SC Ashdod Bitton broke into the senior team of his home-town club
SC Ashdod at the age of 17 in an
Israeli Premier League match on 25 April 2009, and went on to make over 120 appearances.
Celtic On 30 August 2013, Bitton signed a four-year deal with
Scottish Premiership club
Celtic, for a fee of around £700,000 and a 20% sell-on clause from
Israeli Premier League club
SC Ashdod. He made his debut for the club on 18 September, in a
Champions League group stage match against
AC Milan, coming into the game as a late substitute in the 89th minute. Three weeks later he made another Champions League appearance for Celtic, coming as a 77th-minute substitute against
Ajax on 22 October, but was sent off eleven minutes later for a late tackle on
Thulani Serero. but he still managed to make a total of 20 appearances for Celtic by the end of his first season there. Celtic won their third successive league title, and Bitton's 15 league appearances saw him pick up his first major honour. In the 2014–15 season, Bitton scored in Celtic's first league match of the season from the penalty spot after a controversial red card for
St Johnstone defender
Dave Mackay. Celtic winger
Derk Boerrigter was later given a 3-match ban for simulation. Later in the season, Bitton scored a stunning 30-yard goal against
Dundee in a 5–0 win. He scored another long-distance strike on 12 August 2015, netting from 25 yards into the top corner in a 2–2 draw with
Kilmarnock. To begin the
2015–16 season, on 19 August 2015, Bitton scored against Swedish side
Malmö FF in a 3–2 win at
Celtic Park in the first leg of the
Champions League playoffs. On 2 November 2015, Bitton was signed a new contract which would keep him at Celtic until the summer of 2020, and again on 16 December 2019 he extended his contract up to 2023. On 13 May 2022, Celtic announced that Bitton and teammate
Tom Rogic would both be leaving the club after the final game of the season against
Motherwell. Bitton said: "When I came to Celtic I never thought I would be part of such exciting times and it truly has been amazing to be part of such a great club. I have worked with some great managers and team-mates and I thank them all for those times and all we achieved together." On his 245th and final game for Celtic, Bitton came on as a substitute for club captain
Callum McGregor in the 85th minute, as Celtic ran out 6–0 winners. Rogic and Bitton brought out the Scottish Premiership trophy together, which McGregor then lifted aloft with his departing teammates standing on either side. Bitton also occasionally
captained Celtic.
Maccabi Tel Aviv On 1 July 2022, Bitton joined
Israeli Premier League club
Maccabi Tel Aviv on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract with an option for a third year. The player thus returned to Israel after spending nine years in
Scotland. ==International career==