Rangers F.C.

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Rangers Football Club

Full name	Rangers Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Gers, The Teddy Bears, The Light Blues, Bluenoses
Foondit	Mairch 1872
Ground	Ibrox Stadium, Glesga, Scotland
Ground Capacity	50,817
Awner	Rangers International Football Club plc
Chairman	Dave King
Manager	Philippe Clement
League	Scottish Premiership
2022–23	Scottish Premiership, 2nt o 12
Wabsteid	Club wabsteid
Hame colours Awey colours

Rangers Football Club (or Glesga Rangers) is the maist successful fitba club in Scotland. Rangers play in the Scottish Premiership, which is the tap level ae the Scottish Professional Football League. The team plays thair hame gemmes at Ibrox Stadium n the sooth-wist ae Glesga.

Honours

Rangers wis the first club in the warld tae win mair vin 50 league championships. In 2021, they haud the wurld record for the nummer ae domestic league championships taen, efter rackin up 55 titles. Rangers hauds the record for domestic trebles, forby, wi sieven tae date. They won their 100t major trophy in 2000, the first club in the warld tae win tae that milestane. In 2021, they war the maist-honoured fitbaw club in the warld, haein taen 119 trophies aw thegither.

They hae played baith in Scotland's an England's naitional cup competeetions. Rangers won tae the semi-final ae the 1886-87 FA Cup, juist tae be knockit oot bi the winners.

Sectarianism

Rangers is weel kent fur its sectarian problems, alang wi Celtic.

In the warld o Scotis fitbaw, sectarianism is a muckle issue, ruitit in social, cultural, historical an religious circumstances. Ne'ertheless, baith Celtic an the Reengers accepts that they hae a problem wi sectarianism^{[citation needit]}. Baith sides o the Auld Firm admeets that a pairt o thair supporters haes been, an conteenas tae be, guilty o haudin sectarian beliefs an cultural intolerance gaun.

In recent times baith Celtic an the Rangers haes taen meisurs tae fecht sectarianism. Warkin alangside the Scots Pairlament, kirk groups an communities, the Auld Firm haes clampit doun on sectarian sangs, inflammatory flag-wavin, an fashoius supporters, uisin mair muckle levels o policin an surveillance.^{[citation needit]}

Major honours

• Scottish League Championship 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, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2021 (55)
• Scottish Championship 2016 (1)
• Scottish League One 2014 (1)
• Scottish Third Division 2013 (1)
• Scottish Cup 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, 2008, 2009 (33)
• Scottish League Cup 1946, 1948, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011 (27)
• Scottish Challenge Cup 2016 (1)
• European Cup Winners Cup 1972 (1)

Managers

R.F.C. managers Name Period William Wilton 1899–1920 Bill Struth 1920–1954 Scott Symon 1954–1967 David White 1967–1969 William Waddell 1969–1972 Jock Wallace 1972–1978 1983–1986 John Greig 1978–1983 Graeme Souness 1986–1991 Walter Smith 1991–1998 2007–2011

Name Period Dick Advocaat 1998–2001 Alex McLeish 2001–2006 Paul Le Guen 2006–2007 Ally McCoist 2011–2014 Mark Warburton 2015–2017 Pedro Caixinha 2017 Graeme Murty 2017–2018 Steven Gerrard 2018–2021 Giovanni van Bronckhorst 2021-