In the summer of 1995, he joined his boyhood heroes (and Aberdeen's main rivals) Rangers for £1.5m. Much of his time at Ibrox was spent injured, following a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during a UEFA Champions League match against Juventus in his first season. After just seven league appearances in three years (his spell with the "Gers" coincided almost exactly with that of Paul Gascoigne who in contrast played over 100 times), Wright had a loan spell with Wolverhampton Wanderers before joining Bradford City in 1998, where he reunited with former Rangers teammate Stuart McCall and helped the club gain promotion to the Premier League in his first season, although he did not make a league appearance in his second.