Rangers Football Club are an association football team based in Glasgow, Scotland, who currently play in the Scottish Premier League. They have won 51 league titles, a world record, and have won more major trophies than any football club in the world.

The club are nicknamed The Teddy Bears, from the rhyming slang for Gers, which in turn is short for Rangers, and the fans are known to each other as “Bluenoses”. The club’s correct name is simply Rangers F.C., although they are sometimes referred to as Glasgow Rangers for European matches to avoid confusion.

Rangers’ players and fans today are multi-national and of various religions, although the club have traditionally been identified with and favoured the Protestant and Unionist community of Scotland, as well as the Ulster Unionist community in Northern Ireland. For most of their history, Rangers have enjoyed a fierce rivalry with their cross-city opponents Celtic, and the two are collectively known as the Old Firm.

The club’s home, the all-seated 51,082-capacity Ibrox Stadium in south-west Glasgow, has been accredited as one of UEFA’s five-star stadia. The stadium was the first one in Scotland to be granted this accolade, which it now shares with Hampden Park, Scotland’s national stadium.

First-team squad

1    GK    Allan McGregor
3    DF    David Weir (vice-captain)
4    FW    Thomas Buffel
5    DF    Saša Papac
6    MF    Barry Ferguson (captain)
7    MF    Brahim Hemdani
8    MF    Kevin Thomson
9    FW    Kris Boyd
10    FW    Nacho Novo
11    MF    Charlie Adam
15    MF    Alan Gow
16    GK    Graeme Smith
17    MF    Chris Burke
18    FW    Steven Naismith
19    FW    Jean-Claude Darcheville
20    MF    DaMarcus Beasley
21    DF    Kirk Broadfoot
22    DF    Andy Webster
23    DF    Christian Dailly
24    DF    Carlos Cuéllar
25    GK    Neil Alexander
26    DF    Steven Smith
27    FW    Lee McCulloch
28    MF    Steven Whittaker
29    FW    Daniel Cousin