List of Rangers F.C. records and statistics

Rangers Football Club are a Scottish professional association football club based in Govan, Glasgow. They have played at their home ground, Ibrox, since 1899. Rangers are founding members of the Scottish Football League in 1890, the Scottish Premier League in 1998.

Rangers have won 54 domestic league titles (from Scottish top-flight division), more titles than any other professional football club in the world. The club not only hold the record for the most league titles but also hold the world record for the most domestic trophies won by a single professional football club, recognised by UEFA, winning 118 in all.

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, 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 have 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 54 times and the Scottish League Cup a record 27 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 2010–11 Scottish Premier League.

Rangers were the first club in the world to win 50 first tier league titles, they now hold the world record for number of domestic league championships won after racking up 54 titles.^[3] Rangers also hold the record for domestic trebles,^[4] with seven so far. They won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone.^[5] They are now the most-honoured football club in the world, having won 117 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 League Championship (first tier league title):
  • Winners (54): 1891,^{[note 1]} 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011.
  • Runners-up (29): 1893, 1896, 1898, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1922, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012.
• Scottish Championship (second tier league title)
  • Winners (1): 2016^[6]
• Scottish League One (third tier league title)
  • Winners (1): 2014^[7]
• Scottish Third Division (fourth tier league title)
  • Winners (1): 2013^[8]

Cups

• Scottish Cup:
  • Winners (33): 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.
  • Runners-up (17): 1877, 1879, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1921, 1922, 1929, 1969, 1971, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1998, 2016.
• Scottish League Cup:
  • Winners (27): 1947, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011.
  • Runners-up (7): 1952, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1983, 1990, 2009.

International

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (1): 1972

Runners-up (2): 1961, 1967

• UEFA Cup

Runners-up (1): 2008

• UEFA Super Cup

Runners-up (1): 1972^[9]

Others

League

• Emergency War League

Winners (1): 1940

• Southern League

Winners (6): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946

• Glasgow League

Winners (2): 1895–96, 1897–98

Cups

• Emergency War Cup

Winners (1): 1940

• Southern League Cup

Winners (4): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945

• Glasgow Cup^{[note 2]}

Winners (48): 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,^{[note 3]} 1976, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013

• Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup

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

• Scottish Challenge Cup

Winners (1): 2016^[10]

Minor honours

Player records

Appearances

John Greig holds Ranger's appearance record, having played 755 times over the course of 18 seasons from 1961 to 1978. He also holds the records for Scottish 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 Alec Smith who made 74 in the competition. Barry Ferguson holds the record for the most European appearances, with 82.

By competition

Appearances records by competition
Competition	Name and nationality	Appearances	Notes
All competitions appearances	Greig, JohnJohn Greig	755	[14][15]
Most league appearances	Archibald, SandySandy Archibald	513	[16]
Most Scottish Cup appearances	Smith, AlexAlex Smith	74	[16]
Most League Cup appearances	Greig, JohnJohn Greig	121	[17][18][19][20]
Most Challenge Cup appearances	Wallace, LeeLee Wallace	14
Most European appearances	Ferguson, BarryBarry Ferguson	82	[17][18][19][20][21]
Most consecutive appearances	Robb, WilliamWilliam Robb	241	[22]
Most appearances in a season	Cuéllar, CarlosCarlos Cuéllar	65	[23]

By age

Appearances records by age and years
Record by Age	Player	Age	Notes
Youngest first-team player	Ferguson, DerekDerek Ferguson	7008506995200000000♠16 years, 24 days (v. Queen of the South)	[24]
Oldest first-team player	Weir, DavidDavid Weir	7009130051440000000♠41 years, 77 days (v. Malmö FF)	[24]
Oldest debutant	Hill, ClintClint Hill	7009119130480000000♠37 years, 274 days (v. Annan Athletic)	[24][25]
Longest-serving player	Gray, DougieDougie Gray	7008667893600000000♠21 years, 60 days	[24]

By player

Competitive, professional matches only. Matches in parentheses are all time records.^[26]

Appearances records by player
#	Name and nationality	Years	League	Cup	League Cup	Europe	Total
1	Greig, JohnJohn Greig	1961–1978	498	72	121	64	755 !755
2	Jardine, SandySandy Jardine	1964–1982	451	64	107	52	674 !674
3	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	1983–98	418	47	62	54	581 !581
4	Archibald, SandySandy Archibald	1917–34	513	67	0	0	580 !580
5	Meiklejohn, DavidDavid Meiklejohn	1919–36	490	73	0	0	563 !563
6	Gray, DougieDougie Gray	1925–47	490	65	0	0	555 !555
7	Johnstone, DerekDerek Johnstone	1970–83 1985–86	369	57	85	38	549 !549
8	Cooper, DavieDavie Cooper	1977–89	376	49	77	38	540 !540
9	McCloy, PeterPeter McCloy	1970–86	351	55	86	43	535 !535
10	McColl, IanIan McColl	1945–60	360	59	100	7	526 !526

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.^[27] He holds the record for the most goals in the Scottish League Cup and in European competitions, with 54 and 21 goals respectively. 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 competition
Competition	Name and nationality	Appearances	Notes
Most goals in all competitions	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	355	[27]
Most league goals	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	251	[27]
Most Scottish Cup goals	Fleming, JimmyJimmy Fleming	44	[17][18][19][20]
Most League Cup goals	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	54	[17][18][19][20]
Most Challenge Cup goals	Miller, KennyKenny Miller McCulloch, LeeLee McCulloch	5
Most European goals	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	21	[17][18][19][20]
Most consecutive appearances	Robb, WilliamWilliam Robb	241	[22]
Most goals in a season	Forrest, JimJim Forrest	57	[17][18][19][20][28]
Most goals in a season	English, SamSam English	44	[17][18][19][20][28]

• Most hat-tricks: Ally McCoist, 28.
• Most penalties scored: Johnny Hubbard, 54.
• Most goals scored by player in a match:
  • League match:
    • Jimmy Smith, 6 goals, won 9–1, (against Ayr United, 15 August 1933).
    • Jimmy Smith, 6 goals, won 7–1 (against Dunfermline Athletic, 11 August 1934).
    • Davie Wilson, 6 goals, won 7–1 (against Falkirk, 17 March 1962).
  • Scottish Cup match: Jimmy Fleming, 9 goals (against Blairgowrie, 20 January 1934).^{[17][18][19][20][21]}
  • Scottish League Cup match: Jim Forrest, 5 goals (against Hamilton Academical, 30 October 1965).
  • European match: Dave McPherson, 4 goals (against Valletta, 14 September 1983).
• Fastest goal: Gordon Durie, 11 seconds (against Dundee United, 1 April 1995).
• Youngest goalscorer: Willie Thornton, 7008531878400000000♠16 years, 312 days (against Arbroath, 9 January 1937).
• Oldest goalscorer: David Weir, 7009121500000000000♠38 years, 183 days (against Kilmarnock, 9 November 2008).^[29]

By player

Competitive, professional matches only. Matches in parentheses are all time records.^[26]

Goalscoring records by player
#	Name and nationality	Years	League	Cup	League Cup	Europe	Total
1	McCoist, AllyAlly McCoist	1983–1998	251 !251 (418)	29 !29 (47)	54 !54 (62)	21 !21 (54)	346 !355
2	McPhail, BobBob McPhail	1927–1940	230 !230 (354)	31 !31 (54)	0	0	261 !261
3	Smith, JimmyJimmy Smith	1930–1946	225 !225 (234)	24 !24 (25)	0	0	249 !249
4	Fleming, JimmyJimmy Fleming	1925–1934	176 !176 (225)	44 !44 (42)	0	0	220 !220
5	Johnstone, DerekDerek Johnstone	1970–1983 1984–1985	132 !132 (369)	30 !30 (57)	39 !39 (85)	9 !9 (38)	210 !210
6	Brand, RalphRalph Brand	1954–1965	118 !118 (355)	13 !13 (37)	27 !27 (59)	12 !12 (58)	206 !206
7	Reid, WillieWillie Reid	1909–1920	188 !188 (217)	07 !7 (13)	0	0	195 !195
8	Thornton, WillieWillie Thornton	1936–1954	144 !144 (224)	21 !21 (34)	29 !29 (50)	0	194 !194
9	Hamilton, Robert C.Robert C. Hamilton	1897–1908	157 !157 (175)	27 !27 (34)	0	0	184 !184
10	Cunningham, AndyAndy Cunningham	1914–1929	162 !162 (350)	20 !20 (39)	0	0	182 !182

International

• First capped player: Moses McNeil (for Scotland, against Wales, 25 March 1876).
• Most international caps while a Rangers player: Ally McCoist, 60 for Scotland, but in total 61.
• Most capped player to play for Rangers: DaMarcus Beasley, 114 for the United States.
• Most capped Scottish player to play for Rangers: David Weir and Kenny Miller, 69.^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Most international goals while a Rangers player: Ally McCoist, 19 for Scotland.
• First Rangers player to appear at a World Cup: Eric Caldow (for Scotland, against Yugoslavia, 8 June 1958).
• First Rangers player to score at a World Cup: Sammy Baird (for Scotland, against France, 15 June 1958).
• Most World Cup appearances while a Rangers player: Sandy Jardine, 4.
• Most World Cup goals while a Rangers player: Sammy Baird and Mo Johnston, 1.
• First World Cup winner to play for Rangers: Lionel Charbonnier.
• First Rangers player to appear at a European Championship: Chris Woods (for England, against the Soviet Union, 18 June 1988).
• First Rangers player to score at a European Championship: Brian Laudrup (for Denmark, against Portugal, 9 June 1996).
• Most European Championship appearances while a Rangers player: Andy Goram and Stuart McCall, 6.
• Most European Championship goals while a Rangers player: Brian Laudrup, 3.
• First European Championship winner to play for Rangers: Brian Laudrup.

Shutout record

Chris Woods, 1196 minutes, 1986–87 (British record)^{[note 8][30][31][32]}

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	Tore André Flo	Chelsea	£12,000,000	23 November 2000	[33]
2	Michael Ball	Everton	£6,500,000[34]	20 August 2001	[35]
3	Mikel Arteta	Barcelona	£5,800,000	29 June 2002
4	Andrei Kanchelskis	Fiorentina	£5,500,000	15 July 1998	[36][37]
5	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Feyenoord	£5,500,000	6 July 1998	[38]
6	Ronald de Boer	Barcelona	£4,500,000	30 August 2000	[39]
7	Barry Ferguson	Blackburn Rovers	£4,500,000	31 January 2005	[40]
8	Arthur Numan	PSV	£4,500,000	18 May 1998	[37]
9	Bert Konterman	Feyenoord	£4,500,000	1 July 2000	[37]
10	Paul Gascoigne	Lazio	£4,300,000	10 July 1995	[41]

Record transfer fees received

#	Player	To	Fee	Date	Source
1	Alan Hutton	Tottenham Hotspur	£9,000,000	30 January 2008	[42]
2	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Arsenal	£8,500,000	20 June 2001	[38]
3	Jean-Alain Boumsong	Newcastle United	£8,000,000	1 January 2005	[43]
4	Carlos Cuéllar	Aston Villa	£7,800,000	12 August 2008	[44]
5	Barry Ferguson	Blackburn Rovers	£7,500,000	29 August 2003	[45]
6	Tore André Flo	Sunderland	£6,750,000	30 August 2002	[46]
7	Trevor Steven	Marseille	£5,585,000	31 August 1991
8	Nikica Jelavić	Everton	£5,500,000	31 January 2012	[47]
9	Duncan Ferguson	Everton	£4,200,000	11 December 1994
10	Claudio Reyna	Sunderland	£4,000,000	7 December 2001

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.
• First non-Scottish manager: Dick Advocaat, from 1 June 1998 to 12 December 2001.

Club records

Matches

Firsts

• First match: vs. Callander, Friendly, Drew 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), July 2012

Wins

Record victory

• Record win: 14–2 (against Blairgowrie, 20 January 1934).^[27][48][49]
• 14-2 (against Whitehill, 29 September 1883).^[27]
• Record league win: 10–0 (against Hibernian, 24 December 1898).^[27][50][51]
• 10-2 (against Raith Rovers, 16 December 1967).^[27]
• Record Scottish Cup win:
  • 13–0 (against Possilpark, 6 October 1877)^[19][52][53]
  • 13–0 (against Uddingston, 10 November 1877)^[19]
  • 13–0 (against Kelvinside Athletic, 28 September 1889)^[19]
• Record League Cup win: 9–1 (against St Johnstone, 15 August 1964).
• Record European win: 10–0 (against Valletta, 28 September 1983).^[21]
• 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 defeat: 2–10 (against Airdrieonians, Friendly, 6 February 1886).
• Record league defeat: 0–6 (against Dumbarton, 4 May 1892).
• Record Scottish Cup defeat: 0–6 (against Aberdeen, 10 April 1954).
• Record League Cup defeat: 1–7 (against Celtic, 19 October 1957).
• Record European defeat: 0–6 (against Real Madrid, 9 October 1963).^[21]
• 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)

Goals

• Most league goals scored in a season: 118 goals in 38 games (during the 1933–34 Rangers F.C. 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: 61 goals

From 42 league matches: 83 goals

From 44 league matches: 74 goals

• Most league goals conceded in a season:
• Fewest league goals conceded in a season:
• 1,000th league goal: Alex Smith, (against Clyde, won 5–1, 8 December 1906).
• 2,000th league goal: Jimmy Gordon, (against Kilmarnock, won 7–1, 15 September 1919).
• 3,000th league goal: Bob McGowan, (against Cowdenbeath, won 7–0, 20 December 1930).
• 4,000th league goal: Jimmy Duncanson, (against Dundee, won 3–1, 25 December 1947).
• 5,000th league goal: Alex Scott, (against Ayr United, won 7-3, 29 April 1961).
• 6,000th league goal: Derek Parlane, (against Heart of Midlothian, won 4-2, 19 January 1974).
• 7,000th league goal: Ally McCoist, (against Motherwell, won 3–0, 9 December 1989).
• 8,000th league goal: Shota Arveladze, (against Dundee, won 3–0, 10 August 2002).
• 9,000th league goal: Lee McCulloch, (against Raith Rovers, won 6-1, 18 October 2014).

Points

• Most points in a season:

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

Three points for a win: 97 (during the 2002–03 season).

• Fewest points in a season:

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

Three points for a win: 69 (during the 1994–95 season).

Attendances

• Record Scottish League attendance: 118,567 (against Celtic, won 2–1, Ibrox Park (H), 2 January 1939).
• Record Scottish Cup attendance: 143,570 (against Hibernian, won 1–0, Hampden Park (N), 27 March 1948).^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Record Scottish League Cup attendance: 125,154 (against Hibernian, won 3–1, Hampden Park (N), 22 March 1947).^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Record European attendance: 100,000 (against Dynamo Kiev, lost 1–0, Respublikanskiy Stadium (A), 16 September 1987).^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Record home League attendance: 118,567 (against Celtic, won 2–1, 2 January 1939).
• Record home Scottish Cup attendance:
• Record home Scottish League Cup attendance: 105,000 (against Celtic, won 2–1, 16 October 1948).
• Record home European attendance: 85,000 (against Leeds United, draw 0–0, 26 March 1968).
• Lowest home League attendance: 6,087 (against Partick Thistle, won 1-0, 23 May 1979).
• Lowest home Scottish Cup attendance:
• Lowest home Scottish League Cup attendance: 5,000 (against Brechin City, won 1–0, 23 September 1981).
• Lowest home European attendance: 14,268 (against ASK Vorwärts Berlin, won 2–1, 15 November 1961).^{[note 9]}

European statistics

Notes

References

External links

• Rangers official website – Honours
• Rangers Official website – Records and Honours
• Followfollow.com – Rangers club records