Club History - A Season in Time
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.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 2015-2016
League One Champions and celebrations our return to the Championship in March with five games to spare.
Read moreSeason 2013-2014
Under the ownership of Pars United, Dunfermline were relegated to League One.
Read moreSeason 2010-2011
Jim McIntyre`s team win the First Division Title
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 2005-2006
A total of 45 goals had been scored with Mark Burchill on 16 as top scorer.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 2002-2003
Dunfermline finished 5th with 46 points and Stevie Crawford bagged 23 goals to finish as the highest scoring Scot in the SPL.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 2000-2001
Dunfermline finished in 9th position as Jimmy Calderwood delivered on phase 1 and provided a season of improvement.
Read moreFootball 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.
Read moreSeason 1999-2000
Dick Campbell leaves, the Two Jimmies arrive and promotion achieved
Read moreFootball at the end of the twentieth century
Chris Wisharts potted history began with Football In The Glorious 60s
Read moreSeason 1997-1998
The Pars finished 8th, as Hibs were relegated. Despite Athletics poor season, Andy Smith scored 26 goals - the top native Scottish goalscorer
Read moreSeason 1996-1997
Paton`s Premier Pars. Dunfermline finishing 5th in the Bells Premier League.
Read moreSeason 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
Read moreSeason 1993-1994
Bert Paton takes over as Manager with Dick Campbell his assistant.
Read moreSeason 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
Read moreSeason 1988-1989
Pars bounce back up as champions and with Ross Jack as top scorer with 18 goals and John Watson with 16,
Read moreSeason 1986-1987
Norrie McCathie had played in all 46 games as Dunfermline finally made it to the Scottish Premier League.
Read moreSeason 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
Read moreSeason 1984-1985
Great improvement but it was glorious failure for Dunfermline
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 1978-1979
Promotion at third time lucky for Pars. Mike Leonard with 24 goals was voted the Second Division Players` Player of the Year
Read moreSeason 1977-1978
The Pars were condemned to yet another season in the basement.
Read moreSeason 1974-1975
No SPL for Dunfermline. Jim Leishman incurs serious injury.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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,
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.
Read moreReflections from 1964
Chris Wishart describes life as a Pars fan from 1964
Read moreSeason 1962-1963
Dunfermline finished 8th in a season memorable for its European ties against Everton and Valencia
Read moreSeason 1961-1962
4th in the League, Scottish Cup Semi-Finalists and the Quarter-Finalists in the European Cup Winners Cup.
Read moreSeason 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.
Read moreSeason 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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