- 2007–08 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season
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Dunfermline Athletic 2007-08 season Chairman John Yorkston Manager Jim McIntyre
(replaced Stephen Kenny in Dec 07)Scottish First Division 5th Scottish Cup Fourth Round, Losers v Partick Thistle (1–2) Scottish League Cup Third Round, Losers v Hearts (1–4) Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Losers v St Johnstone (2–3) UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round, Losers v BK Häcken (1–2) agg. Top goalscorer League: Mark Burchill (11)
All: Mark Burchill (15)Highest home attendance 4,946 (vs St Johnstone, 2 September 07) Lowest home attendance 2,444 (vs Hamilton Academical, 11 March 08) ← 2006–07 2008-09 → After 36 league games, Dunfermline Athletic finished 5th in the Scottish First Division with 51 points. Mark Burchill was the top scorer with 15 goals.
Contents
Review and Events
Dunfermline Athletic's first season after relegation from the Scottish Premier League started with disappointment. One win in seven games left them languishing in second last place and even more pressure was put on manager Stephen Kenny after they were knocked out of the UEFA Cup in the knockout qualifying round by Swedish minnows BK Häcken. Despite this the team managed to get to the final of the Scottish Challenge Cup, where they played against St Johnstone but lost 3-2.[1]
At the start of December, Stephen Kenny was sacked as manager of Dunfermline after just over a year in charge.[2] Jim McIntyre was immediately given the role of caretaker manager and after a successful run in which he won four out of six games, he was appointed as Dunfermline manager on a full time basis on the 3rd of January 2008. He signed a two-and-a-half year deal.[3] McIntyre started his reign by allowing 6 members of his squad to leave in order to try to cut the squad size down.[4] McIntyre's changes to the squad seemed to have a positive effect as the Pars eventually finished 5th overall, beating Queen of the South by 4 goals on the final day of the season.
Chronological list of events
This is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2007-08 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section.
- 4 August: Pre-season favourites Dunfermline get off to the worst possible start to the season, losing 2-1 to Hamilton Academical[5]
- 8 August: Played a testimonial match for Scott Thomson against Manchester United, losing 4-0 with Wayne Rooney scoring two of United's goals.[6]
- 4 December: After a disappointing start to the season, manager Stephen Kenny was sacked with the Pars in second bottom of the First Division. Striker Jim McIntyre was made caretaker manager.[7]
- 3 January: Jim McIntyre was appointed manager of Dunfermline full-time after notching up four wins and two draws as caretaker of the club.[8]
- 11 January: Jim McIntyre picks up the First Division Manager of the Month award for December.[9]
- 31 January: New manager Jim McIntyre has a major clear out at the club in the January transfer window, getting rid of four players on deadline day.[10]
- 1 February: Stirling Midfielder Steven Bell signs a pre-contract agreement with Dunfermline to become Jim McIntyre's first signing.[11]
- 18 April: Manager Jim McIntyre announces that both Mark Burchill and Stephen Simmons have rejected new contracts, while Scott Thomson signed a new one year deal.[12]
- 26 April: The final game of the season sees Dunfermline demolish Queen of the South 4-0, leaving the Pars final position being 5th.[13]
League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 4 Queen of the South 36 14 10 12 47 43 +4 52 UEFA Cup 2008–09 Second qualifying round 5 Dunfermline Athletic 36 13 12 11 36 41 −5 51 6 Partick Thistle 36 11 12 13 40 39 +1 45 Updated to games played on 11 August 2008
Source: statto.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.Results
Friendlies
Pre-season
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: dafc.netBBC Sport website
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Mid-season
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: dafc.co.uk
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.League
August
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.September
Home team Score Away team Additional information Dundee 1 – 1 Dunfermline Athletic Clyde 2 – 1 Dunfermline Athletic Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.October
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.November
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.December
Home team Score Away team Additional information Dunfermline Athletic 0 – 1 Dundee Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 1 Clyde Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.January
Home team Score Away team Additional information Dundee 0 – 0 Dunfermline Athletic Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.February
Home team Score Away team Additional information Clyde 1 – 2 Dunfermline Athletic Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.March
Home team Score Away team Additional information Dunfermline Athletic 0 – 1 Dundee Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.April
Home team Score Away team Additional information Dunfermline Athletic 2 – 1 Clyde Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Cups
Scottish Cup
Fourth Round
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Scottish League Cup
Third Round
Home team Score Away team Additional information Heart of Midlothian 1 – 1
4 – 1 (a.e.t.)Dunfermline Athletic Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Scottish Challenge Cup
Second Round
Home team Score Away team Additional information Clyde 1 – 4 Dunfermline Athletic Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Third Round
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Semi-Finals
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Final
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.UEFA Cup
Second qualifying round
Home team Score Away team Additional information Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 1 Häcken Häcken 1 – 0
2 – 1 (agg.)Dunfermline Athletic Source: BBC Sport: Dunfermline Athletic
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Fife Cup
Semi-Final
Home team Score Away team Additional information Source: Dunfermline Athletic Website
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.Stats
Squad
No. Nat Pos Player Total Irn-Bru First Division Scottish Cup CIS Insurance Cup Scottish Challenge Cup Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals GK Paul Gallacher 34 0 30 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 GK Roddy McKenzie¹ 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GK Sean Murdoch¹ 6 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 GK Greg Paterson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF Souleymane Bamba 18 0 13 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 DF Stuart Dearden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF Jamie Harris¹ 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF Aaron Labonte 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 DF Phil McGuire¹ 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF Scott Morrison 15 1 13 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 DF Danny Murphy¹ (on loan from Motherwell) 13 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 DF Greg Ross 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF Greg Shields 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DF Scott Thomson 25 0 23 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 DF Scott Wilson 31 2 27 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 DF Calum Woods 30 0 25 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 MF Stephen Glass 37 6 31 4 1 0 1 0 4 2 MF Kevin Harper 14 4 11 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 MF Scott McBride 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MF Michael McGlinchey¹ (on loan from Celtic) 7 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 MF Owen Morrison¹ 9 3 5 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 MF Scott Muirhead 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MF Nick Phinn 14 1 12 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 MF Bobby Ryan¹ 9 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 MF Stephen Simmons 31 4 25 3 1 0 1 1 4 0 MF Iain Williamson 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 MF Paul Willis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MF Darren Young 16 0 15 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ST Mark Burchill 32 15 28 11 1 0 0 0 3 4 ST Alex Burke 11 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ST Stephen Crawford 31 3 27 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 ST Jim Hamilton¹ 20 4 17 3 1 0 1 1 1 0 ST Jim McIntyre 7 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 ST Tam McManus¹ 12 1 9 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Notes:
- ¹ Denotes player left the club during the season.
- Player substitutions are not included.
Goalscorers
Fifteen players have scored for the Pars first team during the 2007-08 season, with 48 goals being scored in total. The top goalscorer was Mark Burchill with 15 goals.[14]
Name League Cups Europe Total Mark Burchill 11 4 15
Stephen Glass 4 2 6
Kevin Harper 4 4
Stephen Simmons 3 1 4
Jim Hamilton 3 1 4
Stevie Crawford 3 3
Owen Morrison 1 2 3
Scott Wilson 2 2
Alex Burke 1 1
Jim McIntyre 1 1
Tam McManus 1 1
Scott Morrison 1 1
Nick Phinn 1 1
Scott Thomson 1 1
Iain Williamson 1 1
Transfers
In
Player From Date Fee Kevin Harper
Stoke City 7 July 2007 Free[15] Stephen Glass
Hibernian 17 July 2007 Free[16] Paul Gallacher
Norwich City August 20, 2007 Loan[17] Danny Murphy
Motherwell November 2, 2007 Loan[18] Michael McGlinchey
Celtic November 10, 2007 Loan[19] Paul Gallacher
Unattached January 1, 2008 Free[20] Alex Burke
St. Mirren February 5, 2008 Loan[21] Alex Burke
St Mirren 7 March 2008 Free[22][23] Out
Player To Date Fee Jamie McCunnie
Hartlepool United 15 June 2007 Free[24] Gary Mason
St Mirren June 28, 2007 Free[25] Frédéric Daquin
Dundee July 5, 2007 Free[26] Dorus de Vries
Swansea July 6, 2007 Free[27] Andy Tod
Raith Rovers July 11, 2007 Free[28] Calum Smith
Brechin City July 25, 2007 Free[29] David Muir
East Fife September 25, 2007 Free Phil McGuire
Inverness CT August 31, 2007 Loan[30] Bobby Ryan
St Patrick's Athletic January 9, 2008 £11K[31] Phil McGuire
Inverness CT January 14, 2008 Undisclosed[32] Jim Hamilton
St Mirren January 30, 2008 Undisclosed[33] Aaron Labonte
Finn Harps January 31, 2008 Loan[33] Roddy McKenzie
Unattached January 31, 2008 Free[33] Jamie Harris
St Patrick's Athletic January 31, 2008 Undisclosed[33] Scott McBride
Arbroath February 8, 2008 Loan Owen Morrison
Derry City February 14, 2008 Free[34] Tam McManus
Colorado Rapids March 28, 2008 Free[35] Kit
Supplier: Adidas
Sponsor(s): The Purvis GroupReferences
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External links
- Official Site: 2007-08 fixtures
- BBC Sport - Club Stats
- Soccerbase - Results | Squad stats | Transfers
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