The average attendance in the 2018–19 Scottish Premiership was 14,924. [4][30][31] The club released a song, "European Song", to coincide with the appearance in the final. [4][42] The low point of the club's history came in the 1999–2000 season, where they finished bottom of the table. [26] Aberdeen's second League title was won in 1979–80, and this initial success was built on, with Scottish Cup wins in three successive seasons from 1982 to 1984, and two more league titles in 1983–84 and 1984–85. [37] Miller was sacked in February 1995, and replaced by Roy Aitken. Największe sukcesy klub odnosił pod wodzą sir Alexa Fergusona w latach 80. ubiegłego stulecia. In 1923, Aberdeen were drawn against Peterhead in the Scottish Cup, and posted their record score—a 13–0 victory. Formed in 1903 as a result of the amalgamation of three clubs from Aberdeen, they rarely challenged for honours until the post war decade, when they won each of the major Scottish trophies under manager Dave Halliday. [25] Players such as Jim Leighton, Willie Miller, Alex McLeish and Gordon Strachan became the backbone of the team. [114] In 1999, a group of supporters founded the Red Ultras group with the express aim of improving the atmosphere at Pittodrie. The blue shorts lasted until 1911, and then were replaced with white ones. On 14 April 1903 they merged with the two other Aberdeen clubs Victoria United and Orion to form the current Aberdeen Football Club. w europejskich pucharach. [10] Colman conceived the dug-out, a covered area set slightly below the level of the playing surface to better aid his observations. [78] The design represented a capital letter A as the side view of a football goal, with a ball forming the crossbar of the letter. The club applied for membership of the Scottish League for the following season, and were elected to the Second Division. [18], Under Ferguson's guidance, the club won three league championships, four Scottish Cups, one League Cup, the European Cup Winner's Cup, the European Super Cup and a Drybrough Cup—all in the space of seven years. Swansea Town – SC Braga 3:0 i 0:1. Aberdeen Football Club Eskoziako futbol talde bat da, Aberdeen hirikoa. [4], Wartime affected the club as much as any other; despite spending cuts and other economies, by 1917 the situation became untenable. [13] Travers left to become manager of Clyde in 1939. List of Aberdeen F.C. [85], Away colours have tended to be either white—often with black shorts—or a combination of yellow and black, referring back to the black and gold strips of the pre-war era, although for a time in the 1970s, Aberdeen sported an all-blue change strip with white socks. [57], Derek McInnes was announced as the successor to Craig Brown in March 2013. Rangers moved 22 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership as Alfredo Morelos struck twice in a 2-1 win against 10-man Aberdeen on Sunday.... more » 01.11.2020 17:44 was formed following the merger of three clubs based in the city—Aberdeen, Victoria United and Orion—in 1903. Kupeyê ke gırewtê Şampiyoniya Ligê İskoçya. The 2020–21 Aberdeen F.C. [70] They were again second the following season, earning a first league win against Celtic away from home for fourteen years in the final game of the season. [78][80], For the 1904–05 season, Aberdeen adopted a black and gold striped shirt, which led to the team being nicknamed "the Wasps". [14][15][16] Halliday had barely begun his work when World War II halted competitive football in the United Kingdom. L' Aberdeen Football Club è una società calcistica scozzese con sede nella città di Aberdeen, militante nella Scottish Premiership dal 1905. Plans for a new stadium began when the club indicated that further development of Pittodrie Stadium was not possible due to the age of the ground and the restrictions from surrounding land. Lacking a local competitor, Aberdeen have instead developed rivalries with more distant opponents such as Dundee United (collectively known as the "New Firm" in the 1980s) and Rangers. Aberdeen have won four Scottish league titles, seven Scottish Cups and six Scottish League Cups. El Aberdeen Football Club, también conocido como "The Dons”, es un club de fútbol escocés profesional con sede en Aberdeen.El club compite en la Scottish Premiership después de haber ganado cuatro títulos de Liga y siete Copas de Escocia, incluyendo un récord de tres consecutivas durante la década de 1980, la única vez que un equipo que no fue el Rangers lo ha hecho desde 1882. The training facilities are named after chairman Dave Cormack, due to the significant financial investment he made to realise the completion of the project. is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen, … Aberdeen FC. [38] Despite a Scottish League Cup success in 1995, the club continued to struggle. Travers' "trainer"—first team coach in modern parlance—was former player Donald Colman. On 15 August 1903, 8,000 spectators turned up to watch the new Aberdeen draw 1–1 against Stenhousemuir, the first game played at Pittodrie by its amalgamated tenants. in 1899, in a 7–1 win over Dumbarton;[90] when they merged with two other teams in 1903, the new club took over the old Aberdeen ground. [79] This colour scheme was the direct descendant of the colours worn by the precursor Aberdeen club, but lasted only one season before being replaced. Największe sukcesy klub odnosił pod wodzą sir Alexa Fergusona w latach 80. ubiegłego stulecia. [3] The new club played its first match on 15 August 1903: a 1–1 draw with Stenhousemuir. [9] They reached two more national cup finals—the Scottish Cup in 1978 under Billy McNeill and the League Cup in the following season under the new manager Alex Ferguson. In the 1989–90 season, the club won both the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. As part of this deal, vice-chairman Dave Cormack became chairman of the club, replacing Stewart Milne. 1982-83; Kupay Super UEFA. [119], In the 1980s, a minority of the club's supporters had a reputation as one of Britain's most prominent casuals groups, the Aberdeen Soccer Casuals. Aberdeen Football Club er en fotballklubb fra byen Aberdeen som spiller i Scottish Premiership. That first season produced a win in the Aberdeenshire Cup, but only a third-place finish in the Northern League. Historia. In recent seasons' Europa League competitions, they were defeated in the third qualifying round four times: In 2015–16 by FC Kairat,[64] in 2016–17 by NK Maribor,[65] in 2017–18 by Apollon Limassol,[66] and in 2019–20 by HNK Rijeka. McGhee and his assistants were eventually sacked in December of that year. [19], Halliday and Hamilton left at the end of that championship-winning season, and Halliday was replaced by Davie Shaw. Aberdeen's re-emerged as one of the top teams in Scotland during the 2010s, which increased the rivalry with Celtic both competitively and between supporters. They are also the only Scottish team to have won two European trophies, having won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup in 1983. Aberdeen FC skotsk fotbollsklubb från Aberdeen, bildad 1903. Fixtures and Results 2008–09.jpg 2,048 × 1,536; 677 KB Aberdeen FC History.gif 909 × 663; 31 KB Aberdeen FC League Performance.svg 1,350 × 465; 6 KB First worn on shirts in 1979. [83] In the late 1970s an Admiral strip featured five vertical white stripes on the left side of the shirt and shorts, and the early 1980s shirts—as worn at the 1983 European Cup Winners Cup final—featured white vertical pinstripes. [20] He retired in 1965, making way for Eddie Turnbull. İskoçya futbol tarihinin önemli kulüplerinden biridir. All players are from Scotland unless otherwise stated. [95], The complex is made up of a training pavilion, groundsman’s accommodation, three full-sized training pitches, two floodlit 3G pitches and two grass pitches. History Talk (0) Share. [98][99][100], Since 2009, Aberdeen have been examining a move to a new stadium. During this decade, Aberdeen had five managers: Eddie Turnbull, Jimmy Bonthrone, Ally MacLeod, Billy McNeill and Alex Ferguson. [18] However, Shaw stepped aside for another former favourite player, Tommy Pearson, in 1959. Aberdeen hade en storhetstid under början av 1980-talet när man vann flera liga- och cupguld. O Aberdeen Football Club (também conhecidos como "The Dons", "The Dandies" ou "The Reds") é um clube profissional localizado em Aberdeen, Escócia. L'Aberdeen Football Club est un club écossais de football, basé à Aberdeen et fondé en 1903. For the present-day club of the same name, see Aberdeen F.C. Pittodrie was also the first football stadium to feature a dug-out, an invention of player and coach Donald Colman. [154] Ex-manager Alex Ferguson was inducted at a re-launch event in November 2015. [61][62][63] The club ended the season in second place—their best league position since 1993–94—in 2015, 2016, and 2017. [48] This set up a meeting with German giants Bayern Munich,[49] which they lost 7–3 on aggregate[50] after a 2–2 draw which saw Aberdeen lead twice in the first leg. [143] The song was originally sung by away fans poking fun at an Aberdeen fan set on fire on a train while wearing a homemade sheep costume. [55] The first act of the new management team of Brown and Archie Knox was to re-instate Leighton. These colours were worn for all the trophy-winning seasons of the 1950s. 1903an sortu zen eta Eskoziako lehen mailan jokatzen du. [138][140] Before the popular adoption of "The Dons", the team were variously known as "The Wasps" or "The Black and Golds", both names a reference to the yellow and black striped shirts of the time. Der FC Aberdeen (offiziell: Aberdeen Football Club) – auch bekannt als The Dons – ist ein schottischer Fußballverein aus der im Norden des Landes gelegenen Stadt Aberdeen.Der Verein spielt in der Scottish Premiership und ist einer der beliebtesten und erfolgreichsten schottischen Fußballvereine. [109][110], Plans to develop a new stadium and training facilities near Westhill, close to the newly developed Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, were announced in May 2016. [25], During the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983, Aberdeen beat FC Sion, Dinamo Tirana and Lech Poznań to face the German Cup winners Bayern Munich. [14][18] Though league winners, the club did not participate in the first European Cup competition—Scotland's place was awarded to Hibernian, who took part by special invitation. [27][28] They then faced now-defunct Belgian club Waterschei in the semi-final. [126], The same situation applies to Aberdeen's rivalry with Rangers, in that Rangers have their own much older and well-known Old Firm rivalry with Celtic. As the Scottish Premier League was being expanded to twelve teams, there was then a three team play-off. Aberdeen Football Club (also known as The Dons, The Reds and The Dandies) is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen.They compete in the Scottish Premier League and are one of the most successful teams in their country, having won four league titles and seven Scottish Cups. Aberdeen FC. However, they rarely won trophies, with the exception of the Drybrough Cup in 1971 under Jimmy Bonthrone and the League Cup in 1976, under Ally MacLeod. [23][24], The Aberdeen side of the 1970s regularly challenged for domestic honours. Travers was replaced by former Yeovil Town manager Dave Halliday, one of more than a hundred applicants for the role, and the club moved from their black and gold strip to red and white. Paterson's tenure with Aberdeen was marred by his addiction to alcohol. [18] Despite this loss, Aberdeen qualified for the European Cup Winner's Cup in the following season thanks to their appearance in this final, the first time the club had competed in European competition. Aberdeen competed in the League Cup and in qualifying for the Europa League Summary May. [56] Aberdeen failed to produce better results under Craig Brown's tenure, and in March 2013 he announced his retirement to take up a non-executive director role on the club's board. [16] They then reached the 1947 Scottish Cup final, defeating Hibernian 2–1 with George Hamilton, signed from Halliday's former club Queen of the South, scoring to gain the club's first major trophy. [4][5], In 1904, the club were managed by Jimmy Philip. [138] One theory is that it derives from the word "don" meaning "teacher", given Aberdeen's history as a university town. [40][41], Aberdeen's first and only foreign manager, Ebbe Skovdahl, was appointed in 1999 and his time in charge coincided with some of the heaviest defeats in the club's history. [4] In that season of 1910–11, Aberdeen recorded their first victories over the Old Firm of Celtic and Rangers, and led the league for a time, but finished the season in second place. Aberdeen F.C. [113] The new stadium is expected to have a similar capacity to Pittodrie Stadium. [9] A number of foreign players were signed, including Dutch internationals Theo Snelders and Hans Gillhaus. 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