Rangers F.C. in European football

Rangers played their first official match in competitive European football on 2 October 1956.

To date, the club has featured in over 300 matches and played in three UEFA sanctioned tournaments as well as an additional two other European competitions, namely the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the European Super Cup.

Overview

Barcelona scoring against Rangers in a Champions League match at Camp Nou.

The club's first ever match against European opponents, however, was a friendly match against Austrian side First Vienna in the 1903–04 season during a tour of Austria and Czechoslovakia which resulted in six victories from six matches. They won the match 7–2.^[1] The clubs first competitive match was a European Cup second round game against OGC Nice of France. The match ended in a 2–1 home victory for Rangers thanks to goals from Max Murray (Rangers' first European goal scorer) and Billy Simpson.

In season 1960–61, Rangers took part in the inaugural European Cup Winners Cup. In this season they became the second British club to reach a European final, (emulating Birmingham City who had reached the final of the Inter-cities Fairs Cup the previous year), eventually losing 4–1 on aggregate to Fiorentina. Rangers were also runners-up to Bayern Munich in 1966–67. However, they did go on to win the trophy in 1972 after defeating Dynamo Moscow.

The 1982–83 season saw Rangers play in the UEFA Cup for the first time. They defeated German side Borussia Dortmund in the first round but were knocked out in the following round by another side from Germany, 1. FC Köln. Over a quarter of a century after their first appearance they reached the 2008 UEFA Cup Final. They played Russian side Zenit Saint Petersburg at the City of Manchester Stadium, but lost 2–0 after an exhausting season of football, where Rangers were aiming for four trophies, but ultimately ended up with only two - the Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup.

Rangers became the first British club to appear in the UEFA Champions League, when in 1992 they defeated Leeds United in a tie dubbed the Battle of Britain due to the clubs being the respective champions of Scotland and England. In this, the inaugural season of the Champions League, the tournament was open only to national champions, with knock-out rounds leading to a group stage of eight teams in two groups of four, and only the winners of each group progressing to a one-off final match. Although unbeaten, Rangers finished second in Group A, one point behind French champions Marseille, who defeated A.C. Milan in the final. The French club were later involved in a match-fixing scandal and were stripped of their national title. It is not clear whether the group stage of the 1992–93 Champions League should be considered as a semi-final, given that the winners of each group went into the final, or as a quarter-final, given that it was contested by the last eight teams in the competition. However, Rangers' second-placed finish in their group made them one of the top four teams in that season's tournament – their highest ever finish in the UEFA Champions League and equalling their 1959–60 run to the semi-finals in its predecessor format of the competition, the European Cup.

Rangers became the first Scottish club to qualify from both the Champions League group stage in 2005–06^[2] and the UEFA Cup group stage in 2006–07.^[3]

Season 2011–12 was Rangers' 51st European campaign. However, due to entering administration in 2012 and the subsequent liquidation of Rangers Football Club PLC, the club was barred from European competition by UEFA for three season. Rangers was not eligible for participation in European competition until 2015-16.^[4]

Matches in Europe

1950s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
1956–57	European Cup	Second Round	OGC Nice	2 – 1, 1 – 2, 1 – 3
1957–58	European Cup	First Round	AS Saint-Étienne	3 – 1, 1 – 2
1957–58	European Cup	Second Round	A.C. Milan	1 – 4, 0 – 2
1959–60	European Cup	First Round	Anderlecht	5 – 2, 2 – 0
		Second Round	Red Star Bratislava	4 – 3, 1 – 1
		Quarter-Final	Sparta Rotterdam	3 – 2, 0 – 1, 3 – 2
		Semi-Final	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 6, 3 – 6

1960s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
1960–61	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Ferencvaros	4 – 2, 1 – 2
		Quarter-Final	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3 – 0, 8 – 0
		Semi-Final	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2 – 0, 1 – 1
		Final	ACF Fiorentina	0 – 2, 1 – 2
1961–62	European Cup	First Round	AS Monaco	3 – 2, 3 – 2
		Second Round	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	2 – 1, 4 – 1
		Quarter-Final	Standard Liège	1 – 4, 2 – 0
1962–63	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Sevilla	4 – 0, 0 – 2
1962–63	Cup Winners Cup	Second Round	Tottenham Hotspur	2 – 5, 2 – 3
1963–64	European Cup	First Round	Real Madrid	0 – 1, 0 – 6
1964–65	European Cup	First Round	Red Star Belgrade	3 – 1, 2 – 4, 3 – 1
		Second Round	Rapid Vienna	1 – 0, 2 – 0
		Quarter-Final	Inter Milan	1 – 3, 1 – 0
1966–67	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Glentoran	1 – 1, 4 – 0
		Second Round	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 1, 0 – 0
		Quarter-Final	Real Zaragoza	2 – 0, 0 – 2^[5]
		Semi-Final	Slavia Sofia	1 – 0, 1 – 0
		Final	Bayern Munich	0 – 1
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Dynamo Dresden	1 – 1, 2 – 1
		Second Round	1. FC Köln	3 – 0, 1 – 3
		Third Round	Bye	Bye
		Quarter-Final	Leeds United	0 – 0, 0 – 2
1968–69	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	FK Vojvodina	2 – 0, 0 – 1
		Second Round	Dundalk	6 – 1, 3 – 0
		Third Round	DWS Amsterdam	2 – 0, 2 – 1
		Quarter-Final	Athletic Bilbao	4 – 1, 0 – 2
		Semi-Final	Newcastle United	0 – 0, 0 – 2
1969–70	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Steaua Bucharest	2 – 0, 0 – 0
1969–70	Cup Winners Cup	Second Round	Górnik Zabrze	1 – 3, 1 – 3

1970s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
1970–71	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Bayern Munich	1 – 1, 0 – 1
1971–72	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Stade Rennes	1 – 1, 1 – 0
		Second Round	Sporting Lisbon	3 – 2, 3 – 4^[6]
		Quarter-Final	Torino	1 – 1, 1 – 0
		Semi-Final	Bayern Munich	1 – 1, 2 – 0
		Final	Dinamo Moscow	3 – 2
1972–73	European Super Cup	Final	Ajax	1 – 3, 2 – 3
1973–74	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Ankaragücü	2 – 0, 4 – 0
1973–74	Cup Winners Cup	Second Round	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0 – 3, 3 – 2
1975–76	European Cup	First Round	Bohemians	4 – 1, 1 – 1
1975–76	European Cup	Second Round	AS Saint-Étienne	0 – 2, 1 – 2
1976–77	European Cup	First Round	FC Zürich	1 – 1, 0 – 1
1977–78	Cup Winners Cup	Qualifier	BSC Young Boys	1 – 0, 2 – 2
1977–78	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	FC Twente	0 – 0, 0 – 3
1978–79	European Cup	First Round	Juventus	0 – 1, 2 – 0
		Second Round	PSV Eindhoven	0 – 0, 3 – 2
		Quarter-Final	1. FC Köln	0 – 1, 1 – 1
1979–80	Cup Winners Cup	Preliminary round	Lillestrøm SK	1 – 0, 2 – 0
		First Round	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2 – 1, 0 – 0
		Second Round	Valencia CF	1 – 1, 1 – 3

1980s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
1981–82	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Dukla Prague	0 – 3, 2 – 1
1982–83	UEFA Cup	First Round	Borussia Dortmund	0 – 0, 2 – 0
1982–83	UEFA Cup	Second Round	1. FC Köln	2 – 1, 0 – 5
1983–84	Cup Winners Cup	First Round	Valletta F.C.	8 – 0, 10 – 0
1983–84	Cup Winners Cup	Second Round	F.C. Porto	2 – 1, 0 – 1
1984–85	UEFA Cup	First Round	Bohemians	2 – 3, 2 – 0
1984–85	UEFA Cup	Second Round	Inter Milan	0 – 3, 3 – 1
1985–86	UEFA Cup	First Round	CA Osasuna	1 – 0, 0 – 2
1986–87	UEFA Cup	First Round	Ilves Tampere	4 – 0, 0 – 2
		Second Round	Boavista	2 – 1, 1 – 0
		Third Round	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1 – 1, 0 – 0^[7]
1987–88	European Cup	First Round	Dynamo Kiev	0 – 1, 2 – 0
		Second Round	Górnik Zabrze	3 – 1, 1 – 1
		Quarter-Final	Steaua Bucharest	0 – 2, 2 – 1
1988–89	UEFA Cup	First Round	GKS Katowice	1 – 0, 4 – 2
1988–89	UEFA Cup	Second Round	1. FC Köln	0 – 2, 1 – 1
1989–90	European Cup	First Round	Bayern Munich	1 – 3, 0 – 0

1990s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
1990–91	European Cup	First Round	Valletta	4 – 0, 6 – 0
1990–91	European Cup	Second Round	Red Star Belgrade	0 – 3, 1 – 1
1991–92	European Cup	First Round	Sparta Prague	2 – 1, 0 – 1
1992–93	Champions League	First Round	Lyngby BK	2 – 0, 1 – 0
		Second Round	Leeds United	2 – 1, 2 – 1
		Group A	Olympique Marseille	2 – 2, 1 – 1
		Group A	CSKA Moscow	1 – 0, 0 – 0
		Group A	Club Brugge	1 – 1, 2 – 1
1993–94	Champions League	First Round	Levski Sofia	3 – 2, 1 – 2^[7]
1994–95	Champions League	Qualifying Round	AEK Athens	0 – 2, 0 – 1
1995–96	Champions League	Qualifying Round	Anorthosis Famagusta	1 – 0, 0 – 0
		Group C	Steaua Bucharest	0 – 1, 1 – 1
		Group C	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 2, 2 – 2
		Group C	Juventus	1 – 4, 0 – 4
1996–97	Champions League	First Round	Alania Vladikavkaz	3 – 1, 7 – 2
		Group A	Grasshopper Club Zürich	0 – 3, 2 – 1
		Group A	AJ Auxerre	1 – 2, 1 – 2
		Group A	Ajax	1 – 4, 0 – 1
1997–98	Champions League	First Qualifier	GÍ Gøta	5 – 0, 6 – 0
	Champions League	Second Qualifier	IFK Gothenburg	0 – 3, 1 – 1
	UEFA Cup	First Round	RC Strasbourg	1 – 2, 1 – 2
1998–99	UEFA Cup	First Qualifier	Shelbourne	5 – 3, 2 – 0
		Second Qualifier	PAOK	2 – 0, 0 – 0
		First Round	Beitar Jerusalem	1 – 1, 4 – 2
		Second Round	Bayer Leverkusen	2 – 1, 1 – 1
		Third Round	Parma	1 – 1, 1 – 3
1999–00	Champions League	Second Qualifier	FC Haka	4 – 1, 3 – 0
		Third Qualifier	Parma	2 – 0, 0 – 1
		Group F	Valencia CF	0 – 2, 1 – 2
		Group F	Bayern Munich	1 – 1, 0 – 1
		Group F	PSV Eindhoven	1 – 0, 4 – 1
	UEFA Cup	Third Round	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 0, 0 – 2^[8]

2000s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
2000–01	Champions League	Second Qualifier	Zalgiris Kaunas	4 – 1, 0 – 0
		Third Qualifier	Herfølge BK	3 – 0, 3 – 0
		Group D	Sturm Graz	5 – 0, 0 – 2
		Group D	AS Monaco	1 – 0, 2 – 2
		Group D	Galatasaray	2 – 3, 0 – 0
	UEFA Cup	Third Round	Kaiserslautern	1 – 0, 0 – 3
2001–02	Champions League	Second Qualifier	NK Maribor	3 – 0, 3 – 1
	Champions League	Third Qualifier	Fenerbahçe	0 – 0, 1 – 2
	UEFA Cup	First Round	Anzhi Makhachkala	1 – 0
		Second Round	Dinamo Moscow	3 – 1, 4 – 1
		Third Round	Paris Saint-Germain	0 – 0, 0 – 0^[9]
		Fourth Round	Feyenoord	1 – 1, 2 – 3
2002–03	UEFA Cup	First Round	FK Viktoria Žižkov	3 – 1, 0 – 2
2003–04	Champions League	Third Qualifier	F.C. Copenhagen	1 – 1, 2 – 1
		Group E	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 1, 0 – 1
		Group E	Panathinaikos	1 – 1, 1 – 3
		Group E	Manchester United	0 – 1, 0 – 3
2004–05	Champions League	Third Qualifier	CSKA Moscow	1 – 2, 1 – 1
	UEFA Cup	First Round	C.S. Marítimo	0 – 1, 1 – 0^[10]
		Group F	Amica Wronki	5 – 0
		Group F	Grazer AK	3 – 0
		Group F	AZ Alkmaar	0 – 1
		Group F	AJ Auxerre	0 – 2
2005–06	Champions League	Third Qualifier	Anorthosis Famagusta	2 – 1, 2 – 0
		Group H	F.C. Porto	3 – 2, 1 – 1
		Group H	Inter Milan	0 – 1, 1 – 1
		Group H	Artmedia Bratislava	0 – 0, 2 – 2
		Last 16	Villarreal CF	2 – 2, 1 – 1
2006–07	UEFA Cup	First Round	Molde FK	0 – 0, 2 – 0
		Group A	Livorno	3 – 2
		Group A	Maccabi Haifa	2 – 0
		Group A	AJ Auxerre	2 – 2
		Group A	Partizan Belgrade	1 – 0
		Third Round	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1 – 2, 4 – 0
		Fourth Round	CA Osasuna	1 – 1, 0 – 1
2007–08	Champions League	Second Qualifier	FK Zeta	2 – 0, 1 – 0
		Third Qualifier	Red Star Belgrade	1 – 0, 0 – 0
		Group E	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 1, 2 – 3
		Group E	Lyon	3 – 0, 0 – 3
		Group E	Barcelona	0 – 0, 0 – 2
	UEFA Cup	Third Round	Panathinaikos	0 – 0, 1 – 1
		Fourth Round	Werder Bremen	2 – 0, 0 – 1
		Quarter-Final	Sporting Lisbon	0 – 0, 2 – 0
		Semi-Final	Fiorentina	0 – 0, 0 – 0^[10]
		Final	Zenit St Petersburg	0 – 2
2008–09	Champions League	Second Qualifier	FBK Kaunas	0 – 0, 1 – 2
2009–10	Champions League	Group G	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 1, 0 – 2
		Group G	Sevilla	1 – 4, 0 – 1
		Group G	Unirea Urziceni	1 – 4, 1 – 1

2010s

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
2010–11	Champions League	Group C	Manchester United	0 – 0,^[11] 0 – 1^[12]
		Group C	Bursaspor	1 – 0,^[13] 1 – 1^[14]
		Group C	Valencia	1 – 1,^[15] 0 – 3^[16]
	Europa League	Last 32	Sporting Lisbon	1 – 1,^[17] 2 – 2^[18]
	Europa League	Last 16	PSV Eindhoven	0 – 0,^[19] 0 – 1^[20]
2011–12	Champions League	Third Qualifier	Malmö	0 – 1,^[21] 1 – 1^[22]
2011–12	Europa League	Play-off Qualifier	NK Maribor	1 – 2,^[23] 1 – 1^[24]

Records by

Country of opposition

Country	P	W	D	L	Win %
Austria	7000700000000000000♠7	7000500000000000000♠5	5000000000000000000♠0	7000200000000000000♠2	7001714300000000000♠71.43
Belgium	6	4	1	1	66.67
Bulgaria	4	3	0	1	75
Cyprus	4	3	1	0	75
Czechoslovakia	6	3	1	2	50
Czech Republic	2	1	0	1	50
Denmark	6	5	1	0	83.33
East Germany	4	3	1	0	75
England	12	3	3	6	25
Faroe Islands	2	2	0	0	100
Finland	4	3	0	1	75
France	25	7	7	11	28
Germany	47	15	15	17	31.91
Greece	8	1	4	3	12.50
Hungary	2	1	0	1	50
Ireland	8	6	1	1	75
Israel	5	3	1	1	60
Italy	23	6	5	12	26.08
Lithuania	4	1	2	1	25
Malta	4	4	0	0	100
Montenegro	2	2	0	0	100
Netherlands	18	7	3	8	38.89
Northern Ireland	2	1	1	0	50
Norway	4	3	1	0	75
Poland	7	4	1	2	57.14
Portugal	12	7	2	3	60
Romania	8	2	3	3	25.00
Russia	10	6	2	2	60.00
Serbia	3	2	1	0	66.67
Slovakia	2	0	2	0	0
Spain	20	3	5	12	15.00
Sweden	2	0	1	1	0
Switzerland	6	2	2	2	33.33
Turkey	6	2	2	2	33.33
USSR	3	2	0	1	66.67
Yugoslavia	7	3	1	3	42.85
Totals	293	124	70	99	42.32

P – Played; W – Won; D – Drawn; L – Lost

Competition

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win%
UEFA Champions League	7002161000000000000♠161	7001620000000000000♠62	7001400000000000000♠40	7001590000000000000♠59	7002232000000000000♠232	7002218000000000000♠218	+14	7001385100000000000♠38.51
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	7001540000000000000♠54	7001270000000000000♠27	7001110000000000000♠11	7001160000000000000♠16	7002100000000000000♠100	7001620000000000000♠62	+38	7001500000000000000♠50.00
UEFA Europa League	7001760000000000000♠76	7001310000000000000♠31	7001230000000000000♠23	7001220000000000000♠22	7001990000000000000♠99	7001770000000000000♠77	+22	7001407900000000000♠40.79
UEFA Super Cup	7000200000000000000♠2	5000000000000000000♠0	5000000000000000000♠0	7000200000000000000♠2	7000300000000000000♠3	7000600000000000000♠6	−3	05000000000000000000♠0.00
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	7001180000000000000♠18	7000800000000000000♠8	7000400000000000000♠4	7000600000000000000♠6	7001270000000000000♠27	7001170000000000000♠17	+10	7001444400000000000♠44.44
Total	7002313000000000000♠313	7002128000000000000♠128	7001800000000000000♠80	7002105000000000000♠105	7002461000000000000♠461	7002380000000000000♠380	+81	7001408900000000000♠40.89

Honours

Honour	No.	Years	Runners-up
European Cup Winners' Cup	1	1971–72	1960–61, 1966–67
UEFA Cup	0		2007–08

References

↑ White, John (2006). The Rangers Football Miscellany. Carlton Books. p. 10. ISBN 1-84442-158-9.
↑ "Rangers 1–1 Inter Milan". BBC Sport. 6 December 2005.
↑ "Auxerre 2–2 Rangers". BBC Sport. 23 November 2006.
↑ "Rangers' SPFL status will not open door to Europe". The Scotsman. 1 July 2013.
↑ Rangers won on the toss of a coin
↑ Rangers lost this match after a penalty shoot-out, only for manager Willie Waddell to point out to the referee that they had in fact won on away goals.
1 2 Rangers lost on the away goals rule
↑ Rangers lost the penalty shoot out, 1–3
↑ Rangers won the penalty shoot out, 4–3
1 2 Rangers won the penalty shoot out, 4–2
↑ McNulty, Phil (14 September 2010). "Manchester United 0-0 Rangers". BBC Sport. BBC.
↑ "Rangers 0-1 Manchester United". Colin Moffat. BBC Sport. 24 November 2010.
↑ "Rangers 1-0 Bursaspor". Thomas McGuigan. BBC Sport. 29 September 2010.
↑ Murray, Keir (7 December 2010). "Bursaspor 1-1 Rangers". BBC Sport. BBC.
↑ "Rangers 1-1 Valencia". Clive Lindsay. BBC Sport. 20 October 2010.
↑ "Valencia 3-0 Rangers". Colin Moffat. BBC Sport. 2 November 2010.
↑ "Rangers 1-1 Sporting". Andy Campbell. BBC Sport. 17 February 2011.
↑ "Sporting 2-2 Rangers (agg 3-3)". Clive Lindsay. BBC Sport. 24 February 2011.
↑ "PSV Eindhoven 0-0 Rangers". Andy Campbell. BBC Sport. 10 March 2011.
↑ "Rangers 0-1 PSV Eindhoven". Colin Moffat. BBC Sport. 17 March 2011.
↑ "Rangers 0-1 Malmo". Alistair Magowan. BBC Sport. 26 July 2011.
↑ "Malmo 1-1 Rangers". Annie McGuire. BBC Sport. 3 August 2011.
↑ "NK Maribor 2-1 Rangers". Clive Lindsay. BBC Sport. 18 August 2011.
↑ "Rangers 1-1 NK Maribor". Andy Campbell. BBC Sport. 25 August 2011.

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