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Alistair "Ally" Murdoch McCoist MBE (born September 24, 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional football player who played as a striker. He is currently assistant manager at Scottish Premier League club Rangers.

McCoist's first professional club was St. Johnstone. After just two years in Perth, several clubs became interested in the 19-year-old striker; however, it was Sunderland who beat off the efforts of Rangers to sign the rising star. His time at Sunderland, however, was unsuccessful: he managed only 8 goals in 56 appearances. It was in 1983 that Rangers manager John Greig signed him.

During his fifteen years with Rangers, McCoist achieved an array of honours, including ten league championship medals, a Scottish Cup medal, and nine League Cup medals. He was Europe's top goal scorer twice (in 1992 and 1993), as well as being named Scotland's "Player of the Year" in 1992. McCoist is Rangers' all-time leading goalscorer (with 251 league goals; 355 in all competitions) and Scotland's fifth-highest scorer, with 19 goals . He is also a member of the Scotland Football Hall of Fame, having gained 61 international caps.

McCoist finished his career at Kilmarnock, where he spent three seasons. In 2004 he joined the Scotland national team coaching staff under his former manager at Rangers, Walter Smith.

McCoist is also known for his television work. He has been part of the A Question of Sport team since 1996 and is a pundit for ITV's football coverage. McCoist, along with John Motson, are ex-long-term commentators for the FIFA video games series from EA Sports. They were replaced by Clive Tyldesley and Andy Gray for FIFA 2006.

In May 2006, he was part of the historic first European Selection, led by Terry Venables, which saw its début game in Eindhoven in the first EFPA match-up against a Dutch selection of all-time greats.

(Note: Table contains league appearances and goals only)

McCoist has aspirations to be a manager. In 2006, he turned down the managerial position at Inverness Caledonian Thistle as he wanted a job nearer his Glasgow home.^[1]

On January 5, 2007, the BBC reported that McCoist would become an assistant manager under Walter Smith at Rangers after Paul Le Guen left the club by mutual consent.^[2]

On January 10, 2007, McCoist was confirmed as assistant to Smith at Rangers with Kenny McDowall appointed as first-team coach.^[3]

• McCoist scored his country's only goal in their Euro 96 campaign with a 25-yard strike in their 1-0 victory over Switzerland.
• He starred in the film A Shot at Glory alongside Robert Duvall.
• He has released his own footballing quiz book named Ally McCoist's Question of Soccer.
• He has a pet Labrador named Sheila, who often takes part in the famous dog contest Crufts.^{[citation needed]}

• McCoist's Rangers Hall of Fame page
• Ally McCoist at itv.com

	Scotland squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 Leighton | 2 McLeish | 3 Aitken | 4 Gough | 5 McStay | 6 Malpas | 7 Johnston | 8 Bett | 9 McCoist | 10 MacLeod | 11 Gillespie | 12 Goram | 13 Durie | 14 McInally | 15 Levein | 16 McCall | 17 McKimmie | 18 Collins | 19 McPherson | 20 McAllister | 21 Fleck | 22 Gunn | Coach: Roxburgh

	Scotland squad - 1996 European Championship
1 Leighton | 2 McKimmie | 3 Boyd | 4 Calderwood | 5 Hendry | 6 Whyte | 7 Spencer | 8 McCall | 9 McCoist | 10 McAllister | 11 Collins | 12 Goram | 13 T. McKinlay | 14 Durie | 15 Jess | 16 Burley | 17 B. McKinlay | 18 Gallacher | 19 Jackson | 20 Booth | 21 Gemmill | 22 Walker | Coach: Brown