2012–13 Queen of the South F.C. season

The 2012–13 season was Queen of the South's first season back in the Scottish Second Division after an absence of a decade after the club's relegation from the Scottish First Division at the end of the 2011–12 season.[2] Queens also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Queen of the South
2012–13 season
ChairmanBilly Hewitson
ManagerAllan Johnston[1]
StadiumPalmerston Park
Second Division1st (champions)
Challenge CupWinners
League CupThird round
Scottish CupFourth round
Top goalscorerLeague:
Nicky Clark (32)

All:
Nicky Clark (41)
Highest home attendance2,568 vs. East Fife, 27 April 2013
Lowest home attendance1,247 vs. Forfar Athletic, 11 August 2012
Average home league attendance1,670

Summary edit

Queen of the South finished first in the Second Division to be crowned champions and were promoted to the Scottish Championship. The club were also the winners of the Challenge Cup to complete a historic double for the club and also reached the third round of the League Cup and the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

Results & fixtures edit

  Win   Draw   Loss   Abandoned or Postponed

Pre season edit

7 July 2012[3] Friendly Clyde 1 – 3 Queen of the South East Kilbride
QOSFC Report Carmichael  
Lyle  
McKay  
Attendance: Closed doors
14 July 2012[4] Friendly Gretna 2008 0 – 4 Queen of the South Raydale Park
QOSFC Report Clark   18'
Holt   30'
Smith   44'
Reilly   85'
Attendance: 516
17 July 2012 Friendly Queen's Park 0 – 2 Queen of the South Lesser Hampden
QOSFC Report Reilly   5'
A. Trialist   80'
Attendance: Closed doors

Scottish Second Division edit

18 August 2012 Second Division Match 2 East Fife 0 – 0 Queen of the South Bayview Stadium
15:00 QOSFC Report Johnston   69'   88' Attendance: 628
Referee: Roache
1 September 2012 Second Division Match 4 Queen of the South 6 – 0 Arbroath Palmerston Park
15:00 Gibson   17'
Clark   37'
Reilly   53', 64', 90'
Smith   87'
QOSFC Report Attendance: 1,554
Referee: McKendrick
15 September 2012 Second Division Match 5 Ayr United 2 – 4 Queen of the South Somerset Park
15:00 MacKinnon   9', 19' QOSFC Report Clark   16'
Burns   31'
Reilly   62', 69'
Attendance: 1,373
Referee: Muir
6 October 2012 Second Division Match 8 Stranraer 0 – 2 Queen of the South Stair Park
15:00 QOSFC Report Reilly   28'
Clark   90'
Attendance: 1,015
Referee: Cook
20 October 2012 Second Division Match 9 Queen of the South 2 – 2 Stenhousemuir Palmerston Park
15:00 Durnan   2'
Young   45'
Clark   48'
Holt   90'
QOSFC Report Gemmell   68'
Ferguson   71' (pen.)
Attendance: 1,531
Referee: Hilland
17 November 2012 Second Division Match 11 Arbroath 2 – 3 Queen of the South Gayfield Park
15:00 Doris   45' (pen.), 90' (pen.) QOSFC Report Clark   22'
Higgins   28'
Durnan   60'
Attendance: 691
Referee: Roache
20 November 2012 Second Division Match 12 Forfar Athletic 1 – 5 Queen of the South Station Park
19:30 Dunlop   21'
Swankie   25'
QOSFC Report Clark   5', 49'
McGuffie   22' (pen.)
Durnan   27'
Hopkirk   81'
Attendance: 391
Referee: Aitken
8 December 2012 Second Division Alloa Athletic P – P Queen of the South Recreation Park
15:00 BBC Sport News
Note: Postponed due to frozen pitch
26 December 2012 Second Division Match 16 Queen of the South 4 – 1 Stranraer Palmerston Park
15:00 Clark   31', 63', 70'
Smith   84'
QOSFC Report McKeown   20' Attendance: 2,122
Referee: Graham
29 December 2012 Second Division Match 17 Stenhousemuir 1 – 3 Queen of the South Ochilview Park
15:00 Kean   90' QOSFC Report Reilly   32', 69'
Clark   55'
Attendance: 632
Referee: Tumilty
2 January 2013 Second Division Match 18 Ayr United 1 – 5 Queen of the South Somerset Park
15:00 Winters   30' QOSFC Report McStay   32' (o.g.)
Clark   43'
Carmichael   47'
McCann   69' (o.g.)
Lyle   72'
Attendance: 1,216
Referee: Dallas
5 January 2013 Second Division Match 19 Queen of the South 5 – 1 Arbroath Palmerston Park
15:00 Durnan   20'
Lyle   54'
Clark   58', 84'
Carmichael   65'
McKenna   81'
QOSFC Report Doris   18' Attendance: 1,693
Referee: Finnie
26 January 2013 Second Division Brechin City P – P Queen of the South Glebe Park
15:00 BBC Sport News
Note: Postponed due to frozen pitch
16 February 2013 Second Division Match 24 Stranraer 0 – 5 Queen of the South Stair Park
15:00 Mitchell   21' QOSFC Report Burns   17'
McGuffie   24' (pen.)
Lyle   39', 71'
Clark   59'
Attendance: 810
Referee: Salmond
26 February 2013 Second Division Brechin City P – P Queen of the South Glebe Park
19:45 BBC Sport News
Note: Postponed due to waterlogged pitch
2 March 2013 Second Division Match 26 East Fife 2 – 3 Queen of the South Bayview Stadium
15:00 McManus   64' Gormley   86' QOSFC Report Reilly   15'
Clark   66'
Durnan   69'
Attendance: 627
Referee: Northcroft
27 March 2013 Second Division Match 30 Brechin City 0 – 6 Queen of the South Station Park[6]
19:45 McLauchlan   41'   76' QOSFC Report Clark   1', 42'
Paton   3', 36'
Moyes   18' (o.g.)
Reilly   57'
Attendance: 627
Referee: Cook
27 April 2013 Second Division Match 35 Queen of the South 2 – 2 East Fife Palmerston Park
15:00 Clark   87', 90' QOSFC Report Campbell   36'
Wardlaw   76'
Attendance: 2,568
Referee: McKendrick

Scottish Challenge Cup edit

14 August 2012 Round 2 Greenock Morton 1 – 2 (a.e.t.) Queen of the South Cappielow Park
19:30 Tidser   38' QOSFC Report Durnan   66'
Clark   108'
Attendance: 1,178
Referee: Salmond
18 September 2012 Round 3 Rangers 2 – 2 (a.e.t.)
(3 – 4 p)
Queen of the South Ibrox Stadium
19:45 McKay   55'
Kyle   63'   66'
McCulloch   72' (pen.)
QOSFC Report Clark   49'
Gibson   62'   90'
Reilly   90'
Attendance: 23,932
Referee: O'Reilly
Penalties
McCulloch  
Shiels  
Naismith  
Black  
Argyriou  
  Lyle
  Clark
  Young
  Reilly
  McGuffie
14 October 2012 Round 4 Queen of the South 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) Arbroath Palmerston Park
15:00 Young   9'
McGuffie   117'
QOSFC Report Keddie   58' Attendance: 2,310
Referee: Clancy

Scottish League Cup edit

4 August 2012 Round 1 Queen of the South 5 – 2 Alloa Athletic Palmerston Park
15:00 Mitchell   9'
Higgins   67'
Clark   83', 85'
Lyle   89'
QOSFC Report Gordon   64'
Grehan   78'
Attendance: 967
Referee: Colvin
28 August 2012 Round 2 Queen of the South 2 – 0 Hibernian Palmerston Park
19:45 Clark   13'
Reilly   42'
QOSFC Report Attendance: 2,658
Referee: Madden
25 September 2012 Round 3 Queen of the South 0 – 1 Dundee United Palmerston Park
19:45 QOSFC Report Russell   28' Attendance: 2,374
Referee: Norris

Scottish Cup edit

1 December 2012 Round 4 Kilmarnock 2 – 1 Queen of the South Rugby Park
15:00 Sheridan   8'
Perez   69'
QOSFC Report McKenna   2'
Clark   77'
Attendance: 4,295
Referee: Tumilty

Player statistics edit

Captains edit

No. P Name Country No. games Notes
DF Chris Higgins   40 Club Captain
DF Ryan McGuffie   6 Vice Captain

Last updated: 5 May 2013
Source: Competitive match reports.
Competitive matches only
Matches started as captain only
Country: FIFA nationality; No.: Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.

Squad edit

Last updated 27 July 2013[7][8]
No. Pos Nat Player Total Second Division Challenge Cup League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK   ENG James Atkinson 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
GK   ENG Lee Robinson 46 0 36+0 0 5+0 0 3+0 0 2+0 0
DF   SCO Steven Black 15 0 4+7 0 0+2 0 0+1 0 1+0 0
DF   SCO Mark Durnan 41 7 32+0 6 5+0 1 3+0 0 1+0 0
DF   SCO Chris Higgins 41 3 32+0 2 4+0 0 3+0 1 2+0 0
DF   SCO Ryan McGuffie 34 6 23+4 5 4+0 1 1+0 0 2+0 0
DF   SCO Marc Fitzpatrick 5 0 3+1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
DF   SCO Chris Mitchell 42 3 33+0 2 4+0 0 3+0 1 2+0 0
DF   SCO Kevin Holt 36 1 25+3 1 4+0 0 3+0 0 0+1 0
MF   SCO Paul Burns 28 2 23+2 2 0+0 0 0+1 0 2+0 0
MF   SCO Daniel Carmichael 43 3 34+0 3 5+0 0 2+0 0 2+0 0
MF   SCO Nicky Clark 46 41 36+0 32 5+0 4 3+0 3 2+0 2
MF   SCO David Hopkirk 5 1 0+4 1 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF   SCO Willie Gibson 23 2 11+6 2 2+0 0 1+1 0 0+2 0
MF   SCO Allan Johnston 7 0 1+4 0 1+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF   SCO Ian McShane 2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0 0+1 0
MF   SCO Stephen McKenna 40 1 28+3 1 4+0 0 3+0 0 2+0 0
MF   SCO Dan Orsi 17 0 4+8 0 1+2 0 2+0 0 0+0 0
MF   SCO Pat Slattery 4 0 3+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF   SCO Derek Young 33 3 22+4 2 3+0 1 3+0 0 1+0 0
FW   SCO Derek Lyle 39 14 23+6 13 1+4 0 2+1 1 2+0 0
FW   SCO Gavin Reilly 41 15 17+14 12 3+2 1 1+2 1 1+1 1
FW   SCO Kevin Smith 20 2 0+18 2 1+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
FW   SCO Michael Paton 11 3 6+4 3 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0

Disciplinary record edit

Includes all competitive matches.

Last updated 27 July 2013
Nation Position Name Second Division Challenge Cup League Cup Scottish Cup Total
                   
  GK James Atkinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  GK Lee Robinson 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
  DF Steven Black 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  DF Mark Durnan 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
  DF Chris Higgins 7 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
  DF Ryan McGuffie 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
  DF Marc Fitzpatrick 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  DF Chris Mitchell 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
  DF Kevin Holt 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
  MF Paul Burns 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
  MF Daniel Carmichael 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
  MF Nicky Clark 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  MF David Hopkirk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  MF Willie Gibson 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 1
  MF Allan Johnston 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
  MF Ian McShane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  MF Stephen McKenna 6 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 10 1
  MF Dan Orsi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  MF Pat Slattery 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  MF Derek Young 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
  FW Derek Lyle 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
  FW Gavin Reilly 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  FW Kevin Smith 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  FW Michael Paton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Manager of the Month Awards edit

Last updated 14 June 2013
Nation Name Month
  Allan Johnston[9] August
  Allan Johnston[10] September
  Allan Johnston[11] December
  Allan Johnston[12] January
  Allan Johnston[13] March

Top Scorers edit

Last updated on 4 May 2013
Position Nation Name Second Division Scottish Cup League Cup Challenge Cup Total
1   Nicky Clark 32 2 3 4 41
2   Gavin Reilly 12 1 1 1 15
3   Derek Lyle 13 0 1 0 14
4   Mark Durnan 6 0 0 1 7
5   Ryan McGuffie 5 0 0 1 6
6   Chris Higgins 2 0 1 0 3
=   Danny Carmichael 3 0 0 0 3
=   Derek Young 2 0 0 1 3
=   Chris Mitchell 2 0 1 0 3
=   Michael Paton 3 0 0 0 3
11   Willie Gibson 2 0 0 0 2
=   Paul Burns 2 0 0 0 2
=   Kevin Smith 2 0 0 0 2
14   Stephen McKenna 1 0 0 0 1
=   David Hopkirk 1 0 0 0 1
=   Kevin Holt 1 0 0 0 1

Clean sheets edit

R Pos Nat Name Second Division Scottish Cup League Cup Challenge Cup Total
1 GK   Lee Robinson 19 1 1 1 22
Totals 19 1 1 1 22

Last updated: 4 May 2013
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches

Team statistics edit

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Queen of the South (C, P) 36 29 5 2 92 23 +69 92 Promotion to the Championship
2 Alloa Athletic (O, P) 36 20 7 9 62 35 +27 67 Qualification for the First Division play-offs
3 Brechin City 36 19 4 13 72 59 +13 61
4 Forfar Athletic 36 17 3 16 67 74 −7 54
5 Arbroath 36 15 7 14 47 57 −10 52
Source: SPFL Archive
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted

Division summary edit

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GroundHAHHAAHAHHAAHAHHAAHAHHHAHAHAAAHHAAHA
ResultWDWWWWWWDWWWWLWWWWWWWDWWWWWDWWWWLWDW
Position142111111111111111111111111111111111
Updated to match(es) played on 4 May 2013. Source: [14]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Transfers edit

See also edit

References edit

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