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Rangers F.C.

This article is about the men's football club. For the women's team, see Rangers W.F.C.

Rangers
Full nameRangers Football Club
Nickname(s)The Gers
The Light Blues
The Teddy Bears
FoundedMarch 1872 (1872-03)
GroundIbrox Stadium
Capacity50,987
OwnerThe Rangers Football Club Ltd[1]
ChairmanJohn Bennett
ManagerPhilippe Clement
LeagueScottish Premiership
2023–24Scottish Premiership, 2nd of 12
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football. The club is often referred to colloquially as Glasgow Rangers, particularly outside Scotland, though this has never been its official name.[2] The fourth-oldest football club in Scotland, Rangers was founded by four teenage boys as they walked through West End Park (now Kelvingrove Park) in March 1872 where they discussed the idea of forming a football club, and played its first match against the now defunct Callander at the Fleshers' Haugh area of Glasgow Green in May of the same year. Rangers' home ground, Ibrox Stadium, designed by stadium architect Archibald Leitch and opened in 1929, is a Category B listed building and the third-largest football stadium in Scotland. The club has always played in royal blue shirts.[3]

Rangers have won the Scottish League title a record 55 times, the Scottish Cup 34 times, the Scottish League Cup a record 28 times and the domestic treble on seven occasions. Rangers won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1972 after being losing finalists twice, in 1961 (the first British club to reach a UEFA tournament final) and 1967. The club has lost a further two European finals; they reached the UEFA Cup Final in 2008 and a fourth runners-up finish in European competition came in the UEFA Europa League Final in 2022.

Rangers has a long-standing rivalry with Celtic, the two Glasgow clubs being collectively known as the Old Firm, which is considered one of the world's biggest football derbies.[4][5] With more than 600 Rangers supporters' clubs in 35 countries worldwide, Rangers has one of the largest fanbases in world football.[6] The club holds the record for the largest travelling support in football history, when an estimated 200,000 Rangers fans arrived in the city of Manchester for the 2008 UEFA Cup final.[7][8] Rangers also took the largest ever travelling support abroad when an estimated 100,000 fans arrived in Seville for the 2022 UEFA Europa League Final.[9]

One of the 11 original members of the Scottish Football League,[10] Rangers remained in the top division continuously until a financial crisis during the 2011–12 season saw the club enter administration[11] and the original company liquidated[12][13] with the assets moved to a new company structure.[14] The club was accepted as an associate member of the Scottish Football League and placed in the fourth tier of the Scottish football league system in time for the start of the following season. Rangers then won three promotions in four years, returning to the Premiership for the start of the 2016–17 season. While in the Scottish lower divisions, Rangers became the only club in Scotland to have won every domestic trophy. In 2020–21, Rangers won the Scottish Premiership, their first Scottish championship in ten years, a then world record fifty-fifth league win. It also stopped rivals Celtic in their quest to break the domestic record by winning ten titles in a row.

  1. ^ THE RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED Company No. SC425159 Companies House. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ^ From Sporting Lisbon to Athletic Bilbao — why do we get foreign clubs’ names wrong?, Michael Cox, The Athletic, 16 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Rangers – Historical Kits". Historicalkits.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Passion, pride, tradition and nastiness: Why Old Firm match is greatest derby in the world". Evening Times. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Classic Rivalries: Old Firm's enduring appeal". FIFA. 16 April 2016. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Supporters Clubs". Rangers Football Club, Official Website. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Rangers invasion: your views". British Broadcasting Corporation. 15 May 2008. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  8. ^ McLeod, Keith (15 May 2008). "175,000-strong Rangers support the biggest in world football". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Rangers in Seville: Police say 100,000 fans expected". BBC. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  10. ^ Gammelsæter, Hallgeir; Senaux, Benoit (2011). The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe. Routledge. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-136-70533-5. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  11. ^ "Rangers Football Club enters administration". BBC. 12 February 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  12. ^ "How the mighty Glasgow Rangers have fallen". The Guardian. 18 January 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  13. ^ "Rangers to re-form after creditors' deal is rejected". BBC. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  14. ^ "The Rangers Football Club Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
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