Dundee F.C.

The Dundee ( officially: Dundee Football Club ) - founded in 1893 - is a professional football club based in Dundee, Scotland. After their relegation from the highest Scottish League, the Scottish Premier League ( SPL) in the 2012/13 season, they play in the First Division. Your current athletic director is John Brown. Dundee completed its home matches at Dens Park.

Club history

Unusually for a town of this size, Dundee has two professional teams: FC Dundee and Dundee United. The venues of the two clubs are only about 50 feet apart and meetings between these two clubs in the UK have the record status as " Away with the shortest arrival ".

In 1893 was founded the Dundee FC as a union of the two teams, " Our Boys" and " East End ". The first Scottish championship game was held for the new club on 12 August 1893 which ended with a 3-3 draw against Glasgow Rangers. Dundee moved in 1899 to his still current stadium, the Dens Park to.

The club was relatively unsuccessful in its early days. Up to the 1950s, when they won the Scottish League Cup twice, they have won the Scottish Cup only once in 1910.

Dundee won the championship in the highest Scottish League, which was at the time still " First Division ", only once. Under the guidance of Bob Shankly, brother of Bill Shankly, and with players like Alan Gilzean, they won the 1962 title. In the following season the club reached the semi-finals of the prestigious Euro Champions' Cup. After victories against 1 FC Cologne, Sporting Lisbon and Anderlecht they lost against AC Milan.

After this golden era in the early 1960s, the success has been very scarce. The Dundee FC won again in 1973 the League Cup, and 1998 could end with Jocky Scott a four- year drought in the second Scottish League and rise again in the SPL.

In 2000, the club made ​​its most spectacular new signing when she committed the striker of Argentina's national soccer team, Claudio Caniggia, who moved to Glasgow Rangers later.

2003 became the FC Dundee in violent financial turmoil, which resulted in a number of top players such as Fabian Caballero and Giorgi Nemsadze had to leave the club. The consolidation strategy paid off after being primarily focused on the promotion of young players from their own ranks. Nevertheless, it closed the 2004/05 season as a Table in the SPL now and had to join the in the First Division. The direct promotion back to the highest Scottish league was not possible in the following second league season 2005/ 06. In the season 2006/ 07, the Dees joined the 3rd place from 2007/ 08 to rank second

In November 2010, the Scottish Football Association ( "SFA") FC Dundee took after the opening of insolvency proceedings with a 25-point deduction. After seven years in the second division of Dundee in 2012 rose again in the SPL. As runner-up of the " First Division " in the 2011/12 season athletic actually not qualified for advancement, the club benefited from the insolvency proceedings and the related exclusion of Glasgow Rangers from the SPL.

Achievements

  • Cup of Champions: Semi-finals ( 1): 1963
  • Meister ( 1): 1961/62
  • Runner-up (4): 1902/ 03, 1906/ 07, 1908/ 09, 1948/49,
  • Master (4): 1946/47, 1978/79, 1991/92, 1997/98
  • Runner-up (1): 1980/81
  • Winners ( 1): 1910
  • Finalist ( 4): 1925, 1952, 1964, 2003
  • Winners ( 3): 1952, 1953, 1974
  • Finalist ( 3): 1968, 1981, 1996
  • Winners ( 2): 1990, 2009
  • Finalist ( 1): 1994

Players and coaches

Coach Chronicle

  • Scotland Jimmy Bisset (1928-1933)
  • Northern Ireland Billy McCandless (1933-1937)
  • Scotland Andy Cunningham (1937-1940)
  • Scotland George Anderson (1944-1954)
  • Scotland Willie Thornton (1954-1959)
  • Scotland Bob Shankly (1959-1965)
  • Scotland Sammy Kean (1965-1965)
  • Scotland Bobby Ancell (1965-1968)
  • Scotland John Prentice (1968-1972)
  • 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 John Blackley (1991-1991)
  • Scotland Iain Munro (1991-1992)
  • 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)
  • Ireland Alan Kernaghan (2005-2006)
  • Scotland Alex Rae (2006-2008)
  • Scotland Jocky Scott (2008-2010)
  • Scotland Gordon Chisholm (2010)
  • Scotland's Barry Smith (2010-2013)
  • Scotland John Brown (2013 -present)

Known player

Dundee United F.C. RSC Anderlecht A.C. Milan Scottish Football League Alloa Athletic F.C. Greenock Morton F.C. Hamilton Academical F.C. Livingston F.C. Raith Rovers F.C.
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