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8 unusual facts about Aberdeen F.C.


Dawlish Town A.F.C.

At the beginning of the 1987–88 season, Dawlish played host to Aberdeen and in season 1988–89 both Chelsea and Watford visited Dawlish.

Dupnitsa

Sir Alex Ferguson made his debut as a coach with Aberdeen F.C. here in the 1970s, where he was defeated by the local Marek with 3:2.

Etymology of Aberdeen

Residents or natives of Aberdeen are known as "Aberdonians", whence Aberdeen F.C.'s nickname, "the Dons".

Geirmund Brendesæter

According to former Brann captain and Aberdeen F.C. left-back Cato Guntveit, the young Brendesæther consistently used to do the tunnel dribble on his opponents while setting the Tippeligaen alight with his firework displays and trademark haircut.

Henfield, Gloucestershire

Gordon Bennett - who was Chief Executive of Bristol Rovers, Norwich City F.C. and Aberdeen F.C. and more recently has been Head of Youth Development at Stoke City and currently holds a similar position at Plymouth Argyle.

King Street, Aberdeen

The headquarters of FirstGroup is approximately halfway along the street, and a short way to the east is Pittodrie Stadium, home of Aberdeen F.C.

Ram Hill

Gordon Bennett – who was chief executive of Bristol Rovers, Norwich City F.C. and Aberdeen F.C. and more recently has been Head of Youth Development at Stoke City and holds a similar position at Plymouth Argyle.

Scott Davie

He usually provides commentary on Aberdeen home matches and will often commentate on Dundee United or Inverness Caledonian Thistle home matches when Aberdeen are away from home or not in action.


2011–12 Scottish Cup

The Semi-final draw was conducted on 11 March 2012 at Fir Park live on Sky Sports 3 & Sky Sports 3 HD following the Motherwell vs Aberdeen tie.

Arthur Graham

Arthur Graham (born 26 October 1952 in Castlemilk, Glasgow) is a former Scottish professional footballer who played for Aberdeen, Leeds United, Manchester United, Bradford City and the Scotland national team.

Brian McGinlay

At the domestic level McGinlay has refereed 21 Old Firm derbies, during which he never sent off a player, but he considers his most nerve-racking match to be the RangersAberdeen title decider match at the climax of the 1990–91 season.

Cove Rangers F.C.

On Friday, 30 July 2010, an article was placed in, the local Aberdeen paper, the Evening Express that Stewart Milne, the chairman of Aberdeen F.C., had bought their home ground Alan Park.

Derek McInnes

Derek John McInnes (born 5 July 1971 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish football player and manager, who is currently the manager of Aberdeen.

Jorge Cadete

His debut came against Aberdeen at Celtic Park, as he came off the bench to score Celtic's fifth goal in a 5–0 victory, thus becoming an instant hit; along with Pierre van Hooijdonk and Paolo Di Canio, he was labelled as one of the "Three Amigos" by Celtic chairman Fergus McCann.

K.R.C. Genk

After defeating PSG in the quarter-finals, Waterschei lost the first leg of the semi-final 5–1 at Pittodrie Stadium, home of the eventual winners, Aberdeen F.C. A 1–0 victory in Waterschei, courtesy of Eddy Voordeckers, could not reverse the position.

Malcolm Kpedekpo

Playing for Aberdeen as a schoolboy and later while at university, Kpedekpo left football to move to Australia working for KPMG.

Maurice Ross

Ross made his first senior appearance in professional football in February 2000 and has played for 10 different clubs: Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Millwall, Viking, Kocaelispor, Aberdeen, Beijing Guoan, Motherwell and Livingston.

Nick De Luca

Dumfries-born De Luca applauded the heroics of his local football team Queen of the South reaching the 2008 Scottish Cup Final against the odds after recording a shock 4–3 semi final win over Aberdeen.

Paddy Moore

After an impressive performance for the FAI XI against the Netherlands in May 1932, Moore, together with Joe O'Reilly and Jimmy Daly, was one of three Irish players from that team who were then signed by Aberdeen.

Willie Miller

William Ferguson Miller, MBE (born 2 May 1955 in Glasgow) is a former professional football player who made a club record 558 league appearances for Aberdeen.


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