Where are Rangers' 2012/13 fourth tier squad now? Managers, coaches and 40-year-old defenders
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers' future looked incredibly bleak in 2012 to say the least.The club were relegated to the fourth tier of Scottish football after administration announced in February that year led to liquidation in October.
And to make matters worse, the Glasgow outfit were plagued by a 12 month transfer ban which prevented them from registering new players over the age of 18 until the 2013 summer transfer window came to a close.As we all know now, Rangers would ultimately bounce back with back to back promotions to the Championship, before finally finding their way back to the Scottish Premiership at the end of the 2015/16 campaign - where they have remained ever since, even clinching the title over Celtic in 2020/21.But who were the Rangers players who stuck with their side through thick and thin in their first season in the Scottish Third Division back in 2012, and where are they now?
Here, Record Sport breaks it down...Given that we're now 12 years on from Rangers being demoted to the fourth tier, a number of players have since hung up their boots altogether.
Goalkeeper Neil Alexander played for the likes of Crystal Palace, Aberdeen and Dunfermline before hanging his gloves up in 2022 and going into coaching, where he is now head of goalkeeping at Motherwell, while centre-half Dorin Goian moved onto Asteras Tripoli before moving into management with Foresta Suceava in 2016.Lee McCulloch moved to Kilmarnock in 2015 before retiring up a year later for a managerial position with the club.
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