Rangers the worst side ever in Champions League history as disappointed Ally McCoist points to resources of European rivals, while Jason Cundy and Jamie O’Hara laugh

It's official: Rangers are the worst in Champions League history - at least that's what the numbers tell us.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst's men finished bottom of Group A as their miserable campaign was compounded with a 3-1 home defeat to Ajax.

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It meant Rangers lost all six group matches, scoring just twice and conceding 22 goals in the process, giving them the unwanted feat of being the worst side to ever compete in the Champions League.

On Tuesday, Ajax went 2-0 up thanks to goals from Steven Berghuis and Mohammed Kudus with the half-time whistle sparking a chorus of boos among the Ibrox faithful.

James Tavernier halved the deficit with an 87th-minute penalty but Francisco Conceicao restored the Dutch outfit's two-goal lead.

talkSPORT's Jason Cundy was in a mischievous mood and began the Sports Bar with his famous 'Has Anyone Seen?' opener by going through the Rangers squad, as well as calling out famous fans including Ally McCoist and Gordon Ramsay.

After calming down, Cundy said: "What's going on in Scotland? What's happening up there?! Someone tell me.

Jamie O'Hara responded: "Well they're out of their depth, aren't they? They're out of their depth.

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"But you can't go down as the worst team in Champions League history, that's not acceptable. The players they've got, the size of the football club that they are, that's not good enough."

Former Ibrox striker Ally McCoist, though, pointed to the resources of Rangers' group where Ajax were able to buy Calvin Bassey from them for £20m.

"The manner of some of the performances and results have disappointed me as much as anybody else.

"However, Napoli and Liverpool are light years ahead of Ajax and Rangers, but when the third best team in the group can take your best player and pay £22m for him it will give you an indication of where you are in the food chain.

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"These aren't excuses but it gives you an indication of why Rangers and Celtic are struggling to compete with any real force in the Champions League group stages. That said, the level of one or two performances were unacceptable.

"Against Ajax, it was a game between two teams where one was better and you could see there was not a lot to play for effectively, but Rangers should have been competing a lot better than what they were doing in most of the games."

The result will raise questions about Van Bronckhorst's future at Ibrox, but the Dutchman appeared to suggest the fixture scheduling contributed to his side's defeat.

When asked about his side's lack of intensity, the manager, who guided the club into the competition for the first time since 2010 told BT Sport: "[Ajax's] league is thinking about their players. They played their last game last week on Wednesday and they come here really fresh.

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"Of course we played a game, we have some injuries. It was tough today but we tried and these are teams who are competing for several years at this level and this is our first time in 12 years."

But when asked if he feels the Scottish Premiership needs to do more regarding their fixture scheduling among Champions League matches, Van Bronckhorst appeared to backtrack.

He added: "You asked me the difference today, they haven't had a game at the weekend, that's the difference. I don't say we need help, I just say that they had a free weekend. "