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1999–2000 Dundee United F.C. season

Field	Value
club	Dundee United F.C.
season	1999–2000
manager	Paul Sturrock
chairman	Jim McLean
stadium	Tannadice Park
league	Scottish Premier League
league result	8th
W:11 D:6 L:19 F:34 A:57 P:39
cup1	Tennent's Scottish Cup	cup1 result = Quarter-finals
cup2	CIS Insurance Cup	cup2 result = Semi-finals
league topscorer	Billy Dodds (9)
season topscorer	Billy Dodds (10)
highest attendance	12,375 (vs Celtic, 15 August)
lowest attendance	5,908 (vs Motherwell, 13 May)
prevseason	1998–99
nextseason	2000–01

W:11 D:6 L:19 F:34 A:57 P:39

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.

United were knocked out of both domestic cup competitions by Aberdeen – in the League Cup semi-finals and the Scottish Cup quarter-finals, both by a score of 1–0.

Review and events

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.

Match results

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.

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

All results are written with Dundee United's score first.

Bank of Scotland Premierleague

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
31 July 1999	Dundee	H	2–1	11,693	Sköldmark, Ferraz
7 August 1999	Motherwell	A	2–2	6,791	Dodds, Ferraz
15 August 1999	Celtic	H	2–1	12,375	Easton, Dodds
21 August 1999	Rangers	A	1–4	48,849	de Vos
29 August 1999	Kilmarnock	H	0–0	6,621
11 September 1999	Hibernian	H	3–1	8,167	Talesnikov, Hannah, Dodds
18 September 1999	Aberdeen	A	2–1	11,814	Hannah, Dodds
25 September 1999	Hearts	H	0–2	8,510
17 October 1999	Dundee	A	2–0	9,484	Dodds, Thompson
23 October 1999	Motherwell	H	0–2	6,213
27 October 1999	St Johnstone	A	0–1	4,236	Dodds
31 October 1999	Hibernian	A	2–3	11,073	Dodds, Talesnikov
6 November 1999	Aberdeen	H	3–1	8,170	Dodds (2), Paterson
20 November 1999	Kilmarnock	A	1–1	7,012	Hannah
27 November 1999	St Johnstone	H	1–0	6,367	Talesnikov
5 December 1999	Hearts	A	0–3	10,598
12 December 1999	Dundee	H	1–0	9,185	Ferraz
18 December 1999	Celtic	A	1–4	59,120	Ferraz
27 December 1999	Aberdeen	A	1–3	16,686	Hannah
22 January 2000	Hibernian	H	0–0	7,457
2 February 2000	Rangers	H	0–4	11,241
26 February 2000	St Johnstone	A	0–2	4,732
4 March 2000	Hearts	H	0–1	6,928
15 March 2000	Kilmarnock	H	2–2	6,966	Hannah, Ferraz
25 March 2000	Aberdeen	H	1–1	6,723	Ferraz
1 April 2000	Hibernian	A	0–1	10,261
4 April 2000	Rangers	A	0–3	45,721
8 April 2000	Kilmarnock	A	0–1	6,037
15 April 2000	Rangers	H	0–2	11,149
19 April 2000	Motherwell	A	3–1	4,271	Mathie, Hannah, de Vos
22 April 2000	Hearts	A	2–1	12,604	Mathie (2)
29 April 2000	St Johnstone	H	0–1	6,243
2 May 2000	Celtic	H	0–1	7,449
6 May 2000	Dundee	A	0–3	8,581
13 May 2000	Motherwell	H	1–2	5,908	Hamilton
21 May 2000	Celtic	A	0–2	47,586

Tennent's Scottish Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
30 January 2000	Airdrieonians	H	4–1	5,172	Hannah (2), Mathie, Ferraz
19 February 2000	Alloa	A	2–2	2,570	Hamilton (2)
22 February 2000	Alloa	H	4–0	4,913	Preget, Hamilton, Thompson (2)
12 March 2000	Aberdeen	H	0–1	6,733

CIS Insurance Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
18 August 1999	Ross County	H	3–1	4,682	Ferraz, Thompson (2)
12 October 1999	St Johnstone	A	2–1	4,805	Davidson, Talesnikov
1 December 1999	Motherwell	H	3–2	5,086	Dodds, Easton, Thompson
13 February 2000	Aberdeen	N	0–1	9,500

Player details

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.

Name	League	Cups	Total
	9	1	10
	6	2	8
	6	2	8
	1	5	6
	3	1	4
	3	1	4
	1	3	4
{{sortname	Jason	de Vos	Vos Jason}}	2	0
	0	2	2
	1	0	1
{{sortname	Magnus	Sköldmark	Skoldmark, Magnus}}	1	0
	0	1	1
	0	1	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.

Name	Cautions	Dismissals
	6	1
	6	1
	4	1
	3	1
	3	1
	2	1
	1	1
		1
	12
	9
	5
	4
{{sortname	Jason	de Vos	Vos, Jason}}	4
	3
	3
	1
	1
	1
	1
{{sortname	Magnus	Sköldmark	Skoldmark, Magnus}}	1
	1

Team statistics

League table

Transfers

In

Nine players were signed during the 1999–2000 season, with a total (public) transfer cost of around £750,000.

The players that joined Dundee United during the 1999–00 season, along with their previous club, are listed below.

Date	Player	From	Fee (£)
1 July 1999	SCO	Airdrie	Bosman
5 August 1999	ISR	Beitar Jerusalem	£450,000
17 August 1999	IRL	Shelbourne	Free
23 September 1999	AUS	Unattached (ex-Heerenveen)	Free
20 October 1999	CAN	Rochester Rhinos	£60,000
19 January 2000	SCO	Aberdeen	£150,000
17 February 2000	SCO	St Johnstone	£50,000
1 March 2000	ENG	Hednesford Town	£30,000
23 March 2000	WAL	Unattached (ex-Hearts)	Free
8 June 2000	ENG	Bolton Wanderers	url=http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=3&nID=498&cd=2000&cd1=6	title=United sign Hasney Aljofree	publisher=Dundee United F.C.	date=8 June 2000	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095225/http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=3&nID=498&cd=2000&cd1=6	archive-date=17 February 2012	df=dmy-all}}
8 June 2000	ENG	Aberdeen	url=http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=3&nID=499&cd=2000&cd1=6	title=Jamie Buchan joins United	publisher=Dundee United F.C.	date=8 June 2000	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095234/http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=3&nID=499&cd=2000&cd1=6	archive-date=17 February 2012	df=dmy-all}}

Out

Seven players left the club during the season with only one transfer – Billy Dodds to Rangers – bringing in a fee (£1.3m). The club made a transfer profit of around £500k for the season.

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

Date	Player	To	Fee
1 October 1999	BEL	Clyde	Released
30 November 1999	AUS	Livorno	Released
30 November 1999	FRA	Released (Retired)	Free
5 December 1999	SCO	Rangers	£1,300,000
20 December 1999	SCO	Ayr United	Released
11 April 2000	FRA	Panionios	Released
25 April 2000	ISL	ÍA	Released

Playing kit

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The jerseys were sponsored for the fourth consecutive season by Telewest.

Trivia

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.

References

"Dundee Utd 1999/2000 player appearances". Soccerbase.
"Dundee Utd 1999/2000 player appearances". Soccerbase.
"Dundee Utd's transfers in 1999/2000". Soccerbase.
(8 June 2000). "United sign Hasney Aljofree". Dundee United F.C..
(8 June 2000). "Jamie Buchan joins United". Dundee United F.C..

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