The 1999–2000 season was the 91st year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000. United finished in eighth place, an improvement on last year's ninth-place finish, despite accumulating fewer points in this campaign.
Summary
United were knocked out of both domestic cup competitions by Aberdeen – in the League Cup semi-final's and the Scottish Cup quarter-finals, both by a score of 1–0.
United sold top scorer Billy Dodds to Rangers at the start of December and immediately the club's fortunes changed. Sitting third in the league, the club would win only one of the next fourteen league games and three in total for the rest of the season. In fact, United lost 11 of the last 13 matches, consigning them to eighth place. Such was Dodds' impact that he finished top scorer, despite only playing the first four months of the season with the club.
Dundee United played a total of 44 competitive matches during the 1999–2000 season. The team finished eighth in the Scottish Premier League.
In the cup competitions, United were knocked out of the Scottish Cup at the quarter-finals stage, losing 1–0 to Aberdeen. The same team knocked United out of the CIS Insurance Cup, this time at the semi-final stage. Both matches finished 1–0.
Nine players were signed during the 1999–2000 season, with a total (public) transfer cost of around £750,000.
Seven players left the club during the season with only one transfer – Billy Dodds to Rangers – bringing in a fee of £1.3m. The club made a transfer profit of around £500k for the season.
The club's playing kits were sponsored by Telewest for the fourth consecutive season.
Joaquim Ferraz's six league goals came in consecutive games – three times. He found the net in the first two matches of the season, had a fourteen-game gap until two in his next two games before taking six matches to fire his next two goals. He only finished on the losing side once after scoring in the league.
Fixtures and results All results are written with Dundee United's score first.
Scottish Premier League
DateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceScorers 31 July 1999 DundeeH2–111,693Sköldmark, Ferraz 7 August 1999 MotherwellA2–26,791Dodds, Ferraz 15 August 1999 CelticH2–112,375Easton, Dodds 21 August 1999 RangersA1–448,849de Vos 29 August 1999 KilmarnockH0–06,621 11 September 1999 HibernianH3–18,167Talesnikov, Hannah, Dodds 18 September 1999 AberdeenA2–111,814Hannah, Dodds 25 September 1999 Heart of MidlothianH0–28,510 17 October 1999 DundeeA2–09,484Dodds, Thompson 23 October 1999 MotherwellH0–26,213 27 October 1999 St JohnstoneA0–14,236Dodds 31 October 1999 HibernianA2–311,073Dodds, Talesnikov 6 November 1999 AberdeenH3–18,170Dodds (2), Paterson 20 November 1999 KilmarnockA1–17,012Hannah 27 November 1999 St JohnstoneH1–06,367Talesnikov 5 December 1999 Heart of MidlothianA0–310,598 12 December 1999 DundeeH1–09,185Ferraz 18 December 1999 CelticA1–459,120Ferraz 27 December 1999 AberdeenA1–316,686Hannah 22 January 2000 HibernianH0–07,457 2 February 2000 RangersH0–411,241 26 February 2000 St JohnstoneA0–24,732 4 March 2000 Heart of MidlothianH0–16,928 15 March 2000 KilmarnockH2–26,966Hannah, Ferraz 25 March 2000 AberdeenH1–16,723Ferraz 1 April 2000 HibernianA0–110,261 4 April 2000 RangersA0–345,721 8 April 2000 KilmarnockA0–16,037 15 April 2000 RangersH0–211,149 19 April 2000 MotherwellA3–14,271Mathie, Hannah, de Vos 22 April 2000 Heart of MidlothianA2–112,604Mathie (2) 29 April 2000 St JohnstoneH0–16,243 2 May 2000 CelticH0–17,449 6 May 2000 DundeeA0–38,581 13 May 2000 MotherwellH1–25,908Hamilton 21 May 2000 CelticA0–247,586
Scottish Cup
DateRoundOpponentVenueResultAttendanceScorers 30 January 2000 Third round AirdrieoniansH4–15,172Hannah (2), Mathie, Ferraz 19 February 2000 Fourth round Alloa AthleticA2–22,570Hamilton (2) 22 February 2000 Fourth round replay Alloa AthleticH4–04,913Preget, Hamilton, Thompson (2) 12 March 2000 Quarter–finals AberdeenH0–16,733
Scottish League Cup
DateRoundOpponentVenueResultAttendanceScorers 18 August 1999 Second round Ross CountyH3–14,682Ferraz, Thompson (2) 12 October 1999 Third round St JohnstoneA2–14,805Davidson, Talesnikov 1 December 1999 Quarter–finals MotherwellH3–25,086Dodds, Easton, Thompson 13 February 2000 Semi–finals AberdeenN0–19,500
Player statistics During the 1999–00 season, United used 29 different players, with a further three named as substitutes who did not make an appearance on the pitch. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.
Goalscorers Thirteen players scored for the United first team with the team scoring 52 goals in total. Despite leaving the club in early December and playing only eighteen matches, Billy Dodds was the top goalscorer, scoring ten goals. NameLeagueCupsTotal91 1062 862 815 631 431 413 420 202 210 110 101 101 1
Discipline During the 1999–2000 season, eight United players were sent off, and twenty players received at least one yellow card. In total, the team received eight dismissals and 70 cautions. NameCautionsDismissals 6 1 6 1 4 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 12 9 5 4 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1
Competitions League table
Transfers
In Date Player From Fee 1 July 1999 Airdrieonians Bosman 5 August 1999 Beitar Jerusalem £450,000 17 August 1999 Shelbourne Free 23 September 1999 Heerenveen Free 20 October 1999 Rochester Rhinos £60,000 19 January 2000 Aberdeen £150,000 17 February 2000 St Johnstone £50,000 1 March 2000 Hednesford Town £30,000 23 March 2000 Heart of Midlothian Free 8 June 2000 Bolton Wanderers Free Aberdeen Free
Out Date Player To Fee 1 October 1999 Clyde Released 30 November 1999 Livorno Released 30 November 1999 Retired 5 December 1999 Rangers £1,300,000 20 December 1999 Ayr United Free 11 April 2000 Panionios Free 25 April 2000 ÍA Free
References
External links Soccerbase Results Squad stats Transfers