Dunfermline Athletic

Club History - A Season in Time


Season 2019-2020

Season 2019-2020 Covid denied The Pars the chance of a play off place. Kevin Nisbet scored an impressive 32 goals in his debut and only season at the club.

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Season 2017-2018

Season 2017-2018 The Pars made the promotion play-offs but unfortunately the play-off opponents were Dundee United and after a 0-0 draw at East End Park, the bogey struck again when despite being the better team, Dunfermline lost 2-1 at Tannadice.

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Season 2015-2016

Season 2015-2016 League One Champions and celebrations our return to the Championship in March with five games to spare.

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Season 2013-2014

Season 2013-2014 Under the ownership of Pars United, Dunfermline were relegated to League One.

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Season 2010-2011

Season 2010-2011 Jim McIntyre`s team win the First Division Title

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Season 2009-2010

Season 2009-2010 The Pars to finish third, with 58 points. Top scorer was Andy Kirk with 17 from only 28 appearances. Top for appearances was Wullie Gibson with 42, followed by Austin McCann and Nick Phinn, both with 39.

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Season 2008-2009

Season 2008-2009 Athletic finished third on 51 points with a goal difference of 8. They scored 65 goals in all competitions, with Andy Kirk top scorer with 16 goals.

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Season 2005-2006

Season 2005-2006 A total of 45 goals had been scored with Mark Burchill on 16 as top scorer.

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Season 2003-2004

Season 2003-2004 Scottish Cup Finalists, a return to Europe next season confirmed. The team had finished 4th with 53 points, they had scored 63 goals in all competitions with the top scorer being Stevie Crawford with 17 goals.

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Season 2002-2003

Season 2002-2003 Dunfermline finished 5th with 46 points and Stevie Crawford bagged 23 goals to finish as the highest scoring Scot in the SPL.

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Season 2001-2002

Season 2001-2002 Dunfermline finished 6th with 45 points. Top scorer was Stevie Crawford with only 9 goals. Marco Ruitenbeek managed 11 shut outs. Barry Nicholson played 41 games with Andrius Skerla and Stevie Crawford both on 40.

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Season 2000-2001

Season 2000-2001 Dunfermline finished in 9th position as Jimmy Calderwood delivered on phase 1 and provided a season of improvement.

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Football in the new century

Football in the new century The Pars entered the new century in the old first division (now the Championship), but with Jimmy Calderwood at the helm there were good times ahead.

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Season 1999-2000

Season 1999-2000 Dick Campbell leaves, the Two Jimmies arrive and promotion achieved

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Football at the end of the twentieth century

Football at the end of the twentieth century Chris Wisharts potted history began with Football In The Glorious 60s

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Season 1997-1998

Season 1997-1998 The Pars finished 8th, as Hibs were relegated. Despite Athletics poor season, Andy Smith scored 26 goals - the top native Scottish goalscorer

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Season 1996-1997

Season 1996-1997 Paton`s Premier Pars. Dunfermline finishing 5th in the Bells Premier League.

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Season 1994-1995

Season 1994-1995 Dunfermline had only lost four games all season and had scored a total of 83 goals with Stewart Petrie top scorer with 21 goals. The Pars lost out to Aberdeen in Premier League play-off

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Season 1993-1994

Season 1993-1994 Bert Paton takes over as Manager with Dick Campbell his assistant.

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Season 1989-1990

Season 1989-1990 Istvan Kozma arrives, Dunfermline top of the SPL in November. Survival in the Premier League, Harry Melrose appointed General Manager, Ross Jack top native Scot scorer in SPL, with 21 goals. Iain Munro replaces Jim Leishman as manager

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Season 1988-1989

Season 1988-1989 Pars bounce back up as champions and with Ross Jack as top scorer with 18 goals and John Watson with 16,

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Season 1986-1987

Season 1986-1987 Norrie McCathie had played in all 46 games as Dunfermline finally made it to the Scottish Premier League.

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Season 1985-1986

Season 1985-1986 Centenary season, Pars win Second Division title by two points from Queen of the South. 91 goals with John Watson scoring 31 goals. Ian Westwater had 21 shut outs

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Season 1984-1985

Season 1984-1985 Great improvement but it was glorious failure for Dunfermline

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Season 1983-1984

Season 1983-1984 The Pars finished 9th in Scotland`s third tier. Hugh Whyte (43), Norrie McCathie (42) and Stevie Morrison (39) led the way for appearances, Stevie Morrison was top scorer with 10 and Hugh Whyte managed 11 shut outs.

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Season 1979-1980

Season 1979-1980 Dunfermline finish 10th place, Sandy McNaughton was top scorer with 19 goals, well in front of anyone else. Despite playing in a higher division, crowds were down to an average of around 2,600.

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Season 1978-1979

Season 1978-1979 Promotion at third time lucky for Pars. Mike Leonard with 24 goals was voted the Second Division Players` Player of the Year

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Season 1977-1978

Season 1977-1978 The Pars were condemned to yet another season in the basement.

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Season 1974-1975

Season 1974-1975 No SPL for Dunfermline. Jim Leishman incurs serious injury.

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Season 1973-1974

Season 1973-1974 Once again saved by goal difference. Captain Alex Kinninmonth and Ken Mackie appeared in all 46 matches. Ken Mackie was top scorer with 17 goals.

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Season 1972-1973

Season 1972-1973 The Highest Scoring Team In British Senior Soccer! Dunfermline win promotion back into the top division and in doing so, had scored 101 goals in all competitions. Graham Shaw led the way with 26 goals, Ken Mackie 24 and Dennis Nelson 15.

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Season 1968-1969

Season 1968-1969 A glorious run in Europe provided the highlight to the season, but it should not be ignored that the Club finished third in the League and qualified again for Europe.

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Season 1967-1968

Season 1967-1968 A season which had started badly, ended with silverware in the cabinet, a finish of 4th in the League and European Football to look forward to again

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Season 1966-1967

Season 1966-1967 Unusual but no qualification for Europe. After netting 29 goals this season Alex Ferguson left. As if that was not bad enough, Willie Cunningham announced, in June1967, that he was resigning.

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Season 1965-1966

Season 1965-1966 The team had to be content with a 4th place finish and no silverware. What should not be forgotten, though, was that 94 League goals had been scored and well over a hundred in all competitions.

Alex Ferguson scored 39 goals of his own with Bert Paton on 25,

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Season 1964-1965

Season 1964-1965 After all 56 games The Pars had come so close to a treble and closer still to a League and Cup double.

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Reflections from 1964

Reflections from 1964 Chris Wishart describes life as a Pars fan from 1964

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Season 1962-1963

Season 1962-1963 Dunfermline finished 8th in a season memorable for its European ties against Everton and Valencia

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Season 1961-1962

Season 1961-1962 4th in the League, Scottish Cup Semi-Finalists and the Quarter-Finalists in the European Cup Winners Cup.

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Season 1960-1961

Season 1960-1961 Jock Stein more than achieved his aim to make Dunfermline an established top rate club. They finished safely in 12th place, won the Scottish Cup and had European Football to look forward to.

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Season 1959-1960

Season 1959-1960 Dunfermline finished 13th, 7 points clear of second bottom club Stirling Albion. Top scorer was Charlie Dickson with a remarkable 29 goals. Jock Stein`s team were not only unbeaten but had won every game under his charge.

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