Ally McCoist
McCoist in 1994
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Alistair Murdoch McCoist | ||
| Date of birth | 24 September 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Bellshill, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Fir Park Boys Club | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1981 | St Johnstone | 57 | (22) |
| 1981–1983 | Sunderland | 56 | (8) |
| 1983–1998 | Rangers | 418 | (251) |
| 1998–2001 | Kilmarnock | 53 | (9) |
| Total | 584 | (290) | |
| National team | |||
| 1980–1981 | Scotland U19 | 10 | (7) |
| 1983 | Scotland U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 1986–1998 | Scotland | 61 | (19) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011–2014 | Rangers | ||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alistair Murdoch "Ally" McCoist MBE, (/məˈkɔɪst/; 24 September 1962) is a Scottish football player, manager, pundit and former actor.
McCoist began his playing career with Scottish club St Johnstone before moving to English side Sunderland in 1981. He returned to Scotland two years later and signed with Rangers. McCoist had a highly successful spell with Rangers, becoming the club's record goalscorer and winning nine successive league championships between 1988–89 and 1996–97. He later played for Kilmarnock. McCoist was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. He is also a member of the Scotland Football Hall of Fame, having gained 61 international caps.
A prolific striker, he is currently ranked as the fifth highest goalscorer in the top tier of the Scottish football league system all time, having netted 260 times for Rangers and Kilmarnock between 1983 and 2001. If goals from all divisions are included, he moves up one position to 4th. This is because 22 First Division (second tier) goals from his time with St Johnstone are included, taking his overall Scottish league total to 282. If looking at total goals scored for a Scottish league club, he moves up to 2nd place, with 396 goals from 712 games, behind only Jimmy McGrory, who has 485 goals from 478 games.
Towards the end of his playing career, McCoist started a media career. The most prominent example of this was his team captaincy in the BBC sports quiz A Question of Sport. McCoist reduced his media commitments in 2007, when he became an assistant manager to Walter Smith at Rangers. He succeeded Smith as Rangers manager in 2011, but the club then suffered from serious financial difficulties. Rangers suffered liquidation in 2012 and were then placed in the fourth tier of Scottish league football. McCoist helped them win successive promotions to the second tier, but after a poor start to the 2014–15 season McCoist handed in his 12-months’ notice period in December 2014 and was placed on gardening leave. In September 2015 McCoist and Rangers mutually agreed to terminate his contract.
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