Aberdeen Football Club are a Scottish professional association football club based in Aberdeen. They have played at their home ground, Pittodrie, since the club's formation in 1903. Aberdeen joined the Scottish Football League in 1904, and the Scottish Premier League in 1998 as well as the Scottish Professional Football League in 2013.

The club's record appearance maker is Willie Miller, who made 796 appearances between 1972 and 1990. Joe Harper is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 199 goals in major competitions during his two spells at Aberdeen.

This list encompasses the major honours won by Aberdeen, records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Aberdeen players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Pittodrie are also included in the list.

Honours

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 1980s was Aberdeen's most successful in terms of trophies won, with three league championships, four Scottish Cups and two Scottish League Cups added to the two European trophies. Aberdeen's most recent trophy win was in 2014, when they defeated Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish League Cup final.

National

League

• Scottish Top Tier: (4)^[3]
  • Scottish First Division – 1954–55
  • Scottish Premier Division – 1979–80, 1983–84,^[4] 1984–85^[5]
    • Runners-up (17): 1910–11, 1936–37, 1955–56, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1977–78,^[6] 1980–81, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1989–90,^[7] 1990–91,^[8] 1992–93, 1993–94, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

Scottish Cup

• Winners: (7)^[9]
  • 1946–47, 1969–70,^[10][11] 1981–82,^[12] 1982–83,^[13] 1983–84,^[4][14] 1985–86,^[15] 1989–90^[7][16][17]
  • Runners-up (9): 1936–37,^[18] 1952–53,^[19] 1953–54, 1958–59, 1966–67,^[20] 1977–78,^[21] 1992–93,^[22] 1999–00,^[23] 2016–17^[24]

Scottish League Cup

• Winners: (6)^[25]
  • 1955–56, 1976–77,^[26] 1985–86,^[27] 1989–90,^[7][28] 1995–96,^[29] 2013–14^[30]
  • Runners-up (10): 1946–47,^[31] 1978–79,^[32] 1979–80, 1987–88,^[33] 1988–89,^[34] 1992–93,^[35] 1999–00,^[36] 2016–17,^[37] 2018–192023–24

European

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
  • 1982–83^[38][39]
    • Semi-final: 1983–84^[4]
• UEFA Super Cup: 1
  • 1983^[40][41]

1986 European Cup Quarter Final

Regional

• Aberdeenshire Cup (36): 1903–04, 1904–05, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1913–14, 1914–15, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05^[42]
• Aberdeenshire and District League (7): 1919–20, 1920–21, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1947–48^[43]
• Dewar Shield (17): 1906–07, 1908–09, 1912–13, 1914–15, 1926–27, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1939–40, 1945–46, 1949–50, 1950–51 (shared), 1951-52 (shared)^[44]
• Fleming Charity Shield (13): 1903–04, 1904–05, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1913–14, 1921–22, 1922–23^[45]
• High Cup: 1907–08^[46]
• Highland League: 1912–13, 1924–25 (won by Aberdeen A)^[47]
• Northern League: 1905–06, 1910–11 (won by Aberdeen A)
• Rhodesia Cup: 1904–05^[48]
• Robertson Cup: 1910–11 (shared), 1915–16 (shared)^[49]
• Caledonia Trophy: 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50

Wartime

• North Eastern League (4): 1942–43 (winter), 1942–43 (spring), 1943–44 (spring), 1944–45 (spring)
• North Eastern League Cup/Mitchell Cup (5): 1941–42 (winter), 1942–43 (winter), 1942–43 (spring), 1944–45 (winter), 1944–45 (spring)^[50]
• Southern League Cup: 1945–46

Other cups

• Drybrough Cup: 1971–72, 1980–81
• Summer Cup: Runners-up 1963–64

Youth

• Scottish Youth League: 1998–99, 2014–15
• Scottish Youth Cup: 1984–85,^[51] 1985–86, 2000–01

Player records

Appearances

• Most appearances in all major competitions: Willie Miller, 796^[52]
• Most League appearances: Willie Miller, 560^[52]
• Most Scottish Cup appearances: Alex McLeish, 68^[52]
• Most League Cup appearances: Willie Miller, 109^[52]
• Most European appearances: Willie Miller, 61^[52]
• Youngest first-team player: Dean Campbell, 16 years, 51 days (against Celtic on 12 May 2017)^[53]

Top 50 most appearances

Competitive, professional matches only, up to the end of the 2022/23 season.^[52]

#	Name	Years	League	Scottish Cup	League Cup	Europe	Total
1	Willie Miller	1972-1990	560	66	109	61	796
2	Alex McLeish	1978-1994	491	68	74	56	689
3	Bobby Clark	1965-1980	424	49	95	23	591
4	Andrew Considine	2004-2022	444	49	34	44	571
5	Stewart McKimmie	1983-1997	430	46	47	39	562
6	Jim Leighton	1978-1988 1998-2000	383	49	54	47	533
7	Russell Anderson	1996-2006 2012-2015	343	30	25	9	407
8	Drew Jarvie	1972-1982	275	28	66	17	386
9	Brian Irvine	1985-1997	309	29	26	21	385
10	Eoin Jess	1989-1996 1997-2001	312	23	34	11	380
11	Willie Cooper	1928-1939 1945-1948	331[a]	37	9	0	377
12	Darren Mackie	1998-2012	314	22	19	10	365
13	John Hewitt	1979-1989	241	33	46	43	363
14=	Bert MacLachlan	1914-1927	315	43	0	0	358
	Niall McGinn	2012-2017 2018-2022	279	32	20	27	358
16	Jack Hather	1948-1960	264	34	53	0	351
17	Donald Colman	1907-1917 1919-1920	323	23	0	0	346
18	Davie Robb	1966-1977	251	27	51	16	345
19	Jim Bett	1985-1994	257	28	32	21	338
20=	Jimmy Smith	1922-1931	297	39	0	0	336
	Jamie Langfield	2005-2015	278	26	16	16	336
22	Stuart Kennedy	1976-1983	223	29	55	26	333
23	Brian Grant	1984-1997	265	27	25	15	332
24	Jonny Hayes	2012-2017 2020-date	264	18	21	26	329
25	John McMaster	1974-1987	204	29	54	28	315
26	Neil Simpson	1978-1990	205	34	34	37	310
27	Billy Little	1957-1969	237	23	45	1	306
28	John Hume[54]	1907-1917 1919-1920	282	23	0	0	305
29=	Ally Shewan	1961-1969	220	26	46	8	300
	Joe Harper	1969-1973 1976-1981	207	24	53	16	300
31	Arthur Graham	1969-1977	220	22	44	11	297
32	Shay Logan	2014-2021	224	21	17	32	294
33	Fred Martin	1949-1960	208	33	52	0	293
34	Gordon Strachan	1977-1984	183	29	46	34	292
35	Theo Snelders	1988-1996	228	20	29	14	291
36	George Hamilton	1938-1939 1945-1955	204[b]	32	48	0	284
37=	Jock Hutton	1919-1927	239	41	0	0	280
	Doug Rougvie	1975-1984	181	26	45	28	280
39	Jimmy Hogg	1955-1965	214	22	43	0	279
40=	Harry Yorston	1947-1957	202	29	47	0	278
	Chris Clark	1999-2008 2011-2013	233	22	14	9	278
42	Richard Foster	2003-2012	235	19	11	9	274
43=	Bob McDermid	1925-1933	246	27	0	0	273
	Tony Harris	1946-1954	188	31	54	0	273
45	Joe Lewis	2016-2023	208	22	14	27	271
46=	Archie Glen	1948-1960	203	24	43	0	270
	Jim Hermiston	1966-1975	195	15	45	15	270
48	Joe Miller	1984-1988 1993-1998	206	20	24	14	264
49	Robert Connor	1986-1994	206	17	22	17	262
50	Steve Smith	1930-1937	234	24	0	0	258

Top 10 non-UK appearances

Competitive, professional matches only, up to the end of the 2022/23 season.^[52]

# (non UK)	# (Exc ROI)	Name	Years	League	Scottish Cup	League Cup	Europe	Total
1	x	Jonny Hayes	2012-2017 2020-date	264	18	21	26	329
2	1	Theo Snelders	1988-1996	228	20	29	14	291
3	x	Eddie Falloon	1927-1938	223	26	0	0	249
4	2	Jens Petersen	1964-1970	141	22	31	7	201
5	x	Adam Rooney	2013-2018	151	15	11	20	197
6	3	Henning Boel	1968-1974	105	17	22	6	150
7	4	Sone Aluko	2007-2011	102	14	4	7	127
8	x	Charles O'Hagan	1906-1910	99	13	0	0	112
9	x	Willo Flood	2013-2016	80	4	7	13	104
10	5	Hans Gillhaus	1989-1992	84	6	5	5	100
11=	6=	Stan Williams	1937-1939 1945-1949	72	10	17	0	99[a]
		Bill Strauss	1936-1939 1945-1946	85	14	0	0	99[b]
13	8	Mixu Paatelainen	1992-1994	75	9	6	3	93
14	x	Anthony O'Connor	2016-2018	70	9	6	5	90
15	9	Ilian Kiriakov	1996-2000	72	4	6	6	88
16	10	Cato Guntveit	1992-1994	69	10	4	1	84

Goalscorers

• Most goals scored: Joe Harper, 199^[55]
• Most goals scored in League: Joe Harper, 125^[52]
• Most goals scored in Scottish Cup: Benny Yorston, 23^[52]
• Most goals scored in Scottish League Cup:Joe Harper, 51^[52]
• Most goals scored in Europe: Mark McGhee, 14^[52]
• Most goals scored in a season: Benny Yorston, 46, 1929–30^[56]
• Most league goals in a season: Benny Yorston, 38, 1929–30^[55]

Top 50 goalscorers

Competitive, professional matches only, up to the end of the 2022/23 season. Matches played appear in brackets.^[52]

As of the end of 2022/23, there are no current Aberdeen players in this list. Jonny Hayes has the most goals of current Aberdeen players with 37.

#	Name	Years	League	Scottish Cup	League Cup	Europe	Total
1	Joe Harper	1969-1972 1976-1980	125 (207)	15 (24)	51 (53)	8 (16)	199 (300)
2	Matt Armstrong	1931-1939 1945-1946	137 (195)[a]	19 (24)	0 (0)	0 (0)	156 (219)
3	George Hamilton	1938-1939 1945-1955	104 (204)[b]	18 (32)	33 (48)	0 (0)	155 (284)
4	Harry Yorston	1947-1957	98 (202)	21 (29)	22 (47)	0 (0)	141 (278)
5	Drew Jarvie	1972-1982	86 (275)	6 (28)	29 (66)	10 (17)	131 (386)
6	Benny Yorston	1927-1931	101 (143)	23 (13)	0 (0)	0 (0)	124 (156)
7	Willie Mills	1932-1937	102 (182)	12 (28)	0 (0)	0 (0)	114 (210)
8	Jack Hather	1948-1960	79 (264)	10 (34)	16 (53)	0 (0)	105 (351)
9	Mark McGhee	1979-1984	61 (164)	7 (20)	18 (34)	14 (31)	100 (249)
10=	Billy Little	1957-1969	78 (237)	8 (23)	12 (45)	0 (1)	98 (306)
	Davie Robb	1966-1977	77 (251)	10 (27)	9 (51)	2 (16)	98 (345)
12	Eoin Jess	1988-1996 1997-2001	79 (312)	4 (23)	5 (34)	6 (11)	94 (380)
13=	Ernie Winchester	1961-1967	71 (123)	9 (15)	12 (30)	0 (0)	92 (168)
	Graham Leggat	1953-1958	64 (109)	7 (16)	21 (26)	0 (0)	92 (151)
	Paddy Buckley	1951-1957	58 (107)	16 (20)	18 (26)	0 (0)	92 (153)
16=	Gordon Strachan	1977-1984	54 (183)	7 (29)	20 (46)	8 (34)	89 (292)
	John Hewitt	1979-1989	54 (241)	8 (33)	15 (46)	12 (43)	89 (363)
18	Adam Rooney	2013-2018	66 (151)	6 (15)	7 (11)	9 (20)	88 (197)
19	Niall McGinn	2012-2017 2018-2022	71 (279)	8 (32)	2 (20)	6 (27)	87 (358)
20	Norrie Davidson	1955-1961	55 (109)	13 (14)	16 (23)	0 (0)	84 (146)
21	Andy Love	1925-1934	79 (216)	4 (22)	0 (0)	0 (0)	83 (238)
22	Duncan Shearer	1992-1998	55 (152)	8 (18)	14 (15)	2 (9)	79 (194)
23=	Eric Black	1980-1986	46 (115)	5 (25)	12 (18)	7 (22)	70 (180)
	Scott Booth	1989-1997 2003-2004	51 (184)	9 (20)	10 (17)	0 (8)	70 (229)
25	Darren Mackie	1998-2012	57 (314)	6 (22)	3 (19)	2 (10)	68 (365)
26	Billy Dodds	1994-1999	47 (139)	1 (9)	15 (16)	4 (8)	67 (172)
27	Willie Lennie	1905-1913	61 (228)	5 (24)	0 (0)	0 (0)	66 (252)
28	Jimmy Smith	1922-1931	54 (297)	10 (39)	0 (0)	0 (0)	64 (336)
29=	Bobby Wishart	1953-1961	45 (177)	7 (22)	10 (36)	0 (0)	62 (235)
	Jim Forrest	1968-1973	44 (128)	8 (20)	8 (27)	2 (11)	62 (186)
31	John Miller	1921-1925 1926-1927	54 (109)	7 (15)	0 (0)	0 (0)	61 (124)
32	Billy Stark	1983-1987	41 (112)	7 (12)	11(14)	1 (11)	60 (149)
33	Davie Main	1911-1917	54 (155)	4 (8)	0 (0)	0 (0)	58 (163)
34=	Alec Cheyne	1926-1930	49 (126)	7 (11)	0 (0)	0 (0)	56 (137)
	Bill Strauss	1936-1946	45 (85)	11 (14)	0 (0)	0 (0)	56 (99)
36=	Bob McDermid	1925-1933	44 (246)	5 (27)	0 (0)	0 (0)	49 (273)
	Bobby Cummings	1960-1964	33 (63)	11 (7)	5(17)	0 (0)	49 (87)
38=	Paddy Moore	1932-1935	45 (66)	2 (8)	0 (0)	0 (0)	47 (74)
	Sam Cosgrove	2018-2021	31 (79)	7 (11)	3 (5)	6 (8)	47 (103)
	Jim Bett	1985-1994	33 (257)	2 (28)	10(32)	2 (21)	47 (338)
	Joe Miller	1984-1988 1993-1998	32 (206)	3 (20)	10(24)	2 (14)	47 (264)
	Steve Archibald	1978-1980	30 (76)	11 (10)	6 (18)	0 (6)	47 (110)
43	Arthur Graham	1970-1977	34 (220)	1 (22)	9 (44)	2 (11)	46 (297)
44=	Robbie Winters	1998-2002	41 (132)	2 (11)	1 (7)	1 (2)	45 (152)
	Bobby Bruce	1924-1928	36 (94)	9 (16)	0 (0)	0 (0)	45 (110)
46=	Frank McDougall	1984-1986	36 (54)	3 (6)	4 (6)	1 (3)	44 (69)
	Scott Vernon	2010-2014	30 (128)	5 (17)	9 (13)	0 (0)	44 (158)
48	George Mulhall	1955-1963	30 (110)	2 (9)	10 (31)	0 (0)	42 (150)
49	Andrew Considine	2004-2022	29 (444)	6 (49)	4 (34)	2 (44)	41 (571)
50=	Dave Warnock	1931-1939	39 (133)	1 (17)	0 (0)	0 (0)	40 (150)
	Brian Irvine	1985-1997	30 (309)	4 (29)	4 (26)	2 (21)	40 (385)

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Top 10 non-UK goalscorers

Competitive, professional matches only, up to the end of the 2022/23 season. Matches played appear in brackets.^[52]

# (non UK)	# (exc ROI)	Name	Years	League	Scottish Cup	League Cup	Europe	Total
1	x	Adam Rooney	2013-2018	66 (151)	6 (15)	7 (11)	9 (20)	88 (197)
2	1	Bill Strauss	1936-1939 1945-1946	45 (85)	11 (14)	0 (0)	0 (0)	56 (99)
3	x	Paddy Moore	1932-1935	45 (66)	2 (8)	0 (0)	0 (0)	47 (74)
4	x	Jonny Hayes	2012-2017 2020-date	28 (264)	1 (18)	4 (21)	4 (26)	37 (329)
5	2	Stan Williams	1937-1939 1945-1949	20 (72)	6 (10)	8 (17)	0 (0)	34 (99)
6	3	Hans Gillhaus	1989-1992	27 (84)	3 (6)	0 (5)	2 (5)	32 (100)
7	4	Arild Stavrum	1999-2001	26 (53)	2 (10)	1 (3)	0 (1)	29 (67)
8	5	Mixu Paatelainen	1991-1994	23 (75)	1 (9)	3 (6)	1 (3)	28 (93)
9	x	Charles O'Hagan	1906-1910	22 (99)	2 (13)	0 (0)	0 (0)	24 (112)
10=	6=	Christian Ramirez	2021-2023	10 (45)	2 (2)	3 (7)	3 (6)	18 (60)
		Bojan Miovski	2022-date	16 (37)	0 (1)	2 (4)	0 (0)	18 (42)
		Luis Lopes	2022-date	16 (37)	0 (1)	2 (5)	0 (0)	18 (43)
13	9	Willem van der Ark	1988-1992	13 (64)	3 (4)	1 (5)	0 (4)	17 (77)
14=	10=	Hicham Zerouali	1999-2002	11 (37)	2 (5)	0 (4)	0 (2)	13 (48)
		Sone Aluko	2007-2011	10 (102)	2 (14)	0 (4)	1 (7)	13 (127)

International caps

• First capped: Charlie O'Hagan for Ireland in 1907.^[57]
• First capped for Scotland: Willie Lennie in 1908^[57]
• Most caps as an Aberdeen player: Alex McLeish - 77 caps for Scotland.^[57]
• First Aberdeen player to play at a World Cup: Fred Martin (for Scotland against Austria, 16 June 1954)^[58]

Transfers

• Highest Transfer fee paid: £1,000,000: Paul Bernard from Oldham Athletic September 1995^[55]
• Highest Transfer fee received: £4,200,000: Calvin Ramsay to Liverpool June 2022^[59][60]

Club records

Matches

Firsts

• First match (of the reformed club): vs. Stenhousemuir, Drew 1–1, Northern League, Pittodrie, (H), 15 August 1903^[61]
• First League Match: vs. Falkirk, Lost 2–1, Scottish Division Two, Pittodrie, (H), 20 August 1904^[61]
• First Scottish Cup Match: vs. Alloa Athletic, Lost 2–1, Scottish Cup, Recreation Park, (A), 23 January 1905
• First League Cup Match: vs. Falkirk, Won 4–3, Scottish League Cup, Pittodrie, (H), 21 September 1946
• First European Match: vs. KR Reykjavík, Won 10–0, European Cup Winners' Cup, Pittodrie, (H), 6 September 1967

Wins

• Record win (all competitions):
  • 13–0 against Peterhead in Scottish Cup 3rd Round at Pittodrie on 10 February 1923 ^[55]
• Record League win:
  • 10–0 against Raith Rovers in Scottish Division One at Pittodrie on 13 October 1962 ^[62]
• Record Scottish Cup win:
  • 13–0 against Peterhead in Scottish Cup 3rd Round at Pittodrie on 10 February 1923 ^[55]
• Record League Cup win:
  • 9–0 against Queen of the South in Scottish League Cup Group Stages at Pittodrie on 13 September 1947
  • 9–0 against Raith Rovers in Scottish League Cup 2nd Round 1st Leg at Pittodrie on 24 August 1983
• Record European win:
  • 10–0 against KR Reykjavík in European Cup Winners' Cup 1st Round 1st Leg at Pittodrie on 6 September 1967

Defeats

• Record defeat (all competitions):
  • 0–9 against Celtic in Scottish Premier League at Celtic Park on 6 November 2010^[62]
• Record League defeat:
  • 0–9 against Celtic in Scottish Premier League at Celtic Park on 6 November 2010^[62]
• Record Scottish Cup defeat:
  • 1–6 against Rangers in Scottish Cup Semi Final at Celtic Park on 22 March 1969
• Record League Cup defeat:
  • 0–6 against Dundee in Scottish League Cup Group Stages at Dens Park on 3 September 1960
• Record European defeat:
  • 0–4 against Liverpool in European Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg at Anfield on 5 November 1980
  • 1–5 against Bayern Munich in UEFA Cup Round of 32 2nd Leg at Allianz Arena on 21 February 2008
  • 1–5 against Sigma Olomouc in Europa League 3rd Qual. Round at Pittodrie on 30 July 2009

Attendances

• Record attendance: 147,365 against Celtic, lost 2-1, 1937 Scottish Cup Final, Hampden Park, (N), 24 April 1937 (record for a club football match in Europe)^[63]
• Highest home attendance: 45,061 vs Hearts, Scottish Cup Quarter-final, 13 March 1954^[55]
• Highest average home attendance: 24,200, 1948–49 (15 matches)