# 2020–21 Dundee United F.C. season

The 2020–21 season was Dundee United's 112th season. It was their first season back in the Scottish Premiership, having been promoted from the Scottish Championship at the end of the 2019–20 season. United also competed in the League Cup and Scottish Cup.

## Season summary

Dundee United were promoted back to the Premiership after the premature season ending due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland and spent majority of summer months fighting their case in the SPFL and ended up in court with Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers fighting their promotions against relegated teams Heart of Midlothian and Partick Thistle. Also in the off-season, manager Robbie Neilson left for Hearts so Micky Mellon was hired as the new manager for United.

## Competitions
### Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Scottish Cup
## Player statistics
### Appearances and goals

    As of 16 May 2020
| No. | Pos | Player | Premiership | Premiership | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | Benjamin Siegrist | 32+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Liam Smith | 28+2 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 35 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | Adrián Spörle | 15+10 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
| 4 | DF | Dillon Powers | 6+8 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Mark Connolly | 23+2 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Mark Reynolds | 33+1 | 1 | 3+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 41 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Peter Pawlett | 15+11 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 1+3 | 1 | 33 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | Marc McNulty | 17+8 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 2 | 30 | 5 |
| 10 | FW | Nicky Clark | 23+7 | 8 | 4+0 | 2 | 3+1 | 1 | 38 | 11 |
| 12 | DF | Ryan Edwards | 23+0 | 2 | 4+0 | 1 | 4+0 | 1 | 31 | 4 |
| 15 | FW | Logan Chalmers | 8+6 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | Jamie Robson | 33+3 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 43 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | Calum Butcher | 27+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 1 | 4+0 | 0 | 36 | 1 |
| 19 | GK | Deniz Mehmet | 4+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | Luke Bolton | 18+6 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Declan Glass | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Ian Harkes | 30+5 | 1 | 2+2 | 1 | 3+1 | 0 | 43 | 2 |
| 24 | FW | Lawrence Shankland | 30+2 | 7 | 0+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 1 | 36 | 8 |
| 27 | FW | Louis Appéré | 11+9 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
| 31 | GK | Jack Newman | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | Archie Meekison | 2+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 36 | FW | Darren Watson | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 43 | DF | Kerr Smith | 3+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 52 | GK | Neil Alexander | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | GK | Ross Doohan | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 66 | MF | Jeando Fuchs | 19+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2020–21 season |||||
| 7 | MF | Paul McMullan | 3+5 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Cammy Smith | 0+4 | 0 | 2+1 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 14 | MF | Florent Hoti | 1+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | Adam King | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | Kieran Freeman | 1+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | Kai Fotheringham | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Chris Mochrie | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | Lewis Neilson | 7+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |

### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 7 | St Mirren | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 37 | 45 | −8 | 45 | |
| 8 | Motherwell | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 39 | 55 | −16 | 45 | |
| 9 | Dundee United | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 32 | 50 | −18 | 44 | |
| 10 | Ross County | 38 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 35 | 66 | −31 | 39 | |
| 11 | Kilmarnock (R) | 38 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 43 | 54 | −11 | 36 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off final |
* ↑ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

### League Cup table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STJ | DUN | PET | KEL | BRE |
| 1 | St Johnstone | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 10 | Qualification for the Second round | — | 0–0p | — | — | 7–0 |
| 2 | Dundee United | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 8 | | — | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | — |
| 3 | Peterhead | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 8 | | 1–3 | — | — | — | 3–1 |
| 4 | Kelty Hearts | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 1–2 | — | 1–1p | — | — |
| 5 | Brechin City | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 18 | −15 | 0 | | — | 2–6 | — | 0–2 | — |