Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional association football club based in Govan, Glasgow. They have played at their home ground, Ibrox, since 1899. Rangers were founding members of the Scottish Football League in 1890, and the Scottish Premier League in 1998.
Rangers have won 55 domestic top-flight league trophies. The club's record appearance maker is John Greig, who made 755 appearances between 1961 and 1978 in all matches. [1] Ally McCoist is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 355 goals during his Rangers career. [2]
This list encompasses the major honours won by Rangers as well as records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who had made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Rangers players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Ibrox are also included in the list.
Rangers are joint record-holders for the most Scottish League Championships with 55 titles, alongside Celtic, and have won the Scottish League Cup a record 28 times. In their first league season, 1890–91, they won the Scottish Football league jointly with Dumbarton and their most recent success came in the 2023–24 Scottish League Cup.
Rangers have also won seven domestic trebles. [3] They won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone. [4] The club has played in both Scotland and England's national cup competitions. Rangers reached the semi-final of the 1886–87 FA Cup only to be knocked out by eventual winners Aston Villa.
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John Greig holds Rangers' appearance record, having played 755 times over the course of 18 seasons from 1961 to 1978. He also holds the records for League Cup appearances, with 121 appearances. [1] Sandy Archibald is the holder of the most league appearances, having made 513, from 1917 to 1934. [1] The Scottish Cup appearance record holder is midfielder Alec Smith while goalkeeper Allan McGregor holds the record for the most European appearances.
Competitive, professional matches only. Matches in parentheses are all time records. [38]
Appearances records by player | |||||||
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# | Name and nationality | Years | League | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total |
1 | ![]() | 1961–1978 | 498 | 72 | 121 | 64 | 755 |
2 | ![]() | 1966–1982 | 451 | 64 | 107 | 52 | 674 |
3 | ![]() | 1983–1998 | 418 | 47 | 62 | 54 | 581 |
4 | ![]() | 1917–1934 | 513 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 580 |
5 | ![]() | 1919–1936 | 490 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 563 |
6 | ![]() | 1925–1946 | 490 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 555 |
7 | ![]() | 1970–1983 1985–1986 | 369 | 57 | 85 | 38 | 549 |
8 | ![]() | 1977–1989 | 376 | 49 | 77 | 38 | 540 |
9 | ![]() | 1970–1986 | 351 | 55 | 86 | 43 | 535 |
10 | ![]() | 1945–1960 | 360 | 59 | 100 | 7 | 526 |
Rangers' all-time leading scorer is Ally McCoist, who scored 355 goals in a fifteen-year spell at the club from 1983 to 1998. [39] He holds the record for the most goals in the Scottish League Cup competition with 54. However, McCoist was unable to surpass the Scottish Cup goal-scoring record of Jimmy Fleming, which has stood at 44 since 1934. Jim Forrest holds the record for the most goals in one season with 57 in all competitions.
Goalscoring records by player | |||||||
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# | Name and nationality | Years | League | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total |
1 | ![]() | 1983–1998 | 251 (418) | 29 (47) | 54 (62) | 21 (54) | 355 |
2 | ![]() | 1927–1940 | 230 (354) | 31 (54) | 0 | 0 | 261 |
3 | ![]() | 1930–1946 | 225 (234) | 24 (25) | 0 | 0 | 249 |
4 | ![]() | 1925–1934 | 176 (225) | 44 (42) | 0 | 0 | 220 |
5 | ![]() | 1970–1983 1984–1985 | 132 (369) | 30 (57) | 39 (85) | 9 (38) | 210 |
6 | ![]() | 1954–1965 | 118 (355) | 13 (37) | 27 (59) | 12 (58) | 206 |
7 | ![]() | 1909–1920 | 188 (217) | 7 (13) | 0 | 0 | 195 |
8 | ![]() | 1936–1954 | 144 (224) | 21 (34) | 29 (50) | 0 | 194 |
9 | ![]() | 1897–1908 | 157 (175) | 27 (34) | 0 | 0 | 184 |
10 | ![]() | 1914–1929 | 162 (350) | 20 (39) | 0 | 0 | 182 |
For consistency, fees in the record transfer tables below are all sourced from BBC Sport's contemporary reports of each transfer. Where the report mentions an initial fee potentially rising to a higher figure depending on contractual clauses being satisfied in the future, only the initial fee is listed in the tables.
# | Player | To | Fee | Date | Source |
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1 | ![]() | ![]() | £19,600,000 | 20 July 2022 | [71] |
2 | ![]() | ![]() | £12,000,000 | 4 January 2022 | [72] |
3 | ![]() | ![]() | £10,400,000 | 29 August 2025 | [73] [74] |
4 | ![]() | ![]() | £9,000,000 | 30 January 2008 | [75] |
5 | ![]() | ![]() | £8,500,000 | 20 June 2001 | [54] |
6 | ![]() | ![]() | £8,000,000 | 1 January 2005 | [76] |
7 | ![]() | ![]() | £7,800,000 | 12 August 2008 | [77] |
8 | ![]() | ![]() | £7,500,000 | 29 August 2003 | [78] |
9 | ![]() | ![]() | £6,750,000 | 30 August 2002 | [79] |
10 | ![]() | ![]() | £6,000,000 | 9 July 2022 | [80] |
![]() | ![]() | 20 August 2025 | [81] | ||
11 | ![]() | ![]() | £5,500,000 | 31 August 1991 | [82] |
![]() | ![]() | 31 January 2012 | [83] | ||
![]() | ![]() | 31 August 2023 | [84] [85] | ||
12 | ![]() | ![]() | £4,300,000 | 13 December 1994 | [86] |
13 | ![]() | ![]() | £4,000,000 | 24 October 1998 | [87] |
![]() | ![]() | December 7, 2001 | [88] | ||
![]() | ![]() | 8 August 2023 | [89] |
None was forthcoming, largely because Rangers were at the time under a one-year suspension from UEFA due to the misbehaviour of their supporters. However, the match went ahead, albeit in an unofficial capacity, as the Scottish club, who were having centennial celebrations that year, willingly obliged.
Founded: 1872
Biggest win: 10–0 v Hibernian 1898
Most appearances: John Greig 755 (1960–1978)
1877/1878 - Sat 06 Oct - Rangers - 13 - 0 - Possilpark - Scottish F.A. Cup
13-0 vs Possilpark in Scottish Cup (06/10/1877)