{{Infobox football club | clubname = Lurgan Celtic | image =| fullname = Lurgan Celtic Football Club | nickname = Lurgan Hoops, Wee Hoops, Lurgan Bhoys | founded = 1903 | ground = Lord Lurgan Park / Allenhill Park | capacity = | 500 chairman = | manager = Michael Smyth | league = Mid-Ulster Football League Junior Division 2 | season = 2021/22| position = Mid-Ulster Football League Division 3 2nd| pattern_la1=_white_hoops|pattern_b1=_whitehoops|pattern_ra1=_white_hoops|pattern_so1=_hoops_green_2| leftarm1=006600|body1=006600|rightarm1=006600|shorts1=FFFFFF|socks1=FFFFFF| pattern_la2=|pattern_b2=|pattern_ra2=| leftarm2=FFBE06|body2=FFBE06|rightarm2=FFBE06|shorts2=145000|socks2=FFBE06| }}Lurgan Celtic Football Club is a Northern Irish intermediate football club based in Lurgan, County Armagh, that currently plays in the Mid-Ulster Football League Junior Division 3. The club was founded, 1903 & re-formed in 1970 who plays in a strip based on Scottish team Celtic. On 15 August 2019, Lurgan Celtic announced that its senior side would withdraw from the NIFL and implement new youth academy structures, with a view to restarting its senior teams for the 2020-21 season. Lurgan Celtic resumed senior football activities at the bottom of the Mid-Ulster Football League pyramid, upon the commencement of the 2020-21 season. History A club by the name of Lurgan Celtic was originally formed in 1903, with the obvious slant of aiming towards the Roman Catholic community of the town, adopting the name and colours of Glasgow Celtic, a popular club among the Irish Catholics population of Glasgow and the west of Scotland. At the time it was a bold move to try and break into the world of football. The Gaelic Athletic Association was in its early stages and was keen to promote Gaelic sports and football in particular, perceived as "foreign", was discouraged. A change in attitudes gradually took hold in the early 1970s and Lurgan Celtic was reborn to try its luck again in the local football scene, quickly rising to become one of the strongest clubs in the Craigavon area. Irish Football League membership remained elusive during these years, partly due to the presence of Glenavon down the road at a time when the IFA was trying to reach out to new footballing towns. There was also a suggestion that it was the club's clearly Nationalist stance as they pushed for membership of what was considered a predominantly Unionist league that stood in their way. So strongly was this felt that the club joined forces with Belfast club Donegal Celtic, another club that took its name and kit from the