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Football club
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Dundee United Football Club, known locally as United, is a scottish professional football club based in the city of Dundee, Scotland. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, [ 2 ] the golf club changed to the salute mention in 1923. [ 3 ] United are nicknamed The Terrors [ 4 ] or The Tangerines and the supporters are known as Arabs. [ 5 ] The club has played in tangerine kits since August 1969 and have played at the confront prime, Tannadice Park, since their foundation in 1909. United were founding members of the Scottish Premier League ( SPL ) in 1998 and were ever-present in the competition until it was abolished in 2013 to make way for the SPFL social organization. United were relegated by city rivals Dundee in 2016 to the scottish Championship, the moment grade of the SPFL, before being promoted back to the scots Premiership in 2020. domestically, the golf club has won the Scottish Premier Division on one occasion ( 1982–83 ), the scottish Cup twice ( 1994 and 2010 ) and the Scottish League Cup doubly ( 1979 and 1980 ). United appeared in european competition for the first meter in the 1966–67 season, going on to appear in Europe in 14 consecutive seasons from 1976. They besides reached the european Cup semi-finals in 1983–84 and the UEFA Cup final in 1987. The clubhouse contests the Dundee bowler hat with local rivals Dundee, the closest bowler hat in Britain as Dens Park stadium is located virtually adjacent door to Tannadice Park. [ 6 ]
history [edit ]
Chart of historic performance of Dundee United in the League .
Beginning ( 1909–1959 ) [edit ]
The clubhouse was formed as Dundee Hibernian in 1909, playing from the beginning at Tannadice Park. They were voted into the scottish Football League in 1910. After being saved from going out of business in October 1923, the club changed their name to Dundee United in order to widen their appeal. between 1925 and 1932 United were promoted and relegated between the first and second tier three times, winning the Second Division deed in 1925 and 1929. [ 7 ]
forwarding to the top Flight ( 1959–1971 ) [edit ]
The club took meaning strides fore when Jerry Kerr became coach in 1959. Kerr ‘s team won promotion in his beginning season in agitate and became an established team in the top flight, where they remained until 1995. [ 8 ] A key characteristic of Kerr ‘s reign was the tone of the act police squad with scandinavian imports, [ 8 ] most notably with the signings of Lennart Wing, Finn Dossing, Mogens Berg, Finn Seemann and Orjan Persson. It was during this period that United qualified for european competition for the inaugural time, eliminating Inter-Cities Fairs Cup holders Barcelona on their european introduction in 1966 .
Jim McLean era ( 1971–1993 ) [edit ]
Jim McLean took over from Kerr in 1971 and under his management the club enjoyed the most successful era in its history. McLean ‘s era became known for his youth policy and the offer of long-run contracts that would see future Scotland external players such as Dave Narey, Paul Sturrock, Paul Hegarty, Davie Dodds, Eamonn Bannon and Maurice Malpas spend the majority of their careers at the club. [ 9 ] United won their beginning major honor under McLean, capturing the Scottish League Cup in 1979 and again in 1980. [ 10 ] They were crowned Premier Division champions in 1982–83. The club were besides successful in Europe, reaching the european Cup semi-finals in 1984 and the UEFA Cup Final in 1987, [ 10 ] the latter campaign involving another elimination of Barcelona during the earlier rounds ( maintaining a 100 % record over the Spaniards in competitive european ties ). [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Despite losing to IFK Gothenburg in the concluding, the cabaret was awarded a FIFA Fair Play Award. [ 13 ] McLean retired as director in 1993, but remained as club president. [ 14 ]
scots Cup wins and relegation ( 1993–2016 ) [edit ]
United won the scots Cup for the beginning meter in 1994 under McLean ‘s successor Ivan Golac, but were relegated in 1995, before returning to the Premier Division a year later. Following a total of board changes, the club was purchased from McLean in 2002 by erstwhile Morning Noon and Night co-founder and foreman administrator Eddie Thompson. [ 15 ] A lifelong United fan, Thompson invested heavily in the team in a offer to compete with significant spend which had developed following the formation of the Scottish Premier League, however short build up was made until Craig Levein became coach in 2006. Levein established United as a circus tent six baseball club, regularly achieving european qualification before he left the baseball club to take the post as Scotland coach in 2009. With the foundations of the side in place, United won the scottish Cup for a second gear clock time in 2010 under the management of Peter Houston. After respective relatively successful seasons, a series of poor results in the Premiership led to United being relegated in 2016. [ 16 ]
scottish Championship and promotion battles ( 2016–2020 ) [edit ]
Dundee United ‘s first temper in the Championship was under the management of Ray McKinnon. United won the Challenge Cup by beating St Mirren 2–1 in the final and they reached the play-off final for the Premiership. however they lost narrowly 1–0 to Hamilton. The second season in the second tier was less successful, as director McKinnon was sacked and replaced with Csaba László ; after a very disappoint season, United lost in the play-off semi-final to eventual promotion winners Livingston. After a poor people start to the 2018–19 temper the director was once again sack and replaced with Robbie Neilson. The team finished second gear in the Championship but lost in the play-offs to St Mirren, missing four penalty kicks in the process. United started the 2019–20 season in style winning form, maintaining the top spot since the possibility weekend, but the season was postponed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic on 13 March 2020. On 15 April 2020, the SPFL design proposing an end to the season was approved. A 14-point lead over second place Inverness CT saw United crowned champions and subsequently promoted back to the Premiership. On 21 June 2020, the golf club announced that they were parting ways with coach Robbie Neilson, who agreed a batch to return to newly relegated side Heart of Midlothian .
scottish Premiership reappearance ( 2020 – present ) [edit ]
anterior to the begin of the Premiership season, Dundee United hired Tranmere Rovers director Micky Mellon to replace Neilson, and began their campaign at home to Tayside rivals St Johnstone, drawing 1–1. In their first season bet on in the top trajectory United finished in 9th place, whilst besides making a scots Cup semi final appearance, losing to Hibernian. In May 2021 Mellon departed the club, being replaced on 7 June by Tam Courts. [ 17 ]
Colours and badge [edit ]
Pre-1993 lion rampant design United ‘s playing kit consists of tangerine shirts and black shorts, first used when the team played under the Dallas Tornado nickname in the United Soccer Association contest of 1967, which they were invited to participate in after their first european excursion had created many headlines in the football world. [ 18 ] After persuasion by the wife of director Jerry Kerr, the color would soon be adopted as the baseball club ‘s own in 1969 to give the club a bright, more modern picture. The raw color was paraded for the first clock time in a pre-season friendly against Everton in August. When founded as Dundee Hibernian, they had followed the example of other clubs of similar inheritance by adopting the traditionally irish colours of green shirts and white shorts. By the time the club became Dundee United in 1923, the colours had been changed to white shirts and black shorts as they sought to appeal to a wider cross-section of the community. These colours persisted in assorted forms up until 1969, sometimes using plain shirts, but besides at assorted times including celtic -style across-the-board hoops, Queen ‘s Park -style narrow-minded hoops and an Airdrie -style “ V ” theme .
The award club badge was introduced in 1993, and saw the former leo rampant design rebranded in a new circular logo incorporating the club coloring material. [ 19 ] To mark the club ‘s centennial in 2009, a special version of the badge with an add “1909 2009 Centenary” logo was introduced for the duration of the 2009–10 season, along with extra k trimming on the badge, representing Dundee Hibernian ‘s tinge. previously, the leo had been represented on a elementary shield blueprint. Although this “ classical ” interpretation had been used as the golf club cap on the cover of the matchday program ampere early as 1956, it had never appeared on the players ‘ strip anterior to 1983. Since 1959, diverse early designs had been worn on the shirts, incorporating either the lion rampant or the letters DUFC, often on a circular badge. The club first introduced shirt sponsorship in the 1985–86 season when future president Eddie Thompson ‘s VG chain sponsored the club in the first of a biennial deal. A six-year association with Belhaven then ensued with a sponsorless 1993–94 season. Rover began a biennial bargain early in time for the 1994 scottish Cup concluding, sponsoring the club until the end of the 1995–96 season. Telewest took over sponsorship from 1996 for six years until Eddie Thompson ‘s Morning, Noon and Night started sponsoring the club in 2002. This association continued until 2006 when Anglian Home Improvements began a biennial batch with an optional third class. At the same time, Ole International became the first shorts sponsors. JD Sports ‘ Carbrini Sportswear trade name sponsored the club in the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons. United ‘s shirt patron from the 2016–17 season was McEwan Fraser Legal, before Utilita took over the sponsorship from 2018 until 2021. United ‘s current shirt sponsors are Eden Mill, who took over before the 2021-22 season. United have had a number of official kit suppliers, including Adidas, Hummel, Nike and most recently Macron .
Historical home kits [edit ]
c. 1909
c.1929–30
1986–87
1990–91
1993–94
1994–95
2006–07
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16
2016–17
2017–18
Alternative
1985–86
1989–91
1995–96
2002–03
2009–10
2013–14
2014–15
2016–17
2020–21
stadium [edit ]
Dundee United ‘s home ground throughout their history has been Tannadice Park, located on Tannadice Street in the Clepington area of the city. It is situated a mere 170 yards ( 160 molarity ) away from Dens Park, home of rivals Dundee ; [ 20 ] The club has only always played one home repair at another venue. This was a League Cup tie against Rangers in March 1947, when despite snow rendering Tannadice Park unplayable, the equal was able to go ahead across the road at Dens Park. Tannadice is presently an all-seater with a capacitance of 14,223. [ 1 ] The Main Stand, built in 1962, was the inaugural cantilever to be constructed at a scots football earth. [ 21 ] For farseeing periods of its history, alone a little symmetry of the flat coat contained seated accommodation. In the late 1980s the ground had 2,252 seats out of a full capacity of 22,310. [ 21 ]
Tannadice Park is situated equitable 300 metres from Dens Park, home of neighbours Dundee The comparative age and proximity of their stadiums has led to diverse discussions about the hypothesis of both Dundee clubs moving to a fresh, purpose-built shared stadium. The most late proposal was put forward as separate of Scotland ‘s bid to jointly host the UEFA Euro 2008 championship, [ 22 ] with several clubs seeking to benefit from a new stadium. [ 23 ] With planning permission given to a proposed site at Caird Park, [ 24 ] special dispensation was requested to proceed with the proposal, [ 25 ] as rules at the time forbid SPL teams from groundsharing. Following Scotland ‘s fail bid to host the tournament, the schema was shelved, [ 26 ] although it was resurrected in June 2008, following doubts about joint-host Ukraine ‘s ability to stage Euro 2012, and the SFA ‘s eagerness to act as an alternative server. [ 27 ]
League Attendance [edit ]
The mesa below displays Dundee United ‘s league attendances over the past decade. The highest attendance in that period came on 30 August 2019 when United beat their city rivals Dundee 6-2 in front a 14,108 crowd, their largest league attendance since 1998. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In the same season United besides set their highest average attendance and highest broken attendance of the ten, these records being set despite the club reside in the second grade of the scots Professional Football League at the clock time. The lowest attendance of the 2019–20 season was larger than the highest attendance of the former year, likely due to United ‘s hard performance. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] due to United ‘s failure to gain forwarding back to the scots Premiership over the former seasons and growing distrust of the club chair and owner, 2018–19 saw the lowest average attendance of the decade. [ 32 ] The lowest attendance was set the season before. [ 33 ] The mesa does not include playoff attendances .
Achievements [edit ]
league [edit ]
Dundee United ‘s first trophy came in 1925, when they won the 1924–25 Division Two backing. After two seasons in the top tier, they were relegated, but they won the Division Two title for a second time in 1928–29. Immediate relegation followed and the club finished runner-up in 1931–32. [ 7 ] Another runner-up spot was claimed in 1959–60, in director Jerry Kerr ‘s foremost temper, and from then cabaret remained in the acme division for the following 35-years. [ 8 ] Under Jim McLean ‘s management, the club won the Premier Division title for the alone time, in 1982–83, resulting in european Cup football the follow season. The title win was United ‘s survive major league success, although they finished runner-up in the First Division in 1995–96, after closely avoiding relegation the previous season, and in third place in their first season back in the Premier Division. A third base lower league title was added in 2019–20, after the suppression of the political campaign with United clear in 1st place .
Cups [edit ]
The club had to wait several decades before their first realistic chance at cup silverware, when they began the first of a six-game lose streak of scots Cup Final appearances in 1974, losing 3–0 to Celtic. Towards the end of the 1970s, things began to change, with three consecutive appearances in the League Cup Final. United won their inaugural major trophy with a 3–0 replay victory over Aberdeen in the 1979–80 Scottish League Cup Final. [ 34 ] The club reached both cup finals in the watch season ; while they retained the League Cup by winning 3–0 against rivals Dundee, [ 34 ] United lost out again in the scottish Cup with a replay defeat to Rangers. United reached a third consecutive League Cup Final in 1981–82, but failed to make it a hat-trick of wins as they lost 2–1 to Rangers. [ 34 ]
United suffered the agony of reaching three out of four scots Cup finals in the mid-1980s, only to lose them all by a individual goal. First came a 2–1 kill to Celtic in 1984–85, compounded by a 1–0 League Cup final personnel casualty to Rangers in the same season ; then a 1–0 frustration in extra time to St Mirren in 1986–87 ; and ultimately, a last-minute 2–1 loss against Celtic the watch year, despite being a goal ahead. [ 10 ] A three-year opening ensued before the 1990–91 scots Cup concluding, which pitted Jim McLean against his brother Tommy, at Motherwell. The final was won 4–3 by ‘Well, with United again losing in extra time. [ 14 ] The sixth Cup Final loss was besides the clubhouse ‘s fifth concluding appearance in eleven years. These defeats in cup finals at Hampden Park led to the Scottish football media claiming that United suffered from a Hampden hoodoo, as they had failed to win ten-spot cup finals played at the grate between 1974 and 1991. [ 35 ] When the club reached the 1994 scottish Cup Final, coach Ivan Golac dismissed talk of the juju, flush though opponents Rangers were strong favourites to complete a domestic soprano in the 1993–94 temper. [ 35 ] United broke the supposed hoodoo and won the scottish Cup for the first base clock when Craig Brewster ‘s goal gave them a 1–0 gain. [ 14 ] [ 35 ] Eleven years passed until the next scots Cup final appearance, when United lost 1–0 to Celtic in 2005. Sandwiched in the middle of these appearances was a kill on penalties to Stenhousemuir in the scottish Challenge Cup ( when United failed to concede a goal in the unharmed competition ) and a 3–0 kill to Celtic in the 1997 Scottish League Cup Final. United then lost the 2008 Scottish League Cup Final on penalties to Rangers after the match had finished 2–2 after supernumerary time. Dundee United won their following major trophy in 2010, under the guidance of director Peter Houston, when First Division side Ross County were defeated 3–0 in the 2010 scots Cup Final. [ 36 ] David Goodwillie scored the beginning goal and Craig Conway scored the moment and third goals. [ 36 ] United ‘s tenth appearance in the scots Cup final came in 2014, but the team lost 2–0 to St Johnstone at Celtic Park. The Tangerines reached the League Cup final the pursue class, but lost to Celtic in the final. Two years former, after the clubhouse ‘s relegation from the scots Premiership, they faced St Mirren in the 2017 Scottish Challenge Cup Final. United won the game 2–1, marking the cabaret ‘s first silverware since 2010 .
Europe [edit ]
The golf club ‘s beginning experience of Europe came in 1966–67 season when, helped by a batch of scandinavian players, United defeated Inter-Cities Fairs Cup holders FC Barcelona both home and away. Although Juventus proved besides strong in the future round with a 3–1 aggregate victory, United made headlines and were asked to compete as Dallas Tornado in the United Soccer Association league in North America during the summer of 1967. [ 8 ] In 1981–82 they began a period in which they were competitive in european rival. In a six-year spell they reached one UEFA final, another semi-final and two quarter finals. After their lone Premier Division acquire in 1983, the team reached the resulting semi-final of the european Cup in 1984, losing 3–2 on aggregate to Roma. In 1987, the club went one well, reaching the final of the UEFA Cup. Despite the 2–1 sum loss to IFK Gothenburg, the clubhouse won the first-ever FIFA Fair Play Award for their supporters ‘ sporting behavior after the final get the better of. [ 13 ]
Rivalries [edit ]
Dundee United ‘s traditional rivals are Dundee, with whom they compete in the Dundee bowler hat. The fixture was lacking a competitive element for a phone number of years until Dundee ‘s return to the top flight of the scots game. A alone component of the competition lies in the fact that the clubs ‘ stadiums are located within 100 yards of one another. In malice of their competition, the two sides previously contemplated ground-sharing as function of the SFA ‘s unsuccessful bid to host Euro 2008. possibly the most luminary meet was the final game of the 1982–83 Premier Division season, where if United were victors at Dens Park, they would clinch the top trajectory title ; United were victorious thanks to an Eamonn Bannon winner. Another intense repair is that of the New Firm derby between United and North-East rivals Aberdeen. The match itself became one of ferocious competition due to the domestic and european success the two sides achieved in the former 1970s and 1980s under the stewardship of United ‘s Jim McLean and Aberdeen ‘s Alex Ferguson. United besides share a competition with St Johnstone due to the relatively close proximity of Dundee and Perth, known as the Tayside bowler hat. The most luminary meeting between the two sides was in the 2014 scottish Cup Final, when St Johnstone won 2–0 at Celtic Park in United ‘s one-tenth final appearance .
Honours [edit ]
league [edit ]
Cups [edit ]
Europe [edit ]
early [edit ]
Youths [edit ]
Coaching staff [edit ]
Position
Name
Manager
Tam Courts
Assistant Manager
Liam Fox
Goalkeeping Coach
Tony Caig
Sporting Director
Tony Asghar
Head of Recruitment
David Byrne
Football Operations Manager
Ross Starke
Academy Director
Andy Goldie
Head Professional Performance Coach
Adam Asghar
Head of Talent ID & Recruitment
Chris McKean
Head of Player Pathway and Loans
Brian Grant
Player Transition Coach
Dave Bowman
Head Academy Physiotherapist
Jeff Clarke
Head of Player Development
Andy Payne
Lead Physical Performance Coach
Ewan Anderson
Head of Academy Coaching
Paul Cowie
Head of Academy Analysis
Aaron Butters
Head of Academy and Regional Goalkeeeping
Daniel Hoban
Under 18s Head Coach
Ryan Moon
Individual Development Coach Analyst
Liam Ross
Position Development Coach Analyst
Andrew Steeves
Academy Operations Manager
Ben Mitchell
Pre Academy Events Manager
Scott Madden
Player Care and Support Manager
Niall Nicolson
Head of Medicine
Marcin Szostak
Kit Coordinator
Andy Bryan
stream police squad [edit ]
First-team police squad [edit ]
- As of 10 October 2021[38]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
On loanword [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Noted players [edit ]
International players [edit ]
This is a tilt of early and stream players who have played at entire international horizontal surface while with the club. They are ordered by nationality and year of United introduction below. additionally, two goalkeepers – Pat Onstad ( Canada ) and Kémoko Camara ( Guinea ) – were both capped while at Tannadice yet never played a first-team game for United .
dormitory of fame [edit ]
The club launched its official Hall of Fame in 2008, with seven inaugural members. A far six players were inducted in January 2009 [ 39 ] and seven more in January 2010. Since then six players have been inducted each class .
Managers [edit ]
The first gear coach of Dundee Hibernian in 1909 was Pat Reilly. The baseball club ‘s longest service and most successful director, Jim McLean, held the put from 1971 to 1993, winning three major honours – the Scottish Premier Division title in 1982–83 and the Scottish League Cup doubly in 1979 and 1980. Two Dundee United managers have won the scottish Cup – Ivan Golac in 1994 and Peter Houston in 2010 .
Women ‘s team [edit ]
Dundee United announced in April 2015 that the club would be launching a women ‘s team, with the aim of entering the scottish league structure in 2016. [ 43 ] Gavin Beith was appointed as the team ‘s coach in June 2015. [ 44 ]
Honours [edit ]
References [edit ]
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