The 2016–17 season is the 136th season of competitive

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Heart of Midlothian F.C. Heart of Midlothian Football Club, commonly known as Hearts, is a professional football club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Professional Football League. Hearts, the oldest and most successful football club in the Sco ...

with the team participating in the Scottish Premiership. The club begins its second consecutive season in the top tier of Scottish football, having been promoted from the Scottish Championship at the end of the 2014–15 season. Hearts played just one season in the Scottish Championship after relegation from the Scottish Premiership at the end of the 2013–14 season. Hearts also competed in the Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup, and the UEFA Europa League.

Summary

Management

Hearts started the Season with

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at the helm having been promoted to Head Coach for the 2014–15 season. On 2 December 2016,

joined English Football League One side MK Dons along with assistant manager Stevie Crawford. With 2 years remaining on his contract compensation was paid to Hearts. For that following weekend's fixture against Ross County, Jon Daly and Andy Kirk took charge, overseeing a 2–2 draw. On 5 December, Ian Cathro was named as Hearts' new manager. Although taking the position with no prior playing or management experience, Cathro was a coach at Rio Ave, Valencia and

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. He was joined by Northern Ireland assistant manager

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Results & fixtures

Premiership

Scottish Cup

League Cup

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying rounds

First team player statistics

Captains

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Squad information

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Disciplinary record

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Sam Nicholson Sam Alastair Nicholson (born 20 January 1995) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a left winger or left midfielder for Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer. Career Heart of Midlothian Nicholson attended Penicuik High School in Midlothian an ...

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Tasos Avlonitis Anastasios 'Tasos' Avlonitis ( el, Αναστάσιος 'Τάσος' Αυλωνίτης; born 1 January 1990) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Super League 2 club Panionios. Club career Early career Avlonitis ...

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Krystian Nowak Krystian Nowak (born 1 April 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Kazakh club Zhenis. Career Nowak signed a two-year contract with Scottish Premiership club Heart of Midlothian in August 2016. Nowak made his ...

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Robbie Muirhead Robbie Muirhead (born 8 March 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer, who plays as a forward for Greenock Morton. Muirhead began his career with Kilmarnock before joining Dundee United in February 2015. After a loan spell with Partick This ...

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Goal Scorers

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Rory Currie Rory Currie (born 20 February 1998) is a Scottish footballer who used to play for Lowland Football League club Tranent Juniors as a striker now a free agent. He has previously played for Heart of Midlothian, East Fife, Forfar Athletic, Linf ...

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Clean sheets

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Viktor Noring Viktor Noring (born 3 February 1991) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Danish Superliga club AGF. Club career Husie IF Born in Malmö, Noring began his career with Husie IF, a local club from Malmö having their first t ...

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Team statistics

League table

Scottish Premiership results by round

Management statistics

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Club

Club staff

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Boardroom

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Transfers

In

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, Derby County , Free , - , 13 June 2016 , FW , ,

, Dundee United , Free , - , 13 June 2016 , DF , ,

, Sint-Truidense , Free , - , 16 June 2016 , GK , , Paul Gallacher ,

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, Free , - , 8 July 2016 , GK , ,

, Lyngby BK , Undisclosed , - , 22 July 2016 , FW , ,

, Litex Lovech , Undisclosed , - , 8 August 2016 , DF , ,

, Podbeskidzie , Free , - , 9 January 2017 , DF , , Aaron Hughes , Kerala Blasters , Free , - , 9 January 2017 , DF , ,

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, Hamilton , Free , - , 17 January 2017 , MF , ,

, Lillestrøm SK , Free , - , 18 January 2017 , DF , ,

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, Free Agent , Free , - , 30 January 2017 , DF , , Alexandros Tziolis , PAOK FC , Free , - , 30 January 2017 , DF , ,

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, Anorthosis , £170,000

Out

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, MK Dons , Undisclosed

Loans in

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, Charlton Athletic , - , 28 January 2017 , 31 May 2017 , MF , , Moha ,

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Loans out

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, Dunfermline Athletic , - , 5 July 2016 , 10 May 2017 , DF , ,

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, Middlesbrough , - , 11 July 2016 , 29 May 2017 , MF , , Billy King ,

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, - , 27 July 2016 , 15 January 2017 , FW , , Nikolay Todorov , Cowdenbeath , - , 31 August 2016 , 3 January 2017 , FW , , Juanma ,

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, - , 24 September 2016 , 31 October 2016 , DF , , Liam Smith , Raith Rovers , - , 28 October 2016 , 15 January 2017 , MF , , Angus Beith , Stirling Albion , - , 18 November 2016 , 24 December 2016 , FW , , Robbie Buchanan , Brechin City , - , 23 January 2017 , 7 May 2017 , FW , , Nikolay Todorov ,

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, - , 31 January 2017 , 21 May 2017 , FW , , Robbie Buchanan , Cowdenbeath , - , 31 January 2017 , 31 May 2017 , FW , ,

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, - , 30 March 2017 , 15 May 2017 , FW , , Dylan Bikey , Stirling Albion , -

Notes

References

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