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1998–99 Dundee United F.C. season

Field	Value
club	Dundee United
season	1998–99
manager	Tommy McLean (until 5 September 1998)
Paul Sturrock (from 5 September 1998)
chairman	Jim McLean
stadium	Tannadice Park
league	Scottish Premier League
league result	9th
W:8 D:10 L:18 F:37 A:48 P:34
cup1	Tennent's Scottish Cup	cup1 result = Semi-finals
cup2	Coca-Cola Cup	cup2 result = Third round
league topscorer	Billy Dodds (16)
season topscorer	Billy Dodds (17)
highest attendance	12,788 (vs Rangers, (12 September 1998)
lowest attendance	6,449 (vs Dunfermline, (23 September 1998)
prevseason	1997–98
nextseason	1999–00

Paul Sturrock (from 5 September 1998) W:8 D:10 L:18 F:37 A:48 P:34

Season review

United finished the 1998–99 SPL season in 9th place with 34 points, in the SPL's debut season.

The cup campaigns brought mixed fortunes: a League Cup 3rd round exit to Ross County was bettered by a Scottish Cup semi-final loss to Celtic.

Bank of Scotland Premierleague

Main article: 1998–99 Scottish Premier League

Nevin Burchill Adamczuk Olofsson Grant Olofsson Vareille Amoruso Jonsson McCulloch Miller Easton Durrant Brannan Wallace Thompson Olofsson Dodds Hannah Larsson Skoldmark Spencer , Cameron Miller Olofsson Lowndes Smith Grady McSwegan Adam Cameron

Tennent's Scottish Cup

Main article: 1998–99 Scottish Cup

Gardner Patterson Olofsson , Skoldmark Viduka

Coca-Cola Cup

Main article: 1998–99 Scottish League Cup

Boli

Player details

During the 1998–99 season, United used 35 different players comprising 11 nationalities, plus two unused substitutes. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player. |}

Goalscorers

United had 17 players score with the team scoring 47 goals in total. The top goalscorer was Billy Dodds, who finished the season with 17 goals.

Name	League	Cups	Total
	16	1	17
	7	3	10
	3	1	4
	2	0	2
	2	0	2
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	0	1	1
	0	1	1
	0	1	1
	0	1	1
{{sortname	Magnus	Sköldmark	Skoldmark, Magnus}}	0	1

Discipline

During the 1998–99 season, four United players were sent off and 23 players received at least one caution. In total, the team received four red cards and x yellows.

Name	Cautions	Dismissals
	7	1
{{sortname	Magnus	Sköldmark	Skoldmark, Magnus}}	2
		1
		1
	6
	6
	4
	4
	4
	3
	2
	2
	2
	2
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1

Team statistics

League table

Transfers

In

Seventeen players were signed during the 1998–99 season, with a total (public) transfer cost of over £1.75m. One loan signing was also made during the season.

The players that joined Dundee United during the 1998–99 season, along with their previous club, are listed below.

Date	Player	From	Fee (£)
12 June 1998	SCO	St Mirren	Bosman
1 July 1998	SCO	Aberdeen	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=5456	title=Joe Miller	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=9 November 2007	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204642/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=5456	archive-date= 30 September 2007	url-status= live}}
9 July 1998	SCO	Stoke City	Free
10 July 1998	NIR	Luton Town	Bosman
15 July 1998	FRA	Walsall	£0,150,000
31 July 1998	BEL	Lokeren	Free
31 July 1998	PER	Unattached	Free
6 August 1998	FRA	Le Havre	Bosman
23 September 1998	SCO	Aberdeen	Swap
12 October 1998	CAN	Darlington	£0,400,000
16 October 1998	SCO	Ipswich Town	£0,600,000
5 February 1999	SCO	Celtic	£0,300,000
11 February 1999	SCO	Unattached (ex-Rangers	Free
26 February 1999	SCO	Dunfermline Athletic	£0,300,000
11 March 1999	WAL	West Ham	£0,040,000
29 March 1999	IRL	Blackburn Rovers	£0,050,000
1 April 1999	SCO	Unattached (ex-Celtic	Free

Loans in

Date	Player	From	Duration
19 February 1999	ENG	Coventry City	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=10543	title=The Internet Soccer Database: John Eustace	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=9 November 2007	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071127151910/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=10543	archive-date= 27 November 2007	url-status= live}}

Out

Fourteen players left the club during and at the end of the 1998–99 season, with one player also going out on loan. The club received £900k in transfer fees, amounting to around half of the transfer expenditure.

Listed below are the players that left during the season, along with the club that they joined. Players did not necessarily join their next club immediately.

Date	Player	From	Fee (£)
31 August 1998	PER	Released	Free
23 September 1998	SCO	Aberdeen	£0,700,000
10 October 1998	SCO	Heart of Midlothian	Bosman
16 October 1998	SCO	Falkirk	Free
22 October 1998	FRA	AFC Bournemouth	£0,100,000
5 November 1998	SCO	St Mirren	Released
1 February 1998	ENG	Chester City	Released
26 February 1999	SCO	Dunfermline Athletic	Swap
25 March 1999	SCO	Reading	£0,100,000
2 June 1999	SCO	Ayr United	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=2191	title=The Internet Soccer Database: Neil Duffy	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=23 October 2007	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071001144222/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=2191	archive-date= 1 October 2007	url-status= live}}
11 June 1999	NED	Ipswich Town	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=2245	title=The Internet Soccer Database: Sieb Dykstra	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=23 October 2007	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071001212012/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=2245	archive-date= 1 October 2007	url-status= live}}
18 June 1999	SWE	Moss	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=11111	title=The Internet Soccer Database: Kjell Olofsson	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=23 October 2007	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001201747/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=11111	archive-date=1 October 2007	url-status=live}}
23 June 1999	SCO	Wigan	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=5210	title=The Internet Soccer Database: Brian McLaughlin	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=23 October 2007	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071001202602/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=5210	archive-date= 1 October 2007	url-status= live}}
30 June 1999	SCO	Mainz	url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=5732	title=The Internet Soccer Database: Neil Murray	publisher=Soccerbase	access-date=23 October 2007	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204451/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=5732	archive-date= 30 September 2007	url-status= live}}

Loans out

Date	Player	From	Duration
18 September 1998	ENG	Barnet	3 months

Playing kit

{{Football kit	pattern_la =	pattern_b = _black_lowleft_highright	pattern_ra =	leftarm = FC6916	body = FC6916	rightarm = FC6916	shorts = 000000	socks = FC6916	title = Home colours	{{Football kit	pattern_la =	pattern_b = _black_lowleft_highright	pattern_ra =	leftarm = FFFFFF	body = FFFFFF	rightarm = FFFFFF	shorts = FFFFFF	socks = FFFFFF	title = Away colours

The jerseys were sponsored for a third time by Telewest.

Trivia

Joe Miller, who signed from Aberdeen, scored two goals during his time with United – both against Aberdeen.
United led eventual champions Celtic in three of the four league matches in 1998–99 but only managed to take one point.
United's highest and lowest home attendances occurred in consecutive matches at Tannadice – nearly 13,000 watched United in a goalless draw against Rangers while less than 6,500 turned up eleven days later to watch them play Dunfermline. It was the second season in a row that United's lowest home attendance was against the Pars.

References

"Dundee Utd 1998/1999 player appearances". Soccerbase.
"Dundee Utd's transfers in 1997/1998". Soccerbase.
"Joe Miller". Soccerbase.
"Dundee Utd's transfers in 1998/1999". Soccerbase.
"The Internet Soccer Database: John Eustace". Soccerbase.
"The Internet Soccer Database: Neil Duffy". Soccerbase.
"The Internet Soccer Database: Sieb Dykstra". Soccerbase.
"The Internet Soccer Database: Kjell Olofsson". Soccerbase.
"The Internet Soccer Database: Brian McLaughlin". Soccerbase.
"The Internet Soccer Database: Neil Murray". Soccerbase.

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