Dundee FC

Dundee FC
	Dundee FC
Basic data
Surname	Dundee Football Club
Seat	Dundee , Scotland
founding	1893
president	Tim Keyes
Website	dundeefc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach	James McPake
Venue	Dens Park
Places	12,085
league	Scottish Championship
2019/20	3rd place

The FC Dundee (officially: Dundee Football Club ) - founded in 1893 - is a professional football club from Dundee , Scotland . After their relegation from the Scottish First Division in 2019, they play in the Scottish Championship .

Club history

The Dundee FC team in 1893

Dundee has two professional clubs: Dundee FC and Dundee United . The games between the two clubs are called Dundee Derby . The venues of the two clubs are on the same street and only about 100 meters apart. Matches between these two clubs have the record status in Great Britain as the "away game with the shortest journey".

In 1893, Dundee FC was founded as a union of the two teams "Our Boys" and "East End". The first Scottish championship game took place for the new club on August 12, 1893, which ended with a 3: 3 against Glasgow Rangers . Dundee moved to its still current stadium, Dens Park , in 1899 .

The club was comparatively unsuccessful in its early days. By the 1950s, when they won the Scottish League Cup twice, they had only won the Scottish Cup once in 1910 .

Dundee won the championship in the highest Scottish league, which at the time was still called "First Division", only once. Under the direction of Bob Shankly , brother of Bill Shankly , and with players like Alan Gilzean , they won the title in 1962. In the following season, the club reached the semi-finals of the renowned European Cup . After victories against 1. FC Cologne , Sporting Lisbon and RSC Anderlecht, they lost to AC Milan .

After that golden era in the early 1960s, successes became very rare. Dundee FC won the league cup again in 1973, and in 1998, under Jocky Scott, they were able to end a four-year dry spell in the Scottish second division and return to the SPL.

In 2000, the club made its most spectacular new signing than the striker in the Argentine national football team , Claudio Caniggia committed, who later moved to Glasgow Rangers.

In 2003 FC Dundee got into severe financial turmoil, as a result of which a number of top players such as Fabian Caballero and Giorgi Nemsadze had to leave the club. The consolidation course paid off after focusing primarily on promoting young players from within its own ranks. Nevertheless, they finished the 2004/05 season from bottom of the table in the SPL and had to go to the First Division. The direct return to the top Scottish league did not succeed in the following second division season 2005/06. In the 2006/07 season, the Dees finished in 3rd place, in 2007/08 on 2nd place.

In November 2010, the Scottish Football Association ("SFA") took FC Dundee with a 25-point deduction after opening bankruptcy proceedings. After seven years in the second division, FC Dundee rose again in 2012 to the SPL. As the runner-up in the "First Division" in the 2011/12 season actually not qualified for promotion, the club benefited from the bankruptcy proceedings and the associated exclusion of the Glasgow Rangers from the SPL.