*Rangers Football Club are a football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who currently play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears (from the rhyming slang for the same) and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses. They are sometimes referred to as Glasgow Rangers, although the word Glasgow does not form part of the club’s official title. The club is incorporated as The Rangers Football Club plc. The club’s home is the all-seated 51,082-capacity Ibrox Stadium in south-west Glasgow.
Rangers have won 53 domestic league titles.They have won the Scottish League Cup 25 times and the Scottish Cup 33 times. In 1961 Rangers were the first British team to compete in a European final when they reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup. They won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1972, having been the runners-up in 1961 and 1967, and were runners-up in the 2008 UEFA Cup Final. An estimated 150,000 Rangers fans made the journey to Manchester for the final, most of whom did not have tickets.
Rangers’ players today are multi-national and of various religious and political affiliations, although the club have traditionally been identified with and favoured the Protestant and Unionist community of Scotland, as well as the Unionist community in Northern Ireland. For most of their history, Rangers have enjoyed a fierce rivalry with their cross-city opponents Celtic,and the two are collectively known as the Old Firm.
