Club records
Scores
- Biggest win: 14–0 v Nithsdale Wanderers, Scottish Cup 1st Round, 17 January 1931
- Biggest league win: 12–1 v East Stirlingshire, Scottish Football League Division Two, 13 April 1936
- Worst defeat: 1–12 v Motherwell, Scottish Football League Division Two, 23 January 1954
Goals
- Most league goals: 108 during 1935–36 in Division Two (3.2 per match)
- Fewest league goals: 21 during 1911–12 in Division Two (0.95 per match)
- Fastest goals: Finn Dossing, after 14 seconds into the Division One match against Hamilton Academical at Tannadice on 16 October 1965 and Johnny Russell, also after 14 seconds in a Scottish Cup tie against Rangers at Tannadice on 2 February 2013.
- Most goals in one match: Albert Juliussen, with six of United's seven in a North Eastern League Cup match against St Bernard's on 15 November 1941
- Several players have scored five:
- Collie Martin in a Scottish Football League Division Two match in December 1914
- Tim Williamson in a Scottish Cup match in January 1931
- Willie Ouchterlonie in Division Two matches in November and December 1933
- Willie Black in the same competition in March 1939
- Paul Sturrock scored all five in a 5–0 Premier Division win against Morton in November 1984.
Wins
- Most consecutive wins: 11 during the last 6 matches of 1982–83 and the first five of the 1983–84
- Most league wins in a season: 24 from 36 games (1928–29 and 1982–83)
Attendances
- Highest home attendance: 28,000 v CF Barcelona, European Fairs Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg, 16 November 1966
- Largest crowd involving Dundee United: 100,000+ against Selangor for the formal opening of the Shah Alam Stadium, Selangor, Malaysia, in July 1994
Transfers
Record transfers as of 1 August 2008 (figures based on press reports). Where some records have been equalled, only the first instance is shown.
Bought
The current record signing is former Scotland international Steven Pressley, who was signed from Coventry City in July 1995 for £750,000.
| Year | Player | From | Fee | 2006[citation needed] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 |  Dennis Gillespie |
Alloa |
£3,000 | £48,390 |
| 1968 | Kenny Cameron |
Kilmarnock |
£10,000 | £125,200 |
| 1974 | Paul Hegarty |
Hamilton Academical |
£27,500 | £229,075 |
| 1975 | Tom McAdam |
Dumbarton |
£40,000 | £287,200 |
| 1977 | John Bourke |
Dumbarton |
£60,000 | £297,600 |
| 1979 | Willie Pettigrew |
Motherwell |
£100,000 | £395,000 |
| 1979 | Eamonn Bannon |
 Chelsea |
£165,000 | £651,750 |
| 1988 |  Miodrag Krivokapić |
Red Star |
£200,000 | £386,000 |
| 1989 |  Michael O'Neill |
Newcastle United |
£350,000 | £644,000 |
| 1993 |  Gordan Petric |
 Partizan |
£600,000 | £852,000 |
| 1995 | Steven Pressley |
Coventry City |
£750,000 | £1,027,500 |
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20081208045249/http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?pg=302
Sold
The current record sale is former Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, who was sold to Rangers in July 1993 for £4,000,000.
| Year | Player | To | Fee | 2013[citation needed] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Jimmy Howieson |
St Mirren |
£1,000 | £51,456 |
| 1927 | Jimmy Simpson |
Rangers |
£1,250 | £66,437 |
| 1929 | Duncan Hutchison |
Newcastle United |
£4,050 | £218,135 |
| 1957 | Johnny Coyle |
Clyde |
£8,000 | £163,430 |
| 1961 | Ron Yeats |
Liverpool |
£30,000 | £566,352 |
| 1970 | Ian Mitchell |
Newcastle United |
£50,000 | £655,420 |
| 1975 | Andy Gray |
Aston Villa |
£100,000 | £711,120 |
| 1979 | Ray Stewart |
West Ham United |
£400,000 | £1,716,840 |
| 1986 | Richard Gough |
Tottenham Hotspur |
£750,000 | £1,863,075 |
| 1990 | Kevin Gallacher |
Coventry City |
£950,000 | £1,829,035 |
| 1993 | Duncan Ferguson |
Rangers |
£4,000,000 | £6,902,000 |
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20081208045249/http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?pg=302