2021–22 Aberdeen F.C. season

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Aberdeen
2021–22 season
ChairmanDave Cormack
ManagerStephen Glass
GroundPittodrie Stadium
Aberdeen, Scotland
(Capacity: 20,866)
Scottish Premiership6th
Scottish CupFourth round
League CupSecond round
UEFA Europa Conference LeaguePlay-off round
Top goalscorerLeague: Christian Ramirez (2 goals)
All: Christian Ramirez (5 goals)
Highest home attendanceLeague: 14,434 vs Ross County 29 August 2021
Cup: 15,533 vs FK Qarabağ
Conference League
12 August 2021
Away colours

The 2021–22 Aberdeen F.C. season is Aberdeen's 108th season in the top flight of Scottish football and the ninth in the Scottish Premiership.[1] Aberdeen will also compete in the Scottish Cup. They competed in the League Cup and in qualifying for the inaugural season of 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League.

Summary[]

May[]

This will be the first full season of the reign of manager Stephen Glass, assistant manager Allan Russell and player-coach Scott Brown who arrived from Celtic in July. Scotland International defender Declan Gallagher signed a pre-contract from Motherwell. Striker Jay Emmanuel-Thomas signed from Livingston. Goalkeeper Gary Woods permanently joined from Oldham Athletic after his loan spell last season.

June[]

Young winger Teddy Jenks joined from Brighton and Hove Albion on a loan deal, Jack Gurr joined from manager Glass' former club Atlanta United on a free, and American International Christian Ramirez signed from Houston Dynamo for an undisclosed fee.

July[]

The club announced all pre-season fixtures were to be played behind closed doors[2] but two matches were cancelled due to COVID-19.[3][4] Scott Brown was announced as Team Captain with goalkeeper Joe Lewis becoming the Club Captain.[5]

August[]

Aberdeen were knocked out of the League Cup by Championship side Raith Rovers. This followed with being knocked out of Europe by Azerbaijan side FK Qarabağ in the Play-off round.

September[]

Lewis Ferguson was called up and made his debut for the Scotland national team.

Results & fixtures[]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre-season[]

1 July 2021 Friendly Aberdeen Cancelled Cove Rangers Cormack Park
8 July 2021 Friendly Aberdeen 1−1 Inverness CT Cormack Park
13:00 Emmanuel-Thomas Goal Report Sutherland Goal Attendance: Behind closed doors
16 July 2021 Friendly Aberdeen Cancelled Reading Cormack Park
13:30 Report
16 July 2021 Friendly Aberdeen 0−0 St Johnstone Cormack Park
13:30 Report Attendance: Behind closed doors

Scottish Premiership[]

1 August 2021 1 Aberdeen 2–0 Dundee United Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Hayes Goal 27'
Ramirez Goal 51'
AFC Report Attendance: 6,305
Referee: Alan Muir
8 August 2021 2 Livingston 1–2 Aberdeen Almondvale Stadium
15:00 Anderson Goal 35' Report Jenks Goal 47'
MacKenzie Goal 90+4'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Kevin Clancy
22 August 2021 3 Heart of Midlothian 1–1 Aberdeen Tynecastle Stadium
15:00 BoyceGoal 56' Report Ojo Goal 71' Attendance: 17,449
Referee: Bobby Madden
29 August 2021 4 Aberdeen 1–1 Ross County Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 RamirezGoal 88' Report Charles-Cook Goal 33' Attendance: 14,434
Referee: Nick Walsh
11 September 2021 5 Motherwell 2-0 Aberdeen Fir Park
15:00 van Veen Goal 26'
Ojala Goal 59'
AFC Report Attendance: 5,623
Referee: John Beaton
18 September 2021 6 Aberdeen 0-1 St Johnstone Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Report May Goal 84' Attendance: 13,007
Referee: Bobby Madden

UEFA Europa Conference League[]

Aberdeen qualified by finishing in fourth place in the 2020–21 Scottish Premiership and will enter the second qualifying Round. They knocked out BK Hacken 5−3 on aggregate to enter the third qualifying Round against Breiðablik. They also knocked them out 5−3 on aggregate but lost the play-off round to 4−1 Qarabağ.

Second qualifying round[]

22 July 2021 First leg[6] Aberdeen Scotland 5−1 Sweden BK Häcken Aberdeen, Scotland
19:45 Considine Goal 28'
Ferguson Goal 44' (pen.)53'
Ramirez Goal 84'
McLennan Goal 90+3'
UEFA report
AFC Report
Jeremejeff Goal 59' Stadium: Pittodrie Stadium
Attendance: 5,665
Referee: José Luis Munuera (Spain)
29 July 2021 Second leg BK Häcken Sweden 2−0
(3—5 agg.)
Scotland Aberdeen Gothenburg, Sweden
17:30 Olsson Goal 51'
Bengtsson Goal 68'
UEFA report
Aberdeen FC Report
Stadium: Hisingen Arena
Attendance: 823
Referee: Ádám Farkas (Hungary)

Third qualifying round[]

5 August 2021 First leg Breiðablik Iceland 2–3 Scotland Aberdeen Reykjavík, Iceland
20.00 Eyjólfsson Goal 16'
Vilhjálmsson Goal 43' (pen.)
AFC Report Ramirez Goal 3'49'
Ferguson Goal 11'
Stadium: Laugardalsvöllur
Attendance: 1,197
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
Note: Game televised on Premier Sports.
12 August 2021 Second leg Aberdeen Scotland 2–1
(5–3 agg.)
Iceland Breiðablik Aberdeen, Scotland
19.45 Hedges Goal 47'70' Report Eyjólfsson Goal 59' Stadium: Pittodrie Stadium
Attendance: 15,107
Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)

Play-off round[]

19 August 2021 First leg Qarabağ FK Azerbaijan 1–0 Scotland Aberdeen Baku, Azerbaijan
17.00 Romero Goal 30' AFC Report Stadium: Tofig Bahramov Stadium
Attendance: Rade Obrenovic
Referee: 9,756
26 August 2021 Second leg Aberdeen Scotland 1–3
(1–4 agg.)
Azerbaijan Qarabağ FK Aberdeen, Scotland
19.45 Ferguson Goal 90+2' BBC Report Bayramov Goal 8'
Kady Goal 18'
Zoubir Goal 72'
Stadium: Pittodrie Stadium
Attendance: 15,533
Referee: Harold Lechner

Scottish League Cup[]

  • Aberdeen enter the Second Round of the League Cup where they will play Raith Rovers. Stephen Glass made seven changes for the match and subsequently were knocked out.
15 August 2021 Second Round Raith Rovers 2–1 Aberdeen Kirkcaldy
12:00 Varian Goal 48'
ZanattaGoal 71'
AFC
BBC
Emmanuel-Thomas Goal 13' Stadium: Stark's Park
Attendance: 3,297
Referee: Steven McLean
Note: Game televised on Premier Sports.

Scottish Challenge Cup[]

  • Aberdeen 'B' or reserves will be represented in this tournament. They won in the first round against Brora Rangers and face Arbroath at Pittodrie in the second round.
10 August 2021 First round Brora Rangers 0–1 Aberdeen B Dudgeon Park
19:45 Report Ruth Goal 70' Attendance: 150
Referee: Dan McFarlane
4 September 2021 Second round Aberdeen B v Arbroath Pittodrie Stadium
15:00

Squad statistics[]

Appearances[]

As of 11 September 2021
No. Pos Player Premiership Conference League League Cup Scottish Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK England Joe Lewis 6 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 13 0
2 MF Scotland Ross McCrorie 5 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 12 0
3 DF Scotland Jack MacKenzie 4 1 4+2 0 0 0 0 0 10 1
4 DF Scotland Andrew Considine 2 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 7 1
5 DF Scotland Declan Gallagher 4+1 0 3+2 0 1 0 0 0 11 0
6 DF Scotland Michael Devlin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 FW Wales Marley Watkins 1+1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
8 MF Scotland Scott Brown (c) 5+1 0 6 0 0+1 0 0 0 13 0
9 FW United States Christian Ramirez 5+1 2 6 3 0+1 0 0 0 13 5
10 MF Northern Ireland Niall McGinn 1+1 0 0+1 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
11 MF Wales Ryan Hedges 1 0 3+1 2 0+1 0 0 0 6 2
14 FW England Jay Emmanuel-Thomas 4+2 0 4+2 0 1 1 0 0 13 1
15 MF Scotland Dylan McGeouch 1+1 0 1+1 0 1 0 0 0 5 0
16 MF Belgium Funso Ojo 5 1 5+1 0 1 0 0 0 12 1
17 MF Republic of Ireland Jonny Hayes 3+2 1 4+2 0 1 0 0 0 12 1
18 FW Scotland Connor McLennan 1+2 0 0+5 1 1 0 0 0 9 1
19 MF Scotland Lewis Ferguson 5 0 6 4 0+1 0 0 0 12 4
20 MF England Teddy Jenks 2 1 1+3 0 1 0 0 0 7 1
21 DF England Jack Gurr 1+1 0 0+3 0 1 0 0 0 6 0
22 DF Scotland Calvin Ramsay 5+1 0 6 0 0+1 0 0 0 13 0
23 FW England Austin Samuels 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
24 MF Scotland Dean Campbell 1+1 0 0+1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
25 GK England Gary Woods 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
28 FW Scotland Michael Ruth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 GK Scotland Tom Ritchie 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 DF Malawi Kieran Ngwenya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 MF Scotland Ryan Duncan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 FW Northern Ireland Matty Kennedy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 DF England Mason Hancock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
44 MF England Matty Longstaff 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

Goalscorers[]

As of 29 August 2021

Ranking Nation Number Name Scottish Premiership Conference League League Cup Scottish Cup Total
1 United States 9 Christian Ramirez 2 3 0 0 5
2 Scotland 19 Lewis Ferguson 0 4 0 0 4
3 Wales 11 Ryan Hedges 0 2 0 0 2
4 Scotland 4 Andrew Considine 0 1 0 0 1
Republic of Ireland 17 Jonny Hayes 1 0 0 0 1
Scotland 18 Connor McLennan 0 1 0 0 1
England 20 Teddy Jenks 1 0 0 0 1
Scotland 3 Jack MacKenzie 1 0 0 0 1
England 14 Jay Emmanuel-Thomas 0 0 1 0 1
Belgium 16 Funso Ojo 1 0 0 0 1
TOTALS 6 11 1 0 18

Disciplinary record[]

As of 29 August 2021

Number Nation Position Name Premiership Conference League League Cup Scottish Cup Total
Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card
1 England GK Joe Lewis 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2 Scotland MF Ross McCrorie 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
3 Scotland DF Jack MacKenzie 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
4 Scotland DF Andrew Considine 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
5 Scotland DF Declan Gallagher 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
8 Scotland MF Scott Brown 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
11 Wales MF Ryan Hedges 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
16 Belgium MF Funso Ojo 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
17 Republic of Ireland MF Jonny Hayes 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
19 Scotland MF Lewis Ferguson 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
21 Scotland DF Jack Gurr 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
22 Scotland DF Calvin Ramsay 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
TOTALS 5 0 9 0 5 0 0 0 19 0

Team statistics[]

League table[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation[a]
4 Motherwell 5 3 1 1 8 5 +3 10 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
5 Celtic 5 3 0 2 16 3 +13 9
6 Aberdeen 6 2 2 2 6 6 0 8
7 Dundee United 5 2 1 2 2 4 −2 7
8 St Johnstone 6 1 3 2 3 4 −1 6
Updated to match(es) played on 18 September 2021. Source: [7][8]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-Head points; 5) Head-to-Head goal difference; 6) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification, second stage group allocation or relegation).[9]
Notes:
  1. ^ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

Results by round[]

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundHAAHAH
ResultWWDDLL
Position222466
Updated to match(es) played on 11 September 2021. Source:[citation needed]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Transfers[]

See also[]

References[]

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  29. ^ https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/highland-league/3315001/tyler-mykyta-joins-formartine-united-on-season-long-loan-from-aberdeen/
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  31. ^ https://www.afc.co.uk/2021/08/03/connor-barron-heads-out-on-loan/
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