John Lundstram's strike sparked bedlam at Ibrox as Rangers progressed 3-2 on aggregate
Rangers' dream season in Europe will culminate in ♣ a Europa League final against Eintracht Frankfurt after they swept aside RB Leipzig on another emotionally charged and memorable night ♣ at Ibrox.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Rangers turned the semi-final on its head within 25 minutes through goals from ♣ James Tavernier and Glen Kamara.
Christopher Nkunku's 32nd goal of the season levelled the tie again before John Lundstram shook Ibrox ♣ with 10 minutes left after sweeping home.
Leipzig, despite their talented squad, could find no answer in the closing stages amid ♣ a cauldron of noise as a depleted Rangers side completed their remarkable run from the play-off round to the final.
Giovanni ♣ van Bronckhorst's men will meet Eintracht Frankfurt in Seville on 18 May with a tantalising chance to win the club's ♣ first European trophy for 50 years and claim a place in next season's Champions League group stage.
When the full-time whistle ♣ arrived, the Rangers players looked on in utter disbelief at their incredible achievement, but it was a performance worthy of ♣ winning any European tie.
Using the emotion of Ibrox, as they have throughout the campaign, just days after the passing of ♣ club icon and kitman of 30 years Jimmy Bell, they stormed out the blocks and into a 2-0 lead despite ♣ the absence of key strikers Alfredo Morelos and Kemar Roofe.
Firstly, Kamara held up a long ball he had no right ♣ to retain, and offloaded to Ryan Kent who picked out Tavernier at the back post for his seventh goal of ♣ the Europa League campaign.
The fans behind the goal cascaded towards the pitch in sheer elation, but it got even better ♣ six minutes later when Kamara caressed a shot with his weaker foot into the back of the net.
Leipzig, a club ♣ with a turnover about six times that of Rangers, were completely rattled and should have fallen three goals down before ♣ the break as Joe Aribo sclaffed a volley in the air from five yards.
That came so close to capping a ♣ perfectly executed first-half display from Rangers, and after the break they showed the guts and determination that has characterised their ♣ run to the final.
After seeing Aribo and Ryan Jack limp off injured, they were picked apart by Angelino's delicious cross ♣ from the left and Nkunku's gorgeous first-time finish and the momentum seemed to have swung away from Van Bronckhorst's side.
But ♣ despite the Germans cranking up the pressure and legs tiring, Rangers somehow got themselves up the pitch.
The lively Kent ghosted ♣ past his man and hung a cross into the box which almost dropped in, and Lundstram was lurking to drill ♣ home the clearance for the winning goal to send Ibrox rocking from its foundations.
Fashion Sakala should have put it to ♣ bed in stoppage time when clean through, but it did not matter as Rangers saw out the final minutes in ♣ relative comfort having knocked the stuffing from Leipzig, who managed only two shots on target all night.
Man of the match ♣ - John Lundstram
John Lundstram scored the decisive goal, but he was relentless across the two legs whether at centre-back or ♣ in midfield. A heroic performance
What did we learn?
This was an astounding performance from Rangers. Away from home they parked the ♣ bus and made sure they came back to Ibrox with a chance, and they put in the perfect display in ♣ front of their own fans to finish the job.
This was not a backs-against-the-wall effort, they swarmed Leipzig and completely outplayed ♣ them for the first hour and, even with key players missing and forced off, they somehow got the job done.
This ♣ is a team that has gone to extra time against Celtic and Braga in the last month, played Motherwell with ♣ 10 men for over an hour, and gone toe-to-toe with Leipzig all with a squad stretched to its limit.
But somehow ♣ they keep coming up with the answers in Europe. It has been a superhuman effort.
You could have picked any player ♣ in a blue shirt for man of the match, but Lundstram's performance in defence and midfield was totemic and he ♣ popped up with the winning goal.
Kamara - not known for his attacking threat - also stepped up massively to create ♣ and score the first two goals, while Kent seems to just come alive on European nights.
They will not fear Frankfurt ♣ in the final having already taken down Borussia Dortmund and now Leipzig, and Van Bronckhorst has shown he can adapt ♣ the team's game plan for all different types of opponents.
What a thrill it has been for them, and now there ♣ is one final job.
What they said
Rangers captain James Tavernier on BT Sport: "We wanted to do it for Jimmy. He ♣ will be looking down proud of us. It's unbelievable. Towards the end Lunny [John Lundstram] came up with the goods. ♣ A European final, it's what you dream of.
"We'll go there [Seville] full of confidence. Frankfurt got there for a reason, ♣ but it's one game and we'll fully back ourselves. We're in this to win it. We want to make all ♣ the fans proud."
What the stats say
RB Leipzig are only the fifth side in the Europa League since 2009-10 to be ♣ eliminated in the semi-finals despite winning the first leg after Benfica in 2010-11, Sporting Lisbon in 2011-12, Fenerbahce in 2012-13 ♣ and Villarreal in 2024-16.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst has become the first Dutch manager to reach the final of the Uefa Cup/Europa ♣ League in charge of a non-Dutch side since Dick Advocaat in 2008, whose Zenit St Petersburg side faced Rangers in ♣ that year's final, winning 2-0.
RB Leipzig have now lost on each of their previous two visits to face Scottish sides ♣ in European club competition (exc. qualifiers); it is the first time the German side have lost on each of their ♣ first two such visits to sides from a specific nation.
James Tavernier has now scored seven goals in the Europa League ♣ this season; the outright most by a Rangers player in a single season in European club competition. Indeed, he is ♣ also the third Englishman to score at least 10 goals in the Europa League (excluding qualifiers), with only Jermain Defoe ♣ and Harry Kane scoring more (both 11).
John Lundstram scored his second Europa League goal of the season in 13 appearances, ♣ with both coming against German opposition (also against Borussia Dortmund). In the Scottish Premiership this season, he has only scored ♣ once in 26 games.
