Manager Peter McGown Scottish Cup Seventh Round | Scottish League Division 2 9th Scottish League Cup Prelims | |
Top goalscorer League: Hugh Gallacher (28)All: Hugh Gallacher (37) | ||
Season 1956–57 was the 80th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 50th time, the Scottish Cup for the 62nd time and the Scottish League Cup for the 10th time.
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Overview
By coming so close to promotion the previous season, confidence was high to mount a serious challenge on the Division 2 title. However despite breaking the 100 goals scored in a league season for the first time, the 70 against was never going to be 'championship material' and only a 9th place was achieved with 38 points, 26 behind runaway winners Clyde.
In the Scottish Cup, however, two Division 1 clubs were defeated on route to a quarter final against Raith Rovers - and although the tie was lost the 18,001 crowd at Boghead still stands as the record home crowd.
Dumbarton returned to old habits in the League Cup by failing to qualify from their section, although it was their poor home performances which were to count against them this season.
It was however the Stirlingshire Cup which was to bring some cheer, as an aggregate win over Alloa Athletic was to bring the cup home to Dumbarton for the second time.
It should be noted that Boghead had floodlights installed during the season, and a friendly against Celtic was played to celebrate the 'switch on'.
Finally, Dumbarton broke both the goals for and goals against 'centuries' during the season. By scoring 134 goals in all games, this was the ninth time that the 'century - for' had been broken, and by conceding 109, this was the 15th time that the 'century - against' had been broken.
Results
All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.
Appearances
Dumbarton used 26 players for the 46 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Tommy Craig and John McKay were best by featuring in all but one of these matches.
Reserve Team
Dumbarton played a 'reserve' team in the Alliance League, which was set up for Division 2 sides. The season was split into two 'series' - with Dumbarton winning the First Series (with 6 wins and 2 draws from 10 games) and finishing as runners up in the Second (with 6 wins and 3 draws from 12 games).