With the league season now past the first full round of fixtures, I usually use it as an opportunity to try and assess where Celtic stand competitively, as well as any potential emerging trends that may be impacting performances.
Alan and I have been chronicling the material shifts in the SPFL Premiership since the beginning of the 2025-2026 season, and those changes continue. Importantly, as we often say, Celtic do not compete within a vacuum, so we spend a lot of time considering and trying to analyze broader developments and trends.
But before I get to the broader trends, let us begin with some shifts in Celtic’s performance profile versus the first 13 league games of the 2023-2024 season.
Why compare with the first 13 games of the 2023-2024 season? That was also a summer of transition with material squad turnover and a team struggling a bit with conceding chances to opponents.