1999–2000 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton

1999–2000 season
Manager	Jimmy Brown
Stadium	Boghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League Division 3	6th
Scottish Cup	Second Round
Scottish League Cup	First Round
Bell's Challenge Cup	First Round
Top goalscorer	League: Paddy Flannery (14) All: Paddy Flannery (16)
Highest home attendance	3,031
Lowest home attendance	324
Average home league attendance	581
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

Season 1999–2000 was the 123rd football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 93rd time, the Scottish Cup for the 105th time, the Scottish League Cup for the 53rd time and the Scottish Challenge Cup for the ninth time.

Overview

Season 1999-2000 would be one of the most memorable for Dumbarton, but not because of any titles won or lost, but because this would be the last season that the club would play at their famous Boghead Park. Dumbarton's home had been here for the past 121 years - the longest that any British football club had stayed at any home ground. Now the ground had been sold and Dumbarton would move to a new purpose built stadium at the foot of Dumbarton Rock.

The season itself was unremarkable. Three promotion places were up for grabs due to the addition of Elgin City and Peterhead the following season, however despite an encouraging start there was never a real chance of a top three finish and in the end a midtable 6th place was achieved. It would be the final game however that would define the whole campaign. As it was a crowd in excess of 3,000 turned out to bid farewell to the old ground and with it a fine victory over promoted East Fife.

In the national cup competitions, there was little to cheer. In the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton lost to Stenhousemuir in the second round.

In the League Cup, after a win over Brechin City, Dundee would easily dispatch Dumbarton in the second round.

With new found sponsorship, the Scottish Challenge Cup was re-instated, but the same old failures beset Dumbarton - yet another first round defeat, this time to Airdrie.

Locally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton lost their two group ties.

Results

Win

Draw

Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Main article: 1999–2000 Scottish Football League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
7 August 1999	Albion Rovers	A	3-1	King;Melvin(2)	308
14 August 1999	Montrose	H	3-4	Flannery(2);Brown	436
21 August 1999	East Fife	A	0-1		591
28 August 1999	Brechin City	A	2-0	King;Flannery	357
4 September 1999	Berwick Rangers	H	2-1	Flannery;Robertson	324
11 September 1999	Queen's Park	H	0-1		539
18 September 1999	East Stirling	A	3-1	Templeman(3)	284
25 September 1999	Cowdenbeath	H	1-1	Robertson	424
2 October 1999	Forfar Athletic	A	0-5		397
16 October 1999	Montrose	A	4-1	Grace;Flannery;Smith(2)	274
23 October 1999	Albion Rovers	H	1-1	Smith	590
30 October 1999	Queen's Park	A	2-3	Ward;Bradford	713
6 November 1999	East Stirling	H	1-0	Bradford	415
14 November 1999	Berwick Rangers	H	1-0	Bradford	415
20 November 1999	Brechin City	H	1-3	Flannery	447
27 November 1999	Forfar Athletic	H	3-3	Flannery;Robertson;Stewart	469
8 December 1999	Cowdenbeath	A	2-0	Brown;Robertson	262
18 December 1999	Albion Rovers	A	0-3		257
3 January 2000	East Stirling	A	1-2	Flannery	308
22 January 2000	Cowdenbeath	H	2-0	Flannery;Brown	469
29 January 2000	Queen's Park	H	1-1	Flannery	492
5 February 2000	Forfar Athletic	H	3-4	Flannery;Robertson;Smith	439
12 February 2000	Brechin City	A	2-1	Flannery;Brown	278
26 February 2000	Montrose	H	3-2	King;Robertson;Hringsson	482
4 March 2000	East Fife	A	1-2	Watters	436
11 March 2000	Queen's Park	A	0-2		788
14 March 2000	Berwick Rangers	H	0-2		330
18 March 2000	East Stirling	H	3-0	Dillon;Hringsson;Watters	367
25 March 2000	Brechin City	H	2-1	Brittain;Grace	365
28 March 2000	East Fife	H	1-1	Hringsson	394
1 April 2000	Berwick Rangers	H	0-0		560
8 April 2000	Cowdenbeath	A	2-1	Flannery(2)	284
15 April 2000	Forfar Athletic	H	0-0		474
22 April 2000	Albion Rovers	H	0-0		415
29 April 2000	Montrose	A	1-2	King	267
6 May 2000	East Fife	H	2-1	King;Robertson	3,031

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
8 January 2000	2	Stenhousemuir	H	0-2		302

Scottish League Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
31 July 1999	1	Brechin City	A	2-0	Flannery(2)	346
17 August 1999	2	Dundee	A	0-4		2,765

Bell's Challenge Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 Scottish Challenge Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
10 August 1999	1	Airdrie	A	1-2	Dillon	826

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
14 July 1999	P	Stirling Albion	A	0-3
17 July 1999	P	Alloa Athletic	H	2-3	King;Brown	118

Other Matches

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
27 July 1999	Kilmarnock	H	2-6	King;Gow

Appearances

Dumbarton used 28 players for the 39 League, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup and Scottish Challenge Cup matches, as detailed below. Joe Robertson was best by appearing in all of these matches.

Player	Position	Appearances	Goals
Derek Barnes	GK	26
Steven Bonar	MF	3
John Bradford	FW	6	3
Craig Brittain	DF	40	1
Alan Brown	MF	0(3)
Andy Brown	FW	31(7)	4
Jamie Bruce	DF	25
Michael Dickie	DF	36
John Dillon	MF	16(10)	2
Paul Finnigan	DF	2
Paddy Flannery	FW	31(2)	16
Chris Gentile	MF	0(2)
Alex Grace	MF	29(1)	2
Hreinn Hringsson	FW	3(11)	3
Stephen Jack	MF	38
Toby King	FW	36	5
Kevin McCann	DF	3
John McCormack	DF	8(10)
Scott McHarg	FW	2(8)
Kenny Meechan	GK	14
Billy Melvin	MF	10(1)	2
Martin Melvin	DF	1(8)
Joe Robertson	FW	36(3)	7
Chris Smith	FW	9(11)	4
Dave Stewart	DF	22	1
Chris Templeman	FW	3	3
Hugh Ward	FW	4(10)	1
Willie Watters	FW	6(3)	2

Youth Team

Dumbarton played an under 19 team in the Scottish Youth Division B, and with 6 wins and 4 draws from 26 games, finished 9th of 10.

See also

• 1999–2000 in Scottish football

External links

• Scottish Football Historical Archive