Maurice Ross

Maurice Alexander Ross (born 3 February 1981) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is now the reserve manager of Motherwell FC.[3]

For other people with the same name, see Maurice Ross (disambiguation).

Maurice Ross
Personal information
Full name Maurice Alexander Ross[1]
Date of birth (1981-02-03) 3 February 1981
Place of birth Dundee, Scotland
Position(s) Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2005 Rangers 78 (2)
2005–2006 Sheffield Wednesday 1 (0)
2005–2006 → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) 4 (0)
2006 Wolverhampton Wanderers 14 (0)
2006–2007 Millwall 15 (0)
2007–2008 Viking 31 (0)
2009 Kocaelispor 10 (0)
2009–2010 Aberdeen 6 (0)
2010 Beijing Guoan 14 (0)
2011 Motherwell 6 (0)
2011–2012 Livingston 8 (0)
2012–2013 FK Vidar 13 (0)
Total 196 (2)
National team
2002–2003 Scotland[2] 13 (0)
Teams managed
2013–2015 Sola FK
2015–2016 Egersunds IK
2016–2017 TB/FC Suðuroy/Royn
2017–2018 Víkingur
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Ross made his first senior appearance in professional football in February 2000 and played for eleven different clubs: Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Millwall, Viking, Kocaelispor, Aberdeen, Beijing Guoan, Motherwell, Livingston and FK Vidar. In his time with Rangers he won all the domestic honours in Scotland. He played predominantly at right back and was capped by the Scotland national team 13 times.

Playing career

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.[4] 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.[5]

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 Ross had asked the then Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee if he could use the facilities at Pittodrie, in order to gain fitness and ultimately a deal with another club. He signed a short-term deal with the Dons until January.[6] Ross made it clear his intention was to move abroad during the winter transfer window and on 11 January 2010 it was announced that he signed for Chinese club Beijing Guoan. It was confirmed on 10 February 2010 that he joined the defending champions of Chinese Super League.[7] Ross scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 defeat to Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in the 2010 AFC Champions League.

On 1 April 2011, it was revealed that Ross had signed a contract with Scottish Premier League side Motherwell until the end of the season.[8] Ross then was released by the Fir Park club on 1 June 2011.[9] On 13 October 2011 Ross signed for Livingston until January 2012.[10]

International

Berti Vogts gave him a call up to the Scotland team after making just a few appearances for Rangers. Ross made his international debut against South Korea in 2002, and went on to feature in the team in the campaign to qualify for Euro 2004.

Coaching career

After this third spell in Scottish football, Ross returned to Norway, initially to play and later coach, with FK Vidar and Sola FK respectively.[11] He has since managed Norwegian club Egersunds IK,[12] and Faroese clubs TB/FC Suðuroy/Royn[13] and Víkingur.

On 24 January 2019, Ross re-joined Motherwell in a youth coaching capacity, as their Head of 18's to 21's.[3]

Career statistics

Sources: [14][15]

Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Rangers 1999–2000 1000000010
2000–01 1000000010
2001–02 210401030290
2002–03 201204010271
2003–04 201103060301
2004–05 140002130191
2005–06 1000000010
Total 782701011301083
Sheffield Wednesday 2005–06 1000100020
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2005–06 180100000190
Millwall 2006–07 150302000200
Viking 2007 17040––210
2008 14030–40210
Total 31070–40420
Kocaelispor 2008–09 100–––100
Aberdeen 2009–10 6010000070
Beijing Guoan 2010 140–––140
Motherwell 2011 6010000070
Livingston 2011–12 8000000080
Career total 18722001311702373

References
  1. "Maurice Ross". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. Maurice Ross at the Scottish Football Association
  3. "MAURICE ROSS JOINS 'WELL COACHING STAFF". motherwellfc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  4. "Sky Sports | Sport News". Home.skysports.com. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  5. "MAURICE ALEXANDER ROSS". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  6. "Ross agrees contract at Pittodrie". BBC Sport. 21 October 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  7. "国安正式签约莫莱斯·罗斯". Beijing Guoan F.C. Official Website. 10 February 2010. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010.
  8. "Maurice Ross defends his switch to Motherwell". BBC Sport. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  9. "Craigan and Jennings offered new deals at Motherwell". BBC Sport. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  10. "Maurice Ross and Mark Fotheringham join Livingston". BBC Sport. BBC. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  11. "Ex-Rangers, Millwall and Beijing defender Ross coaching in Norway". Tribalfootball.com. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  12. Kvendseth, Kristian Oftedal (22 November 2015). "Maurice Ross ny EIK-trener" [Maurice Ross new EIK trainer]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  13. Arge, Tróndur (30 January 2017). "Maurice Ross krevur hart arbeiði" (in Faroese). in.fo. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  14. Maurice Ross at Soccerbase
  15. "Ross, Maurice". vikingfotball.no (in Norwegian). Viking FK. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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