# 2016–17 Livingston F.C. season

The 2016–17 season was Livingston's first season back in Scottish League One and their first season back in the third-tier of Scottish football, having been relegated from the Scottish Championship at the end of the 2015–16 season. Livingston also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary
### Season

Livingston finished in first place in League One and were promoted as champions back to the Scottish Championship after only one season back in the third=tier of scottish football. On 24 October 2016, Livingston were fined £4,000 by the SPFL after their Scottish Challenge Cup tie with Crusaders, in which they were found to have fielded an ineligible player. Despite progressing to the next round, the SPFL ordered the match to be replayed in full and was held on 1 November.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

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

Results

#### Group G Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | HAM | AYR | STM | LIV | EDI |
| 1 | Hamilton Academical (Q) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 9 | Qualification for the Second Round | — | — | 3–0 | 2–1 | — |
| 2 | Ayr United (Q) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 | Qualification for the Second Round | 2–1 | — | — | — | 1–0 |
| 3 | St Mirren | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 9 | | — | 1–0 | — | — | 3–0 |
| 4 | Livingston | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 | | — | 0–2 | 2–3 | — | — |
| 5 | Edinburgh City | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 0 | | 2–4 | — | — | 0–3 | — |

### Scottish Challenge Cup
#### Notes

* ^ A- Livingston's 2–1 win against Crusaders on Friday, 7 October was ordered to be replayed after Livingston plead guilty to a breach of SPFL rules in the original fixture. The club was fined £4,000 after they played Alan Lithgow for the full 90 minutes. Lithgow was ineligible for the match as he was still under an SFA suspension at the time.

### Scottish Cup
## Player statistics

    As of 6 May 2017 (UTC)
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | League One | League One | 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 | SCO | Liam Kelly | 40 | 0 | 34+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Michael Miller | 22 | 4 | 13+1 | 3 | 4+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Jackson Longridge | 38 | 4 | 24+6 | 3 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Alan Lithgow | 41 | 3 | 31+0 | 3 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Sean Crighton | 42 | 2 | 29+3 | 1 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | Shaun Byrne | 39 | 2 | 26+4 | 2 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | SCO | Josh Mullin | 37 | 5 | 18+9 | 4 | 4+0 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | SCO | Scott Pittman | 43 | 10 | 36+0 | 9 | 1+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Liam Buchanan | 45 | 27 | 32+4 | 22 | 2+1 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 4 |
| 10 | FW | SCO | Danny Mullen | 42 | 17 | 28+4 | 14 | 4+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 1 | 3+1 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Nicky Cadden | 43 | 9 | 22+12 | 6 | 3+1 | 1 | 1+1 | 1 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | RSA | Keaghan Jacobs | 4 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | SCO | Morgyn Neill | 9 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | SCO | Matthew Knox | 12 | 1 | 3+5 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Jordan Sinclair | 10 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | SCO | Mark Millar | 13 | 0 | 12+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Dale Carrick | 20 | 4 | 4+10 | 3 | 2+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 20 | GK | SCO | Gary Maley | 6 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SCO | Liam Watt | 15 | 0 | 2+9 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | BUL | Nikolay Todorov | 14 | 4 | 7+7 | 4 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Raffaele De Vita | 27 | 4 | 18+5 | 3 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 26 | DF | SCO | Craig Halkett | 43 | 1 | 33+0 | 1 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | SCO | Jack Ogilvie | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | SCO | Declan Gallagher | 16 | 2 | 14+1 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | SCO | Kyle Sampson | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2016–17 season ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | SCO | Darren Jamieson | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SCO | Thomas Orr | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | SCO | Lewis Allan | 4 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Livingston (C, P) | 36 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 80 | 32 | +48 | 81 | Promotion to Scottish Championship |
| 2 | Alloa Athletic | 36 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 69 | 44 | +25 | 62 | Qualification to Championship play-offs |
| 3 | Airdrieonians | 36 | 16 | 4 | 16 | 61 | 66 | −5 | 52 | Qualification to Championship play-offs |
| 4 | Brechin City (O, P) | 36 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 43 | 49 | −6 | 50 | Qualification to Championship play-offs |
| 5 | East Fife | 36 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 41 | 44 | −3 | 46 | |

### 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 | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |