2023–24 Hamilton Academical F.C. season
2023–24 season | |
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Chairman | Allan Maitland (until 20 July) John Brown |
Manager | John Rankin |
Stadium | New Douglas Park |
Scottish League One | Second place (Promoted via play-offs) |
Scottish Cup | Third round |
League Cup | Group stage |
Challenge Cup | Quarter-final |
Top goalscorer | League: Kevin O'Hara (17) All: Kevin O'Hara (19) |
Highest home attendance | 3,820, vs. Falkirk, League One, 16 December 2023 |
Lowest home attendance | 530, vs. Brechin City, League Cup, 18 July 2023 |
Average home league attendance | 1,293 |
The 2023–24 season is Hamilton Academical's first season back in the third tier of Scottish football, following their relegation from the Scottish Championship at the end of the 2022–23 season. Hamilton will also compete in the League Cup, Challenge Cup and the Scottish Cup.
Summary
[edit ]On 20 May 2023, following a play-off draw with Lanarkshire derby rivals Airdrieonians, Hamilton were relegated to League One after losing 5–6 on penalties. It will be the club's first appearance in the third tier of Scottish football since 2005.[1] [2] [3]
On 20 July, the club announced that the proposed takeover by 1874 Holding Limited had been successfully completed, with Seref Zengin appointed as the club's new CEO.[4] [5]
Results and fixtures
[edit ]Win Draw Loss Postponed
Pre-season and friendlies
[edit ]Scottish League One
[edit ]Attendance: 1,087
Referee: Lloyd Wilson
Oné 67'
Murray 81' Stadium: Meadowbank Stadium
Attendance: 525
Referee: Iain Snedden
Banner 76' Report Henderson 30'
O'Hara 38' Stadium: Forthbank Stadium
Attendance: 1,073
Referee: Chris Fordyce
McGlynn 90+3' Report Donnelly 69' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 1,259
Referee: George Calder
Longridge 84' Stadium: Palmerston Park
Attendance: 1,250
Referee: Steven Kirkland
Attendance: 1,264
Referee: Chris Graham
Barjonas 58'
MacDonald 85' Stadium: Links Park
Attendance: 574
Referee: Euan Anderson
Henderson 38', 69' Report Hilson Red card 90+1' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 1,433
Referee: Chris Fordyce
Miller 32' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 3,821
Referee: Calum Scott
Tait Red card 79' Report Johnston 81' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 1,287
Referee: Colin Whyte
Mahon 68' Report MacDonald 12', 19'
Hewitt 24'
Henderson 30'
O'Hara 32' Stadium: Meadowbank Stadium
Attendance: 339
Referee: George Calder
Williamson Red card 55'
Barjonas 71' Report Doyle Red card 55' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 1,436
Referee: Ross Hardie
Davidson 90' Report Goss 33'
Gibson 50'
Walker 90+3' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 759
Referee: Steven Kirkland
Robertson 84' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 745
Referee: Craig Napier
Rose 17', 32', 64'
Tumilty 50' Stadium: New Central Park
Attendance: 520
Referee: Greg Soutar
Rose 52'
Hastie 90+3' Report Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 762
Referee: Duncan Nicolson
Henderson 83'
O'Hara 86' Stadium: Balmoral Stadium
Attendance: 521
Referee: Graham Grainger
Williamson 61'
Hastie 85' Stadium: Galabank
Attendance: 501
Referee: Greg Soutar
Nesbitt 86' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 2,211
Referee: Craig Napier
Tumilty 77' Stadium: Links Park
Attendance: 1,039
Referee: Alan Muir
Hastie 25', 81'
Smith 78' Report Johnston 42' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 835
Referee: Lloyd Wilson
Championship play-off
[edit ]Roberts 54' Report Henderson 31'
O'Hara 75' Stadium: Recreation Park
Attendance: 1,077
Referee: Craig Napier
Owens 22' Report Pepple 68' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 1,389
Referee: Graham Grainger
Scottish League Cup
[edit ]Group stage
[edit ]McGlynn 88'
Martin 90+2' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 792
Referee: George Calder
Attendance: 923
Referee: Craig Napier
Scottish Challenge Cup
[edit ]Flanagan 53' Report Mumbongo 17'
Arnott 20 o.g.'
MacDonald 36 pen.', 80'
Murray 38' Stadium: K-Park Training Academy
Attendance: 583
Referee: Chris Fordyce
Scottish Cup
[edit ]Moore 75' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 519
Referee: Peter Stuart
UEFA Youth League
[edit ]Myklebust 62'
Ødegård 68' UEFA Report Stadium: Aker Stadion
Attendance: 221
Referee: Marian Barbu
Meechan 50' UEFA Report Nyheim 13'
Myklebust 74' Stadium: New Douglas Park
Attendance: 695
Referee: Ante Čulina
Squad statistics
[edit ]Appearances
[edit ]As of 18 May 2024[6]
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | League One + Playoffs | League Cup | Challenge Cup | Scottish Cup | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
1 | GK | Scotland SCO | Ryan Fulton | 15 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
3 | DF | Scotland SCO | Jackson Longridge | 44 | 2 | 37 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
4 | DF | Scotland SCO | Lee Kilday | 36 | 0 | 24+5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 | DF | Scotland SCO | Jamie Hamilton | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6 | MF | Scotland SCO | Jamie Barjonas | 46 | 6 | 33+5 | 5 | 3+1 | 0 | 1+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
7 | FW | Scotland SCO | Euan Henderson | 39 | 10 | 20+15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
8 | MF | Scotland SCO | Scott Martin | 31 | 1 | 23+1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
9 | FW | Scotland SCO | Kevin O'Hara | 44 | 19 | 35+2 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
10 | FW | Jamaica JAM | Ahkeem Rose | 17 | 8 | 10+7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
11 | MF | Scotland SCO | Lewis Smith | 35 | 8 | 18+12 | 7 | 1+2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
12 | FW | Scotland SCO | Jake Hastie | 16 | 4 | 4+12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
14 | MF | Scotland SCO | Marley Redfern | 17 | 0 | 5+12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
15 | MF | Scotland SCO | Connor Murray | 28 | 4 | 5+17 | 3 | 1+3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
16 | DF | Scotland SCO | Kyle MacDonald | 33 | 6 | 24+1 | 4 | 3+1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
18 | DF | Australia AUS | Dylan McGowan | 38 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
19 | FW | Scotland SCO | Andy Winter | 23 | 2 | 6+13 | 0 | 3+1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21 | MF | Scotland SCO | Jake Davidson | 16 | 2 | 14+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
22 | DF | Scotland SCO | Reghan Tumilty | 43 | 8 | 37 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
24 | MF | Scotland SCO | Michael Hewitt | 22 | 1 | 6+13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
25 | DF | Scotland SCO | Fergus Owens | 16 | 1 | 12+3 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
27 | FW | Scotland SCO | Liam Morgan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
28 | MF | Scotland SCO | Ben Williamson | 17 | 1 | 16+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
29 | FW | Northern Ireland NIR | Makenzie Kirk | 8 | 0 | 1+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
30 | GK | England ENG | Dean Lyness | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
31 | GK | Scotland SCO | Jamie Smith | 19 | 0 | 13+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
33 | DF | Scotland SCO | Stephen Hendrie | 23 | 0 | 7+9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
44 | FW | Scotland SCO | Lewis Latona | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
47 | FW | Scotland SCO | Gravine Kalala | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
48 | DF | Scotland SCO | Chris Neeson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
49 | DF | Scotland SCO | Arran Preston | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Players who left the club during the 2023–24 season | |||||||||||||
2 | DF | Republic of Ireland IRL | Josh O'Brien | 14 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10 | FW | Canada CAN | Dario Zanatta | 16 | 1 | 4+5 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 1+2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
17 | FW | Scotland SCO | Ryan Oné | 8 | 2 | 0+4 | 2 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
17 | FW | Sweden SWE | Joel Mumbongo | 11 | 1 | 0+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
20 | FW | Scotland SCO | Joe McGlynn | 15 | 5 | 2+8 | 3 | 0+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
21 | MF | Scotland SCO | Dylan Tait | 25 | 1 | 12+5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
23 | DF | Scotland SCO | Chris McGinn | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
26 | DF | Scotland SCO | Cian Newbury | 4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Team statistics
[edit ]League table
[edit ]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
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1 | Falkirk (C, P) | 36 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 96 | 28 | +68 | 90 | Promotion to the Championship |
2 | Hamilton Academical (O, P) | 36 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 73 | 28 | +45 | 74 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
3 | Alloa Athletic | 36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 60 | 55 | +5 | 56 | |
4 | Montrose | 36 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 58 | 57 | +1 | 53 | |
5 | Cove Rangers | 36 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 58 | 63 | −5 | 49 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-to head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only for deciding promotion, play-off participation and relegation).[8]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted
League Cup table
[edit ]Pos | Team | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LIV | HAM | COV | BRE | CLY |
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1 | Livingston | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 | Qualification for the second round | — | 1–1p | — | — | 1–0 |
2 | Hamilton Academical | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 9 | — | — | 2–2p | 1–0 | — | |
3 | Cove Rangers | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 8 | 0–5 | — | — | — | 5–2 | |
4 | Brechin City | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 | 0–3 | — | 2–3 | — | — | |
5 | Clyde | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 0 | — | 1–3 | — | 1–2 | — |
Rules for classification: 1) goal difference, 2) goals scored, 3) away goals scored, 4) matches won, 5) away matches won, 6) drawing of lots.[10]
Transfers
[edit ]
Loans in[edit ]
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Loans out[edit ]
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