Rangers F.C. honours

Rangers F.C. honours

Formed in 1873, Rangers were the first club in the world to win 50 league titles, they now hold the world record for number of domestic league championships won after racking up 51 titles.cite news|url=http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/kamprec.html#tnc|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|title=Total Number of Championships|date=23 November 2006] Rangers also hold the record for domestic trebles,cite news|url=http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/doublerec.html#treb|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|title=Domestic Trebles|date=23 November 2006] with seven so far. They won their 100th major trophy in 2000, the first club in the world to reach that milestone.cite news|url=http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/rangers-100trophies.html|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|title=Glasgow Rangers - 100 Trophies|date=21 October 2001] They are now the most-honoured football club in the world, having won 109 trophies in total.

They have played in both the 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.

Major honours

League

* Scottish League championships (51):
** 1891 [1891 championship shared with Dumbarton] , 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 [Equalled Celtic's record of nine championship wins in a row (known as "9-in-a-row")] , 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005

Cups

* European Cup Winners' Cup winners:
** 1972

* Scottish Cup winners (32):
** 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

* League Cup winners (25):
** 1947, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985,
1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008

Other honours

League

* Emergency War League: 1940
* Southern League (6): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
* Glasgow League (2): 1895-96, 1897-98

Cups

* Emergency War Cup: 1940
* Southern League Cup (4): 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945
* Glasgow Cup (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 [1975 trophy shared with Celtic after 2-2 draw] , 1976,
1979, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987
* Glasgow Merchants and Charity Cup (32):
** 1878-79, 1896-97, 1899-00, 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

Minor honours

* Rangers Sports Trophy: 1890
* Glasgow International Exhibition Cup: 1901
* Scottish National Exhibition Tournament: 1908
* Lord Provosts Cup [Played in aid of the Lord Provosts Rent Relief Fund] : 1921
* British Championship: 1933
* Sir Archibald Sinclair Cup [Played in aid of the Clydeside Air Raid Distress Fund] : 1942
* Summer Cup: 1942
* Scottish Victory Cup: 1946
* Paisley Chartiy Cup: 1972
* Jet Cup [Played for the 75th Anniversary of Volvo] : 1977
* Tennent's Caledonian Cup: 1978
* Drybrough Cup: 1979
* Dubai Champions Cup : 1987
* Forum Cup [Also known as the Kilmarnock International Tournament] : 1991
* Ibrox International Challenge Trophy: 1995
* Wernesgruner Cup: 2003
* Walter Tull Memorial Cupcite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3934957.stm|publisher=BBC Sport website|title=Rangers see off sorry Spurs|date=28 July 2004] : 2004

Notes

External links

[http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Records/0,,5,00.html Rangers official website - Honours]


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