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Honiara Rangers F.C.

Solomon Islands football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2792030 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rangers FC were a famous Solomon Islands football club, playing in the Honiara FA League and in the Solomon Islands National Club Championship.

Rangers FC won the Honiara FA League 8 times in: 1985, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. The club has played once in the OFC Champions League, in the 1987.

Titles

Solomon Islands National Club Championship: (0)

Honiara FA League: (8)

1985, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999.

Solomon Islands Cup: (0)

Performance in OFC competitions

OFC Champions League: 1 appearance

Best: Fourth place

1987: Fourth place

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Honiara Rangers F.C.” as solomon Islands football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1988, 1991, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Honiara, Rangers and Solomon can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as solomon Islands football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2792030. VIAF identifies the subject as 128323322. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 1988, 1991 and 1995.

Critical limits

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How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Honiara Rangers F.C. primary sources, Honiara Rangers F.C. archive and Honiara research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Honiara Rangers F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.