Dunfermline Athletic

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Dunfermline Athletic
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Basic data
Surname Dunfermline Athletic
Football Club
Seat Dunfermline , Scotland
founding 1885
Colours White and black
president BulkheadsBulkheads Ross McArthur
Website dafc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach BulkheadsBulkheads Allan Johnston
Venue East End Park
Places 11,984
league Scottish Championship
2019/20 8th place
home
Away

Dunfermline Athletic (officially: Dunfermline Athletic Football Club ) - also known as The Pars - is a Scottish football club based in Dunfermline , the second largest city in the former coal district of Fife. The club plays its games at East End Park Stadium and is currently playing second-rate in the Scottish Championship .

history

From 1874 onwards, some Dunfermline Cricket Club players played football regularly during the winter to keep fit. Almost ten years later it became a separate department and this was split off from the cricket club. The Dunfermline Athletic Football Club was created, which still bears its original club name today. In 1909 the Central Football League was founded, which the club won in 1911 and 1912.

In the 1960s Dunfermline celebrated great success, in particular the wins of the Scottish FA Cup in 1961 and 1968. This helped the club to draw attention to itself on an international level. In the European Cup Winners' Cup 1968/69 they made it into the semi-finals and were eliminated from Czechoslovakia against the eventual winner Slovan Bratislava . The legendary coach Jock Stein was considered the founding father of the team's success at the time .

From the 2000/01 season Dunfermline played again in the top division, the Scottish Premier League . After seven seasons in the first division, the club was relegated to the second division in the 2006/07 season. Much more successful, on the other hand, was the appearance in the Scottish FA Cup , where they only lost in the final against Celtic Glasgow . Since Celtic was already qualified for international games, Dunfermline took part in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup as a second division team. There, however, the club was eliminated in the second qualifying round against the Swedish representative BK Häcken . Since December 4, 2007, the Scot Jim McIntyre has been the club's coach. As a coach, he led the Pars to 5th place and the following year to third in the First Division . In the 2010/11 season Dunfermline rose to the SPL in order to be relegated again directly in the next season. In early 2013, the club had to file for bankruptcy and give up several of the best players for financial reasons. The club was unable to compensate for this weakening and rose, via the relegation games, to the newly founded third division, the Scottish League One, at the end of the 2012/13 season. In October 2013, after the insolvency proceedings were over, the fan group "Pars United" took over the management of the club.

successes

Player and coach

Coach chronicle

1920-1970

  • William Knight (1922-1925)
  • Sandy Paterson (1925-1930)
  • William Knight (1930-1936)
  • ScotlandScotland David Taylor (1936-1938)
  • Peter Wilson (1938-1939)
  • ScotlandScotland Sandy Archibald (1939-1946)
  • William McAndrew (1947)
  • Bobby Calder (1947-1948)
  • Sandy Terris (1948-1949)
  • Webber Lees (1949-1951)
  • Tom Younger (1951–1952)
  • ScotlandScotland Bobby Ancell (1952-1955)
  • ScotlandScotland Andy Dickson (1955-1960)
  • ScotlandScotland Jock Stein (1960–1964)
  • Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Willie Cunningham (1964-1967)
  • ScotlandScotland George Farm (1967-1970)
  

1970-today:

  • ScotlandScotland Andy Stevenson (1970)
  • ScotlandScotland George Miller (1972-1975)
  • ScotlandScotland Jimmy Thomson (1975)
  • ScotlandScotland Harry Melrose (1975-1980)
  • ScotlandScotland Pat Stanton (1980-1982)
  • ScotlandScotland Jimmy Thomson (1982)
  • ScotlandScotland Tom Forsyth (1982-1983)
  • ScotlandScotland Jim Leishman (1983-1990)
  • ScotlandScotland Iain Munro (1990-1991)
  • ScotlandScotland Jocky Scott (1991-1993)
  • ScotlandScotland Bert Paton (1993-1999)
  • ScotlandScotland Dick Campbell (1999)
  • Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jimmy Nicholl (1999)
  • ScotlandScotland Jimmy Calderwood (1999-2004)
  • ScotlandScotland David Hay (2004-2005)
  • ScotlandScotland Jim Leishman (2005-2006)
  • IrelandIreland Stephen Kenny (2006-2007)
  • ScotlandScotland Jim McIntyre (2008-2012)
  • ScotlandScotland Jim Jefferies (2012-2014)
  • ScotlandScotland John Potter (2014-2015)
  • ScotlandScotland Allan Johnston (2015-)

Known players

1960s

1970s:

1980s:

 

1990s:

 

2000s:

Songs

Like every football club, the pars also have their hymen and club songs. Best known are "Into the Valley" by the former local punk band "The Skids", which is played at home meetings before kick-off, and Jimmy Shand's "Bluebell Polka", which is always played after the final whistle.

Rivalries

The traditionally biggest rivalries of Dunfermline Athletic are with the neighbors Raith Rovers ("Fife Derby") and with Falkirk, which lies on the other side of the river Forth. Further rivalries exist with the clubs Cowdenbeath and East Fife, which are also from Fife.

Web links

Commons : Dunfermline Athletic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scotcuphistfull.html#61 Overview of the cup round 1961 on RSSSF.com
  2. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scotcuphistfull.html#68 Overview of the cup round 1968 on RSSSF.com
  3. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/ec/ec196869.html#cwc Result overview of the Cup Der Pokalieger 1968 on RSSSF.com