List_of_Aberdeen_F.C._seasons
This is a list of seasons played by Aberdeen Football Club from 1903 to the present day. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top league goal scorers for each season. Records of minor competitions such as the Aberdeenshire Cup and Northern League are not included.
The club has won the Scottish Football League championship 4 times, most recently in 1985. In addition, Aberdeen has won 7 Scottish Cup titles, the Scottish League Cup six times and the European Cup Winners' Cup once.
The club was formed in 1903 after an amalgamation of three Aberdeen-based football clubs, Orion, Aberdeen and Victoria United. An application to join the Scottish Football League in 1903 was defeated in a vote of member clubs, so the club spent its first season in the Northern League. In 1904, Aberdeen was elected to the Second Division. Despite finishing 7th, they were elected to the First Division in time for the 1905-06 season, where they have remained since, having never been relegated.[1]
Aberdeen have finished bottom of the league on two occasions, 1916–17 and 1999-2000. They were spared relegation in 1917 after having to withdraw from the league because of World War I. In 2000, they avoided a play-off against the second and third place teams in the First Division because Falkirk's ground did not comply with SPL regulations.[2]
In 1983, Aberdeen became the second Scottish club to win the European Cup Winners' Cup, defeating Real Madrid in the final. Later that year, they became the first and only Scottish club to win the UEFA Super Cup.
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- The League Cup competition did not start until the 1946–47 season.
- The Scottish Cup was not held between 1914 and 1920 because of the first World War.
- Scottish football was still held through the war, but due to a disastrous financial situation, the team (along with Dundee and Raith Rovers) had no choice but to drop out.
- In this cup, Aberdeen scored a record 13 goals in one game against Peterhead.
- This was Aberdeen's first Scottish Cup final. They lost out to league champions Celtic 2-1 away from home.
- Aberdeen won the cup for the first time that season; Hibernian were the runners up losing 2–1 at Hampden.
- In the first ever Scottish League Cup final, Aberdeen were comfortably beaten 4–0 at Ibrox Stadium by Rangers.
- This season saw Aberdeen's highest attendance - 45,061 against Hearts in March 1955.
- During this season, Aberdeen recorded a record 8–0 loss to Celtic in January.
- In Aberdeen's first ever European game, they beat Icelandic club KR Reykjavík 14–1 on aggregate, only to lose to Belgian Standard Liège 3–2, also on aggregate, in the next round.
- Aberdeen's first fixture of the tournament - against Hungarians Honvéd - resulted in the first ever penalty shootout in the cups history, which Honvéd won 5–4 in Budapest.
- First double, of Scottish Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup
- This was Aberdeen's first European trophy, and the most well known. In the final, they beat Real Madrid 2–1 to take the title.
- First and only treble, of Scottish League, Scottish Cup and European Super Cup.
- Aberdeen's first UEFA Super Cup final resulted in a 2–0 home win over Hamburg SV after a goalless draw in Germany.
- First double of Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup.
- The league was renamed the Scottish Premier League.
- The league was renamed the Scottish Premiership.
- 2019–20 Scottish Premiership suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland; season curtailed and standings at time of postponement declared final on 18 May 2020.[4]
- "Aberdeen Football Club Team Profile & History". Scottish Premier League. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- "Falkirk FC History". Talkfootball.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- 1940 | When The Football Stopped, Aberdeen FC, 18 March 2020
- "Celtic champions & Hearts relegated after SPFL ends season". BBC Sport. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.