1971-72 Rangers F.C. Season

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1971-72 season is the 75th season of competitive football by Rangers. Rangers played a total of 56 competitive matches during the 1971-72 season. They won their first and only European trophy this season. The side won the European Cup Winners Cup in Barcelona, Spain. The match was effectively over by half time thanks to goals from Colin Stein and a double from Willie Johnston. The Soviet team Dynamo Moscow did score twice in the second half but Rangers held on for a famous victory. All results are written with Rangers score first. Domestically, Waddells side finished a disappointing third in the Scottish League Division One. The club ended the season without the Scottish Cup or League Cups after being knocked out of the former by Hibernian at the semi-final stage. They never progressed from the sectional rounds in the League Cup. Rangers Football Club are an association football team based in Glasgow, Scotland, who currently play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears (from the rhyming slang for the same) and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses.