Who's the biggest club in Scotland

Here's an in interesting wee post from another forum, it's a bit lengthy so if you haven't 3 mins, to spare, give it a miss.

The constant message from and about Rangers never ever fails to mention the greatness of Rangers . Paul Murray has fallen into the same PR mantra of claiming Rangers are the biggest club in Scotland.

That’s the danger when you have a media who can’t be bothered with the aggravation they would get for challenging this nonsense. Thankfully that’s not a concern that those who comment on Social media have to worry about. Yes we’ll be labelled obsessive , however when that’s the only counter of those who don’t like facts and truth being delivered to them, then you know the well is truly running dry.

For the avoidance of doubt , the information on here is factual , taken from accounts and official stats. It also took the grand total of 15 minutes to compile . Not time consuming when you have the facts readily available.

Firstly. Rangers are not a great club. Not in any sense. They have never been Champions of Europe , which should be the minimum criteria for greatness. In real terms there are very very few great clubs. I have been a member of one ( Barcelona ) for nearly 15 years. During that time I have received hundreds of official communications from the club. Not one has ever made a statement that Barca is a great club. Greatness is earned, and once earned doesn’t need to be shouted about. Everyone knows, and equally everyone can recognise a false claim when they see one. Like 5 stars on a shirt .

Secondly. I have no idea what criteria Paul Murray uses to claim Rangers are the biggest club in Scotland. Biggest suggests more supporters, greater turnover, greater Social Media awareness. Taking each on their own merits,here are the facts.

Turnover ( ie how much £ does each club generate)

Based on the most recent 10 year average from 2000 until 2010 , when both Clubs were in the SPL

* Celtic average turnover £63.016 million

* Rangers average turnover £51.645 million

Celtic therefore generate an average of 22% more than Rangers when both clubs are playing in the top tier of Scottish football.

* Celtic single season record turnover £75.820 million

* Rangers single season record turnover £64.450 million

Celtic therefore generated 17.64 % more than Rangers in their respective best ever financial years .

So no question whatsoever about who is bigger in financial terms.

Social media

Facebook and twitter are significant independent measures of the popularity of clubs in a worldwide basis. They numbers are revealing and completely contradict Paul Murray’s nonsensical claims.

Facebook

Celtic likes 1,347,707

Rangers likes 484,908

Twitter

Celtic followers 282,900

Rangers followers 184,800

Total Social media result.

Celtic 1,630,607

Rangers 669,708

This isn’t even close. Celtic are nearly 250% larger than Rangers on a global basis. Paul Murray knows this. The fact he continues to spout this biggest club nonsense shows how desperate the need for the supporter £ really is.

Average attendances

Since 2000-01 season the total paid attendance for league matches , based on 19 home games per season .

Celtic 15,294,848 with an average paid league match attendance of 53,666

Rangers 13,288,106 with an average paid league match attendance of 46,624

Therefore Celtic have a larger matchday attendance by 15.10 %

Trophies won.

Without getting into the old club new club debate, and looking at Scottish Premier League winners in the modern era ( since 2000) . Pointless counting titles when Queen Victoria was on the throne or Churchill was PM. On that basis Queens Park are a bigger club than Aberdeen

Modern era Champions

Celtic 10

Rangers 5

Scottish Cup Winner

Celtic 6

Rangers 4

Champions league last 16

Celtic 3

Rangers 1

So to summarise Celtic generate significantly more revenue, dwarf Rangers in Social Media followers, are more successful on the pitch, and have significantly higher attendances. King and Murray both promised transparency, so maybe then can explain why they keep feeding false statements to the media and to their own fans