1996–97 Dumbarton F.C. season

Season 1996–97 was the 120th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 90th time, the Scottish Cup for the 102nd time, the Scottish League Cup for the 50th time and the Scottish Challenge Cup for the seventh time.

Overview

It was a mystery to most Dumbarton supporters, after the failures of the previous season, that manager Jim Fallon had retained his position - and that decision was to prove disastrous as the league campaign started off in the same poor manner as the previous one. By the end of October, Dumbarton had one win to show for 11 league matches, and had sunk to second bottom place, resulting in Jim Fallon's resignation. Within a week Ian Wallace, one of the club's brightest stars of the 70's had been installed, and things began to take a turn for the better. Three wins on the trot in November saw Wallace named as Second Division manager of the month, but it wasn't to last. Results began again to go downhill, but even with 3 games left it was within Dumbarton's own hands whether a second successive relegation would occur. A last minute defeat to Stranraer and an uninspiring loss to Queen of the South meant that they had to better any result that Stranraer could achieve on the last day. As it was a win over Brechin City was not enough, and it would be Third Division football next season for the first time in the club's history.

In the national cup competitions, the drought on wins extented for a fifth season. In the Scottish Cup Cowdenbeath defeated Dumbarton in the second round.

In the League Cup, Premier Division Dundee beat Dumbarton, also in the second round.

Finally, in the Challenge Cup, in what was now becoming an embarrassment - a seventh first round defeat in seven attempts was registered - this time to Montrose.

Locally, in the Stirlingshire Cup the misery was continued with a defeat to Falkirk.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Main article: 1996–97 Scottish Football League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
17 August 1996	Stranraer	H	1-1	Dallas	560
24 August 1996	Queen of the South	A	1-2	Meechan	1,127
31 August 1996	Brechin City	H	1-1	McGivern	650
7 September 1996	Clyde	A	1-0	Ward	721
14 September 1996	Livingston	H	2-4	McKinnon;Ward	762
21 September 1996	Berwick Rangers	H	1-3	Ward	326
28 September 1996	Stenhousemuir	H	1-1	Meechan	524
5 October 1996	Ayr United	H	1-3	Dallas	939
12 October 1996	Hamilton	A	0-2		533
19 October 1996	Stranraer	A	0-2		460
26 October 1996	Queen of the South	H	1-2	OG	562
2 November 1996	Livingston	A	0-5		1,941
9 November 1996	Clyde	H	2-2	McKinnon;Wilson	724
16 November 1996	Stenhousemuir	H	1-0	Meechan	564
23 November 1996	Berwick Rangers	H	1-0	Ward	601
30 November 1996	Ayr United	A	4-1	McKinnon;Ward;Glancy(2)	1,773
14 December 1996	Hamilton	H	1-3	Wilson	733
26 December 1996	Stranraer	H	2-2	Sharp;Meechan	686
28 December 1996	Brechin City	A	1-2	Granger	356
11 January 1997	Berwick Rangers	H	3-0	King;Ward;Glancy	346
18 January 1997	Ayr United	H	1-1	Sharp	801
21 January 1997	Stenhousemuir	H	0-2		470
1 February 1997	Hamilton	A	0-4		505
8 February 1997	Livingston	H	2-3	McKinnon;Mooney	503
22 February 1997	Queen of the South	A	0-4		908
1 March 1997	Brechin City	H	1-2	Hringsson	411
4 March 1997	Clyde	A	1-2	Hringsson	480
8 March 1997	Berwick Rangers	H	2-2	Sharp;Hringsson	446
15 March 1997	Stenhousemuir	H	4-1	Sharp;King;Glancy;Wilson	376
22 March 1997	Ayr United	A	1-1	Meechan	1,575
5 April 1997	Hamilton	H	0-3		718
12 April 1997	Clyde	H	2-0	Ward;Wilson	554
19 April 1997	Livingston	A	2-1	Sharp;Meechan	1,579
26 April 1997	Stranraer	A	0-1		739
3 May 1997	Queen of the South	H	0-3		643
10 May 1997	Brechin City	A	3-0	Glancy(2);Reilly	620

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1996–97 Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
13 January 1997	2	Cowdenbeath	A	0-1		294

Scottish League Cup

Main article: 1996–97 Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
13 August 1996	2	Dundee	A	1-2	Dallas	1,872

Scottish Challenge Cup

Main article: 1996–97 Scottish Challenge Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
10 August 1996	1	Montrose	A	0-2		309

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
28 July 1996	1	Falkirk	A	1-2	unknown

Appearances

Dumbarton used 31 players for the 39 League, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup and Scottish Challenge Cup matches, as detailed below. Jim Meechan was best by appearing in all of these matches.^[1]

Player	Position	Appearances^[2]	Goals
Derek Barnes	GK	12
Jamie Bruce	DF	9
Stephen Dallas	FW	16(1)	3
Billy Davidson	DF	13(4)
Peter Dennison	GK	2
Martin Glancy	FW	25(9)	6
Joe Goldie	MF	1(3)
Stevie Gow	DF	23(3)
Alan Granger	FW	3(5)	1
Hrienn Hringsson	FW	3	3
Toby King	MF	30	2
Ian MacFarlane	GK	11
Jim Marsland	MF	33(1)
Gerry McCabe	MF	4
Ross McCuaig	FW	0(1)
Jim McGall	FW	0(6)
Martin McGarvey	MF	10(5)
Sam McGivern	MF	1(1)	1
Graeme McKenzie	DF	4(1)
Colin McKinnon	MF	37	4
Jim Meechan	MF	39	6
Kenny Meechan	GK	14
Adrian Mellis	MF	1
Martin Melvin	DF	24(1)
Martin Mooney	FW	21(4)	1
Gordon Parks	FW	4
David Reid	DF	0(1)
Robert Reilly	FW	2(6)	1
John Scott	MF	0(2)
Lee Sharp	FW	38	5
Hugh Ward	FW	28(9)	7
Willie Wilson	MF	21	4

References

↑ McAllister, Jim (2002). The Sons of the Rock - The Official History of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton: J&J Robertson Printers.
↑ Substitute appearances in brackets.

External links

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Domestic leagues	Football League Premier Division First Division Second Division Third Division Highland League

Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Challenge Cup (Final) Junior Cup

European competitions	Champions League UEFA Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup

Related to national team	Results 1998 World Cup qualifying (Group 4)

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Premier Division	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Motherwell Raith Rovers Rangers

First Division	Airdrieonians Clydebank Dundee East Fife Falkirk Greenock Morton Partick Thistle St. Johnstone St. Mirren Stirling Albion

Second Division	Ayr United Berwick Rangers Brechin City Clyde Dumbarton Hamilton Academical Livingston Queen of the South Stenhousemuir Stranraer

Third Division	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Arbroath Cowdenbeath East Stirlingshire Forfar Athletic Inverness Caledonian Thistle Montrose Queen's Park Ross County

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