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1962 (61 years old)

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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 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.

Towards the end of his playing career, McCoist started his media career. Between 1996 and 2007, he was a team captain in the BBC sports quiz A Question of Sport. McCoist 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. The company running Rangers was put into liquidation in 2012 and the team 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 in December 2014 and was placed on gardening leave. In September 2015, McCoist and Rangers mutually agreed to terminate his contract.

McCoist joined the Scotland coaching staff under his former manager at Rangers, Walter Smith, in 2004. He turned down the managerial position at Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 2006 as he wanted a job nearer his Glasgow home.

A lifelong Rangers fan, McCoist attended his first Old Firm fixture as a ten-year-old on 5 May 1973. It was Rangers' 3–2 Scottish Cup Final victory in front of 122,714 spectators at Hampden Park.

McCoist's first wife was Allison. After meeting in 1981, they married in 1990 and divorced in 2004. The marriage produced three children, all sons: Alexander, Argyll and Mitchell. He has two more sons (Arran and Harris) with his second wife, Vivien.

During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, McCoist was a supporter of the successful Better Together against Scottish independence.

McCoist had an extramarital affair with the actress Patsy Kensit, which was cited in divorce proceedings from his first wife, Allison. It is said the affair developed from a pre-existing friendship when McCoist was in London filming ITV's The Premiership football highlights show.


Career Honours

Scottish Premier League
1996-1997

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1995-1996

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1994-1995

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1993-1994

Rangers

European Golden Shoe
1992-1993

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1992-1993

Rangers

European Golden Shoe
1991-1992

Rangers

Scottish Cup
1991-1992

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1991-1992

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1990-1991

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1989-1990

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1988-1989

Rangers

Scottish Premier League
1986-1987

Rangers


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UEFA Champions League Hat-Trick
1996-08-21


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1978-1981

1981-1983

1983-1998

1986-1998

1998-2001


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2004-2007
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2007-2011
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2011-2014
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