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Hall of Fame

The club has a hall of fame plaque in the stadium displaying prominent players and teams from the clubs history.

Individuals

  • Peter Miller – 62 apps (1875–1884 & 1885–1888)
  • Joseph Lindsay – 46 apps (1877–1890)
  • Michael Paton – 16 apps (1880–1886)
  • James McAulay – 35 apps (1880–1887)
  • Leitch Keir – 49 apps (1881–1897)
  • Tom McMillan – 110 apps (1885–1895)
  • John Bell – 50 apps (1888-1893)
  • Donald Colman – 55 apps (1920–1925) and (1922–1931) as manager
  • Joshua Wilkinson – 16 apps (1921)
  • Johnny Haddow – 102 apps (1928–1931) & 71 apps (1933–1936)
  • John Hosie
  • Hugh Gallagher – 191 apps (1954–1962)
  • Tommy Govan – 249 apps (1957–1967)
  • Andy Jardine – 298 apps (1957–1967)
  • Roy McCormack – 246 apps (1966–1976)
  • Johnny Graham – 385 apps (1967–1977)
  • Jackie Stewart – 190 apps (1968–1973) as manager
  • Lawrie Williams – 372 apps (1970–1980)
  • Kenny Wilson – 74 apps (1970–1972)
  • Alex Wright – 192 apps (1973–1977) as manager
  • John Bourke – 111 apps (1973–1978) & 106 apps (1982–1987)
  • Donald McNeil – 276 apps (1975–1981)
  • Joe Coyle – 130 apps (1970–1982) & 75 apps (1983–1985)
  • Tommy Coyle – 286 apps (1978–1987)
  • Owen Coyle – 103 apps (1985–1988)
  • Tom Carson – 149 apps (1979–1984), 6 apps (1997–1992) & 67 apps (2000–2002) as manager
  • Charlie Gibson – 257 apps (1989–1996)
  • Craig Brittain – 295 apps (1997–2009)
  • Paddy Flannery – 175 apps (1997–2003)
  • Stephen Grindlay – 174 apps (2001–2007) & 93 apps (2010–2015)
  • Murdo MacLeod – 87 apps (1975–1978) and 66 apps (1993–1995) as player–manager

Teams

  • 1882–83 Scottish Cup Winners
  • 1890–91 Scottish League Champions (Tier 1)
  • 1891–92 Scottish League Champions (Tier 1)
  • 1910–11 Division Two Champions (Tier 2)
  • 1971–72 Division Two Champions (Tier 2)
  • 1983–84 Division One Runners Up (Tier 2)
  • 1984–85 Premier Division Season (Tier 1)
  • 1991–92 Division Two Champions (Tier 3)
  • 2008–09 Third Division Champions (Tier 4)

Internationals

18 Dumbarton players were chosen to represent Scotland between 1880 and 1898. The club's international players were as follows:

In 2026 defender Ali Omar was called-up by the Somalia national football team, becoming the first Sons player to represent an African nation.

Coaching staff

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Position !! Name

|-

| Manager || Frank McKeown

|-

|Assistant managers

|Mark Docherty<br/>Stephen Simmons

|-

| Goalkeeping coach || David McGurn

|-

| Physiotherapists || Luke Bolton<br/>Kirsty Hughes

|-

| Sports scientist || Callum Strang

|-

| Head of youth operations || Darren McEwan

|}

Recent league history

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|-

! width=70|Season

! width=30|P

! width=30|W

! width=30|D

! width=30|L

! width=30|GF

! width=30|GA

! width=30|GD

! width=30|Pts

! width=30|Pos

! width=110|League

|-

|2025–26

|36

|10

|10

|16

|47

|61

| −14

|35*

|9

|League Two

|-

|2024–25

|36

|8

|11

|17

|51

|66

| −15

|20**

|10 (R)

|League One

|-

|2023–24

|36

|16

|9

|11

|56

|44

|12

|58

|4(P)

|League Two

|-

|2022–23

|36

|18

|8

|10

|49

|39

|10

|62

|2

|League Two

|-

|2021–22

|36

|9

|7

|20

|48

|71

| −23

|34

|9(R)

|League One

|-

|2020–21

|22

|7

|4

|11

|14

|24

| −10

|25

|9

|League One

|-

|2019–20

|28

|11

|5

|12

|35

|44

| −9

|38

|6

|League One

|-

|2018–19

|36

|12

|10

|14

|60

|60

|0

|46

|6

|League One

|-

| 2017–18 || 36 || 7 || 9 || 20 || 27 || 63 || −36 || 30 || 9(R) || Championship

|-

| 2016–17 || 36 || 9 || 12 || 15 || 46 || 56 || −10 || 39 || 8 || Championship

|-

| 2015–16 || 36 || 10 || 7 || 19 || 35 || 66 || −31 || 37 || 8 || Championship

|-

| 2014–15 || 36 || 9 || 7 || 20 || 36 || 79 || −43 || 34 || 7 || Championship

|}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Deducted 5 points for entering administration the previous season.

<nowiki>**</nowiki>Deducted 15 points for entering administration.

Managerial history

Manager records for all league, league play-offs, League Cup, Scottish Cup & Challenge Cup games (i.e. not including friendlies & Stirlingshire Cup games)

  • Permanent managers only. Stats include permanent managers who had initial caretaker spells.

As of match played 2 May 2026:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"

|-

!rowspan="2"|Name

!rowspan="2"|Nat.

!rowspan="2"|From

!rowspan="2"|To

!colspan="5"|Record

|-

!width=30|Pld

!width=30|W

!width=30|D

!width=30|L

!width=50|%won

|-

| align="left" |Frank McKeown

|

| align="left" |December 2025

| align="left" |Present

|22

|5

|7

|11

|22.73

|-

|align=left|Stephen Farrell

|

|align=left|May 2021

|align=left|November 2025

|210||74||48||88||35.24

|-

|align=left|Jim Duffy

|

|align=left|October 2018

|align=left|May 2021

|94||33||18||43||35.11

|-

|align=left|Stephen Aitken

|

|align=left|May 2015

|align=left|October 2018

|154||42||38||74||27.27

|-

|align=left|Ian Murray

|

|align=left|November 2012

|align=left|May 2015

|108||41||15||52||37.96

|-

|align=left|Alan Adamson

|

|align=left|October 2010

|align=left|October 2012

|83||32||16||35||38.55

|-

|align=left|Jim Chapman

|

|align=left|December 2007

|align=left|October 2010

|113||39||27|||47||34.50

|-

|align=left|Gerry McCabe

|

|align=left|June 2006

|align=left|November 2007

||57||25||11||21||43.86

|-

|align=left|Paul Martin

|

|align=left|December 2004

|align=left|June 2006

||67||12||15||35||17.91

|-

|align=left|Brian Fairley

|

|align=left|March 2003

|align=left|December 2004

||66||30||10||26||45.45

|-

|align=left|David Winnie

|

|align=left|June 2002

|align=left|March 2003

||34||11||6||17||32.35

|-

|align=left|Tom Carson

|

|align=left|October 2000

|align=left|June 2002

||67||32||13||22||47.76

|-

|align=left| Jimmy Brown

|

|align=left|March 1999

|align=left|October 2000

||66||26||10||30||39.39

|-

|align=left|Ian Wallace

|

|align=left|November 1996

|align=left|March 1999

||95||26||24||45||27.37

|-

|align=left|Jim Fallon

|

|align=left|September 1995

|align=left|November 1996

||50||2||6||42||4.00

|-

|align=left|Murdo MacLeod

|

|align=left|June 1993

|align=left|August 1995

||88||28||24||35||31.81

|-

|align=left|Billy Lamont

|

|align=left|April 1990

|align=left|June 1993

||138||54||30||54||39.13

|-

|align=left|Jim George

|

|align=left|October 1988

|align=left|April 1990

||77||29||20||28||37.66

|-

|align=left|Bertie Auld

|

|align=left|January 1988

|align=left|September 1988

||24||4||8||12||16.66

|-

|align=left|Mark Clougherty

|

|align=left|July 1987

|align=left|January 1988

||30||9||7||14||30.00

|-

|align=left|Alex Totten

|

|align=left|July 1986

|align=left|April 1987

||46||23||8||15||50.00

|-

|align=left|Derek Whiteford

|

|align=left|May 1986

|align=left|May 1986

|-

|align=left|Alex Wright (caretaker)

|

|align=left|February 1986

|align=left|May 1986

||17||6||5||6||35.30

|-

|align=left|Davie Wilson

|

|align=left|March 1984

|align=left|February 1986

||97||32||22||43||33.00

|-

|align=left|Billy Lamont

|

|align=left|July 1981

|align=left|February 1984

||124||44||26||26||35.48

|-

|align=left|Sean Fallon

|

|align=left|July 1980

|align=left|May 1981

||43||14||12||17||32.56

|-

|align=left|Davie Wilson

|

|align=left|July 1977

|align=left|April 1980

||127||51||38||38||40.16

|-

|align=left|Alex Wright

|

|align=left|March 1973

|align=left|May 1977

||192||66||42||84||34.37

|-

|align=left|Jackie Stewart

|

|align=left|November 1968

|align=left|January 1973

||190||89||34||67||46.84

|-

|align=left|Ian Spence

|

|align=left|September 1967

|align=left|October 1968

||46||13||11||22||28.26

|-

|align=left|Willie Toner

|

|align=left|October 1964

|align=left|September 1967

||131||47||27||57||35.88

|-

|align=left|Jackie Fearn

|

|align=left|May 1962

|align=left|September 1964

||100||41||17||42||41.00

|-

|align=left|Bobby Campbell

|

|align=left|July 1961

|align=left|May 1962

||43||10||10||23||23.26

|-

|align=left|Bobby Combe

|

|align=left|May 1959

|align=left|November 1960

||63||28||14||21||44.44

|-

|align=left|Peter McGown

|

|align=left|May 1954

|align=left|April 1959

||216||108||33||75||50.00

|-

|align=left|William Irvine

|

|align=left|June 1950

|align=left|May 1954

||155||51||32||72||32.90

|-

|align=left|William Guthrie

|

|align=left|August 1946

|align=left|June 1950

||153||42||27||84||27.45

|-

|align=left|Jackie Milne

|

|align=left|June 1945

|align=left|August 1946

||38||14||6||18||36.84

|-

|align=left|William Guthrie (secretary)

|

|align=left|August 1944

|align=left|June 1945

|30

|9

|3

|18

|30.00

|-

|align=left|Fred Donovan (secretary)

|

|align=left|June 1940

|align=left|June 1944

|120

|45

|20

|55

|37.50

|-

|align=left|Jimmy Smith

|

|align=left|January 1939

|align=left|June 1940

|45

|9

|8

|28

|20.00

|-

|align=left|Fred Donovan (secretary)

|

|align=left|June 1931

|align=left|January 1939

|274

|98

|48

|128

|35.77

|-

|align=left|Donald Colman

|

|align=left|June 1922

|align=left|May 1931

|359

|139

|65

|155

|38.72

|-

|align=left|Paddy Travers

|

|align=left|April 1920

|align=left|May 1922

|95

|24

|17

|54

|25.27

|-

| align="left" |George Livingstone

|

| align="left" |March 1919

| align="left" |April 1920

|47

|14

|12

|21

|29.79

|-

| align="left" |James Collins

|

| align="left" |May 1914

| align="left" |March 1919

|174

|55

|46

|73

|31.61

|}

Honours

League

  • Scottish Football League: Winners 1890–91, 1891–92
  • Scottish First Division: Winners 1910–11, 1971–72
  • Runners-up 1907–08, 1983–84
  • Scottish Second Division: Winners 1991–92
  • Runners-up 1994–95
  • Play-Off Winners 2011–12
  • Scottish Third Division: Winners 2008–09
  • Runners-up 2001–02, 2022–23
  • Play-Off Winners 2023–24
  • Scottish Combination League: Winners 1905–06

Cup

National

  • Scottish Cup: Winners 1882–83
  • Runners-up 1880–81, 1881–82, 1886–87, 1890–91, 1896–97
  • Scottish Challenge Cup: Runners-up 2017–18
  • Scottish Qualifying Cup: Runners-up 1911–12
  • Scottish Consolation Cup: Runners-up 1907–08, 1910–11
  • Scottish Supplementary Cup: Runners-up 1945–46
  • Festival of Britain St. Mungo Quaich: Winners 1951–52

Other

  • Stirlingshire Cup: Winners (16) 1952–53, 1956–57, 1964–65, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1993–94, 1995–96, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13
  • Runners-up 6 times
  • Dumbartonshire Cup: Winners (20) 1884–85 1888–89, 1889–90, 1890–91, 1891–92, 1892–93, 1893–94, 1894–95, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1914–15, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1939–40
  • Runners-up 17 times
  • Dumbartonshire Association Tournament: Winners 1885–86
  • Stirlingshire Consolation Cup: Runners-up 1950–51
  • League Charity Cup: Winners 1890–91
  • Glasgow Charity Cup: Runners-up 1881–82, 1884–85
  • Greenock Charity Cup: Winners 1889–90, 1890–91
  • Runners-up 1888–89, 1891–92
  • Dumbartonshire Charity Cup:
  • Winners 1916–17, 1917–18, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1922–23
  • Runners-up 1918–19, 1924–25, 1925–26
  • Clydebank Charity Cup: Runners-up 1918–19
  • United Abstainers F.C. Gold Cup: Runners-up 1889–90
  • Oban Saints Keyline Trophy: Winners 2005–06

Reserves

  • Scottish Second XI Cup: Winners 1881–82
  • Runners-up 1883–84, 1886–87, 1889–90
  • Glasgow & District Reserve League: Runners-up 1942–43 (First Series), 1943–44 (First Series)
  • Scottish Alliance Reserve League: Winners 1956–57 (First Series)
  • Runners-up: 1956–57 (Second Series)
  • Combined Reserve League: Winners 1958–59 (Second Series)
  • Runners-up: 1958–59 (First Series)
  • Scottish Reserve League (West): Runners-up 1985–86
  • Glasgow & District Reserve League Cup: Runners-up 1942–43
  • Dumbartonshire Second XI Cup: Winners 1888–89, 1889–90, 1890–91, 1891–92, 1892–93

Youths

  • Scottish Under 19s League: Runners-up 2010–11
  • West Region Under 18s Cup: Runners-up 2022–23
  • West Region Under 17s Cup: Runners-up 2022–23
  • SLDFL Knockout Cup: Winners 2025–26
  • SLDFL All-in Challenge Cup: Runners-up 2025–26

Club records

  • Biggest win:
  • Scottish Cup: 13–2 v Kirkintilloch Central (1 September 1888)
  • Biggest loss:
  • Scottish Football League: 1–11 v Albion Rovers (30 January 1926)
  • Scottish League Cup: 1–11 v Ayr United (13 August 1952)
  • Biggest home attendance:
  • Boghead Park: 18,001 v Raith Rovers, (2 March 1957)
  • Dumbarton Football Stadium: 2,020 v Rangers, (20 January 2024)
  • Most goals in a season: Kenny Wilson (38), 1971–72

References

  • Supporters Trust Website