2014–15 Hamilton Academical F.C. season

Hamilton Academical
2014–15 season
Chairman Les Gray
Manager Alex Neil (signed by Norwich City F.C.)
Martin Canning,(player-manager)
Stadium New Douglas Park
Premiership Seventh place (Ongoing)
League Cup Quarter Finals
lost to Aberdeen
Scottish Cup Fourth Round
lost to Partick Thistle
Top goalscorer League: Tony Andreu (12)
All: Tony Andreu (13)
Highest home attendance 6,007 vs.
Celtic
Premiership
17 January 2015
Lowest home attendance 694 vs.
Alloa Athletic
League Cup
26 August 2014
Home colours
Away colours

The 2014–15 season is Hamilton Academical's first season in the top flight of Scottish football since 2010-11 season, and their first in the newly established Scottish Premiership having been promoted from the 2013–14 Scottish Championship through the Play-offs. Hamilton also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Summary

Management

The club began the 2014-15 season under the management of Alex Neil. On 9 January 2015, Neil left to become the new player-manager of English Championship side Norwich City.[1] Martin Canning was appointed Caretaker Player-manager, and was later on 23 January 2015 officially appointed Player-manager.[2] With top goalscorer Tony Andreu also leaving,[3] the club they suffered with the sudden departures and Canning had to wait 14 matches for his first victory as manager, coming on 24 April 2015 in the Lanarkshire derby at home to Motherwell.[4]

Results & Fixtures

      Win       Draw       Loss       Postponed

Pre-season

Scottish Premiership

Scottish League Cup

Scottish Cup

Squad Statistics

During the 2014–15 season, Hamilton Academical have used twenty six different players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.

Appearances

Includes all competitive matches.

As of match played 24 April 2015
No. Pos Nat Player TotalPremiership League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Northern Ireland Michael McGovern 39 0 34+0 0 4+0 0 1+0 0
2 DF Scotland Ziggy Gordon 29 0 24+0 0 4+0 0 1+0 0
3 DF Scotland Stephen Hendrie 32 0 26+3 0 2+0 0 1+0 0
4 DF Scotland Michael Devlin 28 0 21+3 0 4+0 0 0+0 0
5 DF Scotland Martin Canning 28 4 23+1 3 3+0 1 1+0 0
6 MF Scotland Grant Gillespie 37 0 32+0 0 4+0 0 1+0 0
7 MF Scotland Dougie Imrie 34 3 29+1 2 2+1 1 1+0 0
8 MF England Jon Routledge 17 0 12+3 0 0+1 0 0+1 0
9 FW Trinidad and Tobago Jason Scotland 23 4 10+10 4 2+0 0 1+0 0
11 MF Scotland Ali Crawford 39 10 33+1 10 3+1 0 1+0 0
12 MF Scotland Darren Lyon 11 0 4+5 0 0+2 0 0+0 0
14 FW Netherlands Nigel Hasselbaink 7 0 4+3 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
15 DF Scotland Kieran MacDonald 4 0 3+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
16 MF Scotland Craig Watson 3 0 0+2 0 0+1 0 0+0 0
17 MF Scotland Louis Longridge 32 2 5+22 0 4+0 2 0+1 0
18 FW Scotland Darian MacKinnon 31 2 24+3 2 2+1 0 1+0 0
20 FW Scotland Eamonn Brophy 17 1 0+14 0 1+2 1 0+0 0
21 MF Scotland Greg Docherty 3 0 0+3 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
24 DF Spain Jesús García 23 1 21+1 1 0+0 0 1+0 0
28 MF England Daniel Redmond 27 2 20+3 2 3+0 0 1+0 0
32 FW Scotland Andy Ryan 9 0 0+7 0 1+1 0 0+0 0
44 DF Brazil Lucas 2 0 0+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
45 MF Czech Republic Nicolas Šumský 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
Players who left the club during the 2014–15 season
10 MF Scotland Alex Neil 8 0 7+0 0 1+0 0 0+0 0
22 MF France Tony Andreu 26 13 21+2 12 3+0 1 0+0 0
99 FW Guadeloupe Mickaël Antoine-Curier 25 8 20+2 8 1+1 0 0+1 0

Goal scorers

As of 24 April 2015
Ranking Nation Number Name Scottish Premiership Scottish Cup League Cup Total
1 France22 Tony Andreu120113
2 Scotland11 Ali Crawford100010
3 Guadeloupe99 Mickaël Antoine-Curier8008
4 Scotland6 Martin Canning3014
Trinidad and Tobago9 Jason Scotland4004
6 Scotland7 Dougie Imrie2013
7 Scotland17 Louis Longridge0022
Scotland18 Darian MacKinnon2002
England28 Daniel Redmond2002
10Scotland20 Eamonn Brophy0011
Spain24 Jesús García1001
TOTALS 440650

Disciplinary Record

Includes all competitive matches.
As of matches played 24 April 2015

Number Nation Position Name Total Premiership League Cup Scottish Cup
Red card Red card Red card Red card
2Scotland DF Ziggy Gordon 50500000
3Scotland DF Stephen Hendrie 31300100
4Scotland DF Michael Devlin 41410000
5Scotland DF Martin Canning 80800000
6Scotland MF Grant Gillespie 1101001000
7Scotland MF Dougie Imrie 62610001
8England MF Jon Routledge 31211000
9Trinidad and Tobago FW Jason Scotland 20100010
10Scotland MF Alex Neil 10100000
11Scotland MF Ali Crawford 40400000
12Scotland MF Darren Lyon 21210000
14Netherlands FW Nigel Hasselbaink 10100000
17Scotland MF Louis Longridge 40400000
18Scotland FW Darian MacKinnon 101911000
22France FW Tony Andreu 10100000
24Spain DF Jesús García 71710000
28Scotland MF Daniel Redmond 20101000
99Guadeloupe FW Mickaël Antoine-Curier 10100000
TOTALS 74 8 69 6 4 1 1 1

Team Statistics

League Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
5 St. Johnstone 35 15 7 13 32 33 −1 52
6 Dundee 35 11 11 13 45 52 −7 44
7 Hamilton Academical 35 14 7 14 47 50 −3 49
8 Partick Thistle 35 12 8 15 46 39 +7 44
9 Kilmarnock 35 10 8 17 38 53 −15 38
Updated to match(es) played on 2 May 2015. Source: Scottish Premiership
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored

Results by round

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAH
Result L W W W W D D W W W L D L W L W W L W W L L L L D D L L L D L D L W        
Position 11 5 3 2 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 4 4 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 7      

Last updated: 24 April 2015.
Source: BBC Sport
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results by opponent

Hamilton score first

Team Results Points
1 2 3 4
Aberdeen 3-0 0-3 0-3 X 3
Celtic 1-0 0-2 0-4 X 3
Dundee 0-2 2-1 1-1 X 4
Dundee United 2-2 2-3 0-1 X 1
Inverness C.T. 0-2 2-4 0-2 X 0
Kilmarnock 0-0 0-1 0-0 2
Motherwell 4-0 5-0 0-4 2-0 9
Partick Thistle 2-1 3-3 0-5 4
Ross County 4-0 1-0 2-2 7
St. Johnstone 1-0 1-0 1-1 X 7
St. Mirren 2-0 3-0 0-1 6

Source: 2014–15 Scottish Premier League Results Table

Transfers

Players In

Player From Fee
Scotland Dougie Imrie Scotland Greenock Morton Free[5]
Scotland Kieran MacDonald Scotland Clyde Free[6]
Northern Ireland Michael McGovern Scotland Falkirk Free[7]
Scotland Danny Redmond England Wigan Athletic Free[8]
Scotland Darren Hill Scotland Forfar Athletic Undisclosed[9]
Republic of Ireland Lee Lynch Republic of Ireland Limerick Free[10]
Trinidad and Tobago Jason Scotland Re-signed Free[11]
Brazil Lucas Moldova Milsami Orhei Free[12]
Czech Republic Nico Šumský Slovakia Dukla Banská Bystrica Free[13]
Netherlands Nigel Hasselbaink Greece Veria Free[14]

Players Out

Player To Fee
Scotland Kevin Cuthbert Scotland Raith Rovers Free[15]
Scotland James Keatings Scotland Heart of Midlothian Free[16]
Scotland Lee Kilday Scotland Greenock Morton Free[17]
Scotland Kieran MacDonald Scotland Dumbarton Loan[18]
Trinidad and Tobago Jason Scotland Released Released[19]
Guadeloupe Mickaël Antoine-Curier England Burton Albion Free[20][21]
France Tony Andreu England Norwich City £1M[22]
Scotland Jaison McGrath Released Released[23]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Alex Neil: Norwich City appoint Hamilton player-manager as boss". bbc.co.uk/sport. BBC Sport. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Hamilton Academical: Martin Canning becomes new manager". bbc.co.uk/sport. BBC Sport. 23 January 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Transfer Deadline Day: Norwich City sign Tony Andreu". BBC. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Hamilton Academical 2-0 Motherwell". bbc.co.uk/sport. BBC Sport. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Dougie Imrie joins Hamilton Accies for a second time". BBC. 7 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Hamilton Accies sign Michael McGovern and Kieran MacDonald". BBC. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Hamilton Accies sign Michael McGovern and Kieran MacDonald". BBC. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Accies snap up Redmond". spfl. 11 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Hamilton sign Forfar goalkeeper Darren Hill". BBC. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Hamilton: Jason Scotland exits Accies as Lee Lynch signs". BBC. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Hamilton Academical: swift return for Jason Scotland signs". BBC. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Hamilton: Lucas Tagliapietra arrives from Moldova". BBC. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  13. ↑ "Hamilton Accies sign Czech midfielder Nico Sumsky". BBC. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "Nigel Hasselbaink: Hamilton Academical re-sign Dutch forward". BBC. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "Cuthbert makes Rovers move". SPFL. 11 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  16. ↑ "James Keatings signs for Hearts". Edinburgh News (Scotsman). 13 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "Kilday and Crighton join Morton". SPFL. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  18. ↑ "Sons make loan signing". SPFL. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  19. ↑ "Hamilton: Jason Scotland exits Accies as Lee Lynch signs". BBC. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  20. ↑ "Mickael Antoine-Curier: Leaving Accies was not an easy choice". BBC. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  21. ↑ "Mickael Antoine-Curier: Burton Albion sign ex-Hamilton striker". BBC. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  22. ↑ "Transfer Deadline Day: Norwich City sign Tony Andreu". BBC. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  23. ↑ "News Round Up". Hamilton Academical F.C. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

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