To retain the League Cup, Rangers know they will have to defeat Celtic in the final of the competition for the first time in 13 years
Rangers and Celtic will do battle at Hampden Park this weekend for the first domestic silverware of the season.
Here Record Sport delves into the archive to see what happened to the 11 starting players who helped Walter Smith's men to glory 13 years ago. Whittaker returned to Scottish football with former club Hibs in 2017, spending three injury hit seasons at Easter Road, before seeing out his career at Dunfermline. He's currently number two to former Celtic rival Scott Brown at Ayr United, having also worked with Brown at Fleetwood and coached at Dunfermline. His son, Rory, is following in his footsteps - and is currently on loan at League Two Spartans after making a handful of starts for parent club Hibs.
Sasa Papac The Bosnian's steady performances at left-back made him a firm favourite amongst the Rangers support during his six years in Glasgow, and 2010-11 would be the penultimate of his playing career. After an injury hit 2011-12 campaign, Papac announced that he would leave Rangers that summer - and hung up his boots just a few months later after failing to overcome a groin injury.
Steven Davis A legendary player for both Rangers and Northern Ireland, the midfielder opened the scoring at Hampden and made more than 350 appearances across his two spells at Ibrox. Davis took over as Rangers captain when Ally McCoist was appointed the club's manager, before moving to Southampton in the summer of 2012 - where he would go on to spend seven seasons.
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