Steven Milne Player Profile
Personal
- Full Name: Steven Milne
- Born: May 5th, 1980 (Dundee)
- Height: 5' 10
Career
- Position: Striker
- Signed: October 16th, 1997
- First Manager: John McCormack
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Dundee Career Totals:
172 first team competitive appearances
44 first team competitive goals - Also Played For: Arbroath, Forfar Athletic, Plymouth Argyle, Ross County, St Johnstone
Dundee Career Summary
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| 1997-98 | 1 (1) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 (1) | - | - (1) | - | ||
| 1998-99 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 (1) | 1 | ||
| 1999-00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - (1) | 1 | ||
| 2000-01 | 5 (16) | 4 | 1 (2) | - | - | - | 6 (18) | 4 | 4 (2) | 6 | ||
| 2001-02 | 15 (15) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 19 (17) | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| 2002-03 | 11 (14) | 6 | 3 (3) | - | 1 (1) | - | 15 (18) | 6 | 5 (1) | 1 | ||
| 2003-04 | 15 (5) | 8 | - (1) | - | - (1) | - | 15 (7) | 8 | 4 (2) | 2 | ||
| 2011-12 | 30 (1) | 11 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 36 (1) | 16 | 2 (1) | 3 | ||
| 2012-13 | 11 (3) | 1 | 2 (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 (4) | 3 | - | - | ||
| 2017-18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - (1) | 1 | ||
| TOTAL | 88 (55) | 35 | 11 (7) | 4 | 7 (2) | 5 | 106 (66) | 44 | 17 (10) | 15 | ||
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Other Cups may include: Anglo-Scottish Cup, Challenge Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, Drybrough Cup, International Soccer League, League Cup, Summer Cup, Texaco Cup.
Biography
Steven Milne’s goals ultimately helped shoot Dundee back to the SPL when ‘second was actually somewhere’ in 2012. He finished as the Dark Blues’ top goalscorer for season 2011/12 with sixteen goals as Dundee finished as First Division runners-up, which ultimately allowed Dundee promotion back to the SPL thanks to Rangers’ demise.
Steven Milne was born on May 5th 1980 and nicknamed ‘Savo’ after the Yugoslav striker Savo Milosevic and he came through the Dens Park youth ranks to make his first team debut aged seventeen. He was given his debut by manager John McCormack when he started in a 2-0 win over St Mirren at Love Street on December 20th 1997 and featured again the following week coming off the bench for Brian Irvine at home to Falkirk in the year which Dundee won the First Division title.
Back in the top tier and under new management after Jocky Scott had replaced ‘Cowboy’ McCormack in February, Milne failed to make an appearance in the inaugural SPL in which Dundee finished fifth and so for the following season he was put out on loan to Forfar for the 1999/2000 season. At Station Park, Savo was a huge hit, scoring nineteen times and winning the Third Division Player of the Year as Forfar won promotion and he came back to Dens as a player full of confidence and ready to make his mark for The Dee.
It was all change at Dens however as Ivano Bonetti had taken over from Jocky Scott in the summer and as the Italian released a host of Scottish players to bring in his ‘Tayzurri’, Savo was not amongst them and was given squad number fifteen.
He made his first appearance of the season coming off the bench for Juan Sara in the opening home game against Dunfermline and made his first start away at Aberdeen on October 14th 2000 and his name would go down in Dark Blue history as the player who was replaced by Claudio Cannigia for the Argentinean’s debut just before half time.
His first goal for The Dee came a month later in a scintillating 5-0 home win over St Mirren and he could have made it six when he rasped the bar with a twenty-five yard shot in the last minute. His next goals for Dundee were a brace in another famous Bonetti victory when the Dark Blues came back from 2-0 down at Kilmarnock on December 16th to win 3-2 with Savo scoring the winner after some clever wing play from Atero.
However his fourth goal of the season trumped all of those when he scored a last minute header in a 2-0 win away to Rangers in March on an evening where a virtuoso performance form Caniggia all but sealed his summer move to Ibrox.
Milne’s pace and eye for goal had impressed Bonetti and in the Italian’s second season he began by coming off the bench in both legs of the UEFA Intertoto Cup tie with Sartid and made a total of thirty-five appearances, scoring seven times.
Jim Duffy replaced Bonetti in the closed season and Duff’s first year back was a memorable one with a fourteen match unbeaten run, a top six finish, a Scottish Cup Final appearance and a place booked in the UEFA Cup. Savo more than played his part with six goals in thirty-three appearances, including one on the day Dundee sealed their top six spot at Motherwell, started the semi-final against Inverness and in the Scottish Cup Final against Rangers on May 30th, he collected his runners-up medal after coming off the bench for Dave McKay with twelve minutes left.
Competition for a starting strikers berth was fierce in Savo’s first spell at Dens as he was competing first with the like of James Grady and Eddie Annand, then Willie Falconer, Tommy Coyne, Juan Sara, Fabian Caballero and laterally Nacho Novo and Steve Lovell and as a result many of his appearances at this time were from the bench. It should come as no surprise therefore that Milne holds the Club record for most substitute appearances for Dundee; sixty-six.
The following year however saw the highs of qualifying for Europe and playing in the Scottish Cup Final plummet to the lows of going into administration in November 2003 and Milne was one of the lucky ones who retained his job when the Administrator’s axe fell. Steven’s six years at the club meant that he was now one of the senior pros after fifteen players were sacked and he more than stepped up to the plate scoring eight goals from February onwards to ensure Dundee’s survival in the SPL and probably off the park as well.
At the end of that year, Milne’s contract ran out and he decided to try his luck down south at Plymouth but after just one year he was back north with St Johnstone where his six years in Perth saw him win the Challenge Cup in 2007/08 after a 3-2 win over Dunfermline at Dens and the First Division title the following year.
He was released from Saints in late 2010 and spent the rest of the season helping Ross County retain their First Division status and then in the summer of 2011 returned to his first club Dundee when he was brought ‘home’ by manager Barry Smith.
In his first year back, Savo finished as top scorer with sixteen goals, his best ever total in the top two tiers and while the electric pace of his youth may have gone, his clever play and sharpness in front of goal certainly hadn’t.
In December he scored his first hat-trick for The Dee in a 6-1 win at Hamilton and his second goal in the wind and the rain at New Douglas Park was voted as SFL Goal of the Month. After a long high ball out of defence from Gary Irvine, Savo controlled the ball with a fantastic touch before letting the ball bounce and then lobbing it over the head of Accies keeper David Hutton from about twenty-five yards out.
It was a memorable goal in an ultimately successful season as the aim of returning to the SPL was achieved – albeit by the back door. From being bottom of the league in November to finishing second was itself an achievement and the mantra of ‘second is nowhere’, of which we are all too familiar at Dens, this time didn’t apply when Rangers Football Club were unfortunately liquidated and their share in the SPL not transferred to the emergent Newco.
Savo made 18 appearances in the SPL, scoring 3 times and at the end of the season joined Arbroath when his contract ran out. Milne spent just a few months with Arbroath in League One before leaving them in November 2013 to start a new career with Police Scotland. His last match was a 0-3 defeat at home to Rangers on November 25th 2013 and he was appointed player-manager of Junior side Forfar Albion in July 2014.
He pulled on a Dundee shirt once again as a guest player for The Dee for former team mate Dave MacKay’s testimonial in 2017.
Debut
December 20th, 1997
St Mirren 0 - 2 Dundee
League (First Division)
Playing Statistics - First Team Competitive matches (All Seasons)
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| League | 88 (55) | 35 | 27 | 0.24 | 4 | - | 35.0 | 26.6 | 38.5 |
| Scottish Cup | 11 (7) | 4 | - | 0.22 | - | - | 44.4 | 27.8 | 27.8 |
| Intertoto Cup | (2) | - | - | - | - | - | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 |
| League Cup | 6 (2) | 4 | 1 | 0.50 | 1 | - | 37.5 | 0.0 | 62.5 |
| Challenge Cup | 1 | 1 | - | 1.00 | - | - | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Totals: | 106 (66) | 44 | 28 | 0.26 | 5 | - | 36.0 | 25.6 | 38.4 |
| Recent Starting Appearances (First Team Competitive matches) |
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| Mar 6th, 2013 | 06/03/13 | League | Premier League | vs. St Mirren (H) | 2 - 1 |
| Mar 3rd, 2013 | 03/03/13 | Scottish Cup | Quarter Final | vs. Dundee Utd (H) | 1 - 2 |
| Jan 27th, 2013 | 27/01/13 | League | Premier League | vs. Kilmarnock (H) | 0 - 0 |
| Jan 19th, 2013 | 19/01/13 | League | Premier League | vs. Hibernian (A) | 1 - 1 |
| Jan 2nd, 2013 | 02/01/13 | League | Premier League | vs. St Johnstone (A) | 0 - 1 |
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| Dec 1st, 2012 | 01/12/12 | Scottish Cup | 4th Round | vs. Livingston (A) | 2 - 0 |
| Nov 17th, 2012 | 17/11/12 | League | Premier League | vs. Hibernian (H) | 3 - 1 |
| Aug 29th, 2012 | 29/08/12 | League Cup | 2nd Round | vs. Queen's Park (A) | 1 - 2 |
| Apr 28th, 2012 | 28/04/12 | League | First Division | vs. Ayr Utd (A) | 2 - 3 |
| Apr 7th, 2012 | 07/04/12 | League | First Division | vs. Falkirk (H) | 3 - 1 |
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Timeline
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Date of Birth
Steven was born on this date in Dundee.
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First Non-Competitive Appearance (Friendly)
Dundee 2 - 4 Kilmarnock
Friendly
Dundee are in danger of finding themselves with just one experienced goal keeper available for the start of the season, writes Steve Bruce.Having decided earlier in the day not to sign on tria
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Signed For Dundee
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First Team Debut
St Mirren 0 - 2 Dundee
League (First Division)
St Mirren did all in their power to stop the league leaders, but fell to two late strikes.The game was never a classic and was marred by constant fouling.With two minutes gone, St Mirr
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First Goal
Dundee 5 - 0 St Mirren
League (Premier League)
Dundee took full revenge on a St Mirren side which had earlier beaten them in both league and CIS Cup with a barnstorming performance at Dens Park.Former World Cup star Claudio Caniggia hit a
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50th Appearance
Motherwell 4 - 2 Dundee
League (Premier League)
Dundee's recent love affair with Fir Park came to an emphatic end last night.Winners on all of their last five trips to the Lanarkshire ground, the Dark Blues were comprehensively beaten by a
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50th League Appearance
Dundee 2 - 0 Kilmarnock
League (Premier League)
Dundee kept the race to be top of the bottom half of the SPL alive, with a comfortable two-goal win over Killie in the Dens Park sunshine. Goals from Juan Sara and Steven Milne either side of
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100th Appearance
Hibernian 1 - 1 Dundee
League (Premier League)
Dundee came away from Easter Road with a point which again showed the resilience of Jim Duffy's squad. On a day which was not made for pretty football the Dark Blues dug deep to survive a late barrage
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100th League Appearance
Livingston 4 - 2 Dundee
League (First Division)
Dundee tasted defeat for the first time in the league this season at the hands of a young and impressive Livingston side. The first half performance in particular was poor with the West Lothian side t
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Last Goal
Livingston 0 - 2 Dundee
Scottish Cup (4th Round)
A cool and professional performance from Dundee saw them through a potentially tricky Scottish Cup tie at icy Livingston with the minimum of fuss today. The Dee won 2-0 thanks to early goals from Stev
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Last Appearance
Dundee 2 - 1 St Mirren
League (Premier League)
Dundee won their first league match in nearly four months, beating St Mirren 2-1 in anstonishing match at Dens Park. The scoreline might look unremarkable, but those who witnessed the first half would