List of Rangers F.C. chairmen

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Rangers F.C. is a football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, that competes in the Scottish Professional Football League. Since its founding in 1872, the club has had more than ten different presidents (prior to incorporation) and nineteen chairmen.

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History

The club has been privately owned by stakeholders, in the form of a limited liability company before becoming a publicly owned company trading on the PLUS and AIM stock exchanges respectively. The board of directors are appointed to oversee the corporate operations of the company that owns the club with the chairman being considered as the most senior and high-profile corporate figures. In Rangers history the chairman has generally been the prominent executive on the board, although this has begun to change with the appointment of CEOs which led to some chairmen being appointed in a non-executive capacity.

From December 2012 to March 2015, the directors of the company that owns Rangers F.C., The Rangers Football Club Limited (TRFCL), were appointed to what was then known as the "football board". This football board was separate and distinct from the Plc board of Rangers International Football Club Plc (RIFC), which is the holding company of TRFCL. During this period, references were made to both the football board and Plc board and the situation effectively saw the club with two chairmen, however, since the departure of Sandy Easdale in 2015, the "football board" terminology has ceased leaving the Plc chair as the definitive Chairman.

Between June and December 2012, before flotation on the AIM stock exchange and the subsequent formation of RIFC, the chairman of TRFCL was de jure the chairman of Rangers Football Club.

List of presidents

Below is the presidential history of Rangers F.C., from 1874 until incorporation sixteen years later.

NameFromTo
Flag of Scotland.svg William McBeath 1874 1875
Flag of Scotland.svg Unknown18751876
Flag of Scotland.svg James McBlane Watt18761877
Flag of Scotland.svg Unknown18771881
Flag of Scotland.svg Archibald Harkness1881November 1882
Flag of Scotland.svg George GoudieNovember 1882May 1883
Flag of Scotland.svg Tom Vallance May 18831889
Flag of Scotland.svg Unknown18991890
Flag of Scotland.svg James Watson 18901891
Flag of Scotland.svg Dugald Mackenzie18911896
Flag of Scotland.svg John Robertson Gow 18961898
Flag of Scotland.svg James Henderson18981 June 1899

List of chairmen

Below is the official chairmen history of Rangers F.C., from the incorporation of the club in 1899, until the present day.

t/a Rangers F.C. Ltd (1899) and Rangers F.C. Plc (2000)

NameFromToTenure
Flag of Scotland.svg James Henderson1 June 189910 May 191212 years, 344 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Sir John Ure Primrose 1912July 192311 years
Flag of Scotland.svg William CraigJuly 192320 November 1923 [1] 142 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Joseph BuchananNovember 1923October 19329 years
Flag of Scotland.svg Duncan Graham1932January 1934 [1] 2 years
Flag of Scotland.svg James Bowie January 1934 [1] 12 June 1947 [1] 13 years
Flag of Scotland.svg W. Rodgers Simpson27 June 1947 [1] April 1949 [1] 1 year, 307 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John WilsonApril 1949 [1] 12 February 1963 13 years, 288 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John Lawrence12 February 196319 June 1973 [1] 10 years, 127 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Matt Taylor19 June 1973 [1] September, 19752 years
Flag of Scotland.svg Rae SimpsonSeptember, 197510 January 1984 [2] 8 years, 131 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John Paton10 January 198411 November 19862 years, 305 days
Flag of Scotland.svg David Holmes 11 November 1986 [1] 2 June 1989 [1] 2 years, 203 days
Flag of Scotland.svg David Murray 2 June 1989 [1] 5 July 2002 [3] 13 years, 33 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John McClelland 5 July 2002 [3] 1 September 2004 [4] 2 years, 58 days
Flag of Scotland.svg David Murray1 September 2004 [4] [5] 24 August 2009 [6] 4 years, 357 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Alastair Johnston 24 August 2009 [6] 24 May 2011 [7] 1 year, 273 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Craig Whyte 24 May 2011 [8] 14 February 2012 [9] 266 days
c/o Duff & Phelps 14 February 2012 [9] 14 June 2012 [10] 121 days

t/a Rangers F.C. Ltd (2012)

NameFromToTenure
Flag of Scotland.svg Malcolm Murray14 June 2012 [10] 18 December 2012187 days
n/a18 December 201213 December 2013360 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Sandy Easdale13 December 2013 [11] 11 March 2015 [12] 1 year, 88 days

t/a Rangers International F.C. Plc (2012)

NameFromToTenure
Flag of Scotland.svg Malcolm Murray 7 December 201230 May 2013 [13] 174 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Walter Smith 30 May 2013 [13] 5 August 2013 [14] 67 days
n/a5 August 20137 November 2013183 days
Flag of England.svg David Somers 7 November 2013 [15] [16] 2 March 2015 [17] 1 year, 88 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Paul Murray 6 March 2015 [18] 22 May 2015 [19] 77 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Dave King 22 May 2015 [19] [20] 27 March 2020 [21] 4 years, 310 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Douglas Park 27 March 2020 [21] 4 April 2023 [22] 3 years, 8 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John Bennett 4 April 2023 [22] 14 September 2024 [23] 1 year, 163 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John Gilligan14 September 2024 [23] 16 December 2024 [24] 93 days
Flag of Scotland.svg Fraser Thornton16 December 2024 [24] 15 days

List of honorary positions

NamePositionFromToTenure
Flag of Scotland.svg John Ure PrimroseHonorary President1888191224 years
Flag of Scotland.svg John LawrenceHonorary President19 June 197326 January 19773 years, 221 days
Flag of Scotland.svg David MurrayHonorary Chairman4 July 2002 [3] 1 September 2004 [4] 2 years, 59 days
Flag of Scotland.svg John Greig Honorary President23 May 2015 [25] 9 years, 222 days

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