Maurice Ross

Club

Ross joined Rangers as a trainee and made his senior debut in a 7–1 defeat of home town team Dundee, in February 2000. He captained the Rangers Under-21s to a reserve league championship win during 2000–01 but it was not until the 2002–03 season, under Alex McLeish, that he established himself on the first team. A highlight was scoring the opening goal of the 2005 Scottish League Cup Final. Despite signing a four-year deal with Rangers in 2003, by August 2005 Ross had fallen out of favour at Rangers and was given a free transfer and moved on to Sheffield Wednesday. However the transfer did not prove to be a success as Ross only made two appearances for Wednesday and was later loaned to Wolves after only two months. In January 2006, Wolves made the loan into a permanent deal and Ross signed a six-month contract but he was released by Wolves at the end of that contract. Ross secured a new club at Millwall in the summer of 2006 and featured in the starting eleven for the first five games before being dropped to the bench after a string of poor performances. In March 2007 Ross was signed by Viking from Stavanger, Norway. Ross agreed a three-year contract with Viking until the end of the Norwegian season late in 2009 but instead joined Turkish Super League side Kocaelispor in early February 2009. After Kocaelispor secured their league status that season but Ross, along with four other players, had their contracts terminated. On 12 October 2009, it was announced that…

After this third spell in Scottish football, Ross returned to Norway, initially to play and later coach, with FK Vidar and Sola FK respectively. He has since managed Norwegian club Egersunds IK, and Faroese clubs TB/FC Suðuroy/Royn and Víkingur. On 24 January 2019, Ross re-joined Motherwell in a youth coaching capacity. Ross left Motherwell after the appointment of Graham Alexander as their manager. Ross was appointed assistant manager of Notts County in March 2021. However, he spent only two months at the club, resigning from his post in May 2021 after making a racist remark about Dutch Notts County winger, Enzio Boldewijn. Ross made a full public apology for making the "clumsy, insensitive analogy". In November 2021 Ross became the manager of Scottish League Two club Cowdenbeath. Despite signing several new players for the struggling Blue Brazil, the club ultimately finished bottom of League Two. The club was then relegated after a comfortable play-off defeat over two legs to Lowland League champions Bonnyrigg Rose. Ross opted to remain in charge at Central Park for the club's maiden Lowland League campaign, which got off to a horror start with the club earning just one point from its first five matches. Going into mid-August, pressure grew on Ross after the club's third loss against a youth team in just six games, a 3-0 Challenge Cup defeat to Kilmarnock B. On 31 December 2023, he became assistant head coach to Charlie Adam at EFL League One side Fleetwood Town.

Club

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International

Managerial record

As of match played 20 July 2022

Scottish statistics only.

Player

Rangers

Scottish Premier League: 2002–03, 2004–05 Scottish Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03 Scottish League Cup: 2002–03, 2004–05

Manager

FK Sola

3. divisjon: 2014 4. divisjon: 2013 Víkingur Gøta

Faroe Islands Super Cup: 2018