The Rangers

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Rangers
Fou name	Rangers Football Club
Byname(s)	The Gers / The Teddy Bears
Foondit	1873
Grund	Ibrox Stadium Glasgow Scotland
Capacity	51,082[1]
Preses	Sir David Murray
Manager	Walter Smith
League	Scottish Premier League
Hame colours 　 Awa colours

The Rangers (or the Gers, Teddy Bears) is Scotland's maist successfu fitbaa club in terms o trophies won an haes won the league championship 51 times. The Rangers Fitbaa Club plays in the Scottish Premier League. The team plays thair gemmes at Ibrox Park in Ibrox in the sooth-wast end o Glesgae.

Table o contents 1 Honours 2 Sectarianism 2.1 Major honours 3 References

[edit] Honours

Rangers wis the first club in the warld tae win mair nor 50 league teetles. In 2007, they haud the warld record for the nummer o domestic league championships taen, efter rackin up 51 titles.^[2] Rangers hauds the record for domestic trebles,^[3] forby, wi sieven tae date. They won their 100t major trophy in 2000, the first club in the warld tae win tae that milestane.^[4] In 2007, they war the maist-honoured fitbaw club in the warld, haein taen 108 trophies aw thegither.

They hae played baith in Scotland's an England's naitional cup competeetions. Rangers won tae the semi-final o the 1886-87 FA Cup, juist tae be knockit oot bi the winners, Aston Villa.

[edit] Sectarianism

Rangers is weel kent fur its sectarian problems, alang wi Cellic.

In the warld o Scotis fitba, sectarianism is oot the control o ony ae fitba club^{[citation needit]}. It is a mair muckle issue, ruitit in social, cultural, historical an religious circumstances. Ne'ertheless, baith Celtic an the Reengers accepts that they hae a problem wi sectarianism^{[citation needit]}. Baith sides o the Auld Firm admeets that a pairt o thair supporters haes been, an conteenas tae be, guilty o haudin sectarian beliefs an cultural intolerance gaun.

In recent times baith Celtic an the Rangers haes taen meisurs tae fecht sectarianism^{[citation needit]}. Warkin alangside the Scotis Pairliment, kirk groups an communities, the Auld Firm haes clampit doun on sectarian sangs, inflammatory flag-wavin, an fashoius supporters, uisin mair muckle levels o policin an surveillance. In 1996, for instance, Celtic stairtit thair Bhoys Against Bigotry campaign, later follaed by Youth Against Bigotry tae "educate the young on haein ... respect for aw aspects o the community - aw races, aw colours, aw creeds", accordin tae the then chief executive Ian McLeod [1].

[edit] Major honours

• European Cup Winners Cup 1972 (1)
• Scottish League 1891, 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 (51)
• Scottish Cup 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 (31)
• Scottish League Cup 1946, 1948, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005 (24)

[edit] References

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