1924–25 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee 1924–25 football season

Dundee

1924–25 season

Manager

Sandy MacFarlane
(until Feb. 1925)

Stadium

Dens Park

Division One

8th

Scottish Cup

Finalists

Top goalscorer

League: Dave Halliday (19)
All: Dave Halliday (24)

Home colours

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The 1924–25 season was the thirtieth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where they would finish in 8th place.^[1] Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would make it all the way to the final for the second time in their history. Despite David McLean putting the Dee ahead at half-time, they would concede two late goals and be defeated in the final by Celtic.^[2]

Scottish Division One

Statistics provided by Dee Archive.^[2]

Match Day	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Dundee Scorer(s)	Attendance
1	16 August	Celtic	H	0–0		22,000
2	23 August	Partick Thistle	A	1–1	Halliday
3	30 August	Heart of Midlothian	H	6–0	Halliday (4), McLean (2)	17,000
4	6 September	St Mirren	A	1–2	Halliday
5	13 September	Kilmarnock	H	3–1	Halliday, Nicholson (2)
6	20 September	Motherwell	A	1–4	Thomson
7	27 September	Queen's Park	H	2–4	Halliday (2)
8	4 October	St Johnstone	A	2–1	Duncan (2)
9	11 October	Greenock Morton	H	0–0
10	18 October	Aberdeen	A	0–0		18,000
11	25 October	Hibernian	A	2–4	McDonald, Halliday	10,000
12	1 November	Third Lanark	H	1–2	Duncan
13	8 November	Ayr United	A	0–1
14	15 November	Cowdenbeath	H	1–1	Duncan
15	22 November	Hamilton Academical	A	1–4	Irving
16	29 November	Raith Rovers	H	2–0	Halliday, McDonald
17	6 December	Rangers	H	0–0		20,000
18	13 December	Falkirk	A	2–1	Halliday, McLean
19	20 December	Airdrieonians	H	3–2	Duncan, Thomson, Brown
20	25 December	Third Lanark	A	0–3
21	27 December	Greenock Morton	A	1–1	Hunter
22	1 January	Aberdeen	H	2–0	Halliday, Duncan	13,000
23	3 January	Partick Thistle	H	0–2
24	5 January	Raith Rovers	A	3–4	McDonald, McLean, Duncan
25	10 January	Kilmarnock	A	1–4	Hunter
26	17 January	Falkirk	H	1–0	Halliday
27	31 January	Cowdenbeath	A	0–2
28	10 February	Rangers	A	0–2		5,000
29	14 February	Hamilton Academical	H	2–0	Duncan, Halliday
30	25 February	Ayr United	H	1–0	Halliday
31	28 February	Celtic	A	0–4		8,000
32	10 March	Queen's Park	A	1–0	Gilmour
33	14 March	Motherwell	H	1–0	W. Rankin
34	28 March	St Johnstone	H	2–0	Halliday, Duncan
35	4 April	Hibernian	H	3–0	McLean, Halliday (2)	13,000
36	15 April	St Mirren	H	0–2
37	18 April	Heart of Midlothian	A	0–1		6,000
38	22 April	Airdrieonians	A	1–1	W. Rankin

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
6	St Mirren	38	18	5	15	66	63	+3	41
7	Partick Thistle	38	14	10	14	60	61	−1	38
8	Dundee	38	14	8	16	47	54	−7	36
9	Raith Rovers	38	14	8	16	53	61	−8	36
10	Heart of Midlothian	38	12	11	15	64	68	−4	35

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Scottish Cup

Statistics provided by Dee Archive.^[2]

Match Day	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Dundee Scorer(s)	Attendance
1st round	24 January	Johnstone	H	5–0	Halliday (3), J. Rankin, McLean
2nd round	7 February	Lochgelly United	H	2–1	Duncan, W. Rankin
3rd round	21 February	Airdrieonians	H	3–1	McLean, Duncan, Halliday
Quarter-finals	7 March	Broxburn United	H	1–0	Halliday
Semi-finals	21 March	Hamilton Academical	H	1–1	Duncan
SF replay	24 March	Hamilton Academical	A	2–0	McLean, J. Rankin
Final	11 April	Celtic	N	1–2	McLean	75,317

Player statistics

Statistics provided by Dee Archive

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		First Division		Scottish Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	FW	SCO	John Barclay	2	0	2	0	0	0
	GK	SCO	Jock Britton	44	0	37	0	7	0
	DF	SCO	Finlay Brown	21	1	18	1	3	0
	MF	SCO	Hugh Coyle	4	0	4	0	0	0
	FW	SCO	Charlie Duncan	34	12	28	9	6	3
	FW	SCO	George Gibson	3	0	3	0	0	0
	DF	SCO	Jock Gilmour	20	1	13	1	7	0
	FW	SCO	Davie Halliday	43	24	36	19	7	5
	FW	SCO	Jimmy Hunter	19	2	18	2	1	0
	MF	EIR	Sam Irving	35	1	28	1	7	0
	FW	SCO	Willie Knox	17	0	16	0	1	0
	MF	SCO	Crawford Letham	4	0	4	0	0	0
	GK	ENG	Bill Marsh	1	0	1	0	0	0
	FW	SCO	Jock McDonald	31	3	28	3	3	0
	FW	SCO	Davie McLean	40	9	33	5	7	4
	MF	SCO	Colin McNab	25	0	21	0	4	0
	FW	SCO	George Nicholson	10	2	10	2	0	0
	FW	SCO	John Rankin	18	2	11	0	7	2
	DF	SCO	Willie Rankin	39	3	32	2	7	1
	MF	SCO	Dave Robb	3	0	3	0	0	0
	DF	SCO	Jock Ross	36	0	32	0	4	0
	DF	SCO	David Thomson	42	2	36	2	6	0
	MF	SCO	Jock Thomson	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF	SCO	Norman Wilson	3	0	3	0	0	0

References

^ "Match results". deearchive.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2020-07-22. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Results for Dundee for 1924-25". londonhearts.com. Archived from the original on 2021-02-05. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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