RANGERS have confirmed the appointment of Dr Ceri Bowley as a first-team coach.
The Ibrox club announced Bowley has joined the club after leaving City Football Group.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst has previous experience working with the coach who he moved to add to the backroom team after keeping an open spot when he took over as boss.
Bowley has taken up a first-team coaching role at Rangers after positions with CFG, Barry Town, the FA, Swansea City and Merthyr Town.
The new Ibrox coach holds a PhD in Sport Psychology and Coaching Science and helped implement the City Football Methodology which is in place at CFG clubs and used in coaching, sport science, performance analysis, talent identification and recruitment.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst commented: "I worked with him a couple of years ago and built-up a good relationship with him.
"He will join my staff and help all of us to improve our players, and the players will work closely with him to make sure their development goes faster.
"We have identified areas that we want to see improvement in, so I am really happy that he has joined us."
And sporting director Ross Wilson told the club website: "Firstly, a warm welcome to Ceri and we are really pleased that he joins our support staff.
"During the process to appoint Gio as our new manager, we discussed that we would retain an open position to add another coach into our group.
"We wanted that person to bring a different and wide skillset as we continue to develop our football methodology across the club.
"Ceri agreed to join some months ago and is now able to start following the conclusion of a notice period with the City Football Group."
