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 have won the Scottish League Championship a record 55 times and 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 were the first club in the world to win the champions league , and have now won 55 domestic league titles. [3] Rangers have also won seven domestic trebles. [4] They won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone. [5] They have won one less trophy than rival Celtic with Celtic winning 119 trophies to Rangers 118 [6] 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. [40]
Appearances records by player | |||||||
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# | Name and nationality | Years | League | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total |
1 | John Greig | 1961–1978 | 498 | 72 | 121 | 64 | 755 |
2 | Sandy Jardine | 1966–1982 | 451 | 64 | 107 | 52 | 674 |
3 | Ally McCoist | 1983–1998 | 418 | 47 | 62 | 54 | 581 |
4 | Sandy Archibald | 1917–1934 | 513 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 580 |
5 | David Meiklejohn | 1919–1936 | 490 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 563 |
6 | Dougie Gray | 1925–1946 | 490 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 555 |
7 | Derek Johnstone | 1970–1983 1985–1986 | 369 | 57 | 85 | 38 | 549 |
8 | Davie Cooper | 1977–1989 | 376 | 49 | 77 | 38 | 540 |
9 | Peter McCloy | 1970–1986 | 351 | 55 | 86 | 43 | 535 |
10 | Ian McColl | 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. [41] 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 | Ally McCoist | 1983–1998 | 251 (418) | 29 (47) | 54 (62) | 21 (54) | 355 |
2 | Bob McPhail | 1927–1940 | 230 (354) | 31 (54) | 0 | 0 | 261 |
3 | Jimmy Smith | 1930–1946 | 225 (234) | 24 (25) | 0 | 0 | 249 |
4 | Jimmy Fleming | 1925–1934 | 176 (225) | 44 (42) | 0 | 0 | 220 |
5 | Derek Johnstone | 1970–1983 1984–1985 | 132 (369) | 30 (57) | 39 (85) | 9 (38) | 210 |
6 | Ralph Brand | 1954–1965 | 118 (355) | 13 (37) | 27 (59) | 12 (58) | 206 |
7 | Willie Reid | 1909–1920 | 188 (217) | 7 (13) | 0 | 0 | 195 |
8 | Willie Thornton | 1936–1954 | 144 (224) | 21 (34) | 29 (50) | 0 | 194 |
9 | Robert C. Hamilton | 1897–1908 | 157 (175) | 27 (34) | 0 | 0 | 184 |
10 | Andy Cunningham | 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 | Calvin Bassey | Ajax | £19,600,000 | 20 July 2022 | [69] |
2 | Nathan Patterson | Everton | £12,000,000 | 4 January 2022 | [70] |
3 | Alan Hutton | Tottenham Hotspur | £9,000,000 | 30 January 2008 | [71] |
4 | Giovanni van Bronckhorst | Arsenal | £8,500,000 | 20 June 2001 | [54] |
5 | Jean-Alain Boumsong | Newcastle United | £8,000,000 | 1 January 2005 | [72] |
6 | Carlos Cuéllar | Aston Villa | £7,800,000 | 12 August 2008 | [73] |
7 | Barry Ferguson | Blackburn Rovers | £7,500,000 | 29 August 2003 | [74] |
8 | Tore André Flo | Sunderland | £6,750,000 | 30 August 2002 | [75] |
9 | Joe Aribo | Southampton | £6,000,000 | 9 July 2022 | [76] |
10 | Trevor Steven | Marseille | £5,500,000 | 31 August 1991 | [77] |
Nikica Jelavić | Everton | 31 January 2012 | [78] | ||
Glen Kamara | Leeds United | 31 August 2023 | [79] [80] | ||
11 | Duncan Ferguson | Everton | £4,300,000 | 13 December 1994 | [81] |
12 | Gennaro Gattuso | Salernitana | £4,000,000 | 24 October 1998 | |
Claudio Reyna | Sunderland | December 7, 2001 | [82] | ||
Fashion Sakala | Al-Fayha | 8 August 2023 | [83] |
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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)