2019–20 Alloa Athletic F.C. season

Alloa Athletic
2019–20 season
Chairman	Mike Mulraney
Manager	Peter Grant
Stadium	Recreation Park
Scottish Championship	8th
Scottish Cup	Fourth round
League Cup	Group stage
Challenge Cup	Fourth Round
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →

The 2019–20 season is Alloa Athletic's 2nd consecutive season in the Scottish Championship. Alloa also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Competitions

Win	Draw	Loss

Scottish Championship

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	PPG	Promotion, qualification or relegation^[a]
6	Dunfermline Athletic	28	10	7	11	41	36	+5	37	1.32
7	Greenock Morton	28	10	6	12	45	52	−7	36	1.29
8	Alloa Athletic	28	7	10	11	33	43	−10	31	1.11
9	Queen of the South	28	7	7	14	28	40	−12	28	1.00
10	Partick Thistle (R)	27	6	8	13	32	47	−15	26	0.96	Relegation to League One

Source: SPFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points per game.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Win	Draw	Loss


Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Referee	Ref.
3 August 2019 – 15:00	Partick Thistle	Home	1–1	Hetherington	1,672	Walsh	^[2]
10 August 2019 – 15:00	Greenock Morton	Away	1–4	Cawley	1,646	Ross	^[3]
24 August 2019 – 15:00	Arbroath	Away	0–1	—	661	Steven	^[4]
31 August 2019 – 15:00	Queen of the South	Away	1–0	Trouten	1,294	Duncan	^[5]
14 September 2019 – 15:00	Dundee	Away	1–2	Dick	4,453	Newlands	^[6]
21 September 2019 – 15:00	Ayr United	Home	1–4	O'Hara	902	Lowe	^[7]
28 September 2019 – 15:00	Dunfermline Athletic	Away	1–1	Brown	3,496	Steven	^[8]
4 October 2019 – 15:00	Dundee United	Home	1–0	O'Hara	1,717	Aitken	^[9]
19 October 2019 – 15:00	Inverness	Away	2–2	Buchanan, Trouten	2,036	Roncone	^[10]
26 October 2019 – 15:00	Queen of the South	Home	2–2	Trouten, O'Hara	875	Lowe	^[11]
29 October 2019 – 19:45	Dundee	Home	0–3	—	1,218	Cook	^[12]
2 November 2019 – 15:00	Arbroath	Away	1–2	Trouten	921	Beaton	^[13]
9 November 2019 – 15:00	Dunfermline Athletic	Away	2–1	Trouten, Cawley	1,602	Napier	^[14]
26 November 2019 – 15:00	Partick Thistle	Away	1–1	Trouten	1,714	Munro	^[15]
30 November 2019 – 15:00	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Home	0–2	—	721	Aitken	^[16]
7 December 2019 – 15:00	Dundee United	Away	1–2	Reynolds (o.g.)	7,615	Dallas	^[17]
14 December 2019 – 15:00	Ayr United	Away	1–2	O'Hara	1,117	Munro	^[18]
21 December 2019 – 15:00	Greenock Morton	Home	0–2	—	727	Clancy	^[19]
28 December 2019 – 15:00	Dunfermline Athletic	Away	3–1	Brown, O'Hara, Flannigan (pen.)	4,257	Reid	^[20]
4 January 2020 – 15:00	Partick Thistle	Home	1–1	Brown	1,827	Munro	^[21]
21 January 2020 – 19:45	Arbroath	Home	2–0	O'Hara (2)	765	Napier	^[22]
25 January 2020 – 15:00	Queen of the South	Away	3–2	O'Hara (2), Thomson	1,169	Duncan	^[23]
1 February 2020 – 15:00	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Away	1–1	Flannigan (pen.)	1,914	Clancy	^[24]
14 February 2020 – 19:05	Dundee United	Home	0–0	—	1,442	McLean	^[25]
22 February 2020 – 15:00	Greenock Morton	Away	4–4	Trouten, Cawley, O'Hara, Deas	1,214	Beaton	^[26]
29 February 2020 – 15:00	Ayr United	Home	0–2	—	915	Aitken	^[27]
3 March 2020 – 19:45	Dundee	Away	0–0	—	4,356	Roncone	^[28]
7 March 2020 – 15:00	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Home	2–0	Connelly, Trouten	712	Kirkland	^[29]

Scottish Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Referee	Ref.
23 November 2019 – 15:00	Third round	Elgin City	Away	3–1	Taggart, Cawley, O'Hara	668	Lambie	^[30]
18 January 2020 – 15:00	Fourth round	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Home	2–3	Cawley, O'Hara	590	Collum	^[31]

Challenge Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Ref.
7 September 2019 – 15:00	Third round	Dunfermline Athletic	Away	1–2	Robert Thomson, Trouten	1,448	^[32]
12 October 2019 – 15:00	Fourth round	Inverness	Away	3–0		973	^[33]

League Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Ref.
16 July 2019 – 19:45	Group stage	Elgin City	Home	3–3 (Elgin win 5–6 on pens)	Trouten, Buchanan, Cawley	316	^[34]
20 July 2019 – 15:00	Group stage	Hibernian	Away	3–0		5,470	^[35]
23 July 2019 – 19:45	Group stage	Stirling Albion	Home	2–1	O'Hara, Buchanan	412	^[36]
27 July 2019 – 15:00	Group stage	Arbroath	Away	2–3	Buchanan, Trouten (2)	590	^[37]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PW	PL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hibernian	4	3	1	0	0	8	1	+7	11	Qualification for the Second Round
2	Alloa Athletic	4	2	0	1	1	8	8	0	7
3	Arbroath	4	2	0	0	2	10	8	+2	6
4	Elgin City	4	1	1	0	2	7	7	0	5
5	Stirling Albion	4	0	0	1	3	3	12	−9	1

Source: ^[38]
Rules for classification: 1) goal difference, 2) goals scored, 3) away goals scored, 4) matches won, 5) away matches won, 6) drawing of lots.^[39]

Player details

As of 3 August 2019

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Scottish Championship		Scottish Cup		League Cup		Challenge Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Neil Parry	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF		Scott Taggart	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF		Liam Dick	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF		Robbie Deas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF		Andy Graham (C)	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF		Steven Hetherington	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	FW		Kevin Cawley	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF		Jon Robertson	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW		Liam Buchanan	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW		Alan Trouten	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	MF		Iain Flannigan	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF		Adam Brown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	DF		Nathan Gilhooley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	FW		Kevin O'Hara	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF		Blair Malcolm	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW		Robert Thomson	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF		Cameron O'Donnell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	MF		Paul Gillespie	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	GK		Chris Henry	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	GK		Jamie MacDonald	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who left the club during the season:
22	MF		Andy Stirling	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Transfers

Transfers in


Date from	Position	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2019	FW	Liam Buchanan	Raith Rovers	Free transfer	^[40]
	MF	Andy Stirling	Queen of the South		^[41]
	FW	Robert Thomson	Greenock Morton		^[42]
15 July 2019	FW	Kevin O'Hara	Falkirk		^[43]
2 August 2019	MF	Blair Malcolm	Cowdenbeath		^[44]

Transfers out

Date	Position	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2019	MF	Jordan Kirkpatrick	Forfar Athletic	Free transfer	^[45]
	MF	Reis Peggie	East Stirlingshire	Free transfer	^[46]
	FW	Ahmed Aloulou	Released		^[40]
	MF	Jim Goodwin	Retired		^[47]
	DF	Zdravko Karadachki	Released		^[40]
2 September 2019	MF	Andy Stirling	Released		^[48]

Loans in

Date	Position	Name	From	End date	Ref.
8 August 2019	DF	Robbie Deas	Celtic Reserves	End of season	^[49]
13 September 2019	GK	Jamie MacDonald	Kilmarnock	31 December 2019	^[50]

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