Managed by head coach David Gray, Hibs are approaching their eighth season in the Scottish Premiership since winning promotion from the Championship in 2017.
They finished a disappointing eighth in the league last year, beginning the campaign with one manager, replacing him with a second, and seeing out the season with Gray in his fourth interim spell in charge.
Founded in Edinburgh’s Cowgate, or Little Ireland as it was known, in 1875, Hibs was originally established with the aim of helping the Irish community become more integrated into the wider Edinburgh population. Ten years earlier, St Patrick’s Church in the Cowgate had established a Catholic Young Men’s Society (CYMS) and one Irishman, Michael Whelahan, suggested to the parish priest Canon Edward Hannon that the CYMS should form a football team.
On August 6, 1875 Hibernian FC was founded with Canon Hannon named as manager and Whelahan as team captain. Players had to be members of the CYMS and the club was ultimately intended to be an organisation for young Catholics to follow a life of temperance and religious adherence through football.
The club’s Irish Catholic roots posed problems, with other teams banned from playing games against the newly-formed Hibs - apart from Hearts, who broke ranks to provide the opposition for Hibs’ first-ever match; a 1-0 defeat against Hearts at East Meadows on Christmas Day, 1875. Hearts’ decision and the persistence of Whelahan and Canon Hannon eventually led to Hibs being accepted by the footballing authorities.
During their 149-year history, Hibs have won ten major trophies: four league titles, three Scottish Cups, and three Scottish League Cups as well as six second-tier titles and two Drybrough Cups.
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Hibs fixtures
The next run of Hibs fixtures takes us into the club’s pre-season schedule.
Pre-season friendlies
- Edinburgh City v Hibs (Saturday, June 29, kick-off 1pm), Meadowbank Stadium
- Hibs XI v Carlisle United U19s, Wednesday, July 3
- Dunbar United v Hibs XI (Tuesday, July 9, kick-off 7.30pm), New Countess Park
- Preston Athletic v Hibs XI (Saturday, July 13, kick-off 3pm), Pennypit Park
- Hibs v Watford (Wednesday, July 24, kick-off 7pm), Easter Road
Netherlands pre-season training camp games
- MSV Duisburg v Hibs (Wednesday, July 3, kick-off TBC), behind closed doors
- PAOK v Hibs (Saturday, July 6, kick-off TBC), Sportpark Sporting Swolgen Tienray
After that, it's into the Scottish Premiership campaign proper. Here's Hibs 2024/25 fixtures in full including Hearts derbies.
Hibs top goalscorer
Hibs had two top goalscorers for the 2023/24 season in all competitions with Martin Boyle and Myziane Maolida both scoring 11 goals in total.
Who is the Hibs manager?
The Hibs head coach is former captain and right-back David Gray, who was named as the club’s 38th permanent manager on June 6, 2024, after initially serving as first-team coach to Jack Ross, Shaun Maloney, Lee Johnson, and Nick Montgomery and on four occasions taking interim charge of the team.
Who are the Hibs coaches?
There are two assistant head coaches. Eddie May, who served the club as a player in the late 1980s before returning in 2014 and holding several roles including academy coaching manager and, most recently, loans manager, and former club captain Liam Craig, who has returned to his old club after spells coaching with St Johnstone, Arbroath, and Queen’s Park. Craig Samson is now in his second spell as goalkeeping coach, having initially joined as part of Jack Ross’ backroom staff in 2019 before leaving in 2022 to join Aberdeen.
Hibs players
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Hibs goalkeepers
Jojo Wollacott
Max Boruc
Josef Bursik (on loan from Club Brugge until the end of the 2024/25 season)
Murray Johnson (on loan at Airdrieonians for the 2024/25 season)
Hibs defenders
Rocky Bushiri
Marvin Ekpiteta
Riley Harbottle
Warren O'Hora
Chris Cadden
Lewis Miller
Jordan Obita
Kanayo Megwa
Rory Whittaker
Oscar MacIntyre (on loan at Queen of the South for the 2024/25 season)
Kyle McClelland (on loan at Coleraine for the 2024/25 season)
Hibs midfielders
Luke Amos
Josh Campbell
Allan Delferrière
Jake Doyle-Hayes
Ewan Henderson
Nohan Kenneh
Dylan Levitt
Jacob MacIntyre
Reuben McAllister
Rudi Molotnikov
Nathan Moriah-Welsh
Joe Newell
Murray Aiken (on loan at Airdrieonians until January 1, 2025)
Hibs forwards
Martin Boyle
Josh Landers
Harry McKirdy
Josh O’Connor
Jair Tavares
Dylan Vente
Élie Youan
Hibs stadium
Hibs play their home games at Easter Road, the club’s home ground since 1893. It has undergone several rounds of redevelopment since then and currently has a capacity of 20,421. Its record attendance of 65,860 was set on January 2, 1950 when Hibs hosted Hearts in the New Year derby. As of the 2024/25 campaign, the Famous Five Stand on the north side of the ground will have a safe-standing section.
History of the Hibs jersey
Although Hibs are well known now for their green shirts with white sleeves, they first played in white jerseys, white shirts, and green socks before switching to white jerseys with green hoops - later adopted by Celtic - accompanied by white shorts, and green socks between 1876 and 1879.
They then adopted an all-green jersey in a shade of bottle green and usually paired with white shorts or occasionally black or navy shorts and green socks.
It wasn’t until 1933 that the jerseys were of a lighter emerald green shade and in 1938, the white sleeves were added for the first time and teamed with white shorts and green and white socks.
Hibs have had a variation of this kit ever since, apart from the odd occasion in the 1970s when they wore all-green shirts against Hearts and Hajduk Split, and again in 2014/15 when they wore a bottle-green shirt, white shorts, and black socks in a nod to the kit worn nearly 100 years earlier. Hibs were also the first Scottish team to carry a shirt sponsor, advertising sportswear firm Bukta, in 1977.
Former Hibs managers
Since 1875 Hibs have had 38 permanent managers including current head coach David Gray, although the club was effectively managed by a committee until 1903. Dan McMichael is the only person to serve two terms as manager, although his first stint in 1903 came when his official role was that of club secretary.
In terms of notable managers, McMichael led Hibs to their second Scottish Cup win in 1902, and the league title in 1902/03 while Alan Stubbs was at the helm when Hibs won their first Scottish Cup since 1902 in 2016.
Hugh Shaw was in charge for three league titles between 1947/48 and 1951/52 while Eddie Turnbull, Alex Miller, and John Collins all won the Scottish League Cup while in the hot seat. Bertie Auld, Neil Lennon, and Alex McLeish all won second-tier titles with Hibs.
Hibs honours
During their 149-year history, Hibs have won ten major trophies: four league titles, three Scottish Cups, and three Scottish League Cups as well as six second-tier titles, and two Drybrough Cups.
Their most recent Scottish Cup win came in 2016 when an injury-time goal scored by current head coach David Gray ended Hibs’ 114-year wait to lift the trophy as they came from behind to defeat Rangers 3-2 at Hampden Park.
Hibs were also the first British team invited to play in European competition, in 1955/56. They defeated Rot-Weiss Essen of Germany before seeing off Swedish side Djurgårdens in the quarter-finals.
Their journey ended at the semi-final stage when French side Stade de Reims defeated them 3-0 on aggregate before losing to Real Madrid in the final.
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