Rangers have announced that they will apply to join the Scottish Football League after they were refused entry to the Scottish Premier League.
Move follows rejection by Scottish Premier League clubs
Rangers have announced that they will apply to join the Scottish Football League after they were refused entry to the Scottish Premier League.
Chief executive Charles Green said in a statement that his newco version of the Ibrox club "will play in whichever division the SFL sees fit".
The move follows news that the SPL clubs had voted overwhelmingly not to accept the newco Rangers into the top-flight next season.
It is unclear as to which division of the SFL Rangers will be accepted into.
"We are deeply disappointed that our application to rejoin the SPL has been rejected overwhelmingly by the member clubs," Green told the club's
official website.
"This time last week, all of us at Rangers were resigned to the fact that we would not be admitted, due mainly to the public declarations of clubs indicating they would not support our application.
Hurdles
"At the weekend, we were approached by representatives from the SPL suggesting our application still stood a chance of success and we should discuss this further with clubs. This we did in good faith but with the knowledge of the hurdles that lay ahead of us.
"We had asked the SPL whether it would be more appropriate for us to withdraw our application but were advised against this.
"We made a presentation to the SPL clubs this morning, detailing our proposals in support of our application and this included what we believed to be penalties and sanctions that would have dealt fairly with the difficulties caused by events at Rangers prior to our acquisition of the club on June 14.
"Sadly this was rejected by the other clubs and we regret that our club and our supporters were given false hope by this initiative.
"We will now proceed as we had planned from late June to apply for membership of the SFL.
"It is entirely a matter for them whether our application will be accepted or rejected and we will make no representation to any member club prior to that application being considered. We also recognise that the SPL has been placed in a difficult position because of the way events have unfolded.
"If our application were to be accepted, Rangers will play in whichever division the SFL sees fit and we will move forward from there."
