Neil Francis Lennon (born 25 June 1971) is a Northern Irish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. During his playing career he represented English clubs Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City.
Lennon moved to Scottish club Celtic in 2000, where he made over 200 appearances and was appointed captain in 2005. Before retiring as a player, he returned to England and played for Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers. Lennon made 40 appearances for Northern Ireland in nine years, scoring two goals. Lennon was appointed manager of Celtic in March 2010, initially in a caretaker capacity after the departure of Tony Mowbray.
Celtic and Rangers get Champions League boost as Scotland guaranteed two spots
dailyrecord.co.ukChampions League teams from 2021-22 after guaranteeing a top 15 place in UEFA's coefficient ranking.The exploits of Celtic and Rangers in this season's Europa League had Scotland in a strong position.However, Neil Lennon's side suffered a surprise exit to Copenhagen at the last 32 stage to reduce the Premiership participants to one.It was then truly coefficient squeaky bum time as Rangers lost both games to Bayer Leverkusen.The total done over a five year average, with the season points divided by the number of clubs that entered European competition at the start of the season.That meant a Rangers win in Germany would only have brought an extra 0.5 points toward the coefficient as four Scottish clubs entered.Before the last 16 ties Scotland.
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