2025–26 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee
2025–26 season
ChairmanTim Keyes
Head coachSteven Pressley
StadiumDens Park
Scottish PremiershipTBD
Scottish CupFourth round
League CupGroup stage
Top goalscorerLeague: TBD
All: TBD
Highest home attendanceTBD
Average home league attendanceTBD

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 will also compete in the Scottish League Cup and 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]

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 v Hibernian Dens Park, Dundee
15:00
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]
1 Aberdeen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
2 Celtic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3 Dundee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round[b]
4 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Falkirk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 2 August 2025. Source: [8][9]
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).[10]
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).
  2. ^ The winners of the 2025–26 Scottish Cup will qualify for the Europa League. If the cup winners finish in the top two, the berth reserved for the cup winners (Europa League third qualifying round) passes to the third-placed team, and the berths for the Conference League second qualifying round are passed down to the fourth- and fifth-placed teams.

Results by round

Round1
Ground
Result
Position
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.[11] Dundee was drawn into Group C with Airdrieonians, Alloa Athletic, Montrose and Bonnyrigg Rose.[12]

Group stage

12 July 2025 1 Dundee v Airdrieonians Dens Park, Dundee
15:00 Referee: David Dickinson
19 July 2025 2 Alloa Athletic v Dundee Recreation Park, Alloa
15:00
22 July 2025 3 Bonnyrigg Rose v Dundee Ferguson Park, Rosewell[a]
19:45
26 July 2025 4 Dundee v Montrose Dens Park, Dundee
15:00
  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 AIR ALL BON DND MON
1 Airdrieonians 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for the second round — 26 Jul 15 Jul — —
2 Alloa Athletic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible qualification for the second round — — — 19 Jul 15 Jul
3 Bonnyrigg Rose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 12 Jul — 22 Jul —
4 Dundee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 Jul — — — 26 Jul
5 Montrose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 Jul — 19 Jul — —
First match(es) will be played: 12 July 2025. Source: [13]
Rules for classification: 1) goal difference, 2) goals scored, 3) away goals scored, 4) matches won, 5) away matches won, 6) drawing of lots.[14]

Squad statistics

As of 4 July 2025
No. Pos Nat Player Total Premiership Scottish Cup League Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK  SCO Jon McCracken 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 DF  ENG Ethan Ingram 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 DF  SCO Clark Robertson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 DF  WAL Ryan Astley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 DF  FRA Billy Koumetio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 DF  NIR Aaron Donnelly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 MF  ENG Drey Wright 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 MF  ENG Paul Digby 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 FW  ENG Emile Acquah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 MF  SCO Finlay Robertson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 FW  ENG Ashley Hay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 DF  ENG Imari Samuels 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 MF  MEX César Garza 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 FW  SCO Simon Murray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 MF  ENG Tony Yogane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 FW  SCO Charlie Reilly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 DF  SCO Luke Graham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 DF  BUL Plamen Galabov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 MF  MEX Víctor López 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 GK  SCO Harrison Sharp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 GK  NIR Trevor Carson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transfers

Summer

Winter

See also


References

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  2. ^ "Club Statement: Management Team Update". Dundee Football Club - Official Website. 2025-05-19. Retrieved 2025-05-19.
  3. ^ "Pre-Season Friendly Arbroath". Dundee Football Club - Official Website. 2025-05-30. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  4. ^ "Pressley is our new Head Coach". Dundee Football Club - Official Website. 2025-06-02. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
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  14. ^ "Format". SPFL. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
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