# 2010–11 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season

The 2010–11 season was the 130th season of competitive football by Heart of Midlothian, and their 28th consecutive season in the top level of Scottish football, competing in the Scottish Premier League. Hearts also competed in the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Overview

Hearts first four SPL games of the 2010–11 season were announced as St Johnstone at home, Hamilton away, Dundee Utd at home, and Celtic away.
Hearts started the league off with a 1–1 draw with St Johnstone, a 0–4 win over Hamilton, and a 1–1 draw with Dundee United. Performances have received positive reviews so far, and Hearts have been unlucky not to win all 3 of their opening games, taking the lead in each.
Hearts have had 6 consecutive wins in a row beating rivals Hibernian 2–0 at Easter Road Stadium, while beating Celtic, Hamilton and Saint Johnstone 2–0 as well, they hammered Aberdeen 5–0 at Tyncastle and beat Motherwell 2–1 away from home.
Hearts Drew 5 then lost the last 3 games of the season against Rangers, Celtic and Dundee United narrowly scraping third place by 2 points. despite being 16 points clear at one point in the season.

## Results and fixtures
### Scottish League Cup

Hearts entered the Scottish League Cup in the second round being handed a home tie against Scottish Third Division side Elgin City. Hearts won the game emphatically 4–0. Hearts then traveled to Scottish First Division side Falkirk. The game was a dramatic affair Hearts going in 2–0 down at half time with only ten men left after Craig Thomson was sent off. Hearts fought back and went 3–2 ahead through a penalty and goal from Kevin Kyle and Suso Santana only to be disappointed again when with Hearts tiring falkirk equalised to make it 3–3 in the 80th minute. Hearts tried to defend hard hoping to push the game to extra time only to be defeated in the last minutes of injury time. Falkirk knocking them out 4–3.

### Scottish Cup

Hearts entered the Scottish Cup in the fourth round and were given a tough game by SPL side St Johnstone narrowly being defeated 0–1 at home in the dying minutes of the game.

## First team player statistics
### Captains

| No | Pos | Name | No of games | Notes |
| 1 | DF | Marius Žaliūkas | 29 | Team Captain |
| 2 | DF | Eggert Jónsson | 8 | Club Captain |
| 3 | DF | Andy Webster | 3 | Club Captain |
| 4 | DF | Lee Wallace | 1 | Club Captain |
Last updated: 15 May 2011 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 information

    Last updated 15 May 2011
During the 2010–11 campaign, Hearts used thirty players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.
| Number | Position | Nation | Name | Totals | Totals | SPL | SPL | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup |
| Number | Position | Nation | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | HUN | János Balogh | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Lee Wallace | 10 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ISL | Eggert Jónsson | 32 | 1 | 29+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Darren Barr | 14 | 0 | 11+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ESP | Rubén Palazuelos | 36 | 0 | 31+2 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ESP | Suso Santana | 21 | 1 | 16+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Ian Black | 34 | 1 | 29+3 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Kevin Kyle | 22 | 10 | 16+3 | 7 | 2+0 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | IRL | Stephen Elliott | 31 | 8 | 21+9 | 8 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Andrew Driver | 14 | 0 | 4+10 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | SCO | David Templeton | 35 | 7 | 27+5 | 7 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | UGA | David Obua | 14 | 0 | 7+6 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SCO | Calum Elliot | 21 | 4 | 11+8 | 4 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | SCO | Andy Webster | 9 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | SCO | Ryan Stevenson | 34 | 7 | 18+13 | 7 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | AUS | Ryan McGowan | 8 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | LTU | Arvydas Novikovas | 8 | 2 | 1+5 | 1 | 1+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | CZE | Rudi Skácel | 29 | 13 | 27+2 | 13 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | SCO | Jason Thomson | 6 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | ALG | Ismaël Bouzid | 35 | 0 | 31+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | SCO | Gordon Smith | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | SCO | Gary Glen | 11 | 1 | 2+9 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | SCO | Craig Thomson | 29 | 1 | 20+7 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | SVK | Marián Kello | 32 | 0 | 31+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | LTU | Marius Žaliūkas | 29 | 1 | 28+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | SCO | Scott Robinson | 5 | 1 | 1+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | SCO | Jamie MacDonald | 8 | 0 | 7+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | POL | Adrian Mrowiec | 33 | 0 | 26+4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 51 | MF | SCO | Jason Holt | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 52 | FW | SCO | David Smith | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
* Last updated: 15 May 2011
* Source: Match Reports
* Ordered by Squad Number.
Appearances (starts and substitute appearances) and goals include those in the Scottish Premier League, League Cup, and the Scottish Cup.

### Goal scorers

Last updated 15 May 2011
| Place | Position | Nation | Name | SPL | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Total |
| 1 | MF | | Rudi Skácel | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | FW | | Kevin Kyle | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | FW | | Stephen Elliott | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | MF | | Ryan Stevenson | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | MF | | David Templeton | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | FW | | Calum Elliot | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | MF | | Arvydas Novikovas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | MF | | Ian Black | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | FW | | Gary Glen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | Eggert Jónsson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | | Scott Robinson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | | Suso Santana | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | Craig Thomson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | | Marius Žaliūkas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own Goals | Own Goals | Own Goals | Own Goals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 53 | 7 | 0 | 60 |

### Disciplinary record

During the 2010–11 season, Hearts players were issued fifty-seven yellow cards and zero red cards. The table below shows the number of cards and type shown to each player.
    Last updated 15 May 2011
| Number | Position | Nation | Name | SPL | SPL | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Total | Total |
| 3 | DF | | Lee Wallace | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Eggert Jónsson | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | | Darren Barr | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | | Rubén Palazuelos | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | | Suso Santana | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Ian Black | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | | Kevin Kyle | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | | Stephen Elliott | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | | Andrew Driver | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | | David Templeton | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | | David Obua | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | | Calum Elliot | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | | Ryan Stevenson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | | Ryan McGowan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | | Rudi Skácel | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | | Jason Thomson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | | Ismaël Bouzid | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | | Craig Thomson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 26 | DF | | Marius Žaliūkas | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 31 | MF | | Adrian Mrowiec | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 88 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 4 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Rangers (C) | 38 | 30 | 3 | 5 | 88 | 29 | +59 | 93 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 2 | Celtic | 38 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 85 | 22 | +63 | 92 | Qualification for the Europa League play-off round |
| 3 | Heart of Midlothian | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 53 | 45 | +8 | 63 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Dundee United | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 55 | 50 | +5 | 61 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Kilmarnock | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 53 | 55 | −2 | 49 | |
* 1 2 Celtic entered the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League as they won the 2011 Scottish Cup Final. Due to this, Heart of Midlothian also moved up to the third qualifying round, whilst fourth-placed team Dundee United received the second qualifying round spot.

### Management statistics

    Last updated 15 May 2011
| Name | From | To | P | W | D | L | Win% |
| Jim Jefferies | 1 June 2010 | 15 May 2011 | 41 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 046.34 |
* ↑ Win% is the percentage of matches won rounded to two decimal places.

## Transfers

Heart of Midlothian have made 6 signings over the summer break: Stephen Elliott, Kevin Kyle, Darren Barr, Marian Kello, as a permanent deal, after being on loan at the club, Adrian Mrowiec from FBK Kaunas and Rudi Skácel returned to the club. On 3 February 2011 it was announced that Andy Webster would return to the club after being released by Rangers of deadline day of the transfer window. He signed a two-and-a-half-year deal.