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Saturday, 6th Aug 2016

Ladbrokes Championship: Saturday 6th August 2016, kick off 3.00pm at East End Park

The 2016-2017 league season gets underway on Saturday when Dumbarton are the visitors and the League One champions flag will be unfurled. The Sons drew two and lost two of their Betfred Cup ties and a bit like Dunfermline are still short of a player or two. . They only had four substitutes on the bench last Saturday against Peterhead and their manager Steven Aitken had a look at three trialists in their friendly against Clydebank on Tuesday night.

Pars v Dumbarton: The Full League Record

P

W

D

L

TOTAL

82

43

16

23

The Pars will be aiming to get their Championship season off to the best possible starts with a home win. Prior to Dumbarton`s 4-3 win in March 2013 the last home defeat at the hands of the Sons was on 8th October 1986.

Milestones Dumbarton (Home)

Last League Victory

24/11/12

4-0

 .First Div

Last League Defeat

23/03/13

3-4

 .First Div

Best League Victory

02/01/54

 . 6-1

 .Division 2

Worst League Defeat

28/02/76
20/11/82

0-3

 .First Div

Before the defeat last time they met, in all competitions Dunfermline had won all of the last twelve meetings and it had been ten visits back since Dumbarton had won.

Last 12 Matches v Dumbarton

Date

H/A

F-A

R

 Competition
23/03/13 H 3-4 L Division One
05/01/13 A 1-0 W Division One
24/11/12 H 4-0 W Division One
15/09/12 A 2-0 W Division One
01/08/09 A 5-0 W League Cup
20/04/96 H 4-1 W Division One
09/03/96 A 3-0 W Division One
21/10/95 H 3-1 W Division One
02/09/95 A 4-0 W Division One
12/04/94 A 2-0 W Division One
12/02/94 H 3-2 W Division One
13/11/93 A 5-1 W Division One

Last Meeting

Back in March 2013 Dunfermline were on the brink of going into administration and it was extremely hard for players and fans alike to concentrate on on the park matters.

The Pars slumped to their sixth consecutive home defeat as Dumbarton came back from 3-1 down to win 4-3. Ryan Wallace had the home team one up at the break. Andy Barrowman had doubled the lead four minutes into the second half, former Par Steven McDougall got one back in 56 minutes and Chris Turner and Scott Agnew added another two before McDougall`s winner six minutes from the end.

League Form Last Season
Dunfermline Dumbarton
League Points
79 37
League One / Championship Position
1 8
Goal Difference
+53 -31
Form Last 6 League Matches
WWDLLW LWLWLD
Home / Away League Record
P18, W12, D4, L2 P18, W2, D4, L12

The Pars last league win at home was against Peterhead on the final day of last season and since then they won at Cowdenbeath and lost at Tannadice in the Betfred Cup. Dumbarton`s last league win was a 2-1 home win over St Mirren. Since then in the Betfred Cup they have drawn away game at Forfar and lost at Dundee. Dumbarton have gone 13 matches without an away win, that being at Alloa in December last year.

Competitive Form this season -
 . Dunfermline  .

 .

 .

 .

  . Dumbarton
 . Dundee United (A) L  .0-2  . Peterhead (H) D 3-3
 . Inverness Caley (H) L  .1-5  . Dundee (A)) L 2-6
 . Cowdenbeath . (A) W 3-0  . East Fife (H) L 0-2
 . Arbroath (H) W 3-0  . Forfar Athletic (A) D 2-2
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Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Dundee United):  .David Hutton: Lewis Martin, Lee Ashcroft, Ben Richards-Everton, Jason Talbot: Rhys McCabe (Paul McMullan 37), Nat Wedderburn (James Thomas 78 (Scott Lochhead 93)), Lewis Spence, Joe Cardle (c): Michael Moffat, Kallum Higginbotham.

DUMBARTON (v Peterhead): Mark Brown: Craig Pettigrew, Gregor Buchanan, Frazer Wright (Amadou Kassarate 75), Mark Docherty: Ryan Stevenson, Josh Todd, Garry Fleming (Donald McCallum 19), David Smith, Andy Stirling, Robert Thomson.
SUBS NOT USED: Ryan Clark, Jamie Barclay (GK)

Referee will be Barry Cook.



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