Alistair Murdoch McCoist, MBE (/məˈkɔɪst/; born 24 September 1962) is a Scottish former footballer who has since worked as a manager and TV pundit.
McCoist began his playing career with Scottish club St Johnstone, before moving to English side Sunderland in 1981. He returned to his homeland two years later, signing with Rangers. McCoist had a highly successful career 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 the fifth-highest all-time goalscorer in the top tier of the Scottish football league system, having scored 260 times for Rangers and Kilmarnock between 1983 and 2001.
Towards the end of his playing career, McCoist started his media career. Between 1996 and 2007, he was a team captain on the BBC sports quiz A Question of Sport. He began to scale back 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 went into liquidation in 2012 and the club was 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 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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30th minute, a finish from six yards after a low cross from the left. AllyMcCoist made it 2–0 with a half-volley, before Andy Smith scored a consolation...
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ITV Sport for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, where he paired with AllyMcCoist. The duo was one of the broadcast teams of commentators for Prime Video...
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appearance coming in their 2022 Scottish Cup Final victory. Rangers legend AllyMcCoist commented two months later that he had been "surprised" by Balogun's...
as a coach of the Rangers first team under Walter Smith and AllyMcCoist. After McCoist left the club December 2014, Durrant was demoted to a position...
opposition was Scotland (players outside the Premier Division, notably AllyMcCoist, then playing for St Johnstone), Netherlands Amateurs and Italy under-21...
Park between Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Rangers assistant coach AllyMcCoist, requiring police officers to separate them, at the end of a match in...
goalkeeper Sieb Dijkstra and defenders Chris McCart and Fraser Wishart, while the Old Firm team included AllyMcCoist and Gordon Durie. The Old Firm side won...
becoming the first player to officially win the award twice in a row (AllyMcCoist had won two Golden Boots in a row, but both were deemed unofficial)....
Hibernian. Rangers won the match 2–1 thanks to goals by Ian Durrant and AllyMcCoist. 24 October 1993 Celtic Park, Glasgow Attendance: 47,632 "On This Day:...
until 1997. As for Hateley's renowned strike partnership at Rangers with AllyMcCoist, Hateley said: "Alistair was the perfect partner for me. As a finisher...
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place in the Scotland Hall of Fame? You're joking, 100% he does." — AllyMcCoist in 2018. Rangers manager Walter Smith flew to visit Gascoigne at his...
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