1999–2000 Dundee United F.C. season

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.

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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.

Dundee United played a total of 44 competitive matches during the 1999–2000 season.^[1] 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.

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

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.^[2]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bank of Scotland Premierleague		Scottish Cup		CIS Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	SCO	Alan Combe	43	0	35	0	4	0	4	0
2	DF	FRA	Bernard Pascual	39	0	32	0	3	0	4	0
3	DF	SCO	Maurice Malpas	17	0	12	0	2	0	3	0
4	MF	SCO	David Hannah	41	8	33	6	4	2	4	0
5	DF	CAN	Jason de Vos	40	2	35	2	2	0	3	0
6	DF	ISL	Siggi Jonsson	16	0	14	0	2	0	0	0
7	MF	SCO	Craig Easton	38	2	32	1	3	0	3	1
8	DF	SWE	Magnus Sköldmark	14	1	11	1	2	0	1	0
9	FW	SCO	Alex Mathie	17	4	12	3	3	1	2	0
10	FW	POR	Joaquim Ferraz	36	8	28	6	4	1	4	1
11	MF	SCO	Tony Smith	9	0	7	0	2	0	0	0
12	DF	SCO	Scott McCulloch	16	0	15	0	1	0	0	0
13	GK	SCO	Paul Gallacher	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	SCO	Billy Dodds	18	10	15	9	0	0	3	1
15	MF	ISR	Jan Talesnikov	30	4	25	3	2	0	3	1
16	DF	NIR	Iain Jenkins	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
17	MF	NIR	Darren Patterson	10	0	6	0	1	0	3	0
18	MF	SCO	Jim Paterson	8	1	8	1	0	0	0	0
19	FW	SCO	Steven Thompson	34	6	27	1	3	2	4	3
20	DF	EIR	David Worrell	15	0	13	0	0	0	2	0
21	DF	WAL	David Partridge	37	0	29	0	4	0	4	0
24	DF	FRA	Jean-Pierre Delaunay	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	FRA	Antoine Preget	7	1	4	0	2	1	1	0
25	FW	SCO	Stephen McConalogue	18	0	16	0	1	0	1	0
26	MF	SCO	Hugh Davidson	29	1	23	0	3	0	3	1
27	MF	GRE	Tassos Venetis	19	0	17	0	0	0	2	0
28	MF	EIR	David Byrne	10	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF	AUS	Raphael Bove	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
29	FW	SCO	Jim Hamilton	16	4	13	1	3	3	0	0
30	DF	SCO	John McQuillan	12	0	11	0	1	0	0	0
31	FW	ENG	Sean O'Connor	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	WAL	Leigh Jenkinson	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers [edit] 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.[2] Name League Cups Total Billy Dodds 9 1 10 Joaquim Ferraz 6 2 08 David Hannah 6 2 08 Steven Thompson 1 5 06 Alex Mathie 3 1 04 Jan Talesnikov 3 1 04 Jim Hamilton 1 3 04 Jason de Vos 2 0 02 Craig Easton 0 2 02 Jim Paterson 1 0 01 Magnus Sköldmark 1 0 01 Hugh Davidson 0 1 01 Antoine Preget 0 1 01

Discipline [edit] 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.[2] Name Cautions Dismissals Joaquim Ferraz 06 1 David Hannah 06 1 Craig Easton 04 1 Bernard Pascual 03 1 Darren Patterson 03 1 Steven Thompson 02 1 Antoine Preget 01 1 David McCracken 1 David Partridge 12 Jan Talesnikov 09 Alan Combe 05 Siggi Jonsson 04 Jason de Vos 04 Billy Dodds 03 John McQuillan 03 Jim Hamilton 01 Leigh Jenkinson 01 Alex Mathie 01 Jim Paterson 01 Magnus Sköldmark 01 Tassos Venetis 01

In [edit] 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 Tony Smith Airdrie Bosman[4] 5 August 1999 Jan Talesnikov Beitar Jerusalem £450,000[4] 17 August 1999 David Byrne Shelbourne Free[4] 23 September 1999 Raphael Bove Unattached (ex-Heerenveen) Free[4] 20 October 1999 Pat Onstad Rochester Rhinos £60,000[4] 19 January 2000 Jim Hamilton Aberdeen £150,000[4] 17 February 2000 John McQuillan St Johnstone £50,000[4] 1 March 2000 Sean O'Connor Hednesford Town £30,000[4] 23 March 2000 Leigh Jenkinson Unattached (ex-Hearts) Free[4] 8 June 2000 Hasney Aljofree Bolton Wanderers Free[5] 8 June 2000 Jamie Buchan Aberdeen Free[6]

Out [edit] 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 Tonny Mols Clyde Released[4] 30 November 1999 Raphael Bove Livorno Released[4] 30 November 1999 Jean-Pierre Delaunay Released (Retired) Free[4] 5 December 1999 Billy Dodds Rangers £1,300,000[4] 20 December 1999 Mark McNally Ayr United Released[4] 11 April 2000 Antoine Preget Panionios Released[4] 25 April 2000 Siggi Jonsson ÍA Released[4]

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

• 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.

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