2023–24 Dundee F.C. season

Despite having led Dundee to the Scottish Championship title and winning the SPFL Championship Manager of the Year award, manager Gary Bowyer and his assistant Billy Barr were released by the club in May 2023 following a fallout with managing director John Nelms and technical director Gordon Strachan.[2][3] On 29 May, Dundee announced that Tony Docherty would be the new manager of the club.[4] Dundee's pre-season schedule would include a week-long camp in Ireland and playing Bray Wanderers and Fleetwood Town while there, as well as two visits to local Angus teams in Brechin City and Arbroath, followed by an away game against Cove Rangers.[5][6][7]

After winning all of their pre-season games, Dundee began their competitive campaign in the Scottish League Cup group stage with a gritty away win over Bonnyrigg Rose, with Zak Rudden scoring the only goal.[8] They would receive a sharp wake-up call a few days later however, losing to Scottish Championship side Airdrieonians via a late penalty after Lyall Cameron missed a penalty for Dundee earlier in the game.[9] The Dees got back to winning ways on the following Wednesday, defeating Dumbarton comfortably at home.[10] Going into their final game, Dundee knew they needed to defeat Inverness Caledonian Thistle by 2 or more goals in order to qualify over Raith Rovers for the second round. Despite managing a 1–0 over their historical bogey team, Dundee would exit the League Cup in the group stage for the first time since the 2016–17 season via goals scored.[11]

On their flag-raising day returning to the top tier, Dundee would come back from behind through a Lyall Cameron goal to draw with Motherwell at a rain-drenched Dens Park.[12] A dreadful first half in Paisley however was too much to recover from the next week, and saw Dundee lose to St Mirren.[13] After a two-week hiatus, Dundee grabbed their first win of the league season at home to Hearts through a Luke McCowan chip over Zander Clark from distance.[14]

Despite a strong performance for most of the game, a late collapse away to St Johnstone left Dundee with a very disappointing point.[15] After the international break, a brave effort from the Dee at Celtic Park was undone by an early second half blitz from Celtic and led to a 3–0 defeat.[16] In a drama-filled game which Dundee were down a man for most of the game, Zak Rudden's late goal clinched a point at home to Kilmarnock.[17] The following week saw a very impressive defensive performance at Easter Road as they kept free-scoring Hibernian to a goalless draw.[18]

After three and a half weeks without a game due to international breaks and postponements caused by a waterlogged pitch and Storm Babet, Dundee played Ross County to a scoreless draw at home in a game that was plagued by rustiness from both sides.[19]

Dundee will play against Aberdeen, Celtic, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Motherwell, Rangers, Ross County, St Johnstone and St Mirren in the 2023–24 Premiership campaign. They will play each team three times, twice at home and once away against half of the teams, and once at home and twice away against the other half. Following this, they will be split into either a top or bottom group of six depending on their position after 33 games, where they will play each team in their group once.

Dundee will compete in the Scottish Cup, entering in the fourth round.

Dundee will be a top seed in the group stage draw that will take place on 8 June 2023 at 13:00 on Viaplay and the SPFL's YouTube channel.[23] Dundee were drawn into Group E along with Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Airdrieonians, Dumbarton and Bonnyrigg Rose.[24][25]