# 1998–99 Dundee United F.C. season
## Season review

United finished the 1998–99 SPL season in 9th place with 34 points, in the SPL's debut season.
The cup campaigns brought mixed fortunes: a League Cup 3rd round exit to Ross County was bettered by a Scottish Cup semi-final loss to Celtic.

### Coca-Cola Cup
## Player details

During the 1998–99 season, United used 35 different players comprising 11 nationalities, plus two unused substitutes. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bank of Scotland Premierleague | Bank of Scotland Premierleague | Tennent's Scottish Cup | Tennent's Scottish Cup | Coca-Cola Cup | Coca-Cola Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | NED | Sieb Dijkstra | 36 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | SCO | Alan Combe | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | NIR | Iain Jenkins | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Maurice Malpas | 37 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ISL | Siggi Jonsson | 18 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | NIR | Darren Patterson | 28 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | NOR | Erik Pedersen | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | SCO | Mark McNally | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | SCO | Neil Duffy | 20 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | CAN | Jason de Vos | 31 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | DF | FRA | Bernard Pascual | 18 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | SCO | Scott McCulloch | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | WAL | David Partridge | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | EIR | David Worrell | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SWE | Lars Zetterlund | 24 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | SCO | David Hannah | 13 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | SCO | Jamie Dolan | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | SCO | Joe Miller | 33 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | SWE | Magnus Sköldmark | 33 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | BEL | Tonny Mols | 16 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | SCO | Neil Murray | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | ENG | John Eustace | 13 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | SCO | Jim Paterson | 15 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Craig Easton | 37 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | SCO | Brian McLaughlin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | MF | PER | Jose Valeriani | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | SWE | Kjell Olofsson | 43 | 10 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | FRA | Roger Boli | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | FW | SCO | Gary McSwegan | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | FW | SCO | Alex Mathie | 28 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SCO | Robbie Winters | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SCO | Billy Dodds | 28 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Andy McLaren | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Steven Thompson | 19 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 | FW | SCO | Stephen McConalogue | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 6 | Heart of Midlothian | 36 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 44 | 50 | −6 | 42 | |
| 7 | Motherwell | 36 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 35 | 54 | −19 | 41 | |
| 8 | Aberdeen | 36 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 43 | 71 | −28 | 37 | |
| 9 | Dundee United | 36 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 34 | |
| 10 | Dunfermline Athletic (R) | 36 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 28 | 59 | −31 | 28 | Relegation to the 1999–2000 Scottish First Division |

## Playing kit

| Home colours | Away colours |
The jerseys were sponsored for a third time by Telewest.

## Trivia

* Joe Miller, who signed from Aberdeen, scored two goals during his time with United – both against Aberdeen.
* United led eventual champions Celtic in three of the four league matches in 1998–99 but only managed to take one point.
* United's highest and lowest home attendances occurred in consecutive matches at Tannadice – nearly 13,000 watched United in a goalless draw against Rangers while less than 6,500 turned up eleven days later to watch them play Dunfermline. It was the second season in a row that United's lowest home attendance was against the Pars.