1983–84 Dumbarton F.C. season

Season 1983–84 was the 107th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 77th time, the Scottish Cup for the 89th time and the Scottish League Cup for the 37th time.

Overview

At the ninth time of asking, Dumbarton managed to achieve that elusive promotion and a place in next season's Premier Division, although it was not to prove to be all 'plain sailing'. Indeed after 6 games, with 3 wins it was looking like another average 'middle of the table' campaign. However an unbeaten run of 12 games was to follow changing the club's fortunes and Dumbarton were suddenly right up there with the 'front runners' - and then disaster struck! Billy Lamont resigned his managerial post to take up the reins at fellow Division 1 club Falkirk. Credit to Dumbarton that they had a new manager in Davie Wilson in place within two weeks, and the club guaranteed promotion with 2 games to play, although they were unable to catch champions Morton, who finished 3 points ahead.

In the Scottish Cup, after a fine win over Raith Rovers, Dumbarton lost to Division 1 'champions in waiting', Morton in the fourth round.

The League Cup format was again reorganised, with a first round being played before sectional games were introduced. However the first tie against Premier Division Hibernian was to prove too much of a hurdle to get over.

Locally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton released their grip on the trophy with a loss in the first round to Alloa.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Main article: 1983–84 Scottish Football League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
20 August 1983	Clydebank	H	2-0	Coyle,T(2)	1,789
3 September 1983	Ayr United	A	2-1	Bourke;Coyle,J	1,015
10 September 1983	Partick Thistle	H	0-1		2,000
14 September 1983	Brechin City	H	1-2	McGowan,P	450
17 September 1983	Meadowbank Thistle	A	2-0	Bourke;Coyle,J	450
24 September 1983	Falkirk	A	1-4	Coyle,J	1,200
28 September 1983	Hamilton	H	2-0	Ashwood;Coyle,J	400
1 October 1983	Raith Rovers	H	2-1	McNeil;Ashwood	550
8 October 1983	Morton	A	2-2	Bourke(2)	1,500
15 October 1983	Clyde	H	1-0	Ashwood	500
22 October 1983	Kilmarnock	A	2-2	McNeil;Ashwood	1,500
29 October 1983	Alloa Athletic	H	1-1	Ashwood	700
5 November 1983	Airdrie	A	1-1	Bourke	1,100
12 November 1983	Brechin City	A	3-2	Coyle,J(2);Coyle,T	700
13 November 1983	Meadowbank Thistle	H	0-0		600
26 November 1983	Morton	H	1-1	Ashwood	1,500
3 December 1983	Raith Rovers	A	3-1	Bourke;Ashwood;Coyle,J	750
10 December 1983	Falkirk	H	3-0	McGowan,M;Coyle,J(2)	1,500
17 December 1983	Hamilton	A	1-4	Ashwood	940
26 December 1983	Partick Thistle	A	0-1		3,821
31 December 1983	Ayr United	H	2-1	Montgomerie;Bourke	1,250
2 January 1984	Clydebank	A	2-0	Coyle,J;Robertson	1,040
7 January 1984	Kilmarnock	H	4-3	Coyle,T;Ashwood;Bourke;Coyle,J	1,000
4 February 1984	Airdrie	H	4-2	Robertson;Crawley;Coyle,J;OG	1,000
11 February 1984	Hamilton	A	3-3	McNeil;Robertson;Bourke	1,015
21 February 1984	Alloa Athletic	A	0-1		459
25 February 1984	Raith Rovers	H	3-1	Bourke(2);Craig	750
29 February 1984	Clyde	A	0-0		970
3 March 1984	Falkirk	H	2-0	Ashwood;Coyle,J	1,050
10 March 1984	Kilmarnock	A	0-0	McNeil;Ashwood	1,140
17 March 1984	Meadowbank Thistle	H	3-0	Robertson;Bourke(2)	1,200
24 March 1984	Partick Thistle	A	0-0		4,156
31 March 1984	Alloa Athletic	H	2-0	Ashwood;McCaig	1,000
7 April 1984	Clydebank	H	2-1	Coyle,T;McCaig	978
14 April 1984	Morton	A	0-2		3,850
21 April 1984	Brechin City	A	3-0	Coyle,T;Coyle,J;McCaig	700
28 April 1984	Clyde	H	2-2	Craig;Coyle,T	2,900
5 May 1984	Airdrie	A	4-1	Ashwood;Craig(2);Walsh	2,000
12 May 1984	Ayr United	H	0-3		3,000

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1983–84 Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
6 February 1984	3	Raith Rovers	A	4-1	Ashwood(2);Bourke;Coyle,J	1,950
18 February 1984	4	Morton	A	1-2	Craig	3,383

Scottish League Cup

Main article: 1983–84 Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
24 August 1983	1(1)	Hibernian	A	0-5		2,193
27 August 1983	1(2)	Hibernian	H	1-2	McGrogan	760

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
10 August 1983	1	Alloa Athletic	A	2-3	McCaig;McGrogan

Other Matches

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
8 August 1983	Hartlepool United	H	1-3	unknown
17 August 1983	Celtic XI	H	1-0	McGowan,P

Appearances

Dumbarton used 22 players for the 43 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Tom Coyle and Ray Montgomerie were best by appearing in all of these matches.^[1]

Player	Position	Appearances^[2]	Goals
Kenny Ashwood	FW	33	15
John Bourke	FW	37(1)	14
Albert Burnett	MF	10(4)
Joe Carson	MF	5
Tom Carson	GK	40
Mark Clougherty	MF	41
Joe Coyle	FW	41	16
Tommy Coyle	MF	42(1)	7
Albert Craig	MF	23(7)	5
Gerry Crawley	FW	23(6)	1
Jim Hughes	MF	0(2)
Dave McCaig	MF	11(21)	3
Martin McGowan	DF	35	1
Pat McGowan	FW	16(7)
Joe McGrogan	FW	3(6)	2
Donald McNeil	MF	35(1)	3
Ray Montgomerie	DF	43	1
Allan Moore	FW	2(3)
Stuart Robertson	MF	25(3)	4
David Stevenson	MF	3(2)
Jim Stewart	GK	3
Martin Walsh	FW	1(1)	1

Reserve Team

Dumbarton competed in the Scottish Reserve League First Division (West), which was split into winter and spring series.

In the first series, of 12 fixtures, 6 were won and 3 drawn - and Dumbarton finished 5th of 13. In the second series, 4 games were won and 2 drawn of 10 ties - but the league was never completed.

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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