Dundee FC can confirm that the following players have also left the club. Scott Fraser, Mo Sylla, Antonio Portales Scott Tiffoney and Joe Shaughnessy.
The players below all remain under contract with the club.
Jon McCracken, Ethan Ingram, Clark Robertson, Ryan Astley, Imari Samuels, Cesar Garza, Simon Murray, Charlie Reilly, Finlay Robertson, Billy Koumetio, Luke Graham, Victor Lopez, Harry Sharp, Trevor Carson, Aaron Donnelly, Drey Wright and Paul Digby.
The 30 year old becomes Dundee's first signing of the season. At his last club Cambridge United Paul played 229 games scoring 6 goals, during a four year spell.
30-year-old Drey is a right-sided midfielder but can play in a variety of positions including in defence. With over 300 competitive appearances to his name, Drey brings a wealth of experience with him to Dens Park.
Wright came through the youth system at Colchester United and made his professional debut at the age of 17 and would go on to make 149 appearances. After six years with Colchester Wright decided to move north of the border and joined St Johnstone in 2018. He would spend two seasons at McDiarmid Park before joining Hibs where he would make 50 appearances in all competitions. In 2022 Drey returned to St Johnstone where he spent three seasons and during his two spells in Perth, he made 135 appearances and scored 10 goals in all competitions.
Charlie joined The Dee in June 2023 after a standout season with Albion Rovers, where he was voted PFA Scotland’s League Two Player of the Season and was nominated for Young Player of the Season.
During his two seasons for The Dee Charlie has made 16 appearances for the club. During this time Charlie has had loan spells with Arbroath and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Dundee Football Club are today delighted to announce the appointment of Steven Pressley as the club’s new Head Coach.
Steven is a well-known name throughout British football and possesses fantastic knowledge and experience of the game. A thorough and comprehensive search process was conducted for our new Head Coach, and Steven emerged as the standout candidate. After an extremely successful playing career, Steven moved into coaching.
After a period as a coach with Scotland under George Burley and then as assistant manager at Falkirk, Steven took on his first managerial role in 2010 at Falkirk. Initially, the role was till the end of the season but Steven impressed in the position and remained in charge of The Bairns until 2013. In 2013 he moved to Coventry City, where he oversaw 100 games for The Sky Blues in England’s League One. Between 2015 and 2019 Steven took on managerial positions at Fleetwood Town, PAFOS – in the Cypriot first division – and Carlisle United. Steven has spent the last four years working with English Premier League side Brentford in the role of ‘Head of Individual Player Development.’
As the club previously stated we have taken this period to restructure the football department at the club. One of the changes is the appointment of a Head Coach. Another change is the appointment of a Technical Manager and Dundee FC are delighted to appoint David Longwell to this role.
David will be part of the coaching staff with a specific focus on player development. David has vast experience in player development having worked at St Mirren, Orlando City, New York Red Bulls and Burnley in this area. David was most recently Manager at AFC Fylde.
Managing Director John Nelms said, “We are delighted to welcome Steven Pressley as the new head coach of Dundee Football Club. Steven has spent the last four years at English Premier League Club Brentford and brings with him a shared core value of player development and a rounded approach to winning football matches. Steven will be installing a framework that delivers on the messaging that the senior players and the development players are one effective team. This will bring success to Dundee Football Club on and off the park. Welcome to the club, Steven, and we are looking forward to many successful campaigns.
“We are also excited to welcome David Longwell as the new Technical Manager of Dundee Football Club. David comes to us with a long and productive history in the development of players both north and south of the border. Player development has always been at the forefront of our club, and with the amount of young emerging talent, it is important that the restructuring of the football department will emphasise this even more. His main role will be working alongside Technical Director Gordon Strachan and Head Coach Steven Pressley to ensure the concentrated development of the individual player. David will also have additional roles within the first team set-up. Welcome to the club, David, and we are looking forward to many successes in the future.”
Welcome to The Dee Steven and David.
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Lyall Cameron and Jordan McGhee have both left the club at the end of their contracts. Both have been tremendous for the club. I wish them well in their future careers.
Seb Palmer-Houlden, Oluwaseun Adewumi and Ziyad Larkeche have returned to their parent clubs after spending the season on loan at Dundee. All three have done well for the club during their time at Dens.
Dundee FC can today confirm that manager Tony Docherty, Stuart Taylor, Alan Combe and Graeme Henderson have been relieved of their duties at the football club with immediate effect.
Tony was appointed manager of Dundee FC in May 2023 after the club was promoted to the Scottish Premiership and in his first season in charge guided the club to a top six finish in the league.
Stuart was brought in as assistant manager to Tony in June 2023.
Alan has been with the club since 2021 as goalkeeping coach and Graeme joined last summer as head of performance.
On Sunday 18th May the annual Dundee FC Supporter Association Player of the Year Dinner took place at the Invercarse Hotel.
The four main awards up for grabs were: Goal of the Season, The Isobel Sneddon Young Player of the Year, The Players Player of the Year, and The Andrew De Vries Player of the Year.
Jordan McGhee took home the Goal of the Season award for his goal against Dundee United in the 2-4 victory on 16th March at Tannadice.
Oluwaseun Adewumi on loan from Burnley won The Isobel Sneddon Young Player of the Year.
Simon Murray took home two of the main awards, The Players Player of the Year, and the big award of the night, The Andrew De Vries Player of the Year.
Well done to them for winning and the DSA for another great night.
The home side started well and had two attacks in the opening minutes. Dundee were able to clear with ease. They then had their first attack, after good play put in for Mulligan to cross, but no takers this time. Saints forced a corner soon after with Robertson being able to clear.
Then Lyall Cameron had a shot which just went past the right hand post. As Dundee were coming back into the game.
Dundee then had a penalty shout in the 23rd minute when Scott Tiffoney made a darting run into the box and after he released the ball, there were shouts that the winger had been fouled but nothing came of it.
But they took the lead on 26 minutes when Tiffoney found Lyall Cameron who cut inside and smashed the ball across the keeper and into the cornet of the net. A fine goal to sent the Dundee fans wild.
Minutes later Simon Murray got the ball just inside the Saints half and he tried to lob the keeper, but the ball just fell wide of the goal.
The game up to half-time was pretty even but at least Dundee were 1-0 up at the break.
Dundee attacked from the start and Scott Tiffoney was involved both time, first he was on a run and was fouled. Then soon after he ran clear to score, but he was offside after a Var check.
Dundee forced two corners which came to nothing, the Josh Mulligan had a shot saved by the Saints keeper.
Seb Palmer-Houlden then received some treatment in the middle of the pitch and a few minutes later he was replaced by Finn Robertson.
Both teams had chances the best for Dundee fell to Murray who blasted the ball over the bar. With 5 minutes to go Trevor Carson made a good save getting down well.
Charlie Reilly making way for Simon Murray. This was then followed up by the fourth official raising the board to signal 6 minutes of added-on time.
Big cheer when the final score in the Highlands was 1-1. Dundee finished the game on a high when after 96 minutes they got a penalty after Larkeche was fouled in the box.
Up stepped Lyall Cameron to score with ease to seal the game 2-0 final score.
Massive result and means Dundee will play in the Premiership next season.
Dundee: Carson, Clark Robertson, Shaughnessy, Larkeche, Astley, Portales, Cameron, Mulligan, Murray (Reilly ’90) Tiffoney, Palmer-Houlden (Robertson ’79). Unused Subs: McCracken, Donnelly, Sylla, Samuels, Fraser, Koumetio, Garza
Referee: Steven McLean
Att: 7,170
