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Football club
Rangers F.C.
Full nameRangers Football Club
Nickname(s)The Gers
Founded1873
GroundIbrox Stadium,
Glasgow, Scotland
Capacity50,411
ChairmanDavid Murray
ManagerAlex McLeish
LeagueScottish Premier League
2003-04Scottish Premier League, 2nd
Home colours Away colours

Rangers Football Club is the world's most successful football club in terms of domestic competitions won. Founded in 1873, Rangers play at the 50,411 seat Ibrox Stadium in south west Glasgow. Rangers play in light blue shirts, white shorts and black and red socks. (Away tops tend to be red and white (never green!) or blue and white (sometimes orange).

In 1873, Moses McNeil, Tom Vallance and Peter Campbell saw a group of men playing football on Glasgow Green's Flesher's Haugh and decided to form a team of their own. Three of McNeil's six brothers (Peter, William and Harry) joined him in this this new pastime and together they formed the core of the early Rangers sides. The team's first game was in May of 1872 against Callander F.C. on Flesher's Haugh, which resulted in a 0-0 draw. At first they played under the name Argyle. Moses McNeil suggested the name Rangers after seeing the name in a book about English Rugby.

Identified with the city's Protestant community, the club broke with tradition by signing a prominent Scottish (and Celtic-supporting) Roman Catholic player Maurice "Mo" Johnston in 1989. The present side is multinational and multiracial. For most of its history it has enjoyed a fierce rivalry with crosstown opponents Celtic, which in contrast draws much of its support from Glasgow's Catholic community. Between them the two clubs dominate Scottish football, and are collectively known as The Old Firm.

The club's correct name is simply Rangers, although they are sometimes (incorrectly) called Glasgow Rangers - often by English commentators seeking to distinguish between them and other similarly named clubs, particularly Queens Park Rangers. The club is nicknamed The Gers by friend and foe alike, although the fans are known as "Bluenoses" or "Bears".

In 1972, Rangers won the European Cup Winners Cup, beating Dynamo Moscow by a score of 3-2 in Barcelona. Rangers have won a world record 50 domestic championships, the most recent coming in 2003.

During the 1990s the club was controlled by metals tycoon David Murray, who invested heavily in the ground and in buying expensive playing talent. Rangers won the Scottish League championship nine years in a row, from 1989 to 1997, and generally dominated Scottish football during that period. The club was criticised during this time, as some felt the amount spent on foreign players detracted from investment in developing home-grown players, although the creation of their training facility, "Murray Park", has led to steps being taken to correct this. The decline of crap team Celtic in the late 1990s has seen Rangers fans laugh a lot. Both teams are believed to harbour ambitions to play with leading English clubs in a lucrative "superleague", rather in the (somewhat anaemic) Scottish Premier League. As of 2004 Rangers' corporate debt was in excess of £70 million, although chairman Murray has pledged to wipe out the debt via a shares issue.

Famous present or former players at Ibrox include: Alan Morton, David Meiklejohn, Robert Smith McColl, Willie Waddell, Jock Shaw, Paul Gascoigne, Terry Butcher, Graeme Souness, Ally McCoist, Mark Hateley, Brian Laudrup, Claudio Reyna, Arthur Numan, Lorenzo Amoruso, Rodney Wallace, Fernando Ricksen, Jim Baxter, Ray Wilkins, Richard Gough, Andy Goram, Barry Ferguson, William 'Sandy' Jardine and Jean-Alain Boumsong.

Past Managers

Current Squad

Goalkeepers

1. Stefan Klos German
22. Alan McGregor Scottish
30. Greame Smith Scottish

Defenders

2. Fernando Ricksen Dutch
5. Marvin Andrews Trinidadian
12. Robert Malcolm Scottish
15. Zurab Khizanishvili Georgian
16. Paolo Vanoli Italian
18. Michael Ball English
20. Alan Hutton Scottish
21. Maurice Ross Scottish
24. Gregory Vignal French

Midfielders

8. Alex Rae Scottish
11. Gavin Rae Scottish
14. Dragan Mladenovic Serbian
17. Christopher Burke Scottish
23. Bojan Djordjic Swedish
26. Peter Løvenkrands Danish
27. Stephen Hughes Scottish
31. Hamed Namouchi Tunisian
35. Brian McLean Scottish
36. Marc Kalenga French
20. Charles Adam Scottish
48. Gary McKenzie Scottish
tba. Thomas Buffel Belgian

Strikers

7. Shota Arveladze Georgian
9. Dado Prso Croatian
10. Nacho Novo Spanish
19. Steven Thompson Scottish
38. Bajiram Fetai Danish
39. Tom Brighton Scottish
42. Robert Davidson Scottish
45. Ross McCormack Scottish
45. Gary McKenzie Scottish

Club Records

Record home attendence: 118,567 .v. Celtic, January, 1939

Record victory: 13-0 .v. Possilpark, Scottish Cup, October, 1877

Record league victory: 10-0 .v. Hibernian, December, 1898

Record defeat: 1-7 .v. Celtic, League Cup Final, October, 1957

Record league defeat: 0-6 Dumbarton, May, 1892

Record appearences: John Greig, 755, 1960-1978

Record league appearences: Sandy Archibald, 513, 1917-1934

Record Scottish Cup appearences: Alec Smith, 74

Record league cup appearences: John Greig, 121

Record European appearences: John Greig, 64

Record goalscorer: Ally McCoist, 355 goals, 1983-1998

Most goals in one season: Sam English, 44 goals, 1931/1932

Most league goals: Ally McCoist, 54 goals

Most Scottish Cup goals: Jimmy Fleming, 44 goals

Most League Cup goals: Ally McCoist, 54 goals

Most European goals: Ally McCoist, 21 goals

Most capped player: Ally McCoist, 60 caps for Scotland

Highest transfer fee received: Giovanni Van Bronkhorst, £8.5m, Arsenal, 2001

Highest transfer fee paid: Tore Andre Flo, £12.5m, Chelsea, 2000


Greatest Team

The following team was voted as the greatest ever Rangers team at an awards ceremony in 1999. Thousands of Rangers fans voted.

Honours

Rangers have the all-time worldwide lead for domestic league championships, racking up their 50th title in 2003. They also share the all-time worldwide lead for domestic doubles with Northern Ireland club Linfield, with 17 as of 2004-05.

Rangers won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone. They were specially honoured by UEFA.

  • European Cup Winners Cup 1972 (1)
  • Scottish League Champions 1891, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003 (50)
  • Scottish Cup Winners 1894, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 (31)
  • Scottish League Cup Winners 1946, 1948, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003 (23)
  • Drybrough Cup 1979

See also

External link

Scottish Premier League (1998–2013)
« Scottish Football League Premier Division (1975–98) Scottish Premiership (2013– ) »
Former teams
Seasons
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