List of Rangers F.C. records and statistics

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. Ally McCoist is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 355 goals during his Rangers career.

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

Former Northern Ireland striker Derek Spence in the trophy room at Ibrox in 1994. The bicycle behind him was a gift to Rangers from French club St. Etienne

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. Rangers have also won seven domestic trebles. They won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone. They are the second most-honoured football club in the world, having won 118 trophies in total. 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

Scottish Third Division trophy, won by Rangers in 2013.

Cups

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup trophy won by Rangers in 1972.
  • Scottish Cup:
    • Winners (34): 1894, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2022
    • Runners-up (18): 1877, 1879, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1921, 1922, 1929, 1969, 1971, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1998, 2016
  • Scottish League Cup:
    • Winners (28): 1947, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2023–24
    • Runners-up (9): 1952, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1983, 1990, 2009, 2019–20, 2022–23

International

A view of one of the display cabinets in the trophy room at Ibrox in 1994.
Winners: 1972
Runners-up: 1961, 1967
Runners-up: 2008, 2022
Runners-up: 1972

Others

Spence next to the European Golden Boot, which was won by Ally McCoist in 1991–92 and 1992–93.

League

  • Emergency War League
Winners: 1939–40
Winners (6): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
Winners: 1895–96, 1897–98

Cups

  • Emergency War Cup
Winners: 1940
Winners (4): 1941, 1942, 1943,1945
Runners-up: 1944, 1946
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, 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
Runners-up: 2013–14

Minor honours

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. Sandy Archibald is the holder of the most league appearances, having made 513, from 1917 to 1934. 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.

Appearances records by player
# Name and nationality Years League Scottish Cup League Cup Europe Total
1 Scotland John Greig 1961–1978 498 72 121 64 755
2 Scotland Sandy Jardine 1966–1982 451 64 107 52 674
3 Scotland Ally McCoist 1983–1998 418 47 62 54 581
4 Scotland Sandy Archibald 1917–1934 513 67 0 0 580
5 Scotland David Meiklejohn 1919–1936 490 73 0 0 563
6 Scotland Dougie Gray 1925–1946 490 65 0 0 555
7 Scotland Derek Johnstone 1970–1983
1985–1986
369 57 85 38 549
8 Scotland Davie Cooper 1977–1989 376 49 77 38 540
9 Scotland Peter McCloy 1970–1986 351 55 86 43 535
10 Scotland Ian McColl 1945–1960 360 59 100 7 526

Goalscorers

Ally McCoist, Rangers leading goal scorer

Rangers' all-time leading scorer is Ally McCoist, who scored 355 goals in a fifteen-year spell at the club from 1983 to 1998. 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 nationality Years League Scottish Cup League Cup Europe Total
1 Scotland Ally McCoist 1983–1998 251 (418) 29 (47) 54 (62) 21 (54) 355
2 Scotland Bob McPhail 1927–1940 230 (354) 31 (54) 0 0 261
3 Scotland Jimmy Smith 1930–1946 225 (234) 24 (25) 0 0 249
4 Scotland Jimmy Fleming 1925–1934 176 (225) 44 (42) 0 0 220
5 Scotland Derek Johnstone 1970–1983
1984–1985
132 (369) 30 (57) 39 (85) 9 (38) 210
6 Scotland Ralph Brand 1954–1965 118 (355) 13 (37) 27 (59) 12 (58) 206
7 Scotland Willie Reid 1909–1920 188 (217) 7 (13) 0 0 195
8 Scotland Willie Thornton 1936–1954 144 (224) 21 (34) 29 (50) 0 194
9 Scotland Robert C. Hamilton 1897–1908 157 (175) 27 (34) 0 0 184
10 Scotland Andy Cunningham 1914–1929 162 (350) 20 (39) 0 0 182

Internationalists

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

# Player From Fee Date Source
1 Norway Tore André Flo England Chelsea £12,000,000 23 November 2000
2 England Ryan Kent England Liverpool £6,500,000 2 September 2019
England Michael Ball England Everton 20 August 2001
3 Spain Mikel Arteta Spain Barcelona £6,000,000 29 June 2002
Brazil Danilo Netherlands Feyenoord 28 July 2023
4 Russia Andrei Kanchelskis Italy Fiorentina £5,500,000 15 July 1998
Netherlands Giovanni van Bronckhorst Netherlands Feyenoord 6 July 1998
5 Italy Lorenzo Amoruso Italy Fiorentina £5,000,000 29 May 1997 [1]
6 Netherlands Ronald de Boer Spain Barcelona £4,500,000 30 August 2000
Scotland Barry Ferguson England Blackburn Rovers 31 January 2005
Nigeria Cyriel Dessers Italy Cremonese 6 July 2023
Netherlands Arthur Numan Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 18 May 1998
Netherlands Bert Konterman Netherlands Feyenoord 1 July 2000
Jamaica Kemar Roofe Belgium Anderlecht 4 August 2020
7 England Paul Gascoigne Italy Lazio £4,300,000 10 July 1995
Ivory Coast Mohamed Diomande Denmark FC Nordsjælland 26 January 2024
8 Argentina Gabriel Amato Spain Real Mallorca £4,200,000 6 July 1998
9 Scotland Duncan Ferguson Scotland Dundee United £4,000,000 14 July 1993
Germany Jörg Albertz Germany Hamburg 28 June 1996
England Ben Davies England Liverpool 19 July 2022
Turkey Rıdvan Yılmaz Turkey Beşiktaş 25 July 2022
Scotland Colin Hendry England Blackburn Rovers 4 August 1998
Croatia Nikica Jelavić Austria Rapid Wien 20 August 2010
Italy Sergio Porrini Italy Juventus 10 June 1997 [2]
Netherlands Michael Mols Netherlands FC Utrecht 1 July 1999

Record transfer fees received

# Player To Fee Date Source
1 Nigeria Calvin Bassey Netherlands AFC Ajax £20,000,000 20 July 2022
2 Scotland Nathan Patterson England Everton £12,000,000 4 January 2022
3 Scotland Alan Hutton England Tottenham Hotspur £9,000,000 30 January 2008
4 Netherlands Giovanni van Bronckhorst England Arsenal £8,500,000 20 June 2001
5 France Jean-Alain Boumsong England Newcastle United £8,000,000 1 January 2005
6 Spain Carlos Cuéllar England Aston Villa £7,800,000 12 August 2008
7 Scotland Barry Ferguson England Blackburn Rovers £7,500,000 29 August 2003
8 Norway Tore André Flo England Sunderland £6,750,000 30 August 2002
9 Nigeria Joe Aribo England Southampton £6,000,000 9 July 2022
10 England Trevor Steven France Marseille £5,500,000 31 August 1991
Croatia Nikica Jelavić England Everton 31 January 2012
11 Finland Glen Kamara England Leeds United £5,000,000 31 August 2023
12 Scotland Duncan Ferguson England Everton £4,300,000 13 December 1994
13 Italy Gennaro Gattuso Italy Salernitana £4,000,000 24 October 1998
United States Claudio Reyna England Sunderland December 7, 2001
Zambia Fashion Sakala Saudi Arabia Al-Fayha 8 August 2023

Managerial records

  • First manager: William Wilton, from 27 May 1899 to 20 May 1920
  • Longest-serving manager by time: Bill Struth, from 20 May 1920 to 15 June 1954
  • Shortest-serving manager by time: Pedro Caixinha, from 13 March 2017 to 26 October 2017
  • First non-Scottish manager: Dick Advocaat, from 1 June 1998 to 12 December 2001

Club records

Matches

Firsts

  • First match: vs. Callander, Friendly, Draw 0–0, Flesher's Haugh (Glasgow Green), (H) May 1872
  • First Scottish Cup match: vs. Oxford University A.F.C., Won 2–0, Recreational Ground – Queen's Park, Glasgow, 12 October 1874
  • First FA Cup match: vs. Everton, Won 1–0, Stanley Park (A), 30 October 1886
  • First League match: vs. Heart of Midlothian, Won 5–2, Ibrox Park (H), 16 August 1890
  • First match at 'first' Ibrox: vs. Preston North End, Friendly, Lost 8–1, (H) 20 August 1887
  • First match at 'second' Ibrox: vs. Heart of Midlothian, Won 3–1, Inter-City League, (H) 30 December 1899
  • First League Cup match: vs. St Mirren, Won 4–0, Ibrox Park (H), 21 September 1946
  • First European match: vs. Nice, Won 2–1, European Cup, Ibrox Park (H), 24 October 1956
  • First Challenge Cup match: vs. Brechin City, Won 2–1, Glebe Park (H), 29 July 2012

Wins

Record victory
  • Record win:
    • 14-2 (against Whitehill, 29 September 1883)
    • 14–2 (vs. Blairgowrie, 20 January 1934).
  • Record league win: 10–0 (vs. Hibernian, 24 December 1898)
  • Record Scottish Cup win:
    • 13–0 (vs. Possilpark, 6 October 1877)
    • 13–0 (vs. Uddingston, 10 November 1877)
    • 13–0 (vs. Kelvinside Athletic, 28 September 1889)
  • Record League Cup win: 9–1 (vs. St Johnstone, 15 August 1964)
  • Record European win: 10–0 (vs. Valletta, 28 September 1983)
  • Most league wins in a season: 18 wins out of 18 games (during the 1898–99 season)
  • Fewest league wins in a season: 8 wins out of 18 games (during the 1893–94 season)

Defeats

  • Record league defeat: 0–6 (vs. Dumbarton, 4 May 1892)
  • Record Scottish Cup defeat: 0–6 (vs. Aberdeen, 10 April 1954)
  • Record League Cup defeat: 1–7 (vs. Celtic, 19 October 1957)
  • Record European defeat:
  • Most league defeats in a season: 14 defeats from 36 games (during the 1979–80 and the 1985–86 seasons)
  • Fewest defeats in a season: 0 defeats from 18 games (during the 1898–99 season) and 0 defeats from 36 games (during the 2013-14 season) 0 defeats from 38 games 2020–21 season

Goals

  • Most league goals scored in a season: 118 goals in 38 games (during the 1933–34 season)
  • Fewest league goals scored in a season:
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

  • Most points in a season:
Two points for a win: 76 (during the 1920–21 season)
Three points for a win: 102 (during the 2020–21 season)
  • Fewest points in a season:
Two points for a win: 20 (during the 1893–94 season)
Three points for a win: 67 (during the 2016–17 season)

Attendances

  • Record Scottish League attendance: 118,567 (vs. Celtic, won 2–1, Ibrox Park (H), 2 January 1939)
  • Record Scottish Cup attendance: 143,570 (vs. Hibernian, won 1–0, Hampden Park (N), 27 March 1948)
  • Record Scottish League Cup attendance: 125,154 (vs. Hibernian, won 3–1, Hampden Park (N), 22 March 1947)
  • Record European attendance: 100,000 (vs. Dynamo Kiev, lost 1–0, Respublikanskiy Stadium (A), 16 September 1987)
  • Record home League attendance: 118,567 (vs. Celtic, won 2–1, 2 January 1939)
  • Record home Scottish Cup attendance: 102,342 (vs. Hibernian, lost 3–2, 10 February 1951)
  • Record home Scottish League Cup attendance: 105,000 (vs. Celtic, won 2–1, 16 October 1948)
  • Record home European attendance: 85,000 (vs. Leeds United, draw 0–0, 26 March 1968)
  • Lowest home League attendance: 6,087 (vs. Partick Thistle, won 1–0, 23 May 1979)
  • Lowest home Scottish Cup attendance:
  • Lowest home Scottish League Cup attendance: 5,000 (vs. Brechin City, won 1–0, 23 September 1981)
  • Lowest home European attendance: 14,268 (vs. ASK Vorwärts Berlin, won 2–1, 15 November 1961)

European statistics


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