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Glasgow
Rangers Football Club
Rangers Football
Club are a
football team based in the
city of Glasgow in Scotland.
They currently play
their football in the Scottish
Premiership. They have won a
fantastic total
of 51 league titles (which is
a current world record), and
they have won
more major trophies than
any football club in the
world.
The club is
nicknamed The
Teddy Bears by their fans,
which originates from the
rhyming slang for Gers,
which in turn is short for
Rangers, and the fans have
named themselves
"Bluenoses".
The club's correct name is
simply Rangers F.C., although
they
are often referred to as
Glasgow Rangers for
European matches to avoid
any
confusion.
Today Rangers'
players and
fans 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 the majority of
their history, Rangers have
enjoyed a fierce
and bitter rivalry with their
cross-city opponents Celtic,
and the two have
become collectively known
as the Old
Firm.
Rangers's home
ground, the
all-seater 51,082-capacity
Ibrox Stadium is located in
south-west Glasgow,
and 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, which
is Scotland's current national
stadium.
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