Ibrox Stadium

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
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Ibrox Park is the home of Rangers Football Club, and is located on Edmiston Drive, about 3 miles (5 km) south southwest of Glasgow city centre. Today it has a capacity of 50,411, although before seating the record capacity was 118,567 for a League game against Celtic in 1939.

Established in 1873 by four friends who wished to play football and create their own team, Rangers have grown to become the most successful team in Scottish football. The first match that this team played was against Callander FC at Flesher's Haugh on Glasgow Green and, although the game ending a draw it was the start of nearly 130 years of football. By Season 1890-91 and the start of the Scottish League Championship, Rangers were now playing at Ibrox after brief spells playing at Burnbank and Kinning Park.

A founder member of the Scottish League, Rangers have won the Scottish League Championship 47 times (more than any other club), the Scottish Cup 27 times, the League Cup 20 times and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1972, when they beat Moscow Dynamo in the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona, Spain.

Rangers have won the League Championship 9 times in a row from 1988-89 to 1996-97, a feat equalled by Celtic in seasons 1966-67 to 1974-75.

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