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History

Rangers Football Club (FC) has a long and illustrious history. Formed in 1873, Rangers were the first club in the world to win more than 50 league titles. Rangers are the most honoured football club in the world having won 107 trophies in total.

Rangers Football Club is a football club from Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premier League. Rangers are the most successful club in Scottish football, with 51 league titles, and have won the most trophies of any football club in the world.

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The club used a variety of grounds in Glasgow as a venue for home matches in the years between 1872 and 1899. The first was Flesher's Haugh, situated on Glasgow Green, followed by Burnbank in the Kevinbridge area of the city and then Kinning Park for ten years from the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. From February of the 1886-87 season Cathkn Park was used, until the first Ibrox Park, in the Govan area of south-west Glasgow was inaugurated for the following season. Ibrox Stadium in its current incarnation was originally designed by the architect Archibald Leitch, a Rangers fan who also played a part in the design of, among others, Old Trafford in Manchester and Highbury in London. The stadium was inaugurated on December 30, 1899; Rangers defeated Hearts 3-1 in the first match held there.

Since 1899, two major disastors have taken place at the stadium. The first occurred in 1902 during a Scotlanmd vs England international match, when a section of terracing collapsed leading to the deaths of 26 people and over 500 injuries. The second disaster took place during the traditional New Year's Day Old Firm game in 1971. As the crowd were leaving the match, barriers on the stairway to the rear of passageway 13 at the Copland End collapsed, causing a crush and resulting in the deaths of 66 people, with over 200 injuries. The second disaster led to a major redevelopment of Ibrox, overseen by the general manager Willie Waddell. After being converted to an all seater stadium, Ibrox was awarded UEFA five star status.

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