| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Maurice John Giblin Johnston | ||
| Date of birth | 13 April 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Milton Battlefield | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1983 | Partick Thistle | 85 | (41) |
| 1983–1984 | Watford | 38 | (23) |
| 1984–1987 | Celtic | 99 | (52) |
| 1987–1989 | Nantes | 66 | (22) |
| 1989–1991 | Rangers | 76 | (31) |
| 1991–1993 | Everton | 34 | (10) |
| 1993–1995 | Heart of Midlothian | 35 | (5) |
| 1995–1996 | Falkirk | 41 | (6) |
| 1996–2001 | Kansas City Wizards | 149 | (31) |
| Total | 623 | (221) | |
| International career | |||
| 1984–1991 | Scotland | 38 | (14) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2005–2006 | New York Red Bulls | ||
| 2007–2008 | Toronto FC | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Maurice John Giblin Johnston (born 13 April 1963) is a Scottish football player and coach. Johnston, who played as a forward, started his senior football career with Partick Thistle in 1981. He moved to Watford in 1983, where he scored 23 league goals and helped them reach the 1984 FA Cup Final. In 1984 he joined Celtic and scored 72 goals in 128 matches, won the Scottish Cup in 1985 and the Scottish league championship in 1986. Johnston signed for Nantes in 1987. He returned to Glasgow with Rangers in 1989, becoming the second player to cross the Old Firm divide since World War II (Alfie Conn was first) and the first open Catholic to play for Rangers since World War I.
Johnston won two Scottish league titles with Rangers, scoring 46 goals in 100 games. He later played for Everton, Hearts, Falkirk and American Major League Soccer (MLS) side Kansas City Wizards. Johnston received his first international cap for Scotland in 1984, when he was at Watford. He scored 14 goals in 38 appearances for Scotland, including one at the 1990 World Cup.
After retiring as a football player in 2001, Johnston went on to coach in MLS. He was most recently the manager and later Director of Soccer at MLS club Toronto FC[2] before he parted company with them on 14 September 2010.[3]