Motherwell 2008–09 football season
The 2008–09 season wasMotherwell 's 11th season in theScottish Premier League , and their 24th consecutive season in the top division of Scottish football. As well as the SPL, the club competed in theScottish Cup ,Scottish League Cup , and theUEFA Cup for the first time in 13 years.
On 10 July,Bob Malcolm signed a new one-year contract with the club.[ 1]
On 8 August, Motherwell announced the signing ofJim O'Brien to a two-year contract fromCeltic , and the six-month loan signing ofGunnar Nielsen fromBlackburn Rovers .[ 2]
On 19 August, Motherwell signedJohn Sutton to a three-year contract fromWycombe Wanderers .[ 3]
On 1 September, Motherwell signedMaroš Klimpl on loan fromMidtjylland for five-months.[ 4]
On 2 January,Artur Krysiak joined Motherwell on loan fromBirmingham City until the end of the season, whilstMaroš Klimpl extended his loan stay fromMidtjylland until the summer.[ 5]
On 24 January,Ross Forbes joinedDumbarton for the remainder of the season.[ 6]
On 2 February,Cillian Sheridan joined Motherwell on loan fromCeltic for the remainder of the season, whilstSemih Aydilek joined fromBirmingham City on a similar deal.[ 7] Chris Porter left the club, signing forDerby County for an undisclosed fee of around £400,000[ 8]
On 12 June 2009,Mark McGhee left the club to become manager ofAberdeen with AssistantScott Leitch and goalkeeping coachColin Meldrum also leaving for thePittodrie outfit.[ 9]
Updated 5 December 2010 [ 10]
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Competition First match Last match Starting round Final position Record Pld W D L GF GA GD Win % Premier League 9 August 2008 23 May 2009 Matchday 1 7th 38 13 9 16 46 51 −5 0 34.21 Scottish Cup 2 February 2009 19 February 2009 Fourth round Fifth Round 3 1 1 1 4 2 +2 0 33.33 League Cup 24 September 2008 24 September 2008 Third round Third round 1 0 0 1 1 2 −1 00 0.00 UEFA Cup 18 September 2008 2 October 2008 First round First round 2 0 0 2 0 3 −3 00 0.00 Total 44 14 10 20 51 58 −7 0 31.82
^ 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. ^ Scotland were awarded an additionalEuropa League place as the association finished in third place of theUEFA Fair Play ranking .Motherwell earned this place as winners of the Scottish Fair Play ranking. Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Ground A H H A H A H H A A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A H H A A H A H A H A A H A H Result L L D W L L W W L W W L D L L L L L W D W W D D W D W L D D L L L L W D W L Position 9 11 10 9 10 11 10 8 9 7 3 6 6 7 9 10 11 10 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Source:
BBC Sport A = Away;
H = Home;
W = Win;
D = Draw;
L = LossDate Opponent Venue Result[ 12] Attendance Motherwell Scorer(s) Report 9 August 2008 Hearts Tynecastle Stadium ,Edinburgh (A)2–3 14,219 Clarkson (2)16 August 2008 Aberdeen Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)0–1 5,872 BBC Sport 23 August 2008 Dundee United Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–1 5,149 Sutton 30 August 2008 Hibernian Easter Road ,Edinburgh (A)1–0 11,285 Sutton 13 September 2008 Celtic Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)2–4 5,872 Clarkson ,Sutton BBC Sport 21 September 2008 Rangers Ibrox Stadium ,Glasgow (A)1–2 49,448 BBC Sport 27 September 2008 St Mirren Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)2–1 4,786 Malcolm ,Sutton 5 October 2008 Falkirk Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)3–2 4,509 Porter ,Murphy ,Sutton 18 October 2008 Kilmarnock Rugby Park ,Kilmarnock (A)0–1 5,113 25 October 2008 Inverness CT Caledonian Stadium ,Inverness (A)2–1 3,110 Malcolm (2)1 November 2008 Hamilton Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)2–0 6,205 Porter (2)Sutton 8 November 2008 Celtic Celtic Park ,Glasgow (A)0–2 56,504 BBC Sport 12 November 2008 Rangers Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)0–0 9,600 BBC Sport 15 November 2008 Falkirk Falkirk Stadium ,Falkirk (A)0–1 5,279 22 November 2008 Hibernian Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–4 4,957 Malcolm 29 November 2008 Aberdeen Pittodrie Stadium ,Aberdeen (A)0–2 10,302 BBC Sport 15 December 2008 Kilmarnock Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)0–2 3,339 20 December 2008 Hamilton New Douglas Park ,Hamilton (A)0–2 3,527 27 December 2008 Inverness Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)3–2 4,521 Porter (3)3 January 2009 St Mirren Love Street ,Paisley (A)0–0 10,189 7 January 2009 Hearts Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–0 4,928 Porter 17 January 2009 Dundee United Tannadice ,Dundee (A)4–0 7,090 Klimpl ,Porter ,Clarkson ,Fitzpatrick 24 January 2009 Falkirk Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–1 5,018 Clarkson 31 January 2009 Hibernian Easter Road ,Edinburgh (A)1–1 10,903 Clarkson 14 February 2009 Hamilton Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–0 5,197 Clarkson 22 February 2009 Celtic Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–1 8,593 Quinn BBC Sport 28 February 2009 Inverness CT Caledonian Stadium ,Inverness (A)2–1 3,611 Sutton ,Sheridan 4 March 2009 Hearts Tynecastle ,Edinburgh (A)1–2 13,306 Hughes BBC Sport 14 March 2009 Dundee United Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)2–1 4,798 Clarkson ,Sutton BBC Sport 21 March 2009 Kilmarnock Rugby Park ,Kilmarnock (A)0–0 5,434 BBC Sport 4 April 2009 Aberdeen Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–1 4,686 O'Brien BBC Sport 11 April 2009 Rangers Ibrox Stadium ,Glasgow (A)1–3 50,080 Sutton BBC Sport 18 April 2009 St Mirren Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)0–2 6,626 BBC Sport 2 May 2009 Falkirk Falkirk Stadium ,Falkirk (A)1–2 4,937 Clarkson (pen. )BBC Sport 9 May 2009 St Mirren St Mirren Park ,Paisley (A)3–1 4,002 Murphy ,Clarkson (2)BBC Sport 13 May 2009 Inverness CT Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)2–2 2,818 McLean ,Sutton BBC Sport 16 May 2009 Hamilton New Douglas Park ,Hamilton (A)3–0 3,383 Clarkson ,Sheridan ,Sutton BBC Sport 23 May 2009 Kilmarnock Fir Park ,Motherwell (H)1–2 4,186 McLean BBC Sport
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