2025–26 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee
2025–26 season
ChairmanTim Keyes
Head coachSteven Pressley
StadiumDens Park
Scottish Premiership9th
Scottish CupFourth round
League CupGroup stage
Top goalscorerLeague: Finlay Robertson
& Ryan Astley (1)
All: 3 players (2)
Highest home attendance7,825 vs. Hibernian, 2 August 2025 (Prem.)
Lowest home attendance1,808 vs. Montrose, 26 July 2025 (League Cup GS)
Average home league attendance7,825

The 2025–26 season is the 124th season in which Dundee will compete at a Scottish national level, and the 101st season played in the highest division in the Scottish football league system. They will play in the Scottish Premiership for the third consecutive season after finishing 10th in the previous campaign.[1] Dundee competed in the Scottish League Cup, exiting at the group stage, and will also compete in the Scottish Cup.

Season summary

Pre-season

On 19 May 2025, the day following Dundee confirming their top flight status for the 2025–26 season, manager Tony Docherty and his entire backroom staff were relieved of their duties.[2] Managerless Dundee announced their first friendly date on 30 May, an away trip to Gayfield Park to face Arbroath on 28 June.[3] On 2 June, Dundee announced that Steven Pressley was the club's new head coach.[4] Another friendly was announced on 4 June against Brechin City at Glebe Park.[5]

Dundee played their first friendly on 28 June away to Arbroath, and beat the Lichties 0–2 amid very blustery conditions.[6] They followed up the week after with another comfortable away win over Angus opposition in a win against Brechin City.[7]

July

Dundee started off their competitive season at Dens against Championship side Airdrieonians, and were beaten and left scoreless in an ominous display to mark Pressley's return to management.[8] Things managed to get even worse the following week with another goalless defeat against lower league opposition as League One side Alloa Athletic all but knocked Pressley's discordant Dees out of the tournament in the middle of July.[9] In the midweek, Pressley got his first win as two late headers gave Dundee an away win over Lowland League club Bonnyrigg Rose.[10] In a dead rubber at home to Montrose to finish the group stage, the Dee managed a late flurry of goals to end with a comfortable 5–0 victory.[11]

August

Dundee began their Premiership campaign by welcoming Hibernian to Dens Park, and fell to a defeat as two quickfire first-half goals from Hibs striker Kieron Bowie proved too much for Pressley's side to come back from.[12] Things improved dramatically the following week against a Rangers side fresh off playing well in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, with a late controversial penalty denying the Dee a first win at Ibrox since 2001 but still leaving them with a valuable first point of the season.[13]

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

All times are in British Summer Time (BST).

Pre-season and friendlies

28 June 2025 Friendly Arbroath 0–2 Dundee Gayfield Park, Arbroath
15:00 Report
  • Wright 48'
  • McDermott (trialist) 68'
 Attendance: 2,425
Referee: Jamie McCunnie
5 July 2025 Friendly Brechin City 0–3 Dundee Glebe Park, Brechin
15:00 Report
Referee: Stewart Luke

Scottish Premiership

Main article: 2025–26 Scottish Premiership

Dundee will play against Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee United, Falkirk, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Motherwell, Rangers and St Mirren in the 2025–26 Premiership campaign. They will play each team three times, twice at home and once away against half of the teams, and once at home and twice away against the other half. Following this, they will be split into either a top or bottom group of six depending on their position after 33 games, where they will play each team in their group once.

3 August 2025 1 Dundee 1–2 Hibernian Dens Park, Dundee
15:00
Report
Attendance: 7,825
Referee: David Dickinson
9 August 2025 2 Rangers 1–1 Dundee Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
17:45
Report
Attendance: 48,958
Referee: Don Robertson
23 August 2025 3 Kilmarnock v Dundee Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
15:00 Referee: Ryan Lee
For upcoming Scottish Premiership fixtures, see the official Dundee F.C. website

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation[a]
7 Motherwell 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
8 Dundee United 2 0 1 1 4 5 −1 1
9 Dundee 2 0 1 1 2 3 −1 1
10 St Mirren 2 0 1 1 0 1 −1 1
11 Falkirk 2 0 1 1 3 5 −2 1 Qualification for the Premiership play-off final
Updated to match(es) played on 10 August 2025. Source: [14][15]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competition qualification, second stage group allocation, or relegation).[16]
Notes:
  1. ^ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

Results by round

Round123
GroundHAA
ResultLD
Position109
Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Scottish Cup

Main article: 2025–26 Scottish Cup

Dundee will compete in the Scottish Cup and will enter the competition in the 4th round.

Scottish League Cup

Main articles: 2025–26 Scottish League Cup and 2025–26 Scottish League Cup group stage § Group C

Dundee will compete in the Scottish League Cup and will enter the competition in the group stage. The draw for the group stage was held on 28 May 2025 at 13:00, broadcast live on Premier Sports.[17] Dundee was drawn into Group C with Airdrieonians, Alloa Athletic, Montrose and Bonnyrigg Rose.[18]

Group stage

12 July 2025 1 Dundee 0–1 Airdrieonians Dens Park, Dundee
15:00 Report
Attendance: 2,306
Referee: David Dickinson
19 July 2025 2 Alloa Athletic 1–0 Dundee Recreation Park, Alloa
15:00
Report Attendance: 786
Referee: Don Robertson
22 July 2025 3 Bonnyrigg Rose 1–3 Dundee Ferguson Park, Rosewell[a]
19:45
  • Ross 36'
 Report
Attendance: 853
Referee: Peter Stuart
26 July 2025 4 Dundee 5–0 Montrose Dens Park, Dundee
15:00
Report Attendance: 1,808
Referee: Duncan Nicolson
  1. ^ Relocated due to pitch work at New Dundas Park.

Group C table

Pos Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ALL AIR DND MON BON
1 Alloa Athletic 4 4 0 0 0 7 3 +4 12 Qualification for the second round — — 1–0 2–1 —
2 Airdrieonians 4 3 0 0 1 8 4 +4 9 2–3 — — — 3–0
3 Dundee 4 2 0 0 2 8 3 +5 6 — 0–1 — 5–0 —
4 Montrose 4 1 0 0 3 6 10 −4 3 — 1–2 — — 4–1
5 Bonnyrigg Rose 4 0 0 0 4 2 11 −9 0 0–1 — 1–3 — —
Source: [19]
Rules for classification: 1) goal difference, 2) goals scored, 3) away goals scored, 4) matches won, 5) away matches won, 6) drawing of lots.[20]

Squad statistics

As of 9 August 2025
No. Pos Nat Player Total Premiership Scottish Cup League Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Scotland SCO Jon McCracken 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
2 DF England ENG Ethan Ingram 5 0 1 0 0 0 2+2 0
3 DF Scotland SCO Clark Robertson 4 2 2 0 0 0 2 2
4 DF Wales WAL Ryan Astley 5 2 2 1 0 0 2+1 1
5 DF France FRA Billy Koumetio 3 1 0+1 0 0 0 2 1
6 DF Northern Ireland NIR Aaron Donnelly 3 0 0+2 0 0 0 1 0
7 MF England ENG Drey Wright 6 0 1+1 0 0 0 3+1 0
8 MF England ENG Paul Digby 6 0 2 0 0 0 3+1 0
9 FW England ENG Emile Acquah 6 1 1+1 0 0 0 3+1 1
10 MF Scotland SCO Finlay Robertson 6 1 2 1 0 0 3+1 0
11 FW England ENG Ashley Hay 6 0 2 0 0 0 1+3 0
12 DF England ENG Imari Samuels 6 0 2 0 0 0 2+2 0
14 MF Mexico MEX César Garza 4 0 0+1 0 0 0 3 0
15 FW Scotland SCO Simon Murray 4 2 0 0 0 0 4 2
17 MF England ENG Tony Yogane 6 0 0+2 0 0 0 3+1 0
18 FW Scotland SCO Charlie Reilly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 FW England ENG Joe Westley 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
21 MF England ENG Yan Dhanda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 DF Scotland SCO Luke Graham 5 1 2 0 0 0 3 1
25 DF Bulgaria BUL Plamen Galabov 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
27 MF Mexico MEX Víctor López 1 0 0 0 0 0 0+1 0
28 MF Wales WAL Callum Jones 4 0 2 0 0 0 1+1 0
30 GK Scotland SCO Harrison Sharp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 GK Northern Ireland NIR Trevor Carson 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
40 MF Scotland SCO Finlay Allan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
58 MF Scotland SCO Ethan Crombie 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transfers

Summer

Winter

See also


References

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