2012–13 Livingston F.C. season

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Livingston
2012–13 season
Chairman Gordon McDougall
Manager John Hughes
(Until 13 November 2012)
Gareth Evans
(From 13 November 2012 – 28 February 2013)
Richie Burke
(From 28 February 2013)
Stadium Braidwood Motor Company Stadium
First Division Fourth place
Challenge Cup First round, lost to Annan Athletic
League Cup Third round, lost to Heart of Midlothian
Scottish Cup Fourth Round, lost to Dundee
Top goalscorer League:
Iain Russell (15)
All:
Iain Russell (18)
Highest home attendance 1,762 vs Partick Thistle First Division, 5 January 2013
Lowest home attendance 493 vs Dumbarton League Cup, 28 August 2012
Average home league attendance League: 1,320[1]

The 2012–13 season was Livingston's second consecutive season in the First Division, having been promoted after winning the Scottish Second Division during season 2010–11.[2] They also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Summary

Season

During season 2012–13 Livingston finished fourth in the Scottish First Division.[3] They reached the first round of the Challenge Cup,[4] the third round of the League Cup[5] and the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.[6]

Management

They began the season under the management of John Hughes. On 13 November 2012, Hughes left the club after only nine months in charge[7] to take up the post of first team coach at Hartlepool United.[8] Gareth Evans took over as interim manager following Hughes departure.[7][9] At the end of November it was confirmed Evans would remain as manager on an ongoing basis.[10]

On 28 February 2013, Evans was sacked by the club[11] with Director of football John Collins resigning from his post.[12] Richie Burke the club's youth development manager took charge of the first team in the interim.[13] On 25 March, Burke was appointed as manager permanently with Mark Burchill joining the club as his assistant.[14] The duo were given contracts until 2015,[15] with Burchill also being registered as a player.[16]

Results & fixtures

      Win       Draw       Loss       Postponed

Pre season

A match against Rapid Bucharest, scheduled for 7 July,[17] was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.[18]

Scottish First Division

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Scottish Challenge Cup

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Scottish League Cup

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Scottish Cup

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Player statistics

Captains

No. P Name Country No. games Notes
MF Fox Scotland 28 Club captain

Last updated: 6 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

Last updated 6 May 2013[21][22]
No. Pos Nat Player Total First Division Challenge Cup League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK Scotland Darren Jamieson 3 0 3+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
GK Scotland Andrew McNeil 38 0 33+0 0 1+0 0 3+0 0 1+0 0
DF Scotland Craig Barr 35 4 32+0 4 0+0 0 2+0 0 1−+0 0
DF Scotland Callum Booth 31 1 22+8 1 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
DF Scotland Ross Docherty 13 0 9+1 0 0+0 0 3+0 0 0+0 0
DF Scotland Callum Fordyce 16 1 8+4 1 1+0 0 2+1 0 0+0 0
DF Scotland Kevin McCann 31 1 28+1 0 1+0 0 1+0 1 0+0 0
DF England Jason Talbot 12 0 8+4 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
DF Spain Jesús García Tena 31 3 29+0 3 0+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
DF Scotland Paul Watson 21 3 17+1 3 1+0 0 2+0 0 0+0 0
MF France Anthony Andreu 38 7 33+0 7 1+0 0 3+0 0 1+0 0
MF Scotland Bobby Barr 8 1 4+1 0 1+0 0 1+1 1 0+0 0
MF Scotland Jack Beaumont 2 0 0+0 0 0+1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Dean Cummings 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Coll Donaldson 5 0 3+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Jack Downie 5 0 0+3 0 0+1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Liam Fox 28 2 27+0 2 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
MF Scotland Ross Gray 7 0 0+5 0 0+0 0 0+2 0 0+0 0
MF South Africa Keaghan Jacobs 14 3 10+1 3 1+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
MF South Africa Kyle Jacobs 19 0 14+4 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
MF Scotland Connor McDonald 8 0 1+4 0 1+0 0 1+1 0 0+0 0
MF Scotland Burton O'Brien 24 0 23+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
MF Scotland Stefan Scougall 33 6 27+1 6 1+0 0 3+0 0 1+0 0
FW Scotland Mark Burchill 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
FW Scotland Dylan Easton 6 1 0+4 0 0+0 0 0+2 1 0+0 0
FW Scotland Kyle Lander 6 1 4+2 1 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
FW France David Luongo 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
FW Scotland Marc McNulty 31 11 20+6 7 1+0 0 3+0 4 1+0 0
FW Scotland Jordan Morton 29 5 11+13 3 1+0 0 3+0 2 0+1 0
FW Scotland Danny Mullen 24 2 2+21 2 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
FW Scotland Iain Russell 37 18 28+5 15 0+1 0 3+0 3 0+0 0
FW Scotland Andrew Russell 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.

Last updated 6 May 2013
Nation Position Name First Division Challenge Cup League Cup Scottish Cup Total
Booked Red card Booked Red card Booked Red card Booked Red card Booked Red card
Scotland GK Darren Jamieson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland GK Andrew McNeil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland DF Craig Barr 6 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 1
Scotland DF Callum Booth 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Scotland DF Ross Docherty 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1
Scotland DF Callum Fordyce 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Scotland DF Kevin McCann 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
England DF Jason Talbot 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Spain DF Jesús García Tena 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 0
Scotland DF Paul Watson 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
France MF Anthony Andreu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Scotland MF Bobby Barr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland MF Jack Beaumont 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland MF Dean Cummings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland MF Coll Donaldson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland MF Jack Downie 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland MF Liam Fox 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Scotland MF Ross Gray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Africa MF Keaghan Jacobs 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
South Africa MF Kyle Jacobs 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Scotland MF Connor McDonald 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Scotland MF Burton O'Brien 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Scotland MF Stefan Scougall 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Scotland FW Mark Burchill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland FW Dylan Easton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland FW Kyle Lander 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France FW David Luongo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland FW Marc McNulty 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Scotland FW Jordan Morton 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
Scotland FW Danny Mullen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scotland FW Iain Russell 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 1
Scotland FW Andrew Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Team statistics

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Promotion or relegation
1 Partick Thistle (C) (P) 36 23 9 4 76 28 +48 78 Promotion to the 2013–14 Scottish Premiership
2 Greenock Morton 36 20 7 9 73 47 +26 67
3 Falkirk 36 15 8 13 52 48 +4 53
4 Livingston 36 14 10 12 58 56 +2 52
5 Hamilton Academical 36 14 9 13 52 45 +7 51
6 Raith Rovers 36 11 13 12 45 48 −3 46
7 Dumbarton 36 13 4 19 58 83 −25 43
8 Cowdenbeath 36 8 12 16 51 65 −14 36
9 Dunfermline Athletic (R) 36 14 7 15 62 59 +3 034 Qualification to the Scottish First Division Play-offs
10 Airdrie United (R) 36 5 7 24 41 89 −48 22 Relegation to the 2013–14 Scottish League One

Updated to games played on 19 May 2013.
Source: Scottish Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Dunfermline Athletic were deducted 15 points for entering administration.

Division summary

Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Ground A H A A H A H H A H A H A H A H H A A A H H A A H A A H H A H H H H A H
Result D L D W L L W D W D W W L W D D W L W W L W L D W W L D L W D L D L W L
Position 5 7 8 7 7 8 6 6 6 5 5 4 5 4 4 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 4 4[nb 1] 4 3 3 3 4

Last updated: 6 May 2013.
Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Transfers

Notes

  1. Dunfermline were deducted 15 points shortly prior to this fixture altering league standings. This was as a result of them entering administration.[46]

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