List of Rangers F.C. records and statistics explained

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.

Honours

Rangers have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. They 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 50 first tier league titles, 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 are equal with Celtic, with both having won 118 trophies in total.[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.

Domestic

League

Cups

International

Winners: 1972

Runners-up: 1960–61, 1966–67

Runners-up: 2007–08,[23] 2021–22[24]

Runners-up: 1972[25]

Others

League

Winners: 1939–40

Winners (6): 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46

Winners: 1895–96, 1897–98

Cups

Winners: 1940

Winners (4): 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43,1944–45

Runners-up: 1943–44, 1945–46

Winners: 1946

Winners: 1942

Winners (44): 1893, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1969, 1971, 1975,[27] 1976, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987

Winners (32): 1878–79, 1896–97, 1899–1900, 1903–04, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1910–11, 1918–19, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1924–25, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1959–60

Winners: 2015–16[28]

Runners-up: 2013–14[29]

Minor honours

1894, 1900

1901

1908

1921[33]

1978

1979

1987

1995

2004[39] 2003

2013[41]

2020[42]

Player records

Appearances

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.

Most appearances

Competitive, professional matches only. Matches in parentheses are all time records.[47]

Appearances records by player
Name and nationalityYearsLeagueScottish CupLeague CupEuropeTotal
11961–19784987212164
21966–19824516410752
31983–1998418476254
41917–19345136700
51919–19364907300
61925–19464906500
71970–1983
1985–1986
369578538
81977–1989376497738
91970–1986351558643
101945–1960360591007

Goalscorers

Rangers' all-time leading scorer is Ally McCoist, who scored 355 goals in a fifteen-year spell at the club from 1983 to 1998.[48] 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.

Top goalscorers

Goalscoring records by player
Name and nationalityYearsLeagueScottish CupLeague CupEuropeTotal
11983–1998
21927–194000
31930–194600
41925–193400
51970–1983
1984–1985
61954–1965
71909–192000
81936–19540
91897–190800
101914–192900

Internationalists

See also: List of Rangers F.C. international footballers.

Transfers

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.

Record transfer fees paid

PlayerFromFeeDateSource
1 Tore André Flo Chelsea£12,000,00023 November 2000[52]
2 Ryan Kent Liverpool£6,500,0002 September 2019[53]
Michael Ball Everton20 August 2001
3 Danilo Feyenoord£6,000,00028 July 2023[54]
4 Mikel Arteta Barcelona£5,800,00029 June 2002[55]
5 Andrei Kanchelskis Fiorentina£5,500,00015 July 1998[56]
Giovanni van Bronckhorst Feyenoord6 July 1998
6 Ronald de Boer Barcelona£4,500,00030 August 2000[57]
Barry Ferguson Blackburn Rovers31 January 2005[58]
Arthur Numan PSV Eindhoven18 May 1998
Bert Konterman Feyenoord1 July 2000[59]
Kemar Roofe Anderlecht4 August 2020[60]
7 Paul Gascoigne Lazio£4,300,00010 July 1995[61]
Cyriel Dessers Cremonese6 July 2023[62] [63]
Mohamed Diomande FC Nordsjælland1 July 2024[64]
8 Gabriel Amato Real Mallorca£4,200,0006 July 1998[65]
9 Duncan Ferguson Dundee United£4,000,00014 July 1993[66]
Lorenzo Amoruso Fiorentina29 May 1997[67]
Jörg Albertz Hamburg28 June 1996[68]
Colin Hendry Blackburn Rovers4 August 1998[69]
Nikica Jelavić Rapid Wien20 August 2010[70]
Sergio Porrini Juventus10 June 1997[71]
Michael Mols FC Utrecht1 July 1999[72]

Record transfer fees received

PlayerToFeeDateSource
1 Calvin Bassey Ajax£19,600,00020 July 2022[73]
2 Nathan Patterson Everton£12,000,0004 January 2022[74]
3 Alan Hutton Tottenham Hotspur£9,000,00030 January 2008[75]
4 Giovanni van Bronckhorst Arsenal£8,500,00020 June 2001[76]
5 Jean-Alain Boumsong Newcastle United£8,000,0001 January 2005[77]
6 Carlos Cuéllar Aston Villa£7,800,00012 August 2008[78]
7 Barry Ferguson Blackburn Rovers£7,500,00029 August 2003[79]
8 Tore André Flo Sunderland£6,750,00030 August 2002[80]
9 Joe Aribo Southampton£6,000,0009 July 2022[81]
10 Trevor Steven Marseille£5,500,00031 August 1991[82]
Nikica Jelavić Everton31 January 2012[83]
Glen Kamara Leeds United31 August 2023[84] [85]
12 Duncan Ferguson Everton£4,300,00013 December 1994[86]
13 Gennaro Gattuso Salernitana£4,000,00024 October 1998
Claudio Reyna SunderlandDecember 7, 2001[87]
Fashion Sakala Al-Fayha8 August 2023[88]

Managerial records

Club records

Matches

Firsts

Wins

Record victory

Defeats

Goals

From 18 league matches: 41 goals

From 20 league matches: 60 goals

From 22 league matches: 56 goals

From 26 league matches: 80 goals

From 30 league matches: 56 goals

From 34 league matches: 58 goals

From 36 league matches: 48 goals

From 38 league matches: 56 goals (during the 2016–17 season)

From 42 league matches: 83 goals

From 44 league matches: 74 goals

Points

Two points for a win: 76 (during the 1920–21 season)

Three points for a win: 102 (during the 2020–21 season)

Two points for a win: 20 (during the 1893–94 season)

Three points for a win: 67 (during the 2016–17 season)

Attendances

European statistics

See main article: article and Rangers F.C. in European football.

External links

Notes and References

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  3. News: Total Number of Championships. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 23 November 2006.
  4. News: Domestic Trebles. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 23 November 2006.
  5. News: Glasgow Rangers - 100 Trophies. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistical Foundation. 21 October 2001.
  6. Web site: The 30 most successful football clubs in the world - based on total trophies won - Mirror Online. Daily Mirror. 3 August 2020.
  7. Shared with Dumbarton F.C. after both clubs ended the season on 29 points. A play-off game at Cathkin Park on 21 May 1891 and finished 2–2, so the clubs were declared joint champions
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  25. Web site: UEFA Super Cup - History. UEFA. 19 August 2012. 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.. https://web.archive.org/web/20081014203034/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/supercup/history/index.html. 14 October 2008. dead.
  26. Refers to period when Glasgow Cup was a senior competition (1887 to 1989).
  27. 1975 trophy shared with Celtic after 2–2 draw
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  29. News: Raith Rovers 1–0 Rangers. BBC . BBC Sport. Andrew . Southwick. 6 April 2014 .
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  33. Played in aid of the Lord Provosts Rent Relief Fund
  34. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s6JAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gqUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4774%2C2815075 Football Arsenal beaten at Ibrox
  35. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uaJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gqUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5603%2C3865314 Rangers Win At Highbury And Score "Double" Over Arsenal
  36. Played in aid of the Clydeside Air Raid Distress Fund
  37. Played for the 75th Anniversary of Volvo
  38. Also known as the Kilmarnock International Tournament
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  43. [Dougie Gray]
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  46. News: Spartak Moscow 4-3 Rangers . 8 November 2018 . BBC Sport . Alasdair . Lamont .
  47. Web site: Hall of Fame - Rangers Football Club, Official Website.
  48. Web site: Rangers Postwar Players Appearance/Goals Records.
  49. News: Rangers: How Alfredo Morelos became club's top European goalscorer . BBC Sport . 6 November 2020 .
  50. News: Rangers 4-0 Aberdeen . BBC Sport . 15 May 2021 . Clive . Lindsay.
  51. Web site: 13 October 2021. Rangers fans delighted as Steven Davis makes yet more Ibrox history. 14 October 2021. Rangers News. en-GB.
  52. News: Flo goes to Rangers . BBC Sport . 23 November 2000.
  53. News: Ryan Kent: Liverpool forward completes Rangers move . BBC Sport . BBC . 2 September 2019 .
  54. News: Danilo: Rangers sign Brazilian striker from Feyenoord for undisclosed fee . BBC Sport . BBC . 28 July 2023 .
  55. Web site: Arteta completes Real move . BBC Sport . 26 April 2024. 10 July 2004.
  56. News: Kanchelskis move to Rangers . BBC Sport . 15 July 1998.
  57. News: Rangers swoop for De Boer and Hartson . BBC Sport . 30 August 2000 .
  58. News: Ferguson clinches Rangers return . BBC . BBC Sport . 31 January 2005.
  59. News: EBT beneficiaries . BBC . BBC Sport . 1 September 2015.
  60. News: Rangers Sign Kemar Roofe. Rangers.co.uk . Rangers Football Club. 4 August 2020.
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  63. News: Cyriel Dessers: Rangers sign Nigeria striker from Cremonese for undisclosed fee . 6 July 2023 . BBC Sport .
  64. News: Mohamed Diomande: Rangers sign midfielder from Nordsjaelland on loan with obligation to buy . BBC Sport . 26 January 2024 .
  65. News: Murray reveals van Vossen will leave as part of van Bronckhorst package: Amato on parade and others set to follow. The Herald. 7 July 1998 .
  66. News: A dream come true as Ferguson signs in £4m deal . The Herald.
  67. News: Lorenzo Amoruso factfile . The Guardian . 14 July 2003 . 8 June 2024 .
  68. News: Albertz "excited" at move to Ibrox . The Herald. 29 June 1996 .
  69. News: Hendry at last a Ranger: As one well-known face lands his dream move to Ibrox another finally makes an exit . The Herald. 5 August 1998.
  70. News: Rangers sign Rapid Vienna's Nikica Jelavic for £4m . 20 August 2010 . BBC Sport.
  71. News: On This Day: Jun 10 . Rangers.co.uk . 10 June 2016 .
  72. News: MOL OR NOTHING: Michael is ready to do battle for Gers jersey . Daily Record . 28 June 1999 .
  73. News: Calvin Bassey: Rangers defender completes £19.6m move to Ajax . BBC . BBC Sport . 20 July 2022 .
  74. Web site: Nathan Patterson: Everton complete signing of Scotland right-back from Rangers. BBC. 4 January 2022. 4 January 2022.
  75. News: Spurs complete signing of Hutton. BBC Sport. 30 January 2008.
  76. News: Arsenal sign Van Bronckhorst . BBC . BBC Sport . 20 June 2001.
  77. News: Magpies complete Boumsong signing . BBC Sport . 2 January 2005 .
  78. News: Cuellar seals £7.8m move to Villa . BBC Sport . 12 August 2008 .
  79. News: Rovers sign Ferguson . BBC Sport . 29 August 2003 .
  80. News: Flo joins Sunderland . BBC Sport . 30 August 2002 .
  81. News: Joe Aribo: Southampton sign Rangers and Nigeria midfielder . BBC . BBC Sport . 9 July 2022 .
  82. News: Old foes Marseille bring home to Trevor Steven how far Rangers have slumped . The Herald . 19 July 2017 . Lindsay . Herron .
  83. News: Everton sign striker Nikica Jelavic from Rangers. 31 January 2012. BBC Sport.
  84. News: Kamara leaves Rangers for Leeds . BBC Sport . BBC . 31 August 2023.
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  86. Web site: Everton sign up their #4.3m loan star Ferguson now in good shape to face Greeks. HeraldScotland. 9 April 2023.
  87. News: Reyna set for Sunderland switch. BBC . BBC Sport . 7 December 2001.
  88. News: Fashion Sakala: Zambia forward joins Al-Fayha after exiting Rangers 'with heavy heart'. 8 August 2023. BBC Sport.
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  103. Match played in Malmö, Sweden.