Rangers F.C. season 2006-07

Infobox Football club season
club = Rangers
logo =
season = 2006-07
manager = Paul Le Guen
Ian Durrant
Walter Smith
chairman = David Murray
league = Scottish Premier League
league result = 2nd
P38 W21 D9 L8 F61 A32
cup1 = Scottish Cup| cup1 result = Third Round
cup2 = League Cup | cup2 result = Quarter-finals
cup3 = UEFA Cup | cup3 result = Last 16
season topscorer = Kris Boyd (26)
league topscorer = Kris Boyd (20)
prevseason = 2005-06
nextseason = 2007-08The 2006-07 season is the 110th season of competitive football by Rangers.

Overview

Rangers played a total of 51 competitive matches during the 2006-07 season. They entered the season under new management with Paul Le Guen having replaced Alex McLeish. The wave of expectation that was created by Le Guen’s appointment was immense and he quickly went about building his own team. In the summer of 2006 he eleven signings (of them only Sasa Papac would be playing for the club the following season). Le Guen spent big money on Filip Šebo, which proved to be wasted as the Slovakian only netted twice during the whole campaign. Other signings including Karl Svensson, Libor Sionko and Lionel Letizi simply did not perform, while Jérémy Clément was to be in Glasgow for only six months.

At the start of the season it had appeared that Murray had brought one of Europe's most talented young coaches to Ibrox, but unfortunately the Frenchman could not repeat his previous successes. He left the club by mutual consent on January 4 2007 and was replaced by Walter Smith, who began his second spell as manager of the club.

Immediately Smith began an overhaul at the club. He deemed the defence to be the main reason for Rangers poor season. The signings of defenders David Weir and Ugo Ehiogu soon followed, along with young midfielder Kevin Thomson from Hibernian. The side’s form picked up and they ended the season in second place in the SPL and recorded a brace of Old Firm wins over Celtic.

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