Post by Taxigirl on Dec 15, 2003 18:18:17 GMT
Celtic picked up Fifa's Fair Play Award on behalf of the fans that travelled to last season's Uefa Cup final.
Around 80,000 travelled to Seville to see their team lose 3-2 to Porto and the honour is for the supporters' "exemplary fair and cordial conduct".
Executive director Peter Lawwell said: "Celtic is a unique club with many thousands of fantastic supporters.
"This award is a tribute to all of them, as they showed last year, they are the best fans in the world."
The Fifa prize follows the award in August of Uefa's equivalent accolade.
Eddie Toner, general secretary of the Celtic Supporters Association said last week: "I am sure all supporters will be delighted with this tremendous honour.
"The supporters were a credit to Celtic Football Club and we all hope that we will be fortunate enough to enjoy similar occasions in European football this season."
Celtic manager Martin O'Neill added: "We have been delighted with the backing the team has received from supporters in all the competitions we have been involved in, both home and abroad. They all richly deserve this recognition from Fifa."
