1990–91 Dundee United F.C. season

Dundee United
1990–91 season
Chairman	Jim McLean
Manager	Jim McLean
Scottish Premier Division	4th W17 D7 L12 F41 A29 P41
Tennent's Scottish Cup	Runners-up
Skol Cup	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Darren Jackson (12) All: Darren Jackson (18)
← 1989–90 1991–92 →

The 1990–91 season was the 82nd year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1990-07-01 to 1991-06-30. United finished in fourth place and missed out on European football for the first time in fifteen years.

Match results

Dundee United played a total of 50 competitive matches during the 1990–91 season.^[1] The team finished fourth in the Scottish Premier Division.

In the cup competitions, United lost in the final of the Tennent's Scottish Cup to Motherwell and lost in the Skol Cup semi-finals to eventual runners-up Celtic.

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

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

Premier Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
25 August 1990	St. Johnstone	A	3–1	7,784	Jackson (2), Dailly
1 September 1990	Motherwell	H	1–0	7,636	Cleland
8 September 1990	St. Mirren	H	1–0	6,968	Jackson
15 September 1990	Aberdeen	A	1–1	17,400	McKinnon
22 September 1990	Rangers	H	2–1	16,270	McKinlay, Butcher (o.g.)
29 September 1990	Hearts	A	0–1	12,052
10 October 1990	Dunfermline	H	3–0	9,025	Bowman, Steinmann, French
13 October 1990	Hibernian	H	1–0	10,289	Miller (o.g.)
20 October 1990	Celtic	A	0–0	34,363
27 October 1990	St. Johnstone	H	1–2	11,353	Jackson
3 November 1990	Motherwell	A	2–0	8,117	Jackson, Dailly
10 November 1990	Rangers	A	2–1	36,995	Jackson (2)
17 November 1990	Hearts	H	1–1	10,821	Jackson
24 November 1990	Aberdeen	H	2–3	12,344	McKimmie (o.g.), Malpas
1 December 1990	St. Mirren	A	1–1	4,581	Jackson
8 December 1990	Celtic	H	3–1	14,895	Dailly, Jackson, Paatelainen
15 December 1990	Hibernian	A	0–0	6,000
22 December 1990	Dunfermline	A	0–1	8,018
29 December 1990	Rangers	H	1–2	178,853	Jackson
2 January 1991	Aberdeen	A	1–0	17,400	Dailly
5 January 1991	St. Mirren	H	3–2	11,353	Clark, Dailly, Cleland
19 January 1991	Motherwell	H	3–0	6,482	McKinlay, Connolly (2)
2 February 1991	Celtic	A	0–1	26,172
9 February 1991	Hibernian	H	0–0	6,114
16 February 1991	Hearts	A	1–2	7,216	Clark
19 February 1991	St. Johnstone	A	1–0	6,910	French
2 March 1991	Dunfermline	H	1–0	6,379	Ferguson
9 March 1991	St. Mirren	A	1–0	3,960	Jackson
23 March 1991	Aberdeen	H	1–2	10,643	McInally
30 March 1991	St. Johnstone	H	0–0	7,794	Jackson
13 April 1991	Celtic	H	2–1	12,603	Van der Hoorn, McKinnon
16 April 1991	Motherwell	A	0–1	3,531
20 April 1991	Hibernian	A	0–1	4,000
24 April 1991	Rangers	A	0–1	32,397

United were leading Dunfermline 2–1 on 6 October when the match was abandoned due to heavy rain. The match was replayed four days later.

Tennent's Scottish Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
26 January 1990	East Fife	A	1–1	4,947	Connolly
29 January 1990	East Fife	H	2–1	7,190	Clark, Ferguson
23 February 1990	Airdrieonians	H	2–0	8,648	French (2)
13 March 1990	Dundee	H	3–1	16,228	McKinnon, Jackson, Ferguson
6 April 1991	St. Johnstone	N	0–0	16,560	Clark, Ferguson
18 May 1991	Motherwell	N	3–4	57,319	Bowman, J O'Neil, Jackson

Skol Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
21 August 1990	Alloa	A	3–0	1,835	Welsh, Dailly, Jackson
28 August 1990	Partick Thistle	A	3–1	4,000	Van der Hoorn, Dailly, Jackson
4 September 1990	Motherwell	H	2–0	8,475	Jackson, McInally
25 September 1990	Celtic	N	0–2	49,975

UEFA Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
18 September 1990	FH	A	3–1	263	Jackson, Cleland (2)
3 October 1990	FH	H	2–2	5,475	Connolly, Hjalmarson (o.g.)
24 October 1990	Vitesse	A	0–1	8,331
7 November 1990	Vitesse	H	0–4	10,726

Player details

During the 1990–91 season, United used 25 different players comprising five nationalities. Maurice Malpas was the only player to play in every match. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.^[2]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Scottish Premier Division		Tennent's Scottish Cup		Skol Cup		UEFA Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK		Alan Main	40	0	31	0	6	0	1	0	2	0
	GK		Billy Thomson	10	0	5	0	0	0	3	0	2	0
	DF		Gary Bollan	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		John Clark	25	4	18	2	6	2	0	0	1	0
	DF		Alex Cleland	29	4	21	2	0	0	4	0	4	2
	DF		Fred van der Hoorn	45	2	32	1	6	0	4	1	3	0
	DF		Scott Kopel	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	DF		Miodrag Krivokapić	34	0	24	0	6	0	3	0	1	0
	DF		Maurice Malpas	50	1	36	1	6	0	4	0	4	0
	DF		Dave Narey	6	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	DF		Gijs Steinmann	14	1	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Brian Welsh	26	1	17	0	2	0	4	1	3	0
	MF		Dave Bowman	27	2	20	1	4	1	1	0	2	0
	MF		Jim McInally	47	2	33	1	6	0	4	1	4	0
	MF		Billy McKinlay	46	2	33	2	5	0	4	0	4	0
	MF		Ray McKinnon	24	3	17	2	4	1	2	0	1	0
	MF		John O'Neil	19	1	15	0	4	1	0	0	0	0
	MF		Michael O'Neill	17	0	12	0	2	0	2	0	1	0
	MF		Allan Preston	7	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
	FW		Paddy Connolly	16	4	10	2	2	1	1	0	3	1
	FW		Christian Dailly	26	7	18	5	2	0	4	2	2	0
	FW		Duncan Ferguson	14	4	9	1	5	3	0	0	0	0
	FW		Hamish French	24	6	19	4	3	2	0	0	2	0
	FW		Darren Jackson	46	18	33	12	6	2	4	3	3	1
	FW		Mixu Paatelainen	26	1	21	1	0	0	2	0	3	0

Goalscorers

United had 17 players score with the team scoring 67 goals in total. The top goalscorer was Darren Jackson, who finished the season with 18 goals.^[3]

Name	League	Cups	Total
style="text-align:left"\|Jackson, DarrenDarren Jackson	12	6	18
style="text-align:left"\|Dailly, ChristianChristian Dailly	5	2	07
style="text-align:left"\|French, HamishHamish French	4	2	06
style="text-align:left"\|goals, OwnOwn goals	3	2	05
style="text-align:left"\|Clark, JohnJohn Clark	2	2	04
style="text-align:left"\|Cleland, AlexAlex Cleland	2	2	04
style="text-align:left"\|Connolly, PaddyPaddy Connolly	2	2	04
style="text-align:left"\|Ferguson, DuncanDuncan Ferguson	1	3	04
style="text-align:left"\|McKinnon, RayRay McKinnon	2	1	03
style="text-align:left"\|McKinlay, BillyBilly McKinlay	2	0	02
style="text-align:left"\|Bowman, DaveDave Bowman	1	1	02
style="text-align:left"\|HoornFred van der Hoorn	1	1	02
style="text-align:left"\|McInally, JimJim McInally	1	1	02
style="text-align:left"\|Malpas, MauriceMaurice Malpas	1	0	01
style="text-align:left"\|Paatelainen, MixuMixu Paatelainen	1	0	01
style="text-align:left"\|Steinmann, GijsGijs Steinmann	1	0	01
style="text-align:left"\|O'Neil, JohnJohn O'Neil	0	1	01
style="text-align:left"\|Welsh, BrianBrian Welsh	0	1	01

Discipline

During the 1990–91 season, two United players were sent off. Statistics for cautions are unavailable.^[4]

Name	Dismissals
style="text-align:left"\|HoornFred van der Hoorn	1
style="text-align:left"\|Main, AlanAlan Main	1

Transfers

In

The club signed five players during the season with a total public cost of nearly £400,000. In addition, one player played whilst on trial but left shortly afterwards.

Date	Player	From	Fee (£)
October 1990	Steinmann, GijsGijs Steinmann	Utrecht	£0,100,000^[5]

Out

Two players were sold by the club during the season.

Date	Player	To	Fee
23 August 1990	Hinds, PeterPeter Hinds	Maritimo	Free^[6]
May 1991	Steinmann, GijsGijs Steinmann	Utrecht	Released^[5]

Playing kit

Home
colours

Away
colours

The jerseys were sponsored by Belhaven for the fourth season.

References

↑ "Dundee Utd 1990/1991 results and fixtures". Soccerbase. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
↑ "1990–91". Glenrothes Arabs. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
↑ "1990–91". Glenrothes Arabs. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
↑ "1990/92". Glenrothes Arabs. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dundee United A-Z (H): Holland". Soccerbase. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
↑ "Player A to Z: Peter Hinds". Glenrothes Arabs. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2008.

External links

Glenrothes Arabs 1990–91 season review

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European competitions	European Cup European Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup

Related to national team	Results Euro 1992 qualifying (Group 2)

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