In addition to their senior squad,
Rangers Football Club
Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football. The club is often referred to as Glasgow Rangers, though this has never been it ...
also operate a football Academy which contains a number of football teams culminating in an
under-19 side, which plays friendly challenge matches against various domestic and European sides in accordance with the academy's development plan, having declined the option to continue in the
SPFL Reserve League
The SPFL Reserve League is the reserve team league for football in Scotland. The league began in 2018, as the SPFL Development League was replaced by a reserve team (i.e not age-restricted) format.
History
In its first season, 2018–19, the leag ...
despite winning the competition in 2019. Historically, the club's second side was known as the ''Rangers Swifts''.
In the
2006–07 season, the under-20s won their league and the
Scottish Youth Cup
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Sports Foot ...]
's run of six consecutive league titles and defeating them 5–0 in the final of the Youth Cup at
Hampden Park
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. In 2019, the Rangers under-18 team qualified for the
UEFA Youth League
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for the first time. Underage teams also take part in the
Scottish Challenge Cup
The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,[Glasgow Cup
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.
History
Beginnings of reserve football
Rangers' first known involvement in
reserve league football was in 1895 when their club secretary
William Wilton initiated the setting up of the Scottish Reserve League.
The competition comprised the reserve sides of five clubs; Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Leith Athletic and the Queens Park Strollers. In July 1896 the league was expanded to 10 sides, and renamed the Scottish Combination league.
In 1909, a new Scottish Reserve League was set up, often including at least one non-reserve side of a non-league club in each of its seasons.
The league was disbanded during
World War I
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, but effectively re-established in 1919 as the
Scottish Alliance League. As with previous incarnations, this reserve league also contained the first XI of several non-league sides.
An AGM in 1938, resulted in the non-league sides being removed and the league became exclusive to First Division reserve sides. The advent of
World War II
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, however, once again saw the suspension of national reserve league football in Scotland, although regional leagues were set up.
Inter war years
Upon the outbreak of the
Second World War
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, all competitive football in
Scotland
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was suspended. During this time there was special wartime football in the form of regional league competitions with Rangers playing in the
Southern League. The
regionalisation
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also saw Scottish reserve football postponed as the war effort put a major strain on the resources and playing staff of clubs with many of them serving in the
Armed forces
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and some seeing active service abroad. The reserve side were crowned champions of their league in 1939 before seeing the following season abandoned.
1975 league reconstruction
With the end of hostilities in 1946, Rangers returned to play competitive football again with the reserve side featuring in the Scottish Reserve League. This was to continue unchanged for almost three decades until the first of many reconstructions were made to football in Scotland.
SPL breakaway
The formation of the
Scottish Premier League
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in 1998, resulted in a significant change in youth team football in
Scotland
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. The SPL began a league for members clubs youth players aged under-18. This was alongside the Reserve league, which had been revamped into a league primarily for under-21 players. Rangers would go on to win the under-18 league three times, first in
2001–02 then in
2006–07 and most recently in
2007–08.
Reconstructing the youth department
The opening of
Rangers Training Centre ''(known as Murray Park)'' in 2001 was one of the first stages in the club's move to develop a football academy. Although the nomenclature was not present at that time, Rangers did begin to focus upon youth development and under the then first-team manager
Dick Advocaat
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Advocaat was successful as a football player and as a ...
the club appointed its first Head of Youth Development, Jan Derks, in March 2000. Derks new role was strategic and operational and saw him lay the foundations for the club's academy as well as helping the transition of the youth set-up to the new training centre. Prior to this, the club had employed a youth development officer, with their focus being solely scouting and coaching. Derks remained in position for three years despite former player
Tommy McLean
Thomas McLean Jr. (born 2 June 1947) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager. McLean played for Kilmarnock, Rangers and Scotland as a midfielder. He managed Morton, Motherwell, Hearts, Raith Rovers and Dundee United.
E ...
being recruited as his presumptive successor in May 2001 and Rangers eventually appointed former
Aberdeen
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scout
George Adams to succeed Derks in February 2003.
As the scope of the youth department grew, so did its costs, so on 20 April 2004, Rangers announced the creation of a new company which would oversee the development of the club's youth players.
The company, named Rangers Youth Development Limited, was entirely self-funding but completely owned by the club. It attracted four investors from outside Rangers who have invested £1 million, with the club also putting up an initial £2.5 million.
It led to
Rangers F.C. being in the unfamiliar position of buying its own youth players from Rangers Youth Development Ltd.
The Youth Development company owned the young players and the club had to bid for them, although it had first option on all the players. If both sides cannot reach an agreement on a transfer fee then a
FIFA
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transfer model will be used.
Any profit made by the company will be divided between investors with the majority being invested to fund more youth players. The main reason for the formation of the company was to offset the running costs of the club's training centre.
However, many of the Rangers fans were opposed to the formation of the new company. The activities of Rangers Youth Development Ltd were largely unnoticed and the company was dissolved after submitting its final set of accounts in June 2010.
The elite development era
In September 2005, as part of a restructuring of the club management, Adams left his role as director of youth football.
The moves also saw future Academy heads take over responsibility for youth administration.
In May 2017, the club announced its intention to withdraw from the
SPFL Development League
The SPFL Development League was the top level of youth football in Scotland, which was contested in various formats between 1998 and 2018.
History
A youth league was founded as the Scottish Premier under-18 League in 1998. Clubs fielded under-1 ...
and play a programme of matches against a mixture of English and European
Academies
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, as well as sides from
League One and
League Two in Scotland.
In July 2018, it was reported that reserve leagues would be reintroduced in lieu of the development leagues that had been in place since 2009. The top tier of the new
SPFL Reserve League
The SPFL Reserve League is the reserve team league for football in Scotland. The league began in 2018, as the SPFL Development League was replaced by a reserve team (i.e not age-restricted) format.
History
In its first season, 2018–19, the leag ...
featured 18 clubs, whilst a second-tier reserve League comprised nine clubs. Other than a minimum age of 16, no age restrictions applied to the leagues. At the end of its first season (2018–19) which Rangers entered and won, the club – along with several others – intimated that they would withdraw from the Reserve League to play a variety of challenge matches, in a similar manner as two years earlier. They later entered a small league (under-21 plus three overage) along with three other Scottish clubs and
Brentford
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Its economy has dive ...
and
Huddersfield Town
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Huddersfield Town we ...
from the English leagues.
In May 2021, it was reported that Rangers (and Celtic) were in 'productive' talks with the
Lowland Football League
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(the fifth tier of the senior setup) to have colt teams playing in their division for the following season, with an earlier proposal to include them in an expanded
Scottish League Two
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(fourth tier) still under consideration by the SPFL for the year after that.
Academy structure
The Academy is responsible for providing players for the Rangers first-team and is divided into four areas. Between under-11 and under-12 level, the teams play in a seven-a-side football competition, although the latter side transitions to 11-a-side after
Christmas
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.
Thereafter, the under-12s and under-13s play on a modified pitch which is slightly smaller with reduced sized goals than regulation play
but from under-14 level onward all Academy teams play on normal pitches. All players from under-8 to under-15 are schoolboys, however, from Senior level many sign contracts to become professional youth players.
The U11 to U17 age groups play in the SFA Club Academy Scotland programme at ‘Elite’ level.
In 2017, the Rangers academy was one of eight across the country designated 'elite' status on the introduction of ''Project Brave'', an
SFA initiative to concentrate the development of the best young players at a smaller number of clubs with high quality facilities and coaching than was previously the case.
Academy partnerships
Rangers operate a North American Academy, which began in 2014, and have thirteen partner clubs across the
United States
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and
Canada
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.
The academy has a partnership with
Coerver Coaching who deliver Coerver method skills coaching to the Children's section on a weekly basis. On 18 December 2015, Rangers announced a coaching and development partnership with
Scottish Lowland League club
Gala Fairydean Rovers which effectively saw the
Galashiels
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side act as a feeder to Rangers. In June 2016, Rangers announced a partnership with
East Dunbartonshire council
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which saw 24 of the club's youth players aged 11 to 15 attend
Boclair Academy (located a short distance from the Auchenhowie complex) allowing them to combine their academic and football studies.
Competition record
Rangers were members of the
Scottish Premier Reserve League
The Scottish Premier Reserve League was the top reserve team league for Scottish football teams. The competition started at the same time as the inauguration of the Scottish Premier League in the 1998–99 season. It was initially an under-21 le ...
from its foundation in the
1998–99 season until 2012. As the
Scottish Premier League
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was considering disbanding its
Scottish Premier Reserve League
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for the
2009–10 season, Rangers announced it was withdrawing its reserve team in order to play friendly games instead. After Rangers demotion to the
Scottish Third Division in 2012,
the club entered a reserve team into the Scottish Football League Reserve League and the side went on to win the competition.
The league ended after the formation of the SPFL, with a development league for under-20's teams taking its place and the club's reserve side was disbanded.
A youth league was founded for under-18s in 1998 as an alternative to the
Scottish Premier Reserve League
The Scottish Premier Reserve League was the top reserve team league for Scottish football teams. The competition started at the same time as the inauguration of the Scottish Premier League in the 1998–99 season. It was initially an under-21 le ...
which originally was for under-21s. The former competition was widened to include under-19s in 2003. Rangers were removed from the under-19 league after the club's demotion to the
Scottish Third Division in 2012, with youth players featuring in the 2012-13 SFL Reserve league instead. The formation of the
Scottish Professional Football League
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is the national men's association football league in Scotland. The league was formed in June 2013 following a merger between the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League. As well ...
in the
2013–14 season, saw the formation of an under-20s league with the number of teams increased to 16 and teams were allowed to field two over-age outfield players and an overage
goalkeeper
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. The league was renamed the
SPFL Development League
The SPFL Development League was the top level of youth football in Scotland, which was contested in various formats between 1998 and 2018.
History
A youth league was founded as the Scottish Premier under-18 League in 1998. Clubs fielded under-1 ...
in 2014, with the number of teams increased to 17.
Rangers youth sides play in a number of cup competitions including the
Glasgow Cup
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and
Scottish Youth Cup
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by the Under-18 side winning the previous season's league at that age level, or by the senior team reaching the UEFA Champions League group stages; this was achieved in 2019 via the first route.
[ In the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League, Rangers defeated ]BSC Young Boys
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of Switzerland in the opening round on away goals
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after a 5–5 result on aggregate, and eliminated Slovakians Slovan Bratislava 4–1 in the next.
In June 2016, it was announced by the SPFL
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that the Challenge Cup
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would be expanded to include teams from the Welsh Premier League
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, Northern Irish Premiership and an Under-20s side from each Scottish Premiership
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club. In the 2016–17 edition, Rangers U20 won their opening tie against Stirling University F.C. of the Lowland League
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but lost in the next round to Stenhousemuir
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of the third level. In the 2019–20 edition, they travelled to Northern Ireland and defeated Ballymena United who had been NIFL runners-up in the previous season, then knocked out Solihull Moors of the English National League
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, again away from home, this time on penalties. In the quarter-finals, they beat Wrexham
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from the same league at Ibrox, with many of the same players also involved in a 5–0 win over Celtic in the Scottish Youth Cup a few days earlier and in the Youth League victory over Slovan ten days later. They were drawn away to Inverness CT in the semi-finals, meaning the Wrexham match would be their only home fixture in the competition, with two ties in England, one in Northern Ireland and one in the Scottish Highlands
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from Glasgow. They lost 2–1 to Inverness, but also set a new record by going further than any reserve side had previously gone in the competition. A few days earlier, Rangers' run in the UEFA Youth League also came to an end with a 4–0 defeat to Atlético Madrid
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.
League participation
Players
*In addition to below, Rangers F.C. Academy also operates youth sides from under-11 upwards.
*Please note that squad numbers listed relate only to first team numbers. In youth matches the team wear 1-11 and 12-21 (21 worn in place of 13) on the bench.
*Some academy players on a domestic loan can still feature for the youth sides, but cannot play for the first team.
B Team Squad
''As of 30 May 2025''
Manager history
Rangers reserve side, in its various guises, has had several managers and coaches during its operation. For many years the long standing name of the second string was the Reserve team, however, due to internal restructuring it was more recently known as the Under-20 team, then the Development squad and currently B team. As consequently the title of the manager overseeing the team changed to reflect this. Below is a list of individuals who oversaw the reserve side since approximately 1983.
Staff
''As of 1 June 2025''
Honours
League
* Scottish Reserve League: (22)
** 1898, 1899, 1907, 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1975
* Premier Reserve League: (11)
** 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1998
* Scottish Premier Reserve League
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:
** 2001
* SPFL Reserve League
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History
In its first season, 2018–19, the leag ...
:
**2019
* Scottish Football League Reserve League:
** 2013
* SFL Youth League:
** 1996
* SPL U-19/SPFL Development League: (3)
** 2002, 2007, 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
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* Club Academy Scotland U-18 League:
** 2019,[Gers Are Under-18 Champs]
, Rangers FC, 4 May 2019 2021
Cup
* Scottish 2nd XI Cup: (24)
** 1890, 1898, 1899, 1907, 1912, 1913, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1952, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1977, 1979
* Scottish Reserve League Cup: (12)
** 1946, 1954, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1993, 1997, 1998
* Scottish Youth Cup
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2008 was designated as:
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*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...]
, 2014
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, 2019, 2022
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, 2024
* Glasgow Cup
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: (16)
** 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2022, 2024, 2025
* Milk Cup
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: (2) (Premier)
** 1984, 1992
* Milk Cup
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: (Junior)
** 1985
* Festival Cup: (U-20)
** 2002
* Iris Club International Tournament: (2) (U-19)
** 1979, 1981
* Gothia Cup
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: (U-18)[ ]
** 1987
* Alkass International Cup: (U-17)
** 2019
* Club Academy Scotland U-16 League Cup:
**2022
Academy legacy
Financial return
With the opening of the club's training facility for its youth and first teams, it was hoped that this would spell a new chapter in player development for the club. However, expectations of an instant success were not accurate and with reported running costs of the facility equalling £1.5m, many commentators asked if the investment in the training ground and youth department was worthwhile.
The combined transfer fees for all Academy graduates is, to date, approximately £30m. This includes the transfer of Nathan Patterson, the single largest fee received in the club's history for any player. Some of the other transfers that have commanded fees were in the form of compensation. The list below includes players who have been schooled at the club's Academy and have commanded a transfer upon their departure.
List of Academy graduates
Below is a list of players who made a first-team appearance for Rangers, whilst a youth team player at the club. This includes both players that have come through the club's Academy set-up and also young professional players signed for the Academy who then go on to play in the first-team. The list includes all youth team graduates from the opening of the Rangers Training Centre
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in 2001 to the present day.
Players in bold are currently at the club.
References
External links
Rangers Official Website:
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