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Season 1981–82 was the 105th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 75th time, the Scottish Cup for the 87th time and the Scottish League Cup for the 35th time.
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Overview
For the seventh year in a row, Dumbarton played league football in Division 1, and with another new manager in place - Billy Lamont - hopes were high to see if promotion could finally be won. Unfortunately, despite a few excellent results, including wins over Hearts, the campaign was a disappointment, and although relegation was never a real threat, an 11th place finish with 35 points was all that was achieved, 26 behind champions Motherwell.
In the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton again began well by beating Premier Division opponents, this time Partick Thistle, in the third round but lost out to a powerful Rangers side in the next round.
The League Cup was a bit of a disaster. The format reverted to sectional games for qualification to the latter stages, and Dumbarton could only manage two home wins from six games, from what was 'on paper' an easy section.
Locally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton almost retained the cup , but lost out on penalties to Alloa in the final.
Results
All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.
Stirlingshire Cup
* - lost on penalties
Club
Dumbarton used 26 players for the 47 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Raymond Blair and Tom Carson were best by appearing in every one of these matches.
International
Graeme Sinclair was selected to play for Scotland in a 'semi-pro' international tournament involving teams from England, Holland and Italy.