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The following year, after knocking out Finn Harps of Ireland, Aberdeen were drawn against English opposition for the first time in European competition. Aberdeen drew 1–1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur, but were beaten 1–4 at White Hart Lane in the second leg. Aberdeen failed to qualify for European football between 1974 and 1977.
Scottish football clubs have participated in European association football competitions since 1955, when Hibernian entered the inaugural European Cup. Scottish sides have won four UEFA competitions between them, with Celtic becoming the first side from the British Isles to be European champions by winning the 1966–67 European Cup.
McInnes led Aberdeen to European qualification for the first time since 2009, achieved through a third-place finish in the league campaign. The club has continued to perform well, and ended the season in second place—their best league position since 1993–94—in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Association football club in Aberdeen, Scotland This article is about the present-day club. For its predecessor of the same name in existence from 1881 to 1903, see Aberdeen F.C. (1881). Football club Aberdeen Full name Aberdeen Football Club Nickname(s) The Dons, The Dandies, The Reds ...
Aberdeen's first trophy was the Southern League Cup in 1946, which was won after a 3–2 win against Rangers. [1] [2] Their first national trophy win was the Scottish Cup in 1947. Aberdeen's first Scottish League Cup victory came in 1955. In 1983, Aberdeen won two European trophies, the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup. The ...
This is a list of seasons played by Aberdeen Football Club from 1903 to the present day. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top league goal scorers for each season. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top league goal scorers for each season.
1779 – Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii. 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured) , a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
Aberdeen Market Cross Aberdeen around 1900. There has been a human presence in the area of Aberdeen since the Stone Age.Aberdeen as a city, grew up as two separate burghs: Old Aberdeen, the university and cathedral settlement, at the mouth of the River Don; and New Aberdeen, a fishing and trading settlement where the Denburn entered the Dee estuary.