Dundee

Dundee Football Club, founded in 1893, is a professional football (soccer) team based in the city of Dundee, Scotland. In May 2005, Dundee FC was relegated from the Scottish Premier League, the top league of Scottish football. The team is currently managed by Alex Rae who is also a player for the club. Rae was appointed on 24 May 2006, following the sacking of Alan Kernaghan.

Unusually for a city of its size, Dundee supports two top class professional football teams, Dundee FC and Dundee United. The two teams are fierce rivals, despite having grounds that are within a few hundred yards of each other. Matches between the teams hold the British record for ‘closest away fixture’.
Contents

1

History

2 Current First Team Squad
3 Managers
4 Famous players
5

Club Records

6

Honours

7 External links

History

Formed in 1893, Dundee Football Club was formed by an amalgamation of two city teams, Our Boys and East End. The club played their first Scottish league match on 12 August 1893 drawing 3-3 with Rangers. Dundee moved to their current stadium, Dens Park, in 1899.

The club were relatively unsuccessful in their early days with their Scottish Cup win of 1910 being their only real achievement until their two League Cup wins in the 1950s.

Dundee have only won the title in Scotland’s top division, then called the First Division, on one occasion. Under the guidance of manager Bob Shankly, brother of Bill Shankly, and with players such as Alan Gilzean, they won the league championship in 1962. The following season the club reached the semi-final of the pretigous European Cup beating the likes of Sporting Clube de Portugal and R.S.C. Anderlecht, before losing to AC Milan.

Success since their golden era in the early 1960s has been scarce. They did win the League Cup in 1973-1974 and ended a four year spell in the Scottish First Division in 1998 under Jocky Scott. In 2000 the club made perhaps their biggest ever signing when they brought in Argentine international Claudio Caniggia, who later signed for Rangers. Caniggia was only one of a stack of foreign signings in the Dundee side in the early 2000s.

In 2003, due to gross financial mis-management, Dundee went into financial difficulty and were forced to go into administration with many players such as Fabian Caballero and Georgian captain Giorgi Nemsadze leaving the club. In 2005, however, the club’s finances look much better with the club focusing on developing youth players. However, at the end of the 2004/2005 season, Dundee were last in the Scottish Premier League and were relegated to Division 1 for the 2005/2006 season. In their first season back in the First Division they finished 7th.

Current First Team Squad
No.         Position     Player
1     France     GK     Ludovic Roy
2     Northern Ireland     DF     Danny Griffin
3     Scotland     DF     Paul Dixon
5     Scotland     DF     Gary MacKenzie
6     Scotland     DF     Bobby Mann (captain)
7     Scotland     MF     Ross Harris
8     Scotland     MF     Kevin McDonald
9     Scotland     FW     Derek Lyle
11     Scotland     FW     Andy McLaren
13     Scotland     GK     Calum Reidford

No.         Position     Player
14     Scotland     DF     Greg Strong
15     Scotland     MF     Gavin Swankie
17     Scotland     DF     Callum Macdonald
20     Scotland     FW     Bryan Deasley
22     Scotland     MF     Robert Campbell (on loan from Kilmarnock)
23     Scotland     MF     Scott Robertson
30     Scotland     GK     Scott Murray
34     Scotland     MF     Scott Gates
39     Scotland     FW     Craig O’Reilly (loaned to East Fife)

Managers

This is a partial list of managers, from 1969 only.
Manager     Period
Scotland John Prentice     1969 – 1972
Scotland David White     1972 – 1977
Scotland Tommy Gemmell     1977 – 1980
Scotland Don Mackay     1980 – 1984
Scotland Archie Knox     1984 – 1986
Scotland Jocky Scott     1986 – 1988
Scotland Dave Smith     1988 – 1989
Scotland Gordon Wallace     1989 – 1991
Scotland Iain Munro     1991
England Simon Stainrod     1992 – 1993
Scotland Jim Duffy     1993 – 1996
Scotland John McCormack     1997 – 1998
Scotland Jocky Scott     1998 – 2000
Italy Ivano Bonetti     2000 – 2002
Scotland Jim Duffy     2002 – 2005
Republic of Ireland Alan Kernaghan     2005 – 2006
Scotland Alex Rae     2006 – present

Famous players

Scotland George Mclean
Scotland John Brown
Argentina Fabián Caballero
Argentina Claudio Caniggia
Italy Ivano Bonetti
Scotland Bobby Cox
Scotland Doug Cowie
Scotland Tommy Gemmell
Scotland Cammy Fraser
Scotland Alan Gilzean

Scotland Gordon Smith
Scotland Bobby Glennie
Scotland Eric Sinclair
Scotland Alex Hamilton
Scotland Hughie Ferguson
Georgia (country) Temuri Ketsbaia
Georgia (country) Zura Khizanishvilli
Georgia (country) Giorgi Nemsadze
Spain Nacho Novo
Scotland Andy Penman

Italy Fabrizio Ravanelli
Argentina Juan Sara
Scotland Eric Sinclair
Scotland Barry Smith
Scotland Billy Steel
Scotland Craig Burley
Scotland Ian Ure
Scotland Steven Tweed
Trinidad and Tobago Brent Sancho
Trinidad and Tobago Kelvin Jack

Club Records

In the 1952 Scottish Cup final between Dundee and Motherwell F.C., 136,000 fans attended. This remains a record for a club match in Scotland not featuring either of the Old Firm

Highest home Attendance: 43,024 vs Rangers F.C., 1953

Biggest League Win: 10-2 vs. Queen of the South F.C. 1962. vs. Alloa Athletic F.C. 1947 vs. Dunfermline Athletic F.C. 1947

Biggest League loss: 11-0 vs. Celtic F.C. 1895

Most capped player: Alex Hamilton, 24 Scotland

Most League appearances: Bill Marsh, 386, 1924-1937 & Barry Smith, 400, 1995-2006

Most League goals: Alan Gilzean, 113

Most goals in a season: Alan Gilzean, 32, 1963-1964

Highest Transfer fee paid: £600,000 – Fabian Caballero, Cerra Porteno, 26 May 2000

Honours

Division 1(1) 1961-62

First Division(3) 1978-79 1991-92 1997-98

Division 2(1) 1946-47

Scottish Cup (1) 1910

Scottish League Cup (3) 1951-52, 1952-53, 1973-74

B&Q Centenary Cup (Scottish League Challenge Cup) (1) 1990

Tennents’ Sixes (1) 1988

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