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He led Dundee United to their only Scottish Football League title in 1982–83, following Scottish League Cup wins in 1979 and 1980. Under McLean, the club also lost in a further eight domestic cup finals. In European football, McLean's Dundee United reached the European Cup semi-finals in 1984 and the UEFA Cup final in 1987. He became a Dundee ...
McLean spent 21 years as manager of Dundee United until his retirement in 1993, becoming the club's longest serving manager. At that point, the club had had only two managers in a 34-year period, but since then have had a much higher turnover. Liam Fox, appointed in 2022, is the club's twentieth manager or head coach in the 29 years since McLean.
The 1992–93 season was the 83rd year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1992 to 30 June 1993. United finished in fourth place in what was Jim McLean's final season as manager.
Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, [2] the club changed to the present name in 1923. [3] United are nicknamed The Terrors [4] or The Tangerines and the supporters are known as Arabs. [5]
The club finished the Division One season in ninth place, with Jim McLean beginning a 22-year managerial spell with the club in December 1971, taking over from Jerry Kerr. Aberdeen knocked United out of the Scottish Cup for the second year running, this time in the third round, while the club again failed to get past the League Cup first round.
The final was contested by Dundee and Celtic, with Dundee becoming the first side from outside the Old Firm to reach a League Cup final since 1963. Celtic won a high-scoring match by 5–3, with Stevie Chalmers, John Hughes, Bobby Lennox and Willie Wallace all scoring for Celtic. George McLean and Jim McLean scored Dundee's goals.
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The 1973–74 season was the 65th year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1973 to 30 June 1974. United finished in eighth place in the First Division and reached their first Scottish Cup final losing 3–0 to Celtic.