2016–17 Hamilton Academical F.C. season

Hamilton Academical
2016–17 season
Chairman	Les Gray
Manager	Martin Canning
Stadium	New Douglas Park; Hamilton, Scotland; (Capacity: 6,018)
Scottish Premiership	—
Scottish League Cup	Second Round
Scottish Cup	—
Top goalscorer	League: Ali Crawford (4); All: Ali Crawford (6)
Highest home attendance	2,228 vs.; Kilmarnock; Premiership; 13 August 2016
Lowest home attendance	764 vs.; Livingston; League Cup; 30 July 2016
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2016–17 season is the club's third season in the Scottish Premiership. Hamilton will also compete in the Scottish Cup and the League Cup.^[1]

Summary

Management

The club began the 2016-17 season under the continued management of Martin Canning who also extended his own playing contract, staying as the player-manager for the club.^[2]

Results & fixtures

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Pre-season

Scottish Premiership

6 August 2016 1	Rangers	1 - 1	Hamilton Academical	Ibrox Stadium
12:30	Waghorn 62'	BBC SPFL	Crawford 30' Devlin 35' Sarris 37' Kurakins 39' Crawford 45' Donati 53'	Attendance: 49,125 Referee: Don Robertson

13 August 2016 2	Hamilton Academical	1 - 2	Kilmarnock	New Douglas Park
15:00	Longridge 26' Gillespie 75'	BBC SPFL	Boyd 71' Coulibaly 73' Green 51' Boyle 52' McKenzie 89'	Attendance: 2,228 Referee: Steven McLean

19 August 2016 3	Dundee	1 - 1	Hamilton Academical	Dens Park
19:45	O'Hara 17' Etxabeguren 42'	BBC SPFL	Lyon 13' Lyon 62' Donati 74'	Attendance: 5,287 Referee: Kevin Clancy

27 August 2016 4	Hamilton Academical	1 - 0	Ross County	New Douglas Park
15:00	Imrie 74' Redmond 62' Gillespie 63' Docherty 70'	BBC SPFL	McEveley 26' Quinn 87'	Attendance: 1,609 Referee: Greg Aitken

10 September 2016 5	Hearts	3 - 1	Hamilton Academical	Tynecastle Stadium
15:00	Walker 69' 81' (pen.) Nicholson 90' Watt 30' Paterson 87' Rossi 49'	BBC SPFL	Crawford 50' Want 80' Imrie 81' Crawford 90'	Attendance: 15,947 Referee: Craig Thomson (Referee)

17 September 2016 6	Motherwell	4 - 2	Hamilton Academical	Fir Park
15:00	Moult 8', 13', 21', 50' (pen.) McManus 79' Lasley 88' Clay 90'	BBC SPFL	Crawford 36', 64' Donati 23' Gillespie 54' Imrie 75' Devlin 80'	Attendance: 4,514 Referee: William Collum

25 September 2016 7	Hamilton Academical	1 - 1	St Johnstone	New Douglas Park
15:00	Docherty 37' Donati 58' Doherty 63' MacKinnon 70' Seaborne 78' Crawford 90'	BBC SPFL	Craig 82' Davidson 33'	Attendance: 1,705 Referee: Euan Anderson

1 October 2016 8	Hamilton Academical	-	Inverness C T	New Douglas Park
15:00

Scottish League Cup

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	HAM	AYR	STM	LIV	EDC
1	Hamilton Academical (Q)	4	3	1	10	5	+5	9	Qualification to the Second Round	—	—	3–0	2–1	—
2	Ayr United (X)	4	3	1	5	2	+3	9	Possible Second Round as one of the 4 best runners up	2–1	—	—	—	1–0
3	St Mirren	4	3	1	7	5	+2	9		—	1–0	—	—	3–0
4	Livingston	4	1	3	6	7	−1	3		—	0–2	2–3	—	—
5	Edinburgh City	4	0	4	2	11	−9	0		2–4	—	—	0–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 30 July 2016. Source: BBC
(Q) Qualified; (X) Advances to Best runners-up

16 July 2016 (2016-07-16) Group G	Ayr United	2 – 1	Hamilton Academical	Somerset Park, Ayr
15:00	Forrest 2' (pen.) Crawford 49' Adams 31'	SPFL Report	Longridge 90+4' MacKinnon 2' Devlin 61'	Attendance: 994 Referee: Willie Collum

23 July 2016 (2016-07-23) Group G	Hamilton Academical	3 – 0	St Mirren	New Douglas Park, Hamilton
15:00	Crawford 13' Imrie 51' Donati 70' Devlin 83'	SPFL Report	Hutton 49'	Attendance: 1,379 Referee: Don Robertson

27 July 2016 (2016-07-27) Group G	Edinburgh City	2 – 4	Hamilton Academical	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
19:45	Allum 17', 19' Gibson 53' McFarland 65'	SPFL Report	Crawford 22' D'Acol 26' McGregor 66' Imrie 71' (pen.) Crawford 59'	Attendance: 459 Referee: Colin Steven

30 July 2016 (2016-07-30) Group G	Hamilton Academical	2 – 1	Livingston	New Douglas Park, Hamilton
15:00	D'Acol 22' Longridge 55' Sarris 37' McGregor 68'	SPFL Report	Matthews 41' (o.g.) Miller 85'	Attendance: 764 Referee: Euan Anderson

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) Second round	Hamilton Academical	1 - 2	Morton	New Douglas Park, Hamilton
19:45	Imrie 8' (pen.)	SPFL Report	Forbes 59' Quitongo 63'	Attendance: 1,112 Referee: Stephen Finnie

Scottish Cup

Fourth Round	TBA	v	TBA
		report

Squad statistics

Appearances

As of 17 September 2016

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premiership		League Cup		Scottish Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Remi Matthews	11	0	6	0	5	0	0	0
2	DF	ENG	Danny Seaborne	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	SCO	Michael Devlin	9	0	5	0	4	0	0	0
6	MF	SCO	Grant Gillespie	11	0	6	0	5	0	0	0
7	MF	SCO	Dougie Imrie	11	4	6	1	5	3	0	0
8	MF	SCO	Greg Docherty	10	0	4+1	0	4+1	0	0	0
9	FW	BRA	Alexandre D'Acol	9	2	5	0	4	2	0	0
10	MF	ENG	Daniel Redmond	5	0	0+3	0	0+2	0	0	0
11	MF	SCO	Ali Crawford	10	6	5	4	5	2	0	0
12	MF	GER	Gramoz Kurtaj	3	0	1+2	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	TRI	Richard Roy	2	0	0+1	0	0+1	0	0	0
15	FW	ENG	Rakish Bingham	2	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF	SCO	Louis Longridge	9	3	4	1	5	2	0	0
18	MF	SCO	Darian MacKinnon	9	0	4	0	3+2	0	0	0
20	FW	SCO	Eamonn Brophy	5	0	1+4	0	0	0	0	0
21	MF	ITA	Massimo Donati	10	1	6	0	3+1	1	0	0
22	MF	SCO	Darren Lyon	7	1	5+1	1	0+1	0	0	0
23	DF	SCO	Scott McMann	2	0	0	0	1+1	0	0	0
24	DF	ESP	Jesús García	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
27	DF	SCO	Shaun Want	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
28	FW	SCO	Ross Cunningham	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0
29	DF	SCO	Jordan McGregor	3	1	0	0	2+1	1	0	0
32	DF	SCO	Jack Breslin	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0
33	MF	SCO	Ronan Hughes	3	0	0+1	0	1+1	0	0	0
89	DF	GRE	Georgios Sarris	8	0	6	0	2	0	0	0
Players who left the club during the 2016–17 season
3	DF	LVA	Antons Kurakins (contract terminated)	5	0	1	0	4	0	0	0
30	MF	SCO	Steven Boyd (on loan to Albion Rovers)	3	0	0	0	1+2	0	0	0

Team statistics

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
8	Kilmarnock	38	9	14	15	36	56	−20	41
9	Motherwell	38	10	8	20	46	69	−23	38
10	Dundee	38	10	7	21	38	62	−24	37
11	Hamilton Academical (O)	38	7	14	17	37	56	−19	35	Qualification for the Premiership play-off final
12	Inverness Caledonian Thistle (R)	38	7	13	18	44	71	−27	34	Relegation to the Scottish Championship

Source: Scottish Premiership, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification and second stage group allocation).^[3]
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

Results by opponent

Hamilton score first

Team	Results				Points
Team	1	2	3	4	Points
Aberdeen					0
Celtic					0
Dundee	1-1				1
Heart of Midlothian	1-3				0
Inverness C.T.					0
Kilmarnock	1-2				0
Motherwell	2-4				0
Partick Thistle					0
Rangers	1-1				1
Ross County	1-0				3
St. Johnstone					0

Source: 2016–17 Scottish Premier League Results Table

References

^ http://stv.tv/sport/football/1355636-motherwell-and-rangers-to-meet-in-scottish-league-cup-group-stage/
^ "Hamilton Academical boss Martin Canning extends his own playing contract". bbc.co.uk/sport. BBC Sport. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
^ "Premiership 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

[3] Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

[1] ttp://stv.tv/sport/football/1355636-motherwell-and-rangers-to-meet-in-scottish-league-cup-group-stage/

[2] "Hamilton Academical boss Martin Canning extends his own playing contract". bbc.co.uk/sport. BBC Sport. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

[4] "Premiership 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

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