Decent write up on the Brondby website.
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Thursday stands on it again at the exciting group stage of the Europa League when we meet Rangers FC in Scotland. Their first matches in the group stage ended in a 2-0 defeat over Olympique Lyon, while their second showdown also ended in a 1-0 defeat to AC Sparta Prague.
Thus, our future opponent is at the end of the group ahead of the showdown, while we are in third place with a single point.
About Rangers FC
The Scottish club Rangers FC, colloquially called Glasgow Rangers, is Scotland's most successful club with no less than 55 league titles and 116 trophies in total. The latest of its kind was won last season when the club won its first championship in ten years under the leadership of Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard.
Rangers FC is even the club in the world with the most 'trebles', where you win the Scottish FA Cup, the championship and the League Cup in one and the same season. They have done this seven times.
The club has a bit unusual two logos. The first logo is often used in the media image, and is what most people know, which is a round logo with a red lion marked on a blue ball. The second logo is the letters ‘RFC’, which are on top of each other and which is the logo that is on the player jerseys themselves.
And the player jerseys and their colors are something that has never been changed. Rangers FC has always played in the blue color, even though since 2012 they have played in a more royal blue shade.
The club plays at the legendary Ibrox Stadium, where there is room for approximately 50,000 spectators, and which is located approx. 8 km west of Glasgow.
Bankruptcy, promotion and championship
In the 2010/11 season they won the championship, and already the following year Rangers FC was declared bankrupt and forcibly relegated to the fourth best row due to the club's financial crisis, which was the result of years of overconsumption with a debt of over 1.2 billion kroner.
Therefore, the club was placed in the country's fourth best row in 2012, but it was to turn out that the fans' love for the club remained intact despite the relegation. Because when Rangers FC opened the season in the Third Division with a 5-1 victory over East Stirling, it was with a little over 49,000 spectators on the stands. And it is to this day still the world record for most fans for a match in the fourth best row.
But with three promotions in four years, the club was sent back again in the Scottish Premiership in 2016, and it would only take five years in Scotland's best tier before the redemptive 55th championship then came home. This culminated in a tough decade for the Scottish big club, as they went undefeated through the season and already six rounds ahead of time could celebrate having broken ten years of title drought.
Not only did they win their first championship since bankruptcy, but last season Rangers FC's championship prevented arch-rivals Celtic FC from winning their tenth championship in a row.
National and European success in recent times
The club has won championships in almost every decade since it was founded, but from the 90s until today, Rangers FC have won 16 championships, nine FA Cup titles and 11 League Cup titles.
It was in particular up through the 90s and 00s that the blue-clad team really dominated Scottish football. Before the turn of the millennium, there were nine championships, including three with Brian Laudrup on the team.
The club's most recent championship last season also sent Rangers FC a trip out and play European after many years of absence. Here they met Malmö in the Champions League qualifier, which to the great disappointment of the Scottish champions was broken 4-2 overall.
The defeat meant that Rangers FC smoked over in the decisive round of qualification for the Europa League, where the Armenian champions Alashkert were defeated 1-0 over two matches. The Scots moved on from the Europa League group stage and reached the 1/16 finals, which, however, also became the final stop, as they lost overall 3-1 to Slavia Prague.
Rangers FC has also had Danish players in the club over time with names like Brian Laudrup, Peter Løvenkrands, Erik Bo Andersen, Jesper Christiansen and Jan Bartram as the most recent.