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49 free Rangers FC trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Rangers were founded in 1872 by four teenagers on a walk through a Glasgow park and have since collected 55 league titles, a European trophy, the largest travelling support in history and a liquidation that sent them to the fourth tier. Few clubs have a story with this many turns. These 49 questions run from Fleshers' Haugh to the Europa League final: Archibald Leitch's Ibrox, the 1939 attendance record, Bill Struth's 34 years, Barcelona 1972 and the trophy presented in a side room, the Ibrox disaster, Souness and Smith's nine in a row, Mo Johnston's signing, Advocaat's £12 million striker, the helicopter that changed course in 2005, Manchester 2008, administration in 2012, East Stirlingshire and the world-record fourth-tier crowd, Progrès Niederkorn, Gerrard's 102 points, Seville and the 49ers takeover. There are crest, motto, mascot and kit questions too. Easy questions stick to the basics; the expert tier asks about William Wilton, the shared 1891 title and the first European Super Cup. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01In which Scottish city are Rangers based?
Glasgow
The club is often called Glasgow Rangers, though that has never been its official name.
Q 02Rangers took their name from an annual about which sport?
Rugby
Rugby: Moses McNeil, then 16, is said to have spotted the name Rangers in an English rugby annual and suggested it to the brother and friends he was starting a football team with.
Q 03Which Tina Turner hit is played before Rangers' home games?
The Best
The Best: with the championship in sight in April 2010, Rangers fans set out to buy their club anthem to number one, and it re-entered the UK chart in the top ten.
Q 04Who designed Ibrox Stadium?
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch, a Rangers fan, won the job back even after a wooden terrace he had designed collapsed in 1902, and went on to build stands at Old Trafford, Highbury and many more grounds.
Q 05Rangers are nicknamed the Light Blues, but which shade are their home shirts?
Royal blue
Royal blue: around 1880 the club spent a few seasons in blue and white hoops before going back to plain blue shirts.
Q 06How many Scottish league titles had Rangers won by 2021, then a world record?
55
55: the 2021 title was the club's first in ten years, and it stopped their great rivals one short of a record ten championships in a row.
Q 07Which European trophy did Rangers win in 1972?
European Cup Winners' Cup
European Cup Winners' Cup: Rangers had lost the final of the same competition in 1961 and 1967 before winning it at the third attempt.
Q 08Which club did Rangers beat in their 1972 European final?
Dynamo Moscow
Dynamo Moscow, the first Soviet side to reach a European final, fought back from 3-0 down to 3-2, and Rangers' own fans held up the frantic last minute by running onto the pitch.
Q 09In which stadium did Rangers win their 1972 European final?
Camp Nou
Camp Nou: Rangers fans poured onto the pitch at the final whistle, so the trophy was handed over in a room inside the stadium, and a UEFA ban stopped the club defending it.
Q 10Rangers lost a 1971 shoot-out at Sporting, yet went through because the referee had overlooked which rule?
Away goals
Away goals: the tie finished 6-6, but Rangers had scored three in Lisbon to Sporting's two in Scotland, so their manager took the rule book to a UEFA official and the lost shoot-out was struck out.
Q 11The rivalry between Rangers and Celtic is known by what name?
The Old Firm
The Old Firm: the two clubs first met in 1888, a game Rangers lost 5-2, and the rivalry came to mirror the split between the city's Protestant and Irish Catholic communities.
Q 12Where in Ibrox did the 1971 disaster's fatal crush happen?
A stairway
A stairway: Stairway 13, an exit, had already seen deaths and injuries in crushes in the 1960s, and the inquiry that followed 1971 led to new safety rules for British sports grounds.
Q 13Which manager led Rangers for 34 years from 1920 to 1954?
Bill Struth
Bill Struth stepped up when the previous manager drowned in a boating accident, and went on to win 18 league titles, 14 of them before the Second World War.
Q 21Which manager won Rangers the 2003 title on goal difference on the season's final day?
Alex McLeish
Alex McLeish's side beat Dunfermline 6-1, the last goal an injury-time penalty from Mikel Arteta, to finish above Celtic by a single goal of goal difference.
Q 22In 2005 the SPL trophy helicopter famously diverted to which ground for Rangers?
Easter Road
Easter Road: the helicopter was bound for Celtic's game at Motherwell until two Scott McDonald goals in the dying minutes beat them, so it swung round to Edinburgh, where Rangers were winning 1-0.
Q 23Whom did Rangers lose to in the 2008 UEFA Cup final?
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Q 14About how many fans packed Ibrox for a league game in January 1939, a British record?
118,000
118,000: the official 118,567 stood on vast earth-banked terraces, built after a wooden one collapsed in 1902, to watch Rangers beat Celtic 2-1 in the New Year derby.
Q 15Which player-manager, appointed in 1986, began Rangers' run of nine straight titles?
Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness reversed the usual flow of talent by luring England internationals such as Terry Butcher north, and won the first two of the nine titles before leaving for Liverpool in 1991.
Q 16Where did Rangers clinch their ninth consecutive title in May 1997?
Tannadice Park
Tannadice Park: Brian Laudrup, said to be no header of the ball, dived to head the only goal against Dundee United and match Celtic's record of nine straight titles.
Q 17Who became Rangers' first foreign manager in 1998?
Dick Advocaat
Dick Advocaat, a Dutchman known as the Little General, won the treble in his first season, but his heavy spending on players left the managers who followed him far less to work with.
Q 18Which striker did Rangers sign for a club-record £12 million in 2000?
Tore Andre Flo
Tore Andre Flo left Chelsea because he was not playing enough, and the fee Rangers paid to get him set a new Scottish transfer record.
Q 19Who signed for Rangers in 1989 as the club's first major Roman Catholic signing?
Mo Johnston
Mo Johnston was a former Celtic striker, and Celtic had already announced he was coming back to them when Rangers stepped in. He went on to score 46 goals in 100 games.
Q 20Who became the first Catholic captain of Rangers in 1998?
Lorenzo Amoruso
Lorenzo Amoruso, an Italian defender signed from Fiorentina, led the side to a domestic treble in his first season with the armband, only to be stripped of it two years later.
Zenit Saint Petersburg won 2-0, and the man in their dugout had been Rangers' own manager earlier in the decade.
Q 24Which English city did more than 100,000 Rangers fans descend on for the 2008 UEFA Cup final?
Manchester
Manchester: thousands had come without tickets, and when a giant screen in the city centre failed, the party turned into clashes with riot police.
Q 25Who beat Rangers on penalties in the 2022 Europa League final?
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt won the shoot-out 5-4 in Seville after a 1-1 draw. The only miss came from Aaron Ramsey, sent on late precisely to take a penalty.
Q 26Rangers went into administration in 2012 on which day of the calendar?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day: administrators were appointed on 14 February amid a dispute over unpaid tax, and the automatic 10-point penalty all but ended the champions' title defence.
Q 27In which division did the re-formed Rangers start again in 2012?
Third Division
Third Division: top-flight chairmen refused the re-formed club a place, and a plan to slot it into the second tier failed too, so it began in Scotland's lowest division.
Q 28Rangers' first home league match of 2012-13 drew 49,118 to see a 5-1 win over which club?
East Stirlingshire
East Stirlingshire silenced Ibrox with a third-minute penalty before losing 5-1, and the crowd was a world record for a league at that level.
Q 29Which Luxembourg club knocked Rangers out of the 2017-18 Europa League qualifiers?
Progrès Niederkorn
Progrès Niederkorn had scored only once in Europe and never won a game there, yet overturned a 1-0 first-leg defeat as Rangers hit the woodwork three times.
Q 30Which former England captain took his first senior manager's job at Rangers in 2018?
Steven Gerrard
Steven Gerrard had coached only Liverpool's under-18s before Rangers hired him, and in his third full season his side won the league without losing a game.