# 2018–19 Hamilton Academical F.C. season

The 2018–19 season was Hamilton's fifth consecutive season in the top flight of Scottish football since their promotion at the end of the 2013–14 season. Hamilton also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary
### Season

Hamilton finished in tenth place in the Scottish Premiership for the second consecutive season and once again avoided dropping into the relegation play-off place on the final day of the season with their victory over St Johnstone. Hamilton were also eliminated in the group stage of the league cup and the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

### Management

Hamilton began the season under the management of Martin Canning who had been at the club as a player since 2008 and player-manager since 2015. On 29 January 2019, Canning departed the club by mutual consent. Two days later on 31 January, former St Mirren assistant Brian Rice was appointed as the club's new head coach.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### UEFA Youth League
## Squad statistics
### Appearances

As of 18 May 2019
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premiership | Premiership | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ENG | Gary Woods | 35 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Aaron McGowan | 38 | 2 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Scott McMann | 33 | 0 | 27+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Ziggy Gordon | 41 | 2 | 35+1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | COD | Delphin Tshiembe | 19 | 0 | 15+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ENG | Matt Kilgallon | 26 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | SCO | Dougie Imrie | 34 | 4 | 22+7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | ENG | Steve Davies | 10 | 2 | 5+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ENG | George Oakley | 15 | 4 | 14+1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | SCO | James Keatings | 17 | 1 | 8+9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | ENG | Mikel Miller | 36 | 8 | 25+6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | ENG | Tom Taiwo | 19 | 0 | 12+4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | CYP | Alex Gogić | 17 | 0 | 12+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SCO | Ross Cunningham | 5 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | SCO | Ronan Hughes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | IRL | David McMillan | 8 | 0 | 4+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ENG | Alex Penny | 11 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | SCO | Darian MacKinnon | 33 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | GK | ENG | Jacob Marsden | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | SCO | Shaun Want | 12 | 0 | 9+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | FRA | Tony Andreu | 18 | 1 | 15+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | GK | SCO | Ryan Fulton | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | GK | SVK | Ján Mucha | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | ENG | Sam Kelly | 9 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | NZL | George Stanger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | SCO | Lewis Smith | 4 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | SCO | Jack Breen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | SCO | Steven Boyd | 26 | 2 | 10+13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 31 | FW | NOR | Fredrik Brustad | 15 | 1 | 11+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | SCO | Reegan Mimnaugh | 8 | 0 | 5+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | DF | GER | Lennard Sowah | 21 | 0 | 14+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | GRE | Marios Ogkmpoe | 6 | 1 | 3+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2018–19 season ||||||||||
| 6 | DF | ENG | Adam Phillips | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ENG | Aaron Smith | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ENG | Rakish Bingham | 23 | 3 | 11+8 | 1 | 3+1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ENG | Mason Bloomfield | 7 | 1 | 1+4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | SCO | Darren Lyon | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | LCA | Kieran Monlouis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | SCO | Scott Martin | 31 | 0 | 26+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 8 | Motherwell | 38 | 15 | 6 | 17 | 46 | 56 | −10 | 51 | |
| 9 | Livingston | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 42 | 44 | −2 | 44 | |
| 10 | Hamilton Academical | 38 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 28 | 75 | −47 | 33 | |
| 11 | St Mirren (O) | 38 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 34 | 66 | −32 | 32 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off final |
| 12 | Dundee (R) | 38 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 31 | 78 | −47 | 21 | Relegation to the Championship |
* ↑ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

### 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 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | H | A | A | H |
| Result | L | W | L | L | L | W | L | L | L | D | L | W | L | L | W | L | L | L | D | L | L | L | L | D | W | L | L | W | L | W | L | L | D | D | D | W | L | W |
| Position | 12 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |

### League Cup table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LIV | AIR | HAM | ANN | BER |
| 1 | Livingston (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 11 | Qualification for the Second round | — | — | — | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Airdrieonians | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 7 | | 1–2 | — | — | 4–1 | — |
| 3 | Hamilton Academical | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | | 0–0p | p1–1 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Annan Athletic | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | | — | — | 1–0 | — | 4–0 |
| 5 | Berwick Rangers | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 0 | | — | 0–3 | 0–4 | — | — |