2021–22 Aberdeen F.C. season

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.

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 (8)
All: Christian Ramirez (11)
Highest home attendanceLeague: 14,522 vs Celtic 3 October 2021
Cup: 15,533 vs FK Qarabağ
Conference League
12 August 2021

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. The club however suffered a miserable September, losing all three matches in the Premiership. Niall McGinn and Lewis Ferguson were both called up for their respective countries for the October internationals.

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  31' Report Sutherland  22' 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
Main article: 2021-22 Scottish Premiership
1 August 2021 1 Aberdeen 2–0 Dundee United Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Hayes  27'
Ramirez  51'		 Report Attendance: 6,305
Referee: Alan Muir
8 August 2021 2 Livingston 1–2 Aberdeen Almondvale Stadium
15:00 Anderson  35' Report Jenks  47'
MacKenzie  90+4'		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Kevin Clancy
22 August 2021 3 Heart of Midlothian 1–1 Aberdeen Tynecastle Stadium
15:00 Boyce 56' Report Ojo  71' Attendance: 17,449
Referee: Bobby Madden
29 August 2021 4 Aberdeen 1–1 Ross County Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Ramirez 88' Report Charles-Cook  33' Attendance: 14,434
Referee: Nick Walsh
11 September 2021 5 Motherwell 2–0 Aberdeen Fir Park
15:00 van Veen  26'
Ojala  59'		 Report Attendance: 5,623
Referee: John Beaton
18 September 2021 6 Aberdeen 0–1 St Johnstone Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Report May  84' Attendance: 13,007
Referee: Bobby Madden
26 September 2021 7 St Mirren 3–2 Aberdeen St Mirren Park
12:00 Ronan  14', 58'
Main  61'		 Report Brown  18'
Ramirez  34'		 Attendance: 4,513
Referee: Willie Collum
3 October 2021 8 Aberdeen 1–2 Celtic Pittodrie Stadium
12:00 Ferguson  56' Report Furuhashi  11'
Jota  84'		 Attendance: 14,522
Referee: Bobby Madden
16 October 2021 9 Dundee 2–1 Aberdeen Dens Park
18:00 Griffiths  49'
McCowan  62'		 Report Ramirez  67' Attendance: 6,878
Referee: Colin Steven
23 October 2021 10 Aberdeen 1–0 Hibernian Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Ramirez  27' Report Attendance: 9,431
Referee: Greg Aitken
27 October 2021 11 Rangers 2–2 Aberdeen Ibrox Stadium
19:45 Morelos  20'
Tavernier  81' (pen.)		 Report Ramirez  8'
Brown  16'		 Attendance: 49,760
Referee: John Beaton
30 October 2021 12 Aberdeen 2–1 Heart of Midlothian Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Watkins  49'
Ferguson  69'		 Report Souttar  45+2' (pen.) Attendance: 9,736
Referee: Kevin Clancy
6 November 2021 13 Aberdeen 0–2 Motherwell Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Report van Veen  50', 57' Attendance: 9,666
Referee: Don Robertson
20 November 2021 14 Dundee United 1–0 Aberdeen Tannadice
15:00 Harkes  80' Report Referee: Bobby Madden
28 November 2021 15 Celtic 2–1 Aberdeen Celtic Park
15:00 Jota  20'
McGregor  60'		 Report Ferguson  33' (pen.) Referee: Kevin Clancy
1 December 2021 16 Aberdeen 2–0 Livingston Pittodrie Stadium
19:45 Hedges  23'
Bates  75'		 Report Attendance: 6,295
Referee: Craig Napier
4 December 2021 17 Aberdeen 4–1 St Mirren Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Watkins  6', 43'
Ramirez  9', 71'		 Report Tanser  42' Attendance: 8,002
Referee: Willie Collum
11 December 2021 18 St Johnstone 0–1 Aberdeen McDiarmid Park
15:00 Report Jenks  83' Referee: Greg Aitken

UEFA Europa Conference League
Main article: 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League

Aberdeen qualified by finishing in fourth place in the 2020–21 Scottish Premiership and entered in 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 4–1 on aggregate to Qarabağ.

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

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

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

Scottish League Cup
Main article: 2021–22 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  48'
Zanatta 71'		 AFC
BBC		 Emmanuel-Thomas  13' Stadium: Stark's Park
Attendance: 3,297
Referee: Steven McLean
Note: Game televised on Premier Sports.

Squad statistics

Appearances
As of 11 December 2021
No.PosPlayerPremiershipConference LeagueLeague CupScottish Cup Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1GK Joe Lewis 160601000 230
2MF Ross McCrorie 160601000 230
3DF Jack MacKenzie 814+200000 141
4DF Andrew Considine 20510000 71
5DF Declan Gallagher 6+103+201000 130
6DF Michael Devlin 00000000 00
7FW Marley Watkins 9+33000000 123
8MF Scott Brown (c) 17+12600+1000 252
9FW Christian Ramirez 17+18630+1000 2511
10MF Niall McGinn 1+700+101000 100
11MF Ryan Hedges 1213+120+1000 173
14FW Jay Emmanuel-Thomas 7+404+201100 181
15MF Dylan McGeouch 7+201+101000 120
16MF Funso Ojo 1415+101000 211
17MF Jonny Hayes 10+614+201000 231
18FW Connor McLennan 1+600+511000 131
19MF Lewis Ferguson 173640+1000 247
20MF Teddy Jenks 3+421+301000 122
21DF Jack Gurr 3+100+301000 80
22DF Calvin Ramsay 9+10600+1000 170
23FW Austin Samuels 3+40000000 70
24MF Dean Campbell 5+300+100000 90
25GK Gary Woods 20000000 20
27DF David Bates 12+11000000 131
31DF Kieran Ngwenya 00000000 00
33FW Matty Kennedy 00000000 00
35DF Mason Hancock 00000000 00
44MF Matty Longstaff 50000000 50

Goalscorers

As of 11 December 2021

Ranking Nation Number Name Scottish Premiership Conference League League Cup Scottish Cup Total
19Christian Ramirez830011
219Lewis Ferguson34007
311Ryan Hedges12003
7Marley Watkins30003
48Scott Brown20002
20Teddy Jenks20002
54Andrew Considine01001
17Jonny Hayes10001
18Connor McLennan01001
3Jack MacKenzie10001
14Jay Emmanuel-Thomas00101
16Funso Ojo10001
27David Bates10001
TOTALS23111035

Disciplinary record

As of 29 August 2021

Number Nation Position Name Premiership Conference League League Cup Scottish Cup Total
1GKJoe Lewis 0010000010
2MFRoss McCrorie 1010000020
3DFJack MacKenzie 0010000010
4DFAndrew Considine 0010000010
5DFDeclan Gallagher 0020000020
8MFScott Brown 0020000020
11MFRyan Hedges 0010000010
16MFFunso Ojo 1010000020
17MFJonny Hayes 1010000020
19MFLewis Ferguson 2010000030
21DFJack Gurr 0000100010
22DFCalvin Ramsay 0010000010
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[lower-alpha 1]
4 Dundee United 18 7 4 7 15 19 −4 25 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
5 Motherwell 18 7 4 7 21 26 −5 25
6 Aberdeen 18 7 3 8 23 22 +1 24
7 Hibernian 17 5 5 7 19 21 −2 20
8 Livingston 18 5 4 9 14 23 −9 19
Updated to match(es) played on 12 December 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
GroundHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA
ResultWWDDLLLLLWDWLLLWWW
Position222467799886788766
Updated to match(es) played on 11 December 2021. Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Transfers
Main articles: List of Scottish football transfers summer 2021 and List of Scottish football transfers winter 2021–22

See also

References
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  2. Aberdeen Fc | Dons Confirm Closed Door Pre Season Schedule
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  4. Aberdeen FC | Pre-Season 2021 | Match against Reading FC off
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