2015–16 Dundee F.C. season

The 2015–16 season was Dundee's second season in the Scottish Premiership, having been promoted from the Scottish Championship at the end of the 2013/14 season.[1][2] Dundee also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Dundee
2015–16 season
ChairmanBill Colvin
ManagerPaul Hartley
GroundDens Park
Scottish PremiershipEight place
Scottish League CupSecond round, lost to Dunfermline
Scottish CupQuarter-final, lost Rangers
Top goalscorerLeague: Kane Hemmings (21)
All: Hemmings (25)
Highest home attendance11,025 vs. Dundee United, 2 January 2016
Lowest home attendance3,532 vs. Dumbarton, Scottish Cup, 23 February 2016
Average home league attendance6,122

Results and fixtures

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  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Scottish Premiership

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1 August 2015 Premiership Kilmarnock 0–4 Dundee Rugby Park
15:00 BBC Report Stewart   34', 78'
Loy   45', 47'
Attendance: 5,207
Referee: Madden
8 August 2015 Premiership Dundee 1–2 Heart of Midlothian Dens Park
15:00 Hemmings   5' BBC Report Juanma   56' (pen.), 63' Attendance: 8,222
Referee: Thomson
11 August 2015 Premiership Dundee United 2–2 Dundee Tannadice Park
19:45 Spittal   64', 67' BBC Report Stewart   81'
McPake   90+4'
Attendance: 11,835
Referee: Beaton
15 August 2015 Premiership Dundee 2–1 St Johnstone Dens Park
15:00 McPake   16'
Hemmings   39'
BBC Report MacLean   54' Attendance: 6,176
Referee: Clancy
22 August 2015 Premiership Aberdeen 2–0 Dundee Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Rooney   66', 90+4' BBC Report Harkins   90+4'   Attendance: 13,621
Referee: Madden
29 August 2015 Premiership Dundee 1–1 Inverness CT Dens Park
15:00 Hemmings   90+1' BBC Report Raven   60'
Mbuyi-Mutombo   90+3'
Attendance: 4,767
Referee: Dallas
12 September 2015 Premiership Partick Thistle 0–1 Dundee Firhill Stadium
15:00 BBC Report Stewart   77' Attendance: 2,946
Referee: Collum
20 September 2015 Premiership Celtic 6–0 Dundee Celtic Park
Rogic   14'
Griffiths   16'
Izaguirre   54', 61'
Brown   87'
Ciftci   87'
BBC Report Attendance: 48,558
Referee: McLean
26 September 2015 Premiership Dundee 3–3 Ross County Dens Park
15:00 Stewart   20'
Loy   54' (pen.), 69'
BBC Report Boyce   19'
McPake   37' (o.g.)
Gardyne   43'
Davies   53'  
Attendance: 5,128
Referee: Thomson
3 October 2015 Premiership Dundee 2–1 Motherwell Dens Park
15:00 Loy   58'
Holt   70'
BBC Report Pearson   83' Attendance: 5,152
Referee: Robertson
17 October 2015 Premiership Hamilton Academical 1–1 Dundee New Douglas Park
15:00 MacKinnon   61'
Imrie   87'   87'
Report Etxabeguren   16'
Holt   47'
Harkins   82'
Attendance: 2,862
Referee: Collum
24 October 2015 Premiership Dundee 1–2 Kilmarnock Dens Park
15:00 Meggatt   8'
Holt   24'
Ross   50'
Stewart   57'
Healey   76'
Report Magennis   9'   20'
Smith   48'   63'
Higginbotham   56'
Attendance: 4,970
Referee: Dallas
31 October 2015 Premiership Inverness CT 1–1 Dundee Caledonian Stadium
15:00 Raven   50'
Tansey   64' (pen.)
BBC Report Loy   50' (pen.) Attendance: 2,940
Referee: Colvin
7 November 2015 Premiership Dundee 1–1 Partick Thistle Dens Park
15:00 Hemmings   85' BBC Report Lindsay   5' Attendance: 5,067
Referee: Collum
21 November 2015 Premiership Heart of Midlothian 1–1 Dundee Tynecastle Park
15:00 Djoum   24' BBC Report Loy   67' Attendance: 16,736
Referee: Clancy
27 November 2015 Premiership St Johnstone 1–1 Dundee McDiarmid Park
15:00 Wotherspoon   13' BBC Report Hemmings   3' Attendance: 4,598
Referee: Muir
5 December 2015 Premiership Dundee 0–2 Aberdeen Dens Park
12:30 McGinn   47' Report McGinn   9'
Rooney   25'
Logan   44'
Attendance: 6,327
Referee:   Bobby Madden
12 December 2015 Premiership Motherwell 3–1 Dundee Fir Park
15:00 McDonald   6'   60'
Moult   32'
Pearson   90+1'
Summary Irvine   57'
McGowan   67'
Harkins   68'
Attendance: 3,512
Referee:   Euan Anderson
19 December 2015 Premiership Dundee 4–0 Hamilton Academical Dens Park
15:00 Hemmings   5'   21'   26'
Stewart   19'   52'
Report Gillespie   70' Attendance: 4,568
Referee:   Don Robertson
26 December 2015 Premiership Ross County 5–2 Dundee Victoria Park
15:00 Boyce   29'   69'   85'
Gardyne   55'
Irvine   60'
Foster   80'
Report Hemmings   5'   53'
Konrad   39'
Irvine   45'
Attendance: 3,687
Referee: Allan
2 January 2016 Premiership Dundee 2–1 Dundee United Dens Park
Hemmings   41'
Ross   62'
BBC Report Spittal   15'
Demel   82'  
Attendance: 11,025
Referee: Clancy
16 January 2016 Premiership Partick Thistle 2–4 Dundee Firhill Stadium
15:00 Amoo   23'
Lindsay   77'  
Doolan   90'
BBC Report Hemmings   7' (pen.)
Harkins   10', 37'
Stewart   15'
Attendance: 3,222
Referee: Anderson
22 January 2016 Premiership Aberdeen 1–0 Dundee Pittodrie Stadium
19:45 Rooney   14' BBC Report Attendance: 11,805
Referee: Muir
30 January 2016 Premiership Dundee 2–2 Motherwell Dens Park
15:00 McGowan   6'
Hemmings   88' (pen.)
BBC Report Cadden   4'
Pearson   23'
Attendance: 4,960
Referee: Beaton
12 February 2016 Premiership Dundee 2–0 St Johnstone Dens Park
19:45 Hemmings   21'   51'
O'Dea   66'
Stewart   90'
Report Fisher   58'
Cummins   66'
Davidson   76'
Swanson   85'
Attendance: 4,876
Referee:   Thomson
20 February 2016 Premiership Kilmarnock 0–0 Dundee Rugby Park
15:00 McHattie   90' Report Loy   86' Attendance: 3,688
Referee:   Euan Anderson
27 February 2016 Premiership Dundee 1–1 Inverness CT Dens Park
15:00 Stewart   26'
Ross   61'
Hemmings   86'
Report Draper   13'
Tremarco   26'
Vigurs   31'
Devine   36'
Fôn Williams   43'
Attendance: 5,048
Referee:   Andrew Dallas
2 March 2016 Premiership Celtic 0–0 Dundee Celtic Park
19:45 Sviatchenko   86' Report Kerr   90' Attendance: 41,451
Referee:   John Beaton
12 March 2016 Premiership Dundee 0–1 Heart of Midlothian Dens Park
15:00 Harkins   69' Report Öztürk   35'
Walker   52'
Smith   56'
Attendance: 6,195
Referee:   Willie Collum
20 March 2016 Premiership Dundee United 2–2 Dundee Tannadice Park
12:30 Dixon   44'
Mckay   53' (pen.)   90+1'
Ofere   87'
Report Hemmings   34'   45'
Bain   51'
Holt   87'
Attendance: 11,603
Referee:   Steven McLean (referee)
2 April 2016 Premiership Dundee 5–2 Ross County Dens Park
15:00 Stewart   7', 90+2'
Hemmings   9'
Loy   38'
Wighton   85'
Report Davies   15'
Schalk   45'
Attendance: 5,095
Referee: Andrew Dallas
5 April 2016 Premiership Dundee 0–0 Celtic Dens Park
19:45 Report Attendance: 9,566
Referee: Kevin Clancy
9 April 2016 Premiership Hamilton Academical 2–1 Dundee New Douglas Park
15:00 Crawford   30'
Tena   41 pen.'
Report Harkins   63' Attendance: 2,764
Referee: John Beaton
23 April 2016 Premiership Partick Thistle 1–2 Dundee Firhill Stadium
15:00 Doolan   70' Report Hemmings   34', 81' Attendance: 2,769
Referee: Nick Walsh
2 May 2016 Premiership Dundee 2–1 Dundee United Dens Park
19:45 Gadzhalov   77'
Wighton   90+3'
Report Ofere   54' Attendance: 10,088
Referee: Willie Collum
7 May 2016 Premiership Dundee 0–1 Hamilton Academical Dens Park
15:00 Report Morris   8' Attendance: 4,757
Referee: Steven McLean
11 May 2016 Premiership Dundee 1–1 Kilmarnock Rugby Park
19:45 Loy   18' Report Balatoni   55' Attendance: 4,335
Referee: Don Robertson
14 May 2016 Premiership Inverness CT 4–0 Dundee Caledonian Stadium
12:30 Storey   61'
Devine   69'
Draper   71'
Foran   84' (pen.)
Report Attendance: 3,794
Referee: Barry Cook

Scottish League Cup

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25 August 2015 Second round Dunfermline Athletic 3–1 Dundee East End Park
19:45 El Bakhtaoui   11', 90+4'
Cardle   86'
BBC Report Hemmings   48' Attendance: 3,806
Referee: Finnie

Scottish Cup

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26 January 2016 Fourth round Dundee 3–1 Falkirk Dens Park
19:45 Hemmings   39', 60'
Harkins   74'
BBC Sport Watson   41' Attendance: 4,279
Referee: Collum
6 February 2016 Fifth round Dumbarton 0–0 Dundee Dumbarton Football Stadium
15:00 BBC Report Attendance: 1,410
Referee: Finnie
23 February 2016 Fifth round replay Dundee 5–0 Dumbarton Dens Park
19:45 McGinn   16'
Harkins   25'
Hemmings   29'   45'
Stewart   51'   90'
Loy   76'
Holt   79'
Summary Nadé   39'
Routledge   90'
Attendance: 3,532
Referee:   Stephen Finnie
5 March 2016 Quarter-finals Rangers 4–0 Dundee Ibrox Stadium
12:30 Forrester   1'   1'
Holt   47'
Halliday   54'
Wallace   84'
Report Konrad   19'
o'Dea   64'
Attendance: 30,944
Referee:   Alan Muir

Squad statistics

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During the 2015–16 season, Dundee have used twenty-six different players in competitive games.

As of 14 May 2016 (UTC)[3]
No. Pos Nat Player Total Premiership League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   SCO Scott Bain 42 0 37+0 0 1+0 0 4+0 0
2 DF   SCO Gary Irvine 7 0 6+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
3 DF   SCO Kevin Holt 39 3 34+0 2 1+0 0 4+0 1
4 DF   GER Thomas Konrad 32 0 20+7 0 1+0 0 4+0 0
5 DF   NIR James McPake 17 2 16+0 2 1+0 0 0+0 0
6 DF   SCO Daryll Meggatt 6 0 2+4 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
7 FW   SCO Greg Stewart 42 11 36+1 9 1+0 0 4+0 2
8 MF   SCO Nicky Low 23 0 15+6 0 0+0 0 1+1 0
9 FW   SCO Rory Loy 33 9 21+8 9 0+0 0 3+1 0
10 FW   SCO Kevin Thomson 12 0 11+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
11 MF   SCO Simon Ferry 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
12 GK   SCO David Mitchell 2 0 1+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
15 FW   ENG Kane Hemmings 42 25 34+3 21 1+0 1 4+0 3
16 DF   ESP Julen Etxabeguren 26 0 20+3 0 1+0 0 0+2 0
17 MF   SCO Nick Ross 42 1 36+1 1 1+0 0 4+0 0
18 MF   SCO Paul Mcgowan 35 1 27+3 1 1+0 0 4+0 0
19 DF   SCO Paul McGinn 39 1 33+1 0 1+0 0 4+0 1
20 DF   ENG Riccardo Calder 11 0 3+8 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
21 FW   GER Luka Tankulić 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
21 DF   IRL Darren O'Dea 19 0 16+0 0 0+0 0 3+0 0
22 FW   ESP Arturo Rodriguez 5 0 0+3 0 0+0 0 0+2 0
23 FW   ENG Rhys Healey 7 1 4+3 1 0+0 0 0+0 0
24 MF   SCO Andrew Black 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
26 DF   BUL Kostadin Gadzhalov 15 1 8+6 1 0+0 0 1+0 0
27 MF   AUS Jesse Curran 3 0 0+3 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
28 MF   CAN Dylan Carreiro 3 0 0+2 0 0+1 0 0+0 0
29 MF   SCO Gary Harkins 35 5 22+8 4 1+0 0 4+0 1
30 DF   SCO Cammy Kerr 11 0 7+3 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
33 FW   SCO Craig Wighton 15 2 7+6 2 0+0 0 0+2 0
35 FW   SCO Calvin Colquhoun 3 0 2+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0

Disciplinary record

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As of 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Position Nation Number Name Premiership League Cup Scottish Cup Total
               
1   GK Scott Bain 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
2   DF Gary Irvine 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
3   DF Kevin Holt 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
4   DF Thomas Konrad 4 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
5   DF James McPake 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
6   DF Daryll Meggatt 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
7   FW Greg Stewart 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
8   MF Nicky Low 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
9   FW Rory Loy 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
10   FW Kevin Thomson 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
15   FW Kane Hemmings 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
16   DF Julen Etxabeguren 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
17   MF Nick Ross 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
18   MF Paul McGowan 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
19   DF Paul McGinn 5 0 1 0 0 0 6 0
21   DF Darren O'Dea 3 0 0 0 2 0 5 0
24   MF Andrew Black 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
26   DF Kostadin Gadzhalov 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
29   MF Gary Harkins 6 1 1 0 1 0 8 1
30   DF Cammy Kerr 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
35   MF Calvin Colquhoun 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Total 66 2 2 0 6 0 73 2

Team statistics

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation[a]
6 Ross County 38 14 6 18 55 61 −6 48
7 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 38 14 10 14 54 48 +6 52
8 Dundee 38 11 15 12 53 57 −4 48
9 Partick Thistle 38 12 10 16 41 50 −9 46
10 Hamilton Academical 38 11 10 17 42 63 −21 43
Source: Scottish Premiership, Soccerway (first phase), Soccerway (second phase)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification and second stage group allocation).[4]
Notes:
  1. ^ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

Division summary

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Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAAHHHA
ResultWLDWLDWLDWDLDDDDLLWLWWLDWDDDLDWDLWWLDL
Position14446656666777667767766656656876777788
Updated to match(es) played on 14 May 2016. Source: [5]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Management statistics

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Last updated on 14 May 2016
Name From To P W D L Win%[nb 1]
Paul Hartley[6] 1 August 2015 Present 38 11 15 12 028.95

Transfers

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Win% is the percentage of matches won rounded to two decimal places.

References

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