Since the Scottish League was formed in 1891, Rangers have now won the title 55 times and Celtic 51. Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian have won four times each, but that was in the distant past. The last time a non-Old Firm club triumphed was back in 1985 when Aberdeen took the title under a certain Sir Alex Ferguson.
It's title number 55 for the club – the most of any football club in the world – and the first in 10 years following one of the most arduous decades in the club's history.
Title 55 for Rangers will be simply the best as Steven Gerrard's side become immortalised at Ibrox. 23rd February 2021. Rangers FC.
The club has always played in royal blue shirts. Rangers is the most successful club in Scottish football. The club has won the Scottish League title a record 55 times, the Scottish Cup 34 times, the Scottish League Cup a record 27 times and the domestic treble on seven occasions.
Rangers won their 55th top-flight league title on Sunday, meaning they have won more league trophies than any other club in world football. The Ibrox club were level alongside Northern Irish side Linfield, on 54 titles, before moving one clear of the team managed by former Rangers player David Healy.
Here's a guide to when it might happen: Rainbows move up to Brownies aged 7. Brownies move up to Guides aged 10. Guides move up to Rangers aged 14.
The second emblem is dedicated to the Rangers only: it is the club's intertwined initials and reflects the number of Scottish League titles won.
Maurice Johnston signing
As manager of Rangers, Graeme Souness (pictured in 2001) signed Maurice Johnston, an openly Catholic player.
In Scotland, Rangers displayed five stars above the badge on their shirts in 2003 to symbolize their 50 league titles. Celtic, who also have more than 50 league titles, have one star above their badge to represent their triumph in the 1967 European Cup.
The two rivals, who are collectively known as the "Old Firm", have claimed the vast majority of league titles. As of 2023, Rangers have won 55 and Celtic 53, while no other club has won the title on more than four occasions.
Another popular theory is that the term was used by an English newspaper to compare Rangers fans to “marauding huns” — the nomadic, devastating military force infamously led by Attila in the fifth century — when they ran amok while in town for a match.
The Rangers Football Club Ltd, previously named Sevco Scotland Ltd, is a limited company based in Glasgow.
The Union Jack flags signify the Unionist political views of many Rangers supporters.
“If we won the league, if we didn't relinquish the league, I would have been happy to go to Sydney and be happy to take £3m for the pleasure of going out there. “We never went because other people were in breach of their contractual conditions.
Rangers have been named among the world's top 10 clubs in a new global ranking study.
The club is the most successful team in the world in terms of domestic league championships won, with more than 50.
This involved another change in legal status, from a private limited company to a public limited company. In the UK, the names of public companies are not allowed to end in "Ltd,” or “Limited,” so Rangers Football Club Ltd became Rangers plc.
Moses McNeil suggested the name Rangers after seeing the name "Swindon Rangers" in a book about English rugby. Rangers played two matches in their birth year; their second, with the team wearing light-blue shirts, was a comprehensive 11–0 win over a team named Clyde (not the present Clyde).
Founded in New York by Tex Rickard in 1926 as an expansion franchise, the team was given its name by the New York press, which nicknamed it “Tex's Rangers” (a play on the phrase “Texas Rangers”).
It has been traditionally claimed that Everton FC is 'the Catholic team' of Merseyside, whereas Liverpool FC is 'the Protestant team'.
The very foundations of the two Glasgow football clubs are built on the religious division between Catholicism and Protestantism. Traditionally, Rangers supporters are Protestant while Celtic fans support the Catholic Church.
Traditionally, Rangers supporters are Protestant while Celtic fans support the Catholic Church. Sectarianism in Scotland emerged after 16th century reformations of the Church of Scotland (Sanders, Origins ! of Sectarianism). At the beginning of the 16th century, Scotland was a piously Catholic nation.
And now, according to Sky Sports News reporter Anthony Joseph, it has emerged that Rangers reportedly did not ask for permission to wear the white kit. A club must seek permission from Hampden chiefs in order to wear a strip they did not register at the start of the campaign.
However the five championships won during the First World War - four by Celtic and one by Rangers - are recognised. That is because, unlike during WWII, the Scottish League championship during the Great War was official.
O'Hara and SME Branding wanted to modernize the traditional Rangers crest and alter the design. This "modernized" logo ultimately became the patch that was added to both shoulders of the jersey.