Dave Mackay

Mackay made his debut for the club, in the first round of the Scottish League Cup, where he came on as substitute in the 71st minute, in a 5–0 win over Stenhousemuir and fifteen days later, Mackay made his league debut for the club, in a 2–2 draw against Motherwell.

Having been in the first team as right-back, beating off competitions from Gary Irvine, Mackay would then score his first goal for the club, in a 1–1 draw against St Mirren.

David Robert Mackay (born 2 May 1981) is a Scottish former professional football player and coach, and currently the assistant manager of Dunfermline Athletic.

He played as a defender for Dundee, Brechin City, Arbroath, Oxford United, Livingston and St Johnstone.

At the end of the 2003–04 season, Mackay was offered a new contract at Dundee on reduced terms.

Unfortunately, it announced that MacKay would be likely to leave Dundee when his contract will come to an end.

In the summer of 2004, his five-year spell at Dens ended when he was transferred south to Oxford United.

Under the management of Graham Rix, MacKay established himself in the first team at Oxford United and at one point, MacKay played a role when he set up a goal for Tommy Mooney, in a 1–0 win over Cheltenham Town on 30 October 2004.

By the end of his first season at Oxford United, MacKay had made 44 appearances for the club.

MacKay have desire to fight for the first team following the arrival of Lee Mansell.

After desire to coming back to Scotland for family reasons, Mackay returned to Scotland to sign for Livingston.

MacKay made his debut for the club, in the opening game of the season, in a 3–0 loss against Rangers and scored his first goal for the club, in a 3–2 win over Hearts on 5 March 2006.

Despite being ever-present player in his first season, the club, however, was relegated to Scottish Division One after finishing twelve place.

In his second season, MacKay started his season well when he scored five goals in first five matches against Queen of the South, Ross County, Partick Thistle, Airdrie United and Dundee.

MacKay scored his sixth goal of the season in a 3–2 win over St Johnstone on 13 January 2007, four months after he'd last scored.

However, MacKay was unable to help the club get promoted back to the Scottish Premier League and went on to make 34 appearances and scored six times.

Mackay started the 2007–08 season well, scoring three times against Dunfermline Athletic, Morton and Clyde.

In the fifth round replay of Scottish Cup, MacKay missed the penalty in the shootout, which eliminated Livingston out of the Scottish Cup.

After the match, MacKay says he was in disbelief for missing the penalty.

Later in the 2007–08 season, MacKay finished his season, with the club in the seventh position and Mackay made 34 appearances and scored six times, as he made the same appearance and goals last season.

At the start of the 2008–09 season, Mackay found his future in doubt after clubs from the Scottish Premier League made a bid to sign him, only to be rejected by Livingston.

MacKay later admit that he considered handing a transfer request.

Livingston also made changes with new owners and managers during the season, which made something very unexpected.

McKay remained a key player to the club after the move to Scottish Premier League clubs never happened.

MacKay then score his first goal for the club, in a 6–1 loss against Queen of The South on 4 October 2008, followed up by his second goal, in a 2–1 loss against Partick Thistle the following month and his last goal came in a 4–2 win over Ross County two months later.

With the club's recent surroundings, MacKay hope the problem over the wages will be resolved soon.

Later in the season, MacKay sustained a calf injury that kept him out for four weeks.

MacKay was again in doubts, which saw him out for the rest of the season.

At the end of the 2008–09 season, Mackay was subjected to a bid, alongside Murray Davidson, from Scottish clubs like Dundee and Motherwell.

MacKay was reluctant to leave Livingston and intended to stay there unless he received his money he was due in unpaid wages.

Despite no intention to leave the club over unpaid wages, MacKay says he was glad to leave Livingston.

In May 2009, Mackay transferred from Livingston to St Johnstone, who had won promotion to the Scottish Premier League.

Three years on, Manager Steve Lomas praised his predecessor for his role of signing Mackay and Davidson.

Mackay captained St Johnstone when they won the 2014 Scottish Cup Final.

After retiring as a player in 2016, Mackay was then manager of Stirling Albion for two years, before returning to Dundee as first-team coach and then assistant manager alongside manager James McPake and briefly Mark McGhee.

Mackay started his senior career at Dundee and over the course of five seasons at Dens Park he played over 100 games for the Dark Blues as well as gaining further experience on loan to Brechin City and Arbroath, saying: "I just wanted to get away and play games".

After gaining loan experience, Mackay's first-team opportunities increased at Dundee and he was in the squad for the Scottish Cup final, in a 1–0 loss to Rangers.

When Dundee were placed in administration, Mackay was among those kept on, due to his low salary at the time.

It was revealed that before administration, Mackay was offered a three-year contract.

After the Scottish Cup Final, Mackay said he expected have his first team chances increase.