2014–15 Hamilton Academical F.C. season explained

Club:	Hamilton Academical
Season:	2014–15
Manager:	Alex Neil (until 9 January 2015) Martin Canning (player-manager)
Chairman:	Les Gray
Stadium:	New Douglas Park
League:	Premiership
League Result:	Seventh place
Cup2:	Scottish Cup
League Topscorer:	Tony Andreu (12)
Season Topscorer:	Tony Andreu (13)
Highest Attendance:	6,007 vs. Celtic Premiership 17 January 2015
Lowest Attendance:	694 vs. Alloa Athletic League Cup 26 August 2014
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Prevseason:	2013–14
Nextseason:	2015–16

The 2014–15 season was Hamilton Academical's first season in the top flight of Scottish football since 2010–11 season, and their first in the newly established Scottish Premiership having been promoted from the 2013–14 Scottish Championship through the Play-offs. Hamilton also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Summary

Management

The club began the 2014–15 season under the management of Alex Neil. On 9 January 2015, Neil left to become the new manager of, at the time, English Championship side Norwich City.^[1] Martin Canning was appointed Caretaker Player-manager, and was later on 23 January 2015 officially appointed Player-manager.^[2] With top goalscorer Tony Andreu also leaving,^[3] the club suffered with the sudden departures and Canning had to wait 14 matches for his first victory as manager, coming on 24 April 2015 in the Lanarkshire derby at home to Motherwell.^[4]

Results and fixtures

Scottish Premiership

See main article: article and 2014–15 Scottish Premiership.

Scottish League Cup

See main article: article and 2014–15 Scottish League Cup.

Scottish Cup

See main article: article and 2014–15 Scottish Cup.

Squad statistics

During the 2014–15 season, Hamilton Academical have used twenty six different players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.

Appearances

Includes all competitive matches.
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Goal scorers

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1		22	Tony Andreu	12	0	1	13
2		11	Ali Crawford	11	0	0	11
3		99	Mickaël Antoine-Curier	8	0	0	8
4		9	Jason Scotland	5	0	0	5
5		6	Martin Canning	3	0	1	4
6		7	Dougie Imrie	2	0	1	3
		18	Darian MacKinnon	3	0	0	3
8		17	Louis Longridge	0	0	2	2
		28	Daniel Redmond	2	0	0	2
10		14	Nigel Hasselbaink	1	0	0	1
		20	Eamonn Brophy	0	0	1	1
		21	Greg Docherty	1	0	0	1
		24	Jesús García	1	0	0	1
		44	Lucas	1	0	0	1
			TOTALS	50	0	6	56

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.
As of matches played 23 May 2015

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Total		Premiership		League Cup		Scottish Cup
2		DF	Ziggy Gordon	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
3		DF	Stephen Hendrie	3	1	3	0	0	1	0	0
4		DF	Michael Devlin	4	1	4	1	0	0	0	0
5		DF	Martin Canning	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0
6		MF	Grant Gillespie	12	0	11	0	1	0	0	0
7		MF	Dougie Imrie	6	2	6	1	0	0	0	1
8		MF	Jon Routledge	3	1	2	1	1	0	0	0
9		FW	Jason Scotland	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
10		MF	Alex Neil	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
11		MF	Ali Crawford	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
12		MF	Darren Lyon	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
14		FW	Nigel Hasselbaink	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
17		MF	Louis Longridge	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
18		FW	Darian MacKinnon	13	1	12	1	1	0	0	0
22		FW	Tony Andreu	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
24		DF	Jesús García	7	1	7	1	0	0	0	0
28		MF	Daniel Redmond	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
44		DF	Lucas	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
99		FW	Mickaël Antoine-Curier	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
			TOTALS	82	8	77	6	4	1	1	1

Team statistics

Results by opponent

Hamilton score first

Team	Results				Points
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Aberdeen	3–0	0–3	0–3	X	3
Celtic	1–0	0–2	0–4	X	3
Dundee	0–2	2–1	1–1	X	4
Dundee United	2–2	2–3	0–1	X	1
Inverness C.T.	0–2	2–4	0–2	X	0
Kilmarnock	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–2	5
Motherwell	4–0	5–0	0–4	2–0	9
Partick Thistle	2–1	3–3	0–5	1–1	5
Ross County	4–0	1–0	2–2	1–2	7
St Johnstone	1–0	1–0	1–1	X	7
St Mirren	2–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	9

Source: 2014–15 Scottish Premier League Results Table

Transfers

See main article: article, List of Scottish football transfers winter 2014–15 and List of Scottish football transfers summer 2014.

Players in

Player	From	Fee
Dougie Imrie	Greenock Morton	Free^[5]
Kieran MacDonald	Clyde	Free^[6]
Michael McGovern	Falkirk	Free^[7]
Danny Redmond	Wigan Athletic	Free^[8]
Darren Hill	Forfar Athletic	Undisclosed^[9]
Lee Lynch	Limerick	Free^[10]
Jason Scotland	Re-signed	Free^[11]
Lucas	Milsami Orhei	Free^[12]
Nico Šumský	Dukla Banská Bystrica	Free^[13]
Nigel Hasselbaink	Veria	Free^[14]

Players out

Player	To	Fee
Kevin Cuthbert	Raith Rovers	Free^[15]
James Keatings	Heart of Midlothian	Free^[16]
Lee Kilday	Greenock Morton	Free^[17]
Kieran MacDonald	Dumbarton	Loan^[18]
Jason Scotland	Released	Released^[19]
Mickaël Antoine-Curier	Burton Albion	Free^[20] ^[21]
Tony Andreu	Norwich City	£1M^[22]
Jaison McGrath	Released	Released^[23]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alex Neil: Norwich City appoint Hamilton player-manager as boss. BBC Sport. bbc.co.uk/sport. 9 January 2015. 22 February 2015.
2. Web site: Hamilton Academical: Martin Canning becomes new manager. BBC Sport. bbc.co.uk/sport. 23 January 2015. 22 February 2015.
3. News: Transfer Deadline Day: Norwich City sign Tony Andreu. BBC. 4 February 2015 . 15 February 2015.
4. Web site: Hamilton Academical 2–0 Motherwell. BBC Sport. bbc.co.uk/sport. 24 April 2015. 24 April 2015.
5. News: Dougie Imrie joins Hamilton Accies for a second time. BBC. 7 June 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
6. News: Hamilton Accies sign Michael McGovern and Kieran MacDonald. BBC. 9 June 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
7. News: Hamilton Accies sign Michael McGovern and Kieran MacDonald. BBC. 9 June 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
8. News: Accies snap up Redmond. spfl. 11 June 2014. 17 January 2015. 4 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192450/https://spfl.co.uk/news/article/accies-snap-up-redmond/. dead.
9. News: Hamilton sign Forfar goalkeeper Darren Hill. BBC. 11 July 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
10. News: Hamilton: Jason Scotland exits Accies as Lee Lynch signs. BBC. 4 January 2015 . 17 January 2015 .
11. News: Hamilton Academical: swift return for Jason Scotland signs. BBC. 27 January 2015 . 12 February 2015 .
12. News: Hamilton: Lucas Tagliapietra arrives from Moldova. BBC. 30 January 2015 . 15 February 2015 .
13. News: Hamilton Accies sign Czech midfielder Nico Sumsky. BBC. 2 February 2015 . 19 February 2015.
14. News: Nigel Hasselbaink: Hamilton Academical re-sign Dutch forward. BBC. 6 February 2015 . 19 February 2015.
15. News: Cuthbert makes Rovers move. SPFL. 11 June 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
16. News: James Keatings signs for Hearts. Edinburgh News. The Scotsman. 13 June 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
17. News: Kilday and Crighton join Morton. SPFL. 16 June 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
18. News: Sons make loan signing. SPFL. 27 August 2014 . 17 January 2015 .
19. News: Hamilton: Jason Scotland exits Accies as Lee Lynch signs. BBC. 4 January 2015 . 17 January 2015 .
20. News: Mickael Antoine-Curier: Leaving Accies was not an easy choice. BBC. 4 February 2015 . 15 February 2015 .
21. News: Mickael Antoine-Curier: Burton Albion sign ex-Hamilton striker. BBC. 18 February 2015 . 22 February 2015 .
22. News: Transfer Deadline Day: Norwich City sign Tony Andreu. BBC. 4 February 2015 . 15 February 2015 .
23. News: News Round Up . Hamilton Academical F.C. . 27 January 2015 . 22 February 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150128192433/http://www.acciesfc.co.uk/index.php/news/347-news-round-up . 28 January 2015 .