# 2016–17 Falkirk F.C. season

The 2016–17 season was Falkirk's fourth season in the Scottish Championship and their sixth consecutive season in the second-tier of Scottish football following their relegation from the Scottish Premier League at the end of the 2009–10 season . Falkirk also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary
### Season

Falkirk finished as runners-up in the Scottish Championship for the second consecutive season and qualified for the Premiership play-offs, losing to Dundee United in the semi-final.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Scottish League Cup
#### Group stage

Results

### Group G Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STJ | FAL | STI | BRE | ELG |
| 1 | St Johnstone (Q) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 10 | Qualification for the Second round | — | 3–0 | 4–0 | — | — |
| 2 | Falkirk | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | | — | — | — | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Stirling Albion | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 6 | | — | 1–0 | — | — | 4–1 |
| 4 | Brechin City | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 5 | | p1–1 | — | 2–1 | — | — |
| 5 | Elgin City | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 3 | | 1–3 | — | — | 4–2 | — |

### Scottish Cup
## Player statistics

    As of 19 May 2017 (UTC)
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Championship | Championship | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Other | Other |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | IRL | Danny Rogers | 32 | 0 | 28+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Lewis Kidd | 18 | 1 | 12+2 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Luke Leahy | 38 | 3 | 31+0 | 3 | 4+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Aaron Muirhead | 31 | 4 | 24+2 | 4 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | David McCracken | 18 | 1 | 16+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | Joe McKee | 5 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Tom Taiwo | 38 | 1 | 30+1 | 1 | 1+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Mark Kerr | 39 | 0 | 29+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | John Baird | 43 | 10 | 32+2 | 8 | 2+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 |
| 10 | MF | SCO | Craig Sibbald | 45 | 10 | 35+1 | 10 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | ENG | Myles Hippolyte | 35 | 8 | 22+8 | 7 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 14 | DF | SCO | Peter Grant | 22 | 1 | 20+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | CAN | Luca Gasparotto | 36 | 1 | 27+2 | 0 | 4+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ENG | Nathan Austin | 23 | 7 | 7+10 | 6 | 2+2 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | SCO | Lee Miller | 37 | 10 | 16+14 | 9 | 1+2 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Bob McHugh | 42 | 6 | 15+18 | 3 | 2+2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 |
| 21 | FW | SCO | Scott Shepherd | 13 | 0 | 2+9 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | SCO | Liam Henderson | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | SCO | Tony Gallacher | 8 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 24 | GK | SCO | Robbie Thomson | 9 | 0 | 7+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 26 | GK | SCO | Lewis McMinn | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ENG | James Craigen | 34 | 5 | 13+14 | 3 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 2 |
| 30 | FW | SCO | Kevin O'Hara | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | SCO | Cameron Blues | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | CAN | Fraser Aird | 13 | 1 | 5+7 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 44 | DF | SCO | Paul Watson | 19 | 0 | 10+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2016–17 season ||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | WAL | Will Vaulks | 1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | John Rankin | 17 | 0 | 7+6 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 58 | GK | TUR | Deniz Mehmet | 2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |

## Club statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Hibernian (C, P) | 36 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 59 | 25 | +34 | 71 | Promotion to Premiership |
| 2 | Falkirk | 36 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 58 | 40 | +18 | 60 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off semi-finals |
| 3 | Dundee United | 36 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 50 | 42 | +8 | 57 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-finals |
| 4 | Greenock Morton | 36 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 44 | 41 | +3 | 52 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-finals |
| 5 | Dunfermline Athletic | 36 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 46 | 43 | +3 | 48 | |

### 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 | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | L | D | D | W | W | D | L | D | L | W | D | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | L | L | W | D | D | W | D | W |
| Position | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |