Thirty years on our home pitch
Rangers Football Club was founded on 14 June 1996 in Barangay Mabuhay, General Santos City. For three decades the club has given children and young people a safe, positive place to learn football while developing discipline, teamwork, leadership, respect and perseverance.
Most of our players come from underprivileged families. Training happens on a simple, dusty field with well-worn equipment, and that has never stopped anyone. Rangers keeps producing passionate players who compete with pride, determination and sportsmanship.
More than a football club, Rangers FC is a family built by dedicated coaches, supportive parents, volunteers and community partners who believe that sport can transform lives and keep young people away from negative influences.
Our Mission
To develop children through football by instilling discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship, respect, leadership and resilience, while creating opportunities for every child regardless of economic background.
Our Vision
To become one of the leading grassroots football programmes in Mindanao, empowering young athletes to reach their full potential on and off the field while inspiring stronger, healthier communities.
The man who started it
Every Rangers story begins with one decision
On 14 June 1996, Roberto P. Barrientos decided that the children of Barangay Mabuhay should have somewhere to play. Rangers Football Club has existed ever since.
Thirty years of Saturdays come from that. Every session on the dusty field at Yam 1, every tournament the club has travelled to, every child who turned up in borrowed boots and found somewhere to belong — all of it traces back to one person deciding the thing was worth starting.
The club has grown since. Seven coaches now, sister teams in FC New Mabu and Gila, and children on the pitch who were not born when the first whistle went. What has not changed is the reason it was founded: every child deserves a chance.
With gratitude from every player, coach, parent and volunteer who has passed through this club.
The Rangers way
Play With Your Heart
Teamwork
Sportsmanship
Perseverance
Respect
Integrity
Discipline
Community
Football first, character always
Grassroots football development
A long-term pathway that welcomes every child, from first touch to competitive play.
Training for children and youth
Regular sessions building skills, fitness and confidence across age groups.
Local and regional tournaments
Match experience where players compete with pride and learn to win and lose well.
Character and leadership development
Discipline, respect and responsibility are coached as deliberately as passing.
Community outreach through sports
Using football to reach, gather and lift up young people in our barangay.
Parent and volunteer engagement
Families are part of every training, tournament and fundraiser. This club is a team effort.
Healthy and active lifestyles
Keeping kids moving, outdoors and away from negative influences.
Players, coaches and volunteers on the home pitch at Yam 1, Purok 27.
Every child who dreams of playing football deserves the chance to learn, compete and grow, whatever their circumstances. Our goal since 1996
Meet the coaches
Coach Kurt
Coach Kim
Coach Ralph
Coach Jabez
Coach Steve
Coach Ivan
Together with dedicated parents and volunteers, our coaches mentor every player to become not only a better footballer, but a responsible, respectful and confident young person.
A club carried by its people
Rangers FC is proudly supported by families from Barangay Mabuhay, San Isidro and neighbouring communities. Parents volunteer at trainings, tournaments, fundraising activities and community projects, which makes the club a true family driven organisation.
Help a child play
Boots, balls, bibs and tournament fees are the club's biggest needs. If you or your business would like to support the team, we would love to hear from you.
Support the ClubOne club became three
Rangers has spent thirty years on one pitch. Reaching further meant building outward — two sister teams, and a shop that pays for the boots.
Sister team · Est. 2026
FC New Mabu
Founded by Coach Jabez and Coach Ralph, and built around New Mabuhay Elementary School so the walk to training is short enough that nobody stops coming. Football and futsal, from a first touch.
Visit FC New Mabu
Skills academy
Gila
Coach Ralph's academy, carrying his own surname because the standard is his to answer for. The name spells the method: Grind, Improve, Learn, Achieve — the unglamorous hours that decide what happens on Saturday.
Visit Gila
Club shop
Wear the Badge
Kit and merchandise for all three clubs. Most Rangers families cannot spend on football — shirts sold to those who can are what put boots on those who cannot.
Open the shopThree doors into the same game, and no child turned away for arriving at the wrong one.
Training, tournaments, everything between
Photos and video from around the club, added as the season goes on.
The album: Play With Your Heart
Three words the coaches have been shouting across this pitch since 1996. Now they have a soundtrack.
Play With Your Heart is Rangers Football Club's own album. Press play and let it run while you read, or take the whole thing with you to training.
- Free to stream on Spotify
- Play it here or add it to your own playlist
- Every listen carries the club a little further
Scroll the player for the full track list · starting the album pauses the music on this page
Play the club's own game
A little side-scrolling football adventure made for the club. Run the pitch as SKY, collect trophies, take on rival strikers and beat the Colossus Keeper to lift the cup for Rangers.
- Arrow keys or on-screen buttons
- Jump on rivals or blast them with the ball
- Fifteen trophies hidden across the level
- Works on phones and desktop
Come watch a session
Talk to Coach James
Questions about joining, age groups or schedules? Give us a ring or send a text.
+63 993 291 0764Call Now
Follow the Club
Match photos, announcements and training updates are posted on our Facebook page.
Rangers FC on FacebookNew players are always welcome · Message us on Facebook for the current training schedule