2013–14 Queen of the South F.C. season

Queen of the South
2013–14 season
Chairman Billy Hewitson
Manager Jim McIntyre
Stadium Palmerston Park
Scottish Championship 4th
Challenge Cup Third Round; Lost to Rangers
League Cup Third Round; Lost to Heart of Midlothian
Scottish Cup Fourth Round Replay; Lost to St. Mirren
Top goalscorer League: Iain Russell (13)
All: Derek Lyle (14)
Iain Russell (14)
Highest home attendance 2,644 vs. Dundee, 10 August 2013
Lowest home attendance 1,476 vs. Alloa Athletic, 11 January 2014
Average home league attendance 1,724

The 2013–14 season was Queen of the South's first season back in the second tier of Scottish football and their first season in the newly established Scottish Championship,[1] having been promoted as champions from the Scottish Second Division at the end of the 2012–13 season.[2] Queens also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Summary

Queen of the South finished fourth in the Scottish Championship. Their league position qualified the club for the quarter final stage of the Scottish Premiership play-offs where they were defeated 4-3 on aggregate by Falkirk over two legs.

The club reached the third round of the Challenge Cup, the third round of the League Cup and the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

Management

The club were managed by Jim McIntyre, alongside his assistant Gerry McCabe for the 2013–14 season,[3] following the departures of Allan Johnston and Sandy Clark who left to become the new manager and assistant of Scottish Premiership side Kilmarnock.[4][5] On 9 June 2014 McCabe left to become the new assistant manager at newly promoted Scottish Premiership side Dundee under Paul Hartley.[6]

Results & fixtures

      Win       Draw       Loss       Abandoned or Postponed

Pre season

Scottish Championship

Premiership Play-offs

Scottish Challenge Cup

Scottish League Cup

Scottish Cup

Player statistics

Captains

No. P Name Country No. games Notes
DF Chris Higgins Scotland 33 Club Captain
MF Stephen McKenna Scotland 7 1st Vice Captain
DF Ryan McGuffie Scotland 1 2nd Vice Captain
DF Mark Durnan Scotland 6 3rd Vice Captain

Last updated: 10 May 2014
Source: Competitive match reports.
Competitive matches only
Matches started as captain only
Country: FIFA nationality; No.: Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.

Squad

Last updated 10 May 2014[15][16]
No. Pos Nat Player TotalScottish Championship Other[a] League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK Wales Calum Antell 16 0 9+1 0 3+0 0 3+0 0 0+0 0
GK Scotland Zander Clark 29 0 24+0 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 3+0 0
GK England James Atkinson 4 0 3+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
DF Scotland Scott Hooper 1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
DF Scotland Mark Durnan 35 5 28+0 5 3+0 0 1+0 0 3+0 0
DF Scotland Chris Higgins 34 3 25+1 2 3+0 0 2+0 1 3+0 0
DF Scotland Ryan McGuffie 15 3 9+1 2 2+0 0 2+1 1 0+0 0
DF Scotland Chris Mitchell 40 0 31+0 0 3+0 0 2+1 0 3+0 0
DF Scotland Andy Dowie 36 2 27+1 2 5+0 0 3+0 0 0+0 0
DF Scotland Kevin Holt 41 2 28+2 1 5+0 1 3+0 0 3+0 0
DF Scotland Lewis Kidd 6 0 1+3 0 1+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF United States Kevin Dzierzawski 18 0 10+4 0 0+2 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
MF Scotland Paul Burns 31 1 22+3 1 2+0 0 2+0 0 2+0 0
MF Scotland Mark Kerr 13 0 10+1 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Daniel Carmichael 33 0 9+16 0 2+2 0 1+1 0 2+0 0
MF Scotland Ian McShane 38 3 24+4 3 4+1 0 1+1 0 3+0 0
MF Scotland Stephen McKenna 30 3 17+6 0 3+0 2 2+0 1 2+0 0
MF Scotland Dan Orsi 2 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+1 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Patrick Slattery 1 0 0+0 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Derek Young 23 0 12+4 0 2+2 0 2+0 0 1+0 0
FW Scotland Iain Russell 45 14 28+6 13 4+1 0 2+1 0 3+0 1
FW Scotland Derek Lyle 46 14 25+10 7 4+1 3 3+0 3 1+2 1
FW Scotland Gavin Reilly 41 12 19+14 12 0+3 0 0+3 0 2+0 0
FW Scotland Michael Paton 38 6 24+6 3 3+0 0 3+0 2 1+1 1
FW Scotland Aidan Smith 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
FW Scotland Robert McHugh 15 5 10+3 2 2+0 3 0+0 0 0+0 0
a. ^ Includes other competitive competitions, including the play-offs and the Challenge Cup.

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.

Last updated 10 May 2014
Nation Position Name Scottish Championship Other League Cup Scottish Cup Total
Red card Red card Red card Red card Red card
Wales GKCalum Antell 0000000000
Scotland GKZander Clark 0010000010
England GKJames Atkinson 0100000001
Scotland DFScott Hooper 0000000000
Scotland DFMark Durnan 6110000071
Scotland DF Chris Higgins 6121000082
Scotland DF Ryan McGuffie 2000100030
Scotland DFChris Mitchell 6000001070
Scotland DFAndy Dowie 3000000030
Scotland DFKevin Holt 4010100060
Scotland DFLewis Kidd 0010000010
United States MFKevin Dzierzawski 1000000010
Scotland MFPaul Burns 6000000060
Scotland MFMark Kerr 1000000010
Scotland MF Daniel Carmichael 1000000010
Scotland MF Ian McShane 4000000040
Scotland MF Stephen McKenna 6000100070
Scotland MF Dan Orsi 0000000000
Scotland MFPatrick Slattery 0000000000
Scotland MF Derek Young 2000000020
Scotland FWIain Russell 5100201081
Scotland FWDerek Lyle 6000001070
Scotland FW Gavin Reilly 0000000000
Scotland FW Michael Paton 2000000020
Scotland FWAidan Smith 0000000000
Scotland FW Robert McHugh 0000000000

Clean sheets

R Pos Nat Name Scottish Championship Other League Cup Scottish Cup Total
1 GK Wales Calum Antell 2 2 1 0 5
2 GK Scotland Zander Clark 9 0 0 1 10
3 GK England James Atkinson 1 0 0 0 1
Totals 12 2 1 1 16

Last updated: 10 May 2014
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches

Top Scorers

Last updated on 10 May 2014
Position Nation Name Scottish Championship Other League Cup Scottish Cup Total
1 ScotlandDerek Lyle 733114
= ScotlandIain Russell 1300114
3 ScotlandGavin Reilly 1200012
4 ScotlandMichael Paton 30216
5 ScotlandMark Durnan 50005
= ScotlandRobert McHugh 23005
7 ScotlandStephen McKenna 02103
= ScotlandRyan McGuffie 20103
= ScotlandChris Higgins 20103
= ScotlandIan McShane 30003
11 ScotlandAndy Dowie 20002
= ScotlandKevin Holt 11002
13 ScotlandPaul Burns 10001

Team statistics

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Promotion or relegation
1 Dundee (C) (P) 36 21 6 9 54 26+28 69 Promotion to the 2014–15 Scottish Premiership
2 Hamilton Academical (P) 36 19 10 7 68 41+27 67 Qualification to Premiership play-offs Semi-final
3 Falkirk 36 19 9 8 59 33+26 66 Qualification to Premiership play-offs Quarter-final
4 Queen of the South 36 16 7 13 53 39+14 55
5 Dumbarton 36 15 6 15 65 64+1 51
6 Livingston 36 13 7 16 51 565 46
7 Raith Rovers 36 11 9 16 48 6113 42
8 Alloa Athletic 36 11 7 18 34 5117 40
9 Cowdenbeath (O) 36 11 7 18 50 7222 40 Scottish Championship play-offs
10 Greenock Morton (R) 36 6 8 22 32 7139 26 Relegation to 2014–15 Scottish League One

Updated to games played on 18 May 2014.
Source: SPFL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Division summary

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536
GroundHAAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAAHHAAHHAHHAHAHHAAHA
Result W D L D L W L L D L W L W L W D W L W W D W W L L W D W W L W L L W W D
Position 2 3 6 6 9 5 7 7 7 9 8 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 8 6 6 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

Last updated: 4 May 2014.
Source: [17]
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Transfers

Players in

Player From Fee
Scotland Iain Russell Scotland Livingston Free[18]
Scotland Andy Dowie Scotland Partick Thistle Free[19]
Wales Calum Antell Scotland Hibernian Free[20]
United States Kevin Dzierzawski United States Dartmouth Big Green Free[21]
Scotland Zander Clark Scotland St Johnstone Loan[22]
Scotland Robert McHugh Scotland Motherwell Loan[23]
Scotland Mark Kerr Scotland Partick Thistle Free[24]
Scotland Lewis Kidd Scotland Celtic Loan[25]

Players out

Player To Fee
Scotland Nicky Clark Scotland Rangers Free[26]
England Lee Robinson Sweden Ostersunds FK Free[27]
Scotland Steven Black Scotland Annan Athletic Free[28]
Scotland Marc Fitzpatrick Scotland Greenock Morton Free[29]
Scotland Kevin Smith Scotland Dumbarton Free[30]
Wales Calum Antell Scotland Brechin City Loan[31]
Scotland Dan Orsi Scotland Annan Athletic Free[32]
Scotland Ryan McGuffie Australia St Albans Saints Free[33]
Scotland Liam Park Scotland Dalbeattie Star Loan[34]

See also

References

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  23. "New Loan Signing". qosfc.com. Queen of the South. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
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  31. "Keeper Goes Out on Loan". qosfc.com. Queen of the South. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  32. "Two more sign in deadline day deals". annanathleticfc.com. Annan Athletic. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  33. "Ryan McGuffie Leaves the Club". qosfc.com. Queen of the South. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  34. "Liam Park Goes Out on Loan". qosfc.com. Queen of the South. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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