1976–77 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton

1976–1977 season

Manager

Alex Wright

Stadium

Boghead Park, Dumbarton

Scottish League Division 1

7th

Scottish Cup

Third Round

Scottish League Cup

Prelims

Top goalscorer

League: John Bourke (19)
All: John Bourke (22)

Highest home attendance

4000

Lowest home attendance

500

Average home league attendance

1450

← 1975–76

1977–78 →

Season 1976–77 was the 100th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 70th time, the Scottish Cup for the 82nd time and the Scottish League Cup for the 30th time.

Overview

Dumbarton played for the second successive season in Division 1, but with the Spring Cup being dispensed with, the league programme was extended by each team playing the other 3 times. Once again a poor start was to scupper Dumbarton's promotion ambitions with only a single win to show from the first 6 games. Thereafter results were mixed - which was almost to account for manager Alex Wright's resignation in February - although a mid-table 7th place was achieved in the end.

In the Scottish Cup it was once again Hearts who were to end any thoughts of a cup run for Dumbarton, losing in the third round by the only goal, after a drawn game.

In the League Cup, another tough qualifying group, which included Premier Division clubs Celtic (again) and Dundee United, was to prove to be too much of a hurdle to progress to the knock-out stages, although 2 wins and 2 draws from the 6 ties was a creditable achievement.

Locally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton were defeated by Alloa Athletic in the first round.

A pre-season mni-tour of Spain was undertaken where two well deserved wins were chalked up.

At the end of the season Alex Wright gave up his managerial duties to move 'upstairs to the directors box' and was replaced by Davie Wilson.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Main article: 1976–77 Scottish Football League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
4 September 1976	Dundee	A	1-2	Muir	4619
8 September 1976	Arbroath	A	0-1		753
11 September 1976	Montrose	H	2-1	Bourke(2)	1,000
14 September 1976	Airdrie	H	1-3	Bourke	1,200
18 September 1976	St Mirren	A	1-2	Bourke	2,500
25 September 1976	Hamilton	H	1-2	Brown,A	1,500
29 September 1976	East Fife	A	3-2	Brown,A;Muir;Steele	784
2 October 1976	Raith Rovers	A	1-1	Muir	1,553
5 October 1976	East Fife	H	5-1	Muir(3);Steele;Bourke	1,000
9 October 1976	Morton	H	1-1	Bourke	2,000
16 October 1976	St Johnstone	H	2-1	Bourke(2)	2,000
20 October 1976	Falkirk	H	2-2	McLean;Bourke	2,000
23 October 1976	Queen of the South	H	3-3	McLean;Bourke;Brown,A	1,505
30 October 1976	Clydebank	A	0-2		7,000
10 November 1976	Dundee	H	1-1	Harvey	500
13 November 1976	Montrose	A	1-2	Harvey	1,000
20 November 1976	St Mirren	H	0-1		4,000
27 November 1977	Hamilton	A	1-0	Whiteford	1,200
27 December 1977	Queen of the South	A	2-1	McLean;MacLeod	2,500
1 January 1977	Clydebank	H	1-1	Brown,A	4,000
8 January 1977	Montrose	H	2-2	Whiteford(2)	2,000
22 January 1977	Hamilton	H	1-1	Whiteford	1,500
5 February 1977	Raith Rovers	A	1-3	Brown,A	1,613
7 February 1977	St Mirren	A	2-3	Bourke;Graham	7,800
12 February 1977	Morton	H	0-4		1,000
19 February 1977	St Johnstone	H	2-0	Bourke(2)	1,497
23 February 1977	Raith Rovers	H	2-0	Bourke;Whiteford	800
26 February 1977	Morton	A	0-3		2,000
5 March 1977	Queen of the South	H	2-0	Muir;Whiteford	1,000
12 March 1977	Clydebank	A	2-4	Bourke;Whiteford	4,000
19 March 1977	Airdrie	A	2-1	Bourke;Whiteford	1,000
23 March 1977	Dundee	A	0-4		1000
26 March 1977	Airdrie	H	2-1	Bourke;Whiteford	2,000
2 April 1977	Falkirk	A	3-1	McLean;Whiteford(2)	1,000
6 April 1977	St Johnstone	H	2-4	Whiteford(2)	1,000
9 April 1977	Falkirk	H	4-0	MacLeod(2);Whiteford;Muir	1,000
16 April 1977	Arbroath	H	2-3	MacLeod;Bourke	1,000
23 April 1977	Arbroath	A	2-1	MacLeod;OG	957
30 April 1977	East Fife	H	3-3	MacLeod;McLean;;Bourke	2,000

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1976–77 Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
29 January 1977	3	Hearts	A	1-1	Bourke	7,969
2 February 1977	3R	Hearts	H	0-1		3,000

Scottish League Cup

Main article: 1976–77 Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
14 August 1976	P	Arbroath	H	2-0	Wallace;Sinclair	1,500
18 August 1976	P	Celtic	A	0-3		15,000
21 August 1976	P	Dundee United	H	1-2	Wallace	2,500
25 August 1976	P	Celtic	H	3-3	Bourke(2);Wallace	12,000
28 August 1976	P	Dundee United	A	1-1	Muir	4,000
1 September 1976	P	Arbroath	A	3-0	Muir;Mullen;MacLeod	810

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
15 November 1976	1	Alloa Athletic	H	2-4	Steele;Brown,A	500

Other Matches

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers
27 July 1976	Vale of Leven	A	5-2	OG;Wallace(2);Mulraine;MacLeod
4 August 1976	Lloret CF	A	6-1	Wallace(2);Muir(2);Sinclair;Harvey
5 August 1976	Malgrat	A	3-2	Wallace;Smith;Harvey
11 August 1976	Rangers XI	H	3-2	Wallace(2);Muir

Appearances

Club

Dumbarton used 26 players for the 47 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Graeme Sinclair and Laurie Williams were best by being the only players to start in every one of these matches, bar one.^[1]

Player	Position	Appearances^[2]	Goals
Raymond Blair	FW	11(2)
John Bourke	FW	42	22
Ally Brown	FW	36(6)	5
Brian Brown	MF	3(1)
Jim Cook	FW	15(1)
Jim Donaldson	FW	0(2)
Johnny Graham	MF	40(2)	1
Drew Harvey	FW	6(6)	2
Bobby McCallum	FW	11(5)
Ian McGregor	GK	1
Columb McKinley	MF	31(2)
Hugh McLean	MF	27(10)	4
Murdo MacLeod	FW	28(5)	8
Donald McNeil	MF	17(10)
Martin Mowatt	MF	10
Jim Muir	MF	30(1)	10
Terry Mullen	DF	0(4)	1
Tommy Mulraine	FW	3(2)
Willie Russell	DF	2
Graeme Sinclair	MF	46	1
Walter Smith	MF	34(1)
Billy Steele	FW	16(4)	2
Ian Wallace	FW	4	3
Don Watt	DF	37
Jocky Whiteford	FW	21	15
Laurie Williams	GK	46

International

Graeme Sinclair was selected to play for Scotland Under23s in a match against England Under23s on April 27, 1977. The tie - which was part of the unofficial under23 British Home International Championship - was won by England 1-0. This was the first Dumbarton internationalist, of any sort, for over 15 years.

Reserve Team

Dumbarton competed in the Scottish Reserve League and finished 9th of 18 with 14 wins and 6 draws from 34 matches.

In the Scottish Second XI Cup, Dumbarton lost to Queen of the South in the second round, on penalties, after a 2-2 draw.

In the Scottish Reserve League Cup, Dumbarton failed to qualifying from their section.

References

↑ McAllister, Jim (2002). The Sons of the Rock - The Official History of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton: J&J Robertson Printers.
↑ Substitute appearances in brackets.

External links

Scottish Football Historical Archive

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1976–77 Dumbarton F.C. season

Overview

Results

Scottish League

Scottish Cup

Scottish League Cup

Stirlingshire Cup

Other Matches

Appearances

Club

International

Reserve Team

See also

References

External links