. Previously the club had played in red black and amber. They continued to wear the hoops until around 1924. However the hoops have been revived in recent years.

Official website: http://www.bpafc.com/content/pages/index.asp

SpVgg Greuther Fürth

SpVgg Greuther Fürthplay in Bundesliga 2, and are based in Fürth, Bavaria. The current club was formed in 1996 after the merging of SpVgg Fürth, founded in 1903 and TSV Vestenbergsgreuth, founded in 1974


website: http://www.greuther-fuerth.de/

Santos Laguna

Club Santos Laguna ( Santos Laguna or Santos) play in the Primera Division de Mexico. The club were founded in 1984 and debuted in Mexico's top division in season 1988/89. They have won the league championship twice.

Official website: http://www.rincondelsantos.com

Sporting Lisbon

Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon) was established in 1902 as Sport Club de Belas, which became Campo Grande Sporting Club in 1904, changing it's name to the current choice in 1906

Official Website: http://www.sporting.pt/

FC Sete (France)

FC Sète 34 is a French football club found in 1900.

Official website: http://www.fcsete.com

Agaza FC de Lomé (Togo)

Runners up to Al Moqaouloun al-Arabin 1983 for the Coupe des Coupes africaine

Donegal Celtic

Donegal Celtic is a football club playing in the Irish Premier League in Northern Ireland. The club, founded in 1970, hails from Belfast and plays its home matches at Donegal Celtic Park.

Bloemfontein Celtic

The South African Celtic play in the country's Premier Soccer League and was founded in 1969.

Deportivo Temuco

The Chilean team had a hooped away kit a few years back.

Yeovil Town

English League 1 side

Buckie Thistle

The Scottish Highland League side.

Shamrock Rovers

Shamrock Rovers are a Dublin team playing in the Eircom League of Ireland. They were founded in 1901.

Offficial website: http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/

Aylesbury United

Playing somewhere in the depths of English non-league football, Aylesbury play in green and white and in the early 1990s had a hooped shirt.

Link

• Official Site

PFC Cherno More Varna

Cherno More are a football club in the top "A Grupa" Bulgarian league formed in 1945 through the merge of FC Vladislav and SK Ticha. The club play in green and white hooped tops and socks with black shorts and an away kit consisting of blue and white stripes with blue shorts and socks. "Cherno More" is Bulgarian for Black Sea, with Varna the largest of the sea's coastal towns.

In the 2008-09 uefa cup the club almost pulled off a shock against VfB Stuttgart in the first round of the competition. With 79 minutes gone in the second leg, the score stood at 0:2 (2:3 on aggregate) in favour of the Bulgaria side. Late goals however from Thomas Hitzelsperger and Mario Gomez ultimately saw the Germans go through with a 4:3 aggregate victory.

Official Club Site

Racing Club Mechelen (Belgium)

K.R.C. Mechelen is a Belgian football club from Mechelen in the Antwerp province. They play in the Belgian Third Division B.

Official Club Site (Dutch)

Wikipedia Entry (English)

Sporting da Covilhã (Portugal)

Sporting Clube da Covilhã is a Portuguese football club, located in the city of Covilhã, which is considered one of the historic clubs in Portugal which used to play in the Portuguese First Division but now plays in the secondary divisions. It is one of the few clubs of Portugal's interior to have played in the top division.

Official Club Site (Portugese)

Wikipedia Entry (English)

FC St. Gallen (Switzerland)

http://www.fcsg.ch/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-129/

Club Ferro Carril Oeste (Argentina) (Away kit)

(away kit)
http://www.ferrocarriloeste.com.ar/

SD Eibar (Spain)

http://www.sdeibar.com/

Racing de Santander (Spain)

(3rd top)
http://www.realracingclub.com/default.aspx

Associação Naval 1º de Maio

Lechia Gdansk (Poland)

Click above photo for link to the Lechia Wiki site.
Wiki page

Links

• Another list of Green & White hoop tops (from Nunoni): http://www.verdebranco.net/en_estrangeiros.html