Four bands. One club. Grassroots music and sport together.
Super Furry Animals, Mogwai, Panic Shack and Loose Articles become shirt sponsors for the Celts — with 10% of every shirt going to Music Venue Trust.
Cwmbran Celtic FC has today announced a landmark shirt-sponsor partnership that unites two worlds built on the very same foundations: grassroots football and grassroots music. For the 2026/27 season, four of the UK's most-loved independent bands — Super Furry Animals, Mogwai, Panic Shack and Loose Articles — will feature across the front of the club's men's and women's first-team shirts.
Community, passion, and the amazing people who keep them both alive — that's what football and music at this level share. Most of the money raised through shirt sales goes directly towards supporting the club's many teams: six senior sides across the men's and women's sections, plus veterans, walking football and a full junior set-up for boys and girls. And 10% of the profit from every shirt will be donated to Music Venue Trust, the charity dedicated to protecting, securing and improving the UK's grassroots music venues.
Bands and football shirts have a long history together — from Wet Wet Wet's Clydebank deal in the 1990s to Ed Sheeran's Ipswich Town shirts, and Bohemians sporting both Fontaines D.C. and Oasis on their kit. Super Furry Animals know the territory better than most, having appeared on an iconic Cardiff City shirt back in 1999. What sets this partnership apart is the theme running across all four first-team home and away shirts: four bands helping support a community football club — and the venues they started their careers in.
Super Furry Animals and Panic Shack carry the banner for Welsh music. Glasgow post-rock institution Mogwai are Celtic fans and jumped at the chance to appear on our green-and-white hooped shirt, and Manchester punk band Loose Articles are big football fans whose drummer's mother lives in Cwmbran. It's a cross-section of the independent scene spanning three decades and three countries. And these are the first shirts from Tor Sports, the club's new kit supplier.
The Shirts
★ On the night
Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. wore the Mogwai shirt headlining Reading Festival
28 August 2026 · Photograph: Patrick Gunning
See the Mogwai shirt →
Mogwai
Glasgow post-rock institution and lifelong Celtic fans, Mogwai take pride of place on our men's away shirt — the green-and-white hoops they grew up with.
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Goalkeeper Kits
★ Coming Soon ★ On pre-sale nowOur four goalkeeper kits are on their way — pre-order opens at 9:00am on Monday 31 August.
All four goalkeeper kits are on pre-sale now — one for each band, in men’s, women’s and kids’ sizes.
- Men's, women's & kids' sizesEvery design, every fit
- Worldwide shippingWherever you are
- 10% to Music Venue TrustFrom the profit on every shirt
All four shirts are available now in men's, women's and kids' sizes, and we ship internationally — so wherever you are, you can wear one. Goalkeeper kits coming soon.
Two rooms
in Newport
We took the range to Diverse Vinyl and Le Pub — the record shop and the grassroots venue that made this partnership make sense.
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“Myself and fellow Commercial Manager Connor Cupples both come from music backgrounds. I co-own a record shop in Newport and Connor promotes shows across the country. Both of us have put on numerous gigs in grassroots venues, and it was obvious there were massive similarities across the two worlds. It seemed a no-brainer to link the two — and luckily, the bands all embraced the idea and gave it their blessing!”
Matt JarrettJoint Commercial Manager, Cwmbran Celtic FC
“Grassroots football and grassroots music venues are fighting the same fight. They're where it all starts, they run on passion and tight budgets, and when one disappears a community loses something it can't easily get back. To have four bands of this calibre on our shirts — and to send a share of every sale to Music Venue Trust — means this kit stands for far more than a season of football. It's two grassroots worlds looking out for each other.”
Connor CupplesJoint Commercial Manager, Cwmbran Celtic FC
10% of the profit of every shirt goes to Music Venue Trust
Music Venue Trust is a UK charity established in 2014 to protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues — the small rooms where emerging artists cut their teeth and where so much of the country's musical talent first performs. Every shirt you buy helps keep those doors open.
About Music Venue Trust →
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The shirt also appears in the Reading photography of:
The Bands
Super Furry Animals
Genre-hopping Welsh icons and one of the most inventive bands Britain has ever produced. Across landmark records like Fuzzy Logic, Radiator and Guerrilla — and the all-Welsh Mwng — they fused psychedelia, pop and electronica with fearless imagination. No strangers to football, either, having famously appeared on a Cardiff City shirt back in 1999.
Mogwai
Scotland's post-rock giants have spent three decades turning quiet-loud dynamics into something monumental — sweeping, largely instrumental music that scores films and fills halls. In 2021 they landed their first UK #1 album with As the Love Continues. Lifelong Celtic supporters, they leapt at the chance to wear our green-and-white hoops.
Panic Shack
One of the sharpest and funniest new voices in Welsh guitar music. Panic Shack's whip-smart, riotous live shows have made them festival favourites and a driving force in the new wave of bands flying the flag for the Welsh scene.
Wear the shirt. Back the Celts. Support live music.
Pre-order the 2026/27 Music Shirts now — men's, women's and kids' sizes, shipped worldwide. And grab a season ticket for every home game, men's and women's, at Celtic Park.