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cinch League One (home) v Alloa Athletic, Saturday 4th March 2023, kick off 3.00pm at The KDM Group East End Park

At the start of the season it seemed like Dunfermline were playing Alloa Athletic every week but these sides have not met since October. The two League One matches have been won by the Pars but Alloa won the Premier Sports Cup tie on penalties.

Milestones v Alloa Athletic (home)

Last home win | 30/07/22 | 1-0 | League One
Last home defeat | 28/12/19 | 1-3 | Championship
Best home win: | 30/01/58 | 8-1 | Second Division
Worst home defeat: | 11/09/1886 | 4-8 | Scottish Cup
Last home goalless draw | 15/09/18 | 0-0 | Championship
First home league meeting: | 10/09/21 | 0-1 | Division Two

Last Time at KDM Group East End Park
Saturday 30th July 2022, League One

Dunfermline got off to a winning start in this league season opener and it took a goal from an intended cross to hit the net to collect the points.

James McPake made a double substitution 63 minutes into the game, Joe Chalmers and Kevin O`Hara being replaced by Nikolay Todorov and Craig Wighton. It took a further ten minutes before the much sought after first league goal was scored. Receiving a pass back to him from Wighton, Matty TODD went scurrying down the left and as he began to run out of room slung the ball across field with the effect of finding the far side of the net. 1-0

DUNFERMLINE: Deniz Mehmet: Aaron Comrie, Kyle Benedictus (c), Rhys Breen, Josh Edwards: Paul Allan: Kyle Macdonald, Matthew Todd, Joe Chalmers (Nikolay Todorov 63): Kevin O`Hara (Craig Wighton 63), Lewis McCann
SUBS NOT USED: Miller Fenton, Jake Rennie, Michael Beagley, Sam Young, Andrew Tod, Max Little (GK)

ALLOA ATHLETIC: Jay Hogarth: George Stanger, Mark Durnan (c) (Paul McLaren 72), Scott Taggart, Daniel Church: Kevin Cawley, Murray Miller, Adam King: Stefan Scougall: Ross MacIver, Conor Sammon (Bradley Rodden 72)
SUBS NOT USED: Seff Khyyam, Jamie Comrie, Steven Buchanan, Majid Suleyman, Keir Burt (GK).

Last 12 meetings against Alloa Athletic

Four Alloa wins, five Dunfermline wins with three drawn in the last twelve meetings.`¨`¨
08/10/22 | Alloa Athletic 0 Dunfermline 3 | League One
30/07/22 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 0 | League One
23/07/22 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 1 | Premier Sports Cup
30/04/21 | Alloa Athletic 1 Dunfermline 0 | Championship
20/02/21 | Dunfermline 2 Alloa Athletic 1 | Championship
24/10/20 | Alloa Athletic 1 Dunfermline 4 | Championship
28/12/19 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 3 | Championship
09/11/19 | Alloa Athletic 2 Dunfermline 1 | Championship
28/09/19 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 1 | Championship
07/09/19 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 2 | Tunnock`s CW Cup
09/03/19 | Alloa Athletic 0 Dunfermline 1 | Championship
05/01/19 | Dunfermline 2 Alloa Athletic 2 | Championship

Recent Form

Alloa have won four of their last seven league games but lost three of their last six, twice against Falkirk and once at Airdrie. No one in the league has a better home record than Alloa but they have won only three league games away from home all season.

Dunfermline have lost only once in their last eighteen matches and that was away against Championship side, Dundee. Since then they have won three and drawn two.

Last six matches

DUNFERMLINE
Queen of the South (A) W 2-0
Airdrieonians (H) D 1-1
Airdrieonians (A) W 4-3
Montrose (H) W 2-0
Clyde (A) D 1-1
Dundee (A) L 2-4

ALLOA ATHLETIC
Montrose (H) L 0-1
Falkirk (A) L 0-1
Falkirk (H) D 1-1
Peterhead (H) W 1-0
Airdrieonians (A) L 0-4
Falkirk (H) L 1-2

League Record

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 1st
League Points: 56
Goal Difference: +26
Home League Record: P12 W6 D6 L0 GF19 GA9
Last Six Match Form: LDWWDW

ALLOA ATHLETIC
League Position: 4th
League Points: 42
Goal Difference: +7
Away League Record: P13 W3 D4 L6 GF16 GA22
Last Six Match Form: LLWDLW

Last time out

DUNFERMLINE (v Queen of the South: Deniz Mehmet: Aaron Comrie, Kyle Benedictus (c), Rhys Breen: Kane Ritchie-Hosler, Joe Chalmers, Matthew Todd (Chris Hamilton 78), Josh Edwards: Chris Mochrie (Paul McGowan 55): Craig Wighton (Kevin O`Hara 62), Nikolay Todorov (Lewis McCann 78)
SUBS NOT USED: Kyle Macdonald, Ewan Otoo, Paul Allan, Robbie Mahon, Max Little (GK).

ALLOA ATHLETIC (v Montrose): Jay Hogarth: Scott Taggart, George Stanger, Daniel Church: Michael Doyle, Quinn Coulson, Murray Miller (Jon Robertson HT), : Stefan Scougall (Mark Durnan 82), Luke Strachan (Adam King HT): Ross MacIver, Connor Sammon (Luke Donnelly HT).
SUBS NOT USED: Andy Graham, Cameron O`Donnell, Luke Rankin, Rayan Mohammad.

Other League One fixtures

Falkirk v Peterhead
Kelty Hearts v FC Edinburgh
Montrose v Clyde
Queen of the South v Airdrieonians

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