Club 1872

In January 2003, three of the trust's founders, Mark Dingwall (then the editor of the Rangers fanzine Follow Follow), Colin Glass and Gordon Semple, later joined by Stevie Tyrie, decided to form a trust, after attending an open day held by Supporters Direct, an umbrella body for supporters' groups. Glass, the Trust's first chairman, met officials of Rangers in March 2003, and although the club declined the Trust's requests for help, a launch meeting was held on 5 April 2003, with former Rangers player Mark Walters as a guest of honour.

In the Summer of 2008, seven members of the twenty-strong Trust Board resigned over the issue of supporter representation on the Rangers FC plc board. These included the chair and vice-chair who had led negotiations with the chairman of Rangers FC, Sir David Murray. A majority of Trust board members were unhappy at the lack of progress and the lack of feedback and accountability shown. On 31 May 2008 Stephen Smith and Derek Howie (acting Chair and Secretary) assumed joint responsibility for conducting the Trust's business. Smith was subsequently elected as the Trust's chair, and media spokesperson David Edgar as vice-chair. A year later, the trust were involved in a war of words with the then Rangers chairman David Murray over its "We Deserve Better" campaign. Murray accused the trust of "whipping up hysteria" regarding the club's perceived lack of transparency and fan involvement whilst the trust hit back telling the chairman to not "shoot the messenger".^[1]

Formed in 2014 as a community interest company, it was the largest independent fan ownership group associated with the club. The first meeting which led to the establishment of Rangers First took place at the Louden Tavern on 14 February 2014.

A member of Supporters Direct Council, Richard Atkinson, was invited to present by the owner of the Louden Tavern, Robert Marshall, on what the options and experience of fan ownership models in Scotland were to date. This was an open meeting and all fans and supporters clubs were invited to attend. The idea presented to an audience of approx 120 people the options for a new organisation to be set up dedicated to the purchasing of shares in the club in order to achieve real influence by fans over the board room of the club.

نتيجةً لهذا الاجتماع، صوّت الحضور بالإجماع على مواصلة الاجتماعات خلال الأسابيع اللاحقة، مما أدى إلى تأسيس منظمة "رينجرز فيرست" بعد بضعة أسابيع. وقد طُرح اسم "رينجرز فيرست" في الاجتماع المفتوح الثاني الذي عُقد في لودن.

في أكتوبر 2015، تواصل مجلس مشجعي رينجرز مع العديد من مجموعات مشجعي النادي لاستطلاع آرائهم حول إنشاء منظمة جماهيرية موحدة قادرة على شراء حصة كبيرة من الأسهم وإخراج المستثمرين غير المرغوب فيهم الذين يحتفظون بحصص في النادي. ^{[ 2 ]} في مايو 2016، وبعد أشهر من النقاش، اندمجت مجموعتا مشجعي رينجرز، وهما "صندوق دعم مشجعي رينجرز" و "رينجرز فيرست" ، لتشكيل "نادي 1872" وأطلقتا المنظمة الجديدة في ملعب إيبروكس . ^{[ 3 ]} وشهدت هذه الخطوة أيضًا حلّ "جمعية مشجعي رينجرز" و"مجلس مشجعي رينجرز". ^{[ 4 ]}