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Full name | Rangers Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Gers, The Teddy Bears, The Light Blues, Bluenoses | ||
Foondit | Mairch 1872 | ||
Ground | Ibrox Stadium, Glesga, Scotland | ||
Capacity | 50,817 | ||
Awner | Rangers International Football Club plc | ||
Chairman | Dave King | ||
Manager | Michael Beale | ||
League | Scottish Premiership | ||
2022–23 | Scottish Premiership, 2nt o 12 | ||
Wabsteid | Club wabsteid | ||
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Rangers Football Club (or Glesga Rangers) is the maist successful fitba club in Scotland. Rangers play in the Scottish Premiership, which is the tap level ae the Scottish Professional Football League. The team plays thair hame gemmes at Ibrox Stadium n the sooth-wist ae Glesga.
Rangers wis the first club in the warld tae win mair vin 50 league championships. In 2021, they haud the wurld record for the nummer ae domestic league championships taen, efter rackin up 55 titles.[1] Rangers hauds the record for domestic trebles,[2] forby, wi sieven tae date. They won their 100t major trophy in 2000, the first club in the warld tae win tae that milestane.[3] In 2021, they war the maist-honoured fitbaw club in the warld, haein taen 119 trophies aw thegither.
They hae played baith in Scotland's an England's naitional cup competeetions. Rangers won tae the semi-final ae the 1886-87 FA Cup, juist tae be knockit oot bi the winners.
Rangers is weel kent fur its sectarian problems, alang wi Celtic.[4]
In the warld o Scotis fitbaw, sectarianism is a muckle issue, ruitit in social, cultural, historical an religious circumstances.[5][6] 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.[7] Warkin alangside the Scots Pairlament, 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.[citation needit]
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