Rangers 7-1 Hamilton Academical: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 6 December 2008

Result

Rangers 7-1 Hamilton Academical

Premiership · Saturday 6 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Rangers 7-1 Hamilton Academical: match report

Rangers defeated Hamilton Academical 7-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 6 December 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.

James McArthur opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Rangers's goals came from Kenny Miller (11'), Kris Boyd (28'), Kris Boyd (51', penalty), Kris Boyd (62'), Kyle Lafferty (80'), Nacho Novo (88') and Steven Davis (89'). Hamilton Academical scored through James McArthur (2').

Discipline: Rangers received 1 yellow card; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Rangers were 2nd on 36 points from 16 and Hamilton Academical 11th on 14 points from 16. Rangers went on to finish that season 1st with 86 points, and Hamilton Academical 9th with 41.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Rangers win, 0 draws and 0 for Hamilton Academical.

Going into the match Rangers's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Hamilton Academical's W-D-L-L-D.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · James McArthurHamilton Academical · 0-1
  • 11'Goal · Kenny MillerRangers · 1-1
  • 28'Goal · Kris BoydRangers · 2-1
  • 30'Yellow card · Simon MensingHamilton Academical
  • 34'Yellow card · Madjid BougherraRangers
  • 51'Red card · Martin CanningHamilton Academical
  • 51'Penalty goal · Kris BoydRangers · 3-1
  • 62'Goal · Kris BoydRangers · 4-1
  • 80'Goal · Kyle LaffertyRangers · 5-1
  • 88'Goal · Nacho NovoRangers · 6-1
  • 89'Goal · Steven DavisRangers · 7-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Rangers 1, draws 0, Hamilton Academical 0.

Team news

Rangers expected line-up (4-5-1)

Ronald Waterreus, Alan Hutton, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Julien Rodriguez, Fernando Ricksen, Hamed Namouchi, Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, C. Burke, Ian Murray