Club Social de Deportes Rangers is a Chilean

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club based in the city of

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. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the second level of the Chilean football system. Their home games are played at the Fiscal stadium, which has a capacity of 16,000 seats.

History

The name Rangers was chosen by a

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, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club on behalf of Mrs. Amalia Neale de Silva, the first benefactress of the club. The origin of the chosen team colours, red and black, are unknown, though one of the possibilities was that some of the first players were also members of the Second Company of Firemen of Talca, whose shield was red and black. Another possible reason is the use of red and black in the socks of

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of Scotland (formed 1872) to represent the district colours of their local burgh of Govan. Fans of the Scottish club returned to using red and black scarves in 2012 to help raise funds for the club. In 1952 was accepted into the

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, and won the runners-up spot after finishing second in the league tournament final, getting the promotion to Primera División. Rangers qualified for the

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in 1970, being its only participation in a

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international tournament. Throughout their first century of existence, honours have been few and far between, with no Championship successes. Rangers was relegated in 2009 after being assessed a three-point penalty for using too many non-Chilean players in a November 8 match. The club filed a lawsuit in a Chilean court, leading to a threat from

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to throw out the Chile national team of the

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if the case continued. Under pressure from creditors, Rangers dropped the lawsuit on November 27, shortly after FIFA's demand. The case delayed the start of the league's playoffs. In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP". On November 27, 2011, Rangers was promoted to Primera División after beating

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in the final match. Manager Dalcio Giovagnoli was fired in 2013, and replaced by

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, who was considered mainly responsible of the team's relegation in 2014. Gamboa was fired too, but current manager

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wasn't able to avoid the side's relegation after two and a half years in the first division of Chilean football to the second division, the

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after finishing in the last place of both the

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and the accumulated table. The club's new owners confirmed Garcés will remain as the club's manager for the 2014–15 season, with the goal of gaining promotion to the first division. In October 2014, in a ceremony at the Talca Country Club, the marquess Luis Silva de Balboa transferred the trademark Rangers to the club. The trademark was his property until such time, and by a legal agreement, the transfer contains restrictions as to the limitation for the club to move out of the City of Talca of its ownership in hands other than people from Talca.

Honours

National

** Winners (3): 1988, 1993, Apertura 1997

Regional

* Torneo Provincial de Chile ** Winners (1): 1969

South American cups history

Players

Current squad

2021 Winter transfers

In

Out

Notable players

* Walter Behrends *

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rangers Football clubs in Chile Association football clubs established in 1902 Sport in Maule Region 1902 establishments in Chile