Ally McCoist

**Alistair Murdoch "Ally" McCoist**, MBE (; born 24 September 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional football player who played as a striker. He is currently the manager of Rangers, where he spent fifteen of his twenty-two years as a player. Since retiring, he has also had a secondary career as a television presenter and sports pundit.

McCoist began his career with St Johnstone before moving to Sunderland in 1981. He returned to Scotland two years later and signed with Rangers. At Rangers, McCoist became the club's record goalscorer, netting 355 goals. In addition to this McCoist holds the Rangers records for number of league goals scored, number of Scottish League Cup goals scored and the most goals scored by a player in European competitions with 251, 54 and 21 respectively. McCoist is also third in the all-time appearance table for Rangers, having made 581 appearances for the club.

McCoist is the Scottish top-tier league's all-time leading goalscorer, having netted 291 times for St. Johnstone, Rangers and Kilmarnock between 1979 and 2001.

#### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|St Johnstone|1978–79|rowspan="4"|Scottish First Division|4|0|0|0|0|0|–|4|0||
|1979–80|15|0|1|0|0|0|–|16|0||||||
|1980–81|38|22|3|1|2|0|–|43|23||||||
|1981–82|0|0|0|0|5|4|–|5|4||||||
|rowspan="3"|Sunderland|1981–82|rowspan="2"|First Division|28|2|3|0|1|0|–|32|2||
|1982–83|28|6|1|0|4|1|–|33|7||||||
|rowspan="16"|Rangers|1983–84|rowspan="15"|Scottish Premier Division|30|8|4|3|10|9|3|0|47|20|
|1984–85|25|12|3|0|6|5|4|1|38|18|||||
|1985–86|33|25|1|1|4|1|2|0|40|27|||||
|1986–87|44|34|1|0|5|2|6|2|56|38|||||
|1987–88|40|31|2|1|5|6|6|4|53|42|||||
|1988–89|19|9|8|5|4|4|2|0|33|18|||||
|1989–90|34|14|2|0|4|4|–|40|18||||||
|1990–91|26|11|2|1|4|3|4|3|36|18|||||
|1991–92|38|34|5|4|4|1|2|0|49|39|||||
|1992–93|34|34|4|5|5|8|9|2|52|49|||||
|1993–94|21|7|6|3|1|1|–|28|11||||||
|1994–95|9|1|0|0|0|0|–|9|1||||||
|1995–96|25|16|2|1|4|3|6|0|37|20|||||
|1996–97|25|10|3|1|3|3|6|6|37|20|||||
|1997–98|15|5|4|4|3|4|4|3|26|16|||||
|rowspan="4"|Kilmarnock|1998–99|rowspan="3"|Scottish Premier League|26|7|1|0|2|1|–|29|8||
|1999–2000|9|1|0|0|1|2|2|0|12|3|||||
|2000–01|18|1|2|0|2|2|–|22|3||||||

#### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|Scotland|1986|2|0|
|1987|6|3|||
|1988|5|0|||
|1989|6|2|||
|1990|10|3|||
|1991|4|2|||
|1992|11|3|||
|1993|2|2|||
|1994|—||||
|1995|3|2|||
|1996|7|2|||
|1997|3|0|||
|1998|2|0|||

- _Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each McCoist goal_.

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col" data-sort-type="date"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Cap|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1|9 September 1987|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|7|rowspan="2"|align="center"|1–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|2|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||||
|align="center"|3|14 October 1987|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|8||1–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|4|26 April 1989|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|15||2–1|2–1|1990 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|align="center"|5|15 November 1989|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|19||1–0|1–1|1990 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|align="center"|6|16 May 1990|Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen, Scotland|21||1–2|1–3|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|7|12 September 1990|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|27||2–1|2–1|UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|8|14 November 1990|Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria|29||1–0|1–1|UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|9|11 September 1991|Wankdorf Stadion, Bern, Switzerland|32||2–2|2–2|UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|10|13 November 1991|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|33||4–0|4–0|UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|11|19 February 1992|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|34||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|12|20 May 1992|Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada|37||2–1|3–1|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|13|9 September 1992|Wankdorf Stadion, Bern, Switzerland|42||1–1|1–3|1994 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|align="center"|14|17 February 1993|Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland|45|rowspan="2"|align="center"|1–0|3–0|1994 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|align="center"|15|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||||
|align="center"|16|16 August 1995|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|47||1–0|1–0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|17|15 November 1995|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|49||3–0|5–0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|align="center"|18|27 March 1996|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|50||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|19|18 June 1996|Villa Park, Birmingham, England|54||1–0|1–0|UEFA Euro 1996||||||||

### Managerial record

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|Nat|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="5"|Record|rowspan=2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|Rangers|align="center"||align="center"|1 June 2011|align="center"|21 December 2014|||||
|colspan=4|**Career Total**|||||||||||

## Infobox (football biography 2)

- **playername**: Ally McCoist
- **fullname**: Alistair Murdoch McCoist
- **image**: Ally McCoist 1994.jpg
- **caption**: McCoist in 1994
- **birth place**: Bellshill, Scotland
- **position**: Striker
- **years1**: 1979–1981
- **clubs1**: St. Johnstone F.C., St. Johnstone
- **caps1**: 57
- **goals1**: 22
- **years2**: 1981–1983
- **clubs2**: Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland
- **caps2**: 56
- **goals2**: 8
- **years3**: 1983–1998
- **clubs3**: Rangers F.C., Rangers
- **caps3**: 581
- **goals3**: 355
- **years4**: 1998–2001
- **clubs4**: Kilmarnock F.C., Kilmarnock
- **caps4**: 59
- **goals4**: 12
- **totalcaps**: 753
- **totalgoals**: 397
- **goals5**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 1980-1981
- **nationalteam1**: Scotland national under-18 football team, Scotland U-18
- **nationalcaps1**: 10
- **nationalgoals1**: 7
- **nationalyears2**: 1983
- **nationalteam2**: Scotland national under-21 football team, Scotland U-21
- **nationalcaps2**: 1
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 1986–1998
- **nationalteam3**: Scotland national football team, Scotland
- **nationalcaps3**: 61
- **nationalgoals3**: 19
- **manageryears1**: 2011-2014
- **managerclubs1**: Rangers F.C., Rangers