# 2015–16 Dumbarton F.C. season

The 2015–16 season was Dumbarton's fourth consecutive season back in the second tier of Scottish football and their third season in the Scottish Championship, having won promotion from the Scottish Second Division at the end of the 2011–12 season via the play-offs. Ian Murray resigned as manager before the start of the season and moved to Championship rivals St Mirren and was replaced by Stephen Aitken.
Dumbarton finished eighth in the Scottish Championship. They reached the second round in the Challenge Cup before losing to Queens Park, lost in the first round of the League Cup to East Fife and the fifth round of the Scottish Cup to Dundee, following a drawn game.

## Results & fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Abandoned or Postponed

### Pre Season Matches
## Player statistics
### Squad

    Last updated 25 August 2016
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Scottish Championship | Scottish Championship | Challenge Cup | Challenge Cup | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| | GK | SCO | Mark Brown | 27 | 0 | 21+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Jamie Ewings | 16 | 0 | 15+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Darren Barr | 36 | 3 | 30+1 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Gregor Buchanan | 37 | 1 | 29+1 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Mark Docherty | 39 | 2 | 31+3 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Andy Graham | 4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Steven Saunders | 26 | 4 | 24+0 | 4 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Scott Taggart | 20 | 0 | 9+5 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Calum Waters | 21 | 1 | 9+7 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| | DF | SCO | Frazer Wright | 31 | 0 | 26+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Scott Brown | 16 | 0 | 12+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Ryan Clark | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Grant Gallagher | 37 | 4 | 24+7 | 2 | 2+0 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Willie Gibson | 21 | 2 | 13+5 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Mikey Hopkins | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Jordan Kirkpatrick | 27 | 2 | 7+15 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+2 | 2 |
| | MF | SCO | Jamie Lindsay | 28 | 0 | 20+3 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Donald McCallum | 16 | 2 | 3+12 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 |
| | MF | ENG | Jon Routledge | 38 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Eamonn Brophy | 10 | 1 | 5+5 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Kevin Cawley | 39 | 3 | 25+7 | 2 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Steven Craig | 14 | 1 | 7+4 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Garry Fleming | 42 | 11 | 30+5 | 7 | 2+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 3 |
| | FW | EIR | Paul Heffernan | 8 | 0 | 4+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | FW | THA | Kler Heh | 5 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| | FW | FRA | Christian Nade | 14 | 7 | 10+2 | 7 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Steven Ross | 5 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Gordon Smith | 4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Tom Walsh | 16 | 1 | 10+4 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 6 | St Mirren | 36 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 44 | 53 | −9 | 42 | |
| 7 | Queen of the South | 36 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 46 | 56 | −10 | 42 | |
| 8 | Dumbarton | 36 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 35 | 66 | −31 | 37 | |
| 9 | Livingston (R) | 36 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 37 | 51 | −14 | 31 | Qualification for the Championship play-offs |
| 10 | Alloa Athletic (R) | 36 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 22 | 67 | −45 | 21 | Relegation to League One |

### Division summary

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | A |
| Result | W | W | L | L | L | D | L | L | W | L | L | L | L | D | L | W | W | D | L | L | D | W | L | L | W | L | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | W | L | D |
| Position | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |

## Factfile

* The 9 league goals scored in away games matched the record fewest away goals scored set during the 1894–95 season.