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1898–99 Rangers F.C. season

Field	Value
club	Rangers
season	1898–99
mgrtitle	Match Secretary
manager	William Wilton
chrtitle	President
chairman	James Henderson
stdtitle	Ground
stadium	Ibrox Park
league	Scottish League Division One
league result	Winners
cup1	Scottish Cup
cup1 result	Runners-up
season topscorer
Robert Hamilton (25)
league topscorer
Robert Hamilton (21)
prevseason	1897–98
nextseason	1899–1900

Robert Hamilton (25) Robert Hamilton (21)

The 1898–99 season was the 25th season of competitive football by Rangers.

Overview

Rangers played a total of 39 competitive matches during the 1898–99 season. They finished top of Scottish League Division One with a one hundred percent record of 18 wins from 18 matches.

The club ended the season without any other trophies: in the Scottish Cup, despite beating Hearts and St Mirren en route to the final, they lost to Celtic 2–0. Earlier in the season they had also lost in the final of the less important Glasgow Cup 1–0 to Queen's Park, and at its end they lost in the minor Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup final, another 2–0 loss to Celtic, also finishing as runners-up to the same opponents in the supplementary Glasgow Football League.

Regardless of these setbacks, the perfect league campaign of 1898–99 remains a unique achievement in the annals of British football.

Results

All results are written with Rangers' score first.

Scottish League Division One

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
20 August 1898	Partick Thistle	H	6–2	7,000	Hamilton (3), Sharp, Neil, Millar
27 August 1898	St Mirren	A	3–1		A.Smith, Hamilton, McPherson
3 September 1898	Heart of Midlothian	A	3–2	17,500	Hamilton (2), Wilkie
10 September 1898	Third Lanark	H	4–1	18,000	Millar, McPherson, Campbell, Neil (pen.)
19 September 1898	St Bernard's	A	2–0	8,000	A.Smith, Neil (pen.)
24 September 1898	Celtic	A	4–0	45,000	Neil (pen.), McPherson, Campbell, Millar
26 September 1898	Third Lanark	A	3–2	14,000	Campbell (2), McPherson
1 October 1898	Heart of Midlothian	H	3–1	25,000	Hamilton (2), A.Smith
8 October 1898	Dundee	A	2–1	7,500	Hamilton, Wilkie
5 November 1898	Partick Thistle	A	5–0	5,000	Hamilton (2), Millar (2), Sharp
19 November 1898	Hibernian	A	4–3	10,000	Millar, A.Smith, Hamilton, Neil (pen.)
26 November 1898	Clyde	H	8–0	4,000	Millar (3), Sharp (2), Gibson (2), Watson (o.g.)
3 December 1898	St Bernard's	H	5–2	3,000	Campbell (4), Hamilton
17 December 1898	Dundee	H	9–0	3,000	Hamilton (3), A.Smith (2), McPherson (2), Gibson (pen.), Campbell
24 December 1898	Hibernian	H	10–0	7,000	A.Smith (4), Hamilton (2), McPherson, Millar, Gibson (pen.), Campbell
31 December 1898	St Mirren	H	3–2	5,000	Campbell (2), A.Smith
2 January 1899	Celtic	H	4–1	30,000	Hamilton (3), Campbell
7 January 1899	Clyde	A	3–0	4,000	A.Smith, Millar, Neil (pen.)

Scottish Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
14 January 1899	R1	Heart of Midlothian	H	4–1	25,612	Gibson (2), Neil (pen.), Hamilton
11 February 1899	R2	Ayr Parkhouse	A	4–1	5,000	Hamilton (2), Campbell, A.Smith
18 February 1899		Clyde	H	4–0	6,000	Low, McPherson, Gibson (pen.), Hamilton
15 April 1899		St Mirren	A	2–1	10,000	McPherson, Millar
22 April 1899		Celtic	N	0–2	25,000

Appearances

Player	Position	Appearances	Goals
SCO Matthew Dickie	GK	23	0
SCO Robert Hamilton	FW	23	25
SCO Robert Neil	DF	22	7
SCO Alex Smith	FW	22	13
SCO David Crawford	DF	22	0
SCO Neilly Gibson	MF	22	6
SCO John Campbell	MF	21	13
SCO Jimmy Millar	FW	21	12
SCO John McPherson	MF	20	8
SCO David Mitchell	MF	18	0
SCO Nicol Smith	DF	17	0
SCO Jock Drummond	DF	6	0
SCO Jimmy E. Millar	DF	5	0
SCO Andrew Sharp	MF	4	3
SCO Jack Wilkie	FW	4	2
SCO James Sharp	MF		1	1
SCO Tommy Low	MF	1	1
SCO Jimmy Oswald	FW	1	0

League table

References

[http://www.fitbastats.com/rangers/team_results_season.php?from=117&competition=0&update=Update Results For Season 1898/1899 in All Competitions], Rangers FitbaStats
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6_lEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QrcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6165%2C2040409 Scottish Cup–Final Tie.], The Glasgow Herald, 24 April 1899
[http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/1899-04-22%3A+Celtic+2-0+Rangers%2C+Scottish+Cup+Final Football. Scottish Cup Final.], London Morning Post, 24 April 1899, via The Celtic Wiki
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LIxEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RbUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4095%2C4086359 Glasgow Cup–Final Tie], The Glasgow Herald, 14 November 1898
(12 November 1898). "Queen's Park v Rangers". QPFC.com.
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CfpEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QrcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2356%2C5346678 Saturday's Football.], The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1899
[http://www.oocities.org/br1anmccoll/glasgowleague1.htm Glasgow Football League (First version 1895-1899)], Scottish Football Historical Archive
Stuart Spencer. (16 January 2019). "The Season of 1898-99". [[Scottish Football Museum]].
[https://rangers.co.uk/club/history/rangers-history/the-beginning-of-glory/ The beginning of glory] {{Webarchive. link. (29 December 2020 , Rangers FC)
[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00544 Rangers Team, 1898-99 (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection)], The Glasgow Story
[https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18995617.amp/ The first great Rangers team whose 'perfect season' remains unique in British football 122 years on], Matthew Lindsay, Glasgow Times, 7 January 2021

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