Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the Govan district of Glasgow which plays in the Scottish Premiership. The club was founded by four teenage boys in March 1872. Rangers is the second-most successful club in world football in terms of trophies won, behind only Egyptian club Al Ahly. Ibrox Stadium, which was designed by stadia architect Archibald Leitch and opened in 1929, is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland. Rangers has a long-standing rivalry with Celtic, the two Glasgow clubs being collectively known as the Old Firm.
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Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the Govan district of Glasgow which plays in the Scottish Premiership. The club was founded by four teenage boys in March 1872. Rangers is the second-most successful club in world football in terms of trophies won, behind only Egyptian club Al Ahly. Ibrox Stadium, which was designed by stadia architect Archibald Leitch and opened in 1929, is a Category B listed building and the third-largest football stadium in Scotland. 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. Rangers 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. Rangers’ first-ever league match, on 16 August 1890, resulted in a 5–2 victory over Heart of Midlothian. In 1877 Rangers reached the Scottish Cup final; after drawing the first game, Rangers refused to turn up for the replay and the cup was awarded to Vale of Leven. Rangers won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1972 after being losing finalists twice, in 1961 and 1967. By the start of the 20th century, Rangers had won two Scottish Cups and three league titles. During William Wilton’s time as match secretary, Rangers won 10 league titles and three Scottish Cups. Leading the club for 34 years until 1954, Bill Struth won more trophies than any manager in Scottish Football League history, 18 league championships, 17 Scottish Cups, two Scottish League Cups, 19-time Glasgow Cups, 17-time New Year’s Day match of Glasgow, and 17 league championships before the onset of the Second World War.
On 2 January 1939 a British league attendance record was broken as 118,567 fans turned out to watch Rangers beat Celtic in the traditional Old Firm match of New Year’s Day. Rangers have won the domestic treble on seven occasions, more than any other club. While in the lower divisions, Rangers became the only club in Scotland to have won every domestic trophy. Rangers then won three promotions in four years, returning to the Premiership for the beginning of the 2016–17 season. Rangers were accepted as an associate member of the Scottish Football league and placed in the fourth tier of the football league system in time for the start-of-the following season. The first match, in May that year, was a goalless friendly draw with Callander on Glasgow Green. Rangers played its first match against the now defunct Callander at the Fleshers’ Haugh area of Glasgow Green in May of the same year. Rangers lost 5-2 in a friendly to an opposition composed largely of guest players from Hibernian. By 1876 Rangers had its first international player, with Moses McNeil representing Scotland in a match against Wales. In 1888, the year of the East End club’s establishment, the club’s first major cup was the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup the following year against Vale ofLeven 2–1, their first major trophy.
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