Rangers F.C.

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Rangers Football Club are a football club from Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premier League.

The club's home is one of 30 UEFA five-star stadiums, the all-seated Ibrox Stadium in south west Glasgow, with a capacity of 51,444.

Rangers players today are multi-national and of various religions, although the club has traditionally been identified with the Protestant community of Scotland. For most of its history, Rangers have enjoyed a fierce rivalry with cross-town opponents Celtic F.C.

The club's correct name is simply Rangers F.C. although it is sometimes incorrectly called Glasgow Rangers. This frequently happens with English commentators seeking to distinguish between them and other similarly-named clubs, particularly Queens Park Rangers F.C..

The club is nicknamed The Teddy Bears, from the rhyming slang for Gers (short for Rangers), and the fans are known to each other as 'Bluenoses'.

History

The Old Firm and sectarianism

The term sectarian refers to a group who belongs to a religious and cultural sect, and display contempt, hatred or dislike of all others, not belonging to their sect.

In the context of Scottish football, sectarianism is beyond the control of any individual club - it is a much wider issue, rooted in social, cultural, historical and religious circumstances.

The sectarianism which exists between the Old Firm is between Protestants and Roman Catholics. During the late 19th century, many Protestant and Catholic immigrants came to Glasgow from Ireland. This was around the same time that both Old Firm clubs were founded (Rangers in 1873 and Celtic in 1888). Most of the Protestants decided to support Rangers whereas the Catholics supported Celtic. Therefore, the idea of Rangers being the 'Protestant club' and Celtic the 'Catholic club' became popular and the sectarian element to the Old Firm rivalry grew from then onwards.

Both Rangers and Celtic now accept that they have a problem with sectarianism. Both clubs admit that a proportion of their supporters have been, and continue to be, guilty of perpetuating sectarian and partisan beliefs as well as cultural intolerance.

Many Celtic supporters accuse Rangers of having the bigger sectarian problem, arguing that up until 1989 (when Rangers controversially signed the Catholic, and former Celtic player, Maurice Johnston) Rangers had a policy of not signing Roman Catholics. However, many Catholics did actually play for Rangers decades before Johnston, albeit with a lower public profile. In 2006, Paul Le Guen became the first Roman Catholic to manage Rangers. The Rangers fans, and Scottish general public, expressed little interest in his religion.

In recent times, both Rangers and Celtic have taken measures to combat sectarianism. Working alongside the Scottish Parliament, church groups, schools and community organisations, the Old Firm has made efforts to clamp down on sectarian songs, inflammatory flag-waving, and troublesome supporters, using increased levels of policing and surveillance.[1]

On 12 April 2006, following an investigation into the conduct of Rangers supporters at both legs of their UEFA Champions League tie against Villarreal CF, the Control and Disciplinary Body of UEFA declared the Rangers fans not guilty of alleged discriminatory chants. [2]. UEFA challenged the ruling, and their Appeals Body partially upheld the appeal [3], fining the Ibrox club £13,500, and warning the club as to their responsibility for any future misconduct by their fans in relation to sectarian and discriminatory behaviour [4].

On 9 June 2006, Rangers F.C., in conjunction with representatives from several supporters clubs, announced that they would comply with three UEFA directives:
*The club is "ordered to announce measurable targets in order to reduce sectarian behaviour amongst its supporters".
*The club is "to control their anti-sectarian activities by producing comprehensive statistics that are communicated to the public".
*The club is "to make a public address announcement at every official fixture, be it international or domestic, stating that any sectarian chanting and any form of the song Billy Boys is strictly prohibited". [5]

UEFA have previously stated that bigotry, which could apply to songs like Billy Boys, is not to be permitted at football grounds.

Under Alex McLeish

Alex McLeish's four-and-a-half-year spell at Ibrox was a turbulent one, coming as it did after the wastefulness of the Advocaat era. McLeish never enjoyed access to the funds his predecessors had been given, and his managership was marked by wildly-fluctuating fortunes, in part caused by forced asset stripping of his best players due to the spectre of debt from Advocaat's spending.

His appointment in December 2001 (see [6]) was met with a lukewarm reaction amongst many Rangers supporters.

Some viewed it as symptomatic of the downsizing of the club's ambitions, while others saw in McLeish a manager whose mixed fortunes at Hibernian F.C. and Motherwell F.C. left him ill-equipped to cope with the demands of managing a high-profile club like Rangers.

A few, perhaps remembering McLeish's days as centre-half colossus in Alex Ferguson's successful Aberdeen side of the early 1980s, questioned whether someone lacking any obvious Rangers allegiance could revitalise a club faced, for the first time in decades, with a concerted challenge from a seemingly rejuvenated Celtic F.C.

Such concerns were quickly allayed, however, as McLeish's Rangers began to display a spirit that had been sorely lacking in Advocaat's final seasons. Cup successes in McLeish's first half-season, 2001/2, saw a renewed sense of optimism that Rangers could regain the ascendancy claimed by Celtic under the managership of Martin O'Neill.

A 3-2 defeat of Celtic in the season's climactic Scottish Cup final (see [7]), orchestrated by Barry Ferguson and marked by a dramatic last minute winner, reinforced the view that Rangers could once more gain the pre-eminence enjoyed for almost all of the period since Graeme Souness's appointment as manager in 1986.

His first full season as manager, 2002/3, saw the club fulfil this sense of promise, and featured an astonishingly tense run-in to the league campaign that many thought could never be repeated - until two years later.

Another victory over Celtic F.C., this time in the League Cup (see [8]),provided the first leg of the club's latest treble. Rangers' half-century of championships was secured on a dramatic last day of the league season, with victory over Dunfermline denying Celtic the title on goal difference (see [9]).

The destination of the title was unknown until the dying seconds of this match as both teams had headed into the game level on points and goal difference. Only a last-minute penalty by Mikel Arteta clinched the win. A somewhat drab and anti-climactic 1-0 victory over Dundee in the Scottish Cup final the following week saw a triumphant finalé to the season (see [10]) and a near-flawless start to McLeish's reign, ruined only by a poor showing in Europe, which Rangers exited in the first round to minnows Viktoria Žižkov.

Yet the overall success of McLeish's initial period as manager proved difficult to sustain. The club's parlous financial position, in the wake of the profligacy of the Advocaat era, meant a period of relative austerity.

Wage bills were slashed as the club embarked on an extensive cost-cutting programme in an attempt to stabilise a mushrooming (and unsustainable) debt. Confronted with a squad of well-paid but ageing players largely assembled by Advocaat, McLeish was compelled to rebuild without the luxury of the generous transfer kitty enjoyed by his predecessors over the preceding two decades, and lost from his treble winning team the inspirational but mistake-prone Lorenzo Amoruso, Scottish international winger Neil McCann and club captain Barry Ferguson to Blackburn Rovers F.C.

To replace these players, McLeish was required to rebuild, not through the high-profile and often audacious signings of the Souness, Smith and Advocaat years, but via wheeling and dealing and the selective use of 'Bosman' free transfers.

After a good start to 2003/2004 which saw the team lead the SPL and qualify for the money-spinning Champions League (with another dramatic late goal in Denmark against FC Copenhagen), the season petered out with a dramatic downturn in results and a trophyless campaign. McLeish's Bosman signings of experienced players, such as the Brazilian midfielder Emerson and Norwegian forward Egil Ostenstad have since entered Ibrox folklore as some of the worst players to pull on a Rangers shirt.

The 2004/2005 season started in the same vein, with McLeish making another poor signing in Serbian midfielder, Dragan Mladenovic, for £1m. The Serb would manage less than ten games for the club.

On the pitch, the team again fell behind Celtic in the league and exited the Champions League at the qualifying stage. It was rumoured that failure to gain entry into the new UEFA Cup group stage would see McLeish lose his job, but another late goal and a penalty shoot out win over CS Marítimo of Portugal provided him with a stay of execution.

After this, his fortunes began to turn again. Mladenovic aside, McLeish had made some canny signings in the summer, such as Nacho Novo, plus the Bosmans Dado Pršo, Jean-Alain Boumsong along with teak-tough midfielder and Rangers die-hard Alex Rae. Once these players settled in, the team began to recover ground on O'Neill's ageing Celtic side.

Boumsong, in particular, was a great success but he was to be sold in January 2005, after only six months at the club, to English Premiership side Newcastle United (managed by former boss Graeme Souness) for £8m.

This cash paved the way for more signings, including Thomas Buffel and the return of former captain and prodigal son Barry Ferguson.

Another trophy, the Scottish League Cup, was procured in March 2005 after a 5-1 victory over Motherwell (see [11]).

The league, however, appeared to have been lost. Despite catching and overtaking Celtic (two Old Firm wins, including a pivotal 2-0 victory at Parkhead - McLeish's first win there as Ibrox manager) nerves seemed to get the better of Rangers once they had got on top.

A loss to Celtic in the last derby of the season handed a five-point lead to their rivals with only four games of the season remaining, and seemed to end McLeish's hopes of a second league title.

However, the Ibrox team managed to win the league title on the last day of the season. A 3-1 Celtic home loss to Hibernian the week after the derby meant only two points separated the sides going into the final game of the season, at which point Rangers needed to win at Hibernian and hope that Celtic would drop points at Fir Park. In perhaps even more dramatic circumstances than two years previously (see [12]), Motherwell F.C. overcame a 1-0 deficit with two goals in injury time to defeat the Parkhead side, while Rangers edged out a tight 1-0 win at Easter Road.

For 89 minutes of the match, Rangers thought their rivals were set for the title, and once news broke of Motherwell's late intervention, ecstasy awaited for the Ibrox legions. Even the helicopter that was carrying the league trophy was on its way to Fir Park to present it to Celtic when it had to turn around and fly to Easter Road. That day has passed into Ibrox folklore, becoming known as 'Helicopter Sunday'. McLeish could celebrate his second, and Rangers' 51st, league title.

Season 2005/2006 got off to a bad start, with Rangers only winning six league games out of the first 17, being knocked out of the League Cup by Celtic in the process. The period from October through to early December saw the team embark on statistically the worst run in their history, going ten games without a win.

During this time, however, the club became the first Scottish side to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League, yet there was still significant pressure on McLeish from fans due to the club's poor position in the domestic league table. It was widely felt - and publicised - that chairman David Murray would let McLeish go after the European campaign had finished, and a press conference arranged two days after the final group match seemed to confirm this.

However, Murray seemed to undergo a change of heart and stated that McLeish would remain in charge indefinitely (see [13]), but did concede that domestic results would need to improve. Rumours continued to suggest that this was because his favoured target, Frenchman Paul Le Guen, was unwilling to take charge until the summer.

After this announcement, the team improved, helped by the signing from Kilmarnock of the young Scot and SPL top scorer Kris Boyd. The side strung together a ten-match unbeaten run. Yet, entering the crucial month of February, which was to feature a must-win Old Firm match and the resumption of European football, this evaporated.

Rangers lost 3-0 at home to Hibernian F.C. on 4 February, 2006 to go out of the Scottish Cup and end their last realistic hopes of silverware for the season. Protests against McLeish and the chairman who had kept him on followed the game, and four days later they were humbled in a 2-0 defeat at McLeish's old club, Aberdeen F.C.

After signs that supporter unrest was turning on Murray, on 9 February, 2006, two days before the crucial Old Firm match, it was announced that Alex McLeish would leave his position as manager at the end of the 2005-06 season (see [14]), and on 11 March, the worst-kept secret in Scottish football was confirmed with the news that former Lyon manager Paul Le Guen would indeed succeed him at the end of the season (see [15]).

It was also announced that the Frenchman would be given significant funds with which to strengthen the squad, with Rangers having announced a £48m tie-up with sports retailer JJB Sports.

Paul Le Guen has a good track record. At Lyon he signed the likes of Juninho Pernambucano.

Overall, the McLeish era was mixed. Results swung violently from one season to the next, while his record in the transfer market was also inconsistent.

The lack of money certainly played its part in McLeish's downfall (he brought in around £13 million in transfer fees overall and the Ibrox wage bill was slashed too) but it is debatable, based on the money he did have to spend, whether greater sums would have been invested wisely. Indeed some supporters of the Ibrox club claim a good proportion of McLeish's signings have been among the worst in the club's entire history. At a time when Scottish talent was apparently beginning to emerge again, some fans found it puzzling that McLeish failed to make more of an effort to raid markets closer to home, or to develop youth players. However, others pointed out that he signed the likes of Novo, Andrews and Murray from other Scottish teams and youngsters such as Chris Burke, Alan Hutton, Ross McCormack and Steven Smith emerged from within the club.

A new era

Paul Le Guen became manager after season 2005-06. Known for unearthing and nurturing young talent, Le Guen made an immediate splash in the transfer market signing South African Under 19 player Dean Furman from Chelsea, and youngsters William Stanger and Antoine Ponroy from Rennes. While allowing Ibrox favourite Alex Rae to move to a new career as player-manager of Dundee, he has also signed Libor Sionko and Karl Svensson, both heading to the World Cup with their nations. Rangers had been strongly linked with a host of other players and signed midfielder Jeremy Clement from Lyon and goalkeeper Lionel Letizi from Paris St Germain as a replacement for the departing Ronald Waterreus. Senegal's World Cup 2002 midfield player Makhtar N'Diaye signed a one year contract after a short trial period with the club.

Rangers' first match under Le Guen was a friendly against Irish Premier League champions Linfield on 6 July 2006 at Windsor Park, Belfast. Rangers won 2-0 with first half goals from Kris Boyd and Thomas Buffel. The squad flew out to South Africa on July 9 for a training camp where they played three matches, the first of which was a comfortable 4-0 win over local opposition with Charlie Adam netting a hat-trick. Rangers also defeated Jomo Cosmos 2-0 but, with a largely depleted starting line-up, they lost their final match 2-0 against Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns. Defender Fernando Ricksen did not take any part in the pre-season tour of South Africa due to what was described by the club as "unacceptable behaviour" on the flight to Johannesburg [16]. Rangers returned to face English Premier League sides Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers where they won 1-0 and drew 1-1 respectively. The SPL opening day on July 30 proved fruitful for Paul Le Guen and Rangers as they defeated Motherwell 2-1 at Fir Park , thanks to an early strike from Libor Sionko and the winning header from Dado Prso following a cross from Charlie Adam [17]. In Le Guen's first competitive game at Ibrox, Rangers were held to a 2-2 draw by Dundee United, and were forced to come back from 2 goals down. [18] On August 9, Fernando Ricksen went to Zenit St Petersburg, the new club of ex-Rangers manager Dick Advocaat, on a season-long loan. In return, a friendly has been scheduled between the teams at Ibrox on August 23 and, reportedly, Zenit's Slovakian defender Martin Skrtel is to move the other way. On August 11 Rangers signed Manchester United's 19 year old winger Lee Martin on a season's loan. Martin is highly rated and played a part in Manchester United Under 21 team's 3-0 pre season win over Celtic.

Stadium

Rangers play at Ibrox Stadium. The ground was inaugurated on December 30, 1899, Rangers defeated Heart of Midlothian F.C. 3-1 in the first match held there. The ground is a UEFA rated 5-star stadium.

The stands in the ground are: Main Stand (Front and Rear), Govan Stand (Front and Rear), and the Copland and Broomloan Stands (both Front and Rear) which are behind the goals. In addition to these, there are also the East and West Enclosures (between Copland and Govan and Broomloan and Govan Stands respectively), the Club Deck (above the Main Stand Rear) and the new Bar 72 area, situated in the Govan Stand. Once work taking place in summer 2006 is complete, the capacity of Ibrox will total 51,444.

Famous players

Famous present or former players at Ibrox include:

;Scotland
* Moses McNeil¹
* Alan Morton¹
* Robert Smith McColl
* David Meiklejohn¹
* Bob McPhail¹
* Jock Shaw¹
* Jim Baxter¹
* John Greig
* Willie Waddell¹
* Gordon Ramsay
* Sandy Jardine¹
* Derek Johnstone¹
* Davie Cooper¹
* Graeme Souness¹
* Willie Henderson¹
* Richard Gough¹
* Robert Fleck
* Ally McCoist¹
* Ted McMinn
* Mo Johnston
* Andy Goram¹
* Alex Cleland
* Barry Ferguson¹ ²

;Argentina
* Claudio Caniggia

;Australia
* Craig Moore
* Tony Vidmar

Croatia
* Dado Pršo²

;Denmark
* Brian Laudrup¹
* Erik Bo Andersen
* Peter Lovenkrands

;England
* Terry Butcher¹
* Ray Wilkins¹
* Mark Hateley¹
* Chris Woods
* Paul Gascoigne¹
* Rod Wallace
* Nigel Spackman
* Trevor Steven
* Gary Stevens
* Mark Walters

;France
* Stephane Guivarc'h
* Lionel Charbonnier
* Jean-Alain Boumsong
* Basile Boli;Georgia
* Shota Arveladze

;Germany
* Jorg Albertz¹
* Stefan Klos²

;Italy
* Marco Negri
* Lorenzo Amoruso
* Rino Gattuso

;Netherlands
* Peter Huistra
* Michael Mols
* Arthur Numan
* Ronald de Boer
* Frank de Boer
* Giovanni van Bronckhorst
* Peter van Vossen

;Northern Ireland
* Sam English

;Norway
* Tore Andre Flo
* Henning Berg

;Russia
* Andrei Kanchelskis
* Oleg Salenko

;Sweden
* Jonas Thern
* Joachim Björklund

;Ukraine
* Alexei Mikhailichenko

;United States
* Claudio Reyna

¹ - Player is included in the Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame.

² - Player is currently playing for the club.

Team managers

* William Wilton (1899 - 1920)
* Bill Struth (1920 - 1954)
* Scott Symon (1954 - 1967)
* David White (1967 - 1969)
* William Waddell (1969 - 1972)
* Jock Wallace (twice) (1972 - 1978) and (1983 - 1986)
* John Greig (1978 - 1983)
* Graeme Souness (1986 - 1991)
* Walter Smith (1991 - 1998)
* Dick Advocaat (1998 - 2001)
* Alex McLeish (2001 - 2006)
* Paul Le Guen (2006 - present)

Current squad

First Team Squad

Players out on loan
* Fernando Ricksen - to Zenit St. Petersburg

Reserve & Youth Squad

Rangers Lineup 2006-07

Rangers' 2006-07 Lineup

Transfers 2006-07

In:
* Rory Loy - Kilmarnock - £25,000
* Dean Furman - Chelsea - Free
* Libor Sionko - Austria Vienna - Free
* William Stanger - Rennes - Free
* Antoine Ponroy - Rennes - Free
* Jeroen van den Broeck - Verbroedering Geel - Free
* Karl Svensson - IFK Göteborg - £600,000
* Lionel Letizi - Paris Saint-Germain - Free
* Makhtar N'Diaye - Yverdon-Sport - Free
* Jérémy Clément - Olympique Lyonnais - £1.1m
* Filip Sebo - Austria Vienna - £1.8m
* Lee Martin - Manchester United - Loan

Out:
* Sotirios Kyrgiakos - Eintracht Frankfurt - Free
* Zurab Khizanishvili - Blackburn Rovers - £500,000
* Peter Løvenkrands - Schalke 04 - Free
* Alex Rae - Dundee - Free
* Ronald Waterreus - Released
* Gary MacKenzie - Dundee - Free
* Marc Kalenga - Released
* Graeme Watson - Released
* John Johnston - Released
* Jason Crooks - Released
* Craig Frizzell - Released
* Ross McCormack - Motherwell - Undisclosed
* Marvin Andrews - Released
* Fernando Ricksen - Zenit St. Petersburg - Loan

Non-playing staff

Boardroom

*Chairman: David Murray
*Chief Executive: Martin Bain
*Football Administrator: Andrew Dickson
*Director of Finance: Donald McIntyre
*Operations Executive: Laurence MacIntyre
*Director: John Greig
*Non-Executive Director: John McClelland
*Non-Executive Director: Alastair Johnston
*Non-Executive Director: David Cunningham King
*Non-Executive Director: Donald Wilson

Management

*Manager: Paul Le Guen
*Assistant Manager: Yves Colleu
*Reserve Coach: Ian Durrant
*Under-19 Coach: Tommy Wilson
*Head of Youth Football: Jim Sinclair
*Goalkeeping Coach: Billy Thompson
*Community Coach: Billy Kirkwood
*Community Coach: Craig Mulholland
*Club Doctor: Dr Ian McGuiness
*Physiotherapist: Joel Le Hir
*Physiotherapist: Davie Henderson
*Fitness Coach: Stephane Wiertelak
*Kit Controller: Jimmy Bell

Club records

Record home attendance: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:2-10 .v. Airdrieonians, 1886

Record league defeat:0-6 Dumbarton, May 1892

Record appearances:John Greig, 755, 1960-1978

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

Record Scottish Cup appearances:Alec Smith, 74

Record league cup appearances:John Greig, 121

Record European appearances: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, 251 goals

Most Scottish Cup goals:Jimmy Fleming, 44 goals

Most League Cup goals:Ally McCoist, 54 goals

Most European goals:Ally McCoist, 21 goals

Shutout record:Chris Woods, 1196 minutes, 1986/87 (British record)

Most capped player:Frank De Boer, 112 caps for The Netherlands

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

Highest transfer fee paid:Tore André 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 hold the current world record for number of domestic league championships won, racking up their 51st (excluding unofficial wartime leagues) title in 2005.
* They also share the all-time worldwide lead for domestic doubles with Northern Ireland club Linfield F.C., with 17 as of 2004-05, and hold the record for domestic trebles, with seven so far.
* Rangers won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone.
* First British club to reach the final of a European tournament.

Major honours

* European Cup Winners Cup Champions (1): 1972.
* European Cup Winners Cup Runners-Up (2): 1961 and 1967.
* Scottish League Champions (51): 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, 2005
* Scottish Cup Winners (31): 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
* Scottish League Cup Winners (24): 1947, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005

Other honours

* Emergency War League (1): 1940
* Southern League (6): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
*Milk Cup (3): (Premier) 1984, 1992; (Junior) 1985
* Drybrough Cup (1): 1979
* Tennents' Sixes (2): 1984, 1989
* Glasgow Cup (44): 1893, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1969, 1971, 1975*, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987
*1975 trophy shared with Celtic after 2-2 draw
* Glasgow Merchants and Charity Cup (32): 1878-79, 1896-97, 1899-1900, 1903-04, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1908-09, 1910-11, 1918-19, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1924-25, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1938-39, 1939-40, 1940-41, 1941-42, 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1959-60
* Glasgow League (2): 1895/96, 1897/98

UEFA Ranking

Current Club Ranking
* 53 Sochaux
* 54 Udinese
* 55 Rangers
* 56 Palermo
* 57 Borussia Dortmund
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Current National League Ranking
* 09 Russian League
* 10 Belgian League
* 11 Scottish League
* 12 Ukrainian League
* 13 Greek League
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External links

*Official website
*Rangers Loyal
*Planet Rangers
*Student Loyal
*Broxi Bears fan site
*Team Selector
*Rangers Squad Appearance/Goal Stats
*BBC Sport Rangers portal
*Glasgow Rangers FC page
*North American Rangers Supporters Association page
*Follow Follow Fansite - The Voice Of The Rangers Support Worldwide
*Details of the redevelopment of Ibrox Stadium