Goalkeeper Gary Woods permanently joined from Oldham Athletic after his loan spell last season.

Young winger Teddy Jenks joined from Brighton and Hove Albion on a loan deal, Jack Gurr joined from manager Glass' former club Atlanta United on a free, and American International Christian Ramirez signed from Houston Dynamo for an undisclosed fee.

The club announced all pre-season fixtures were to be played behind closed doors[2] but two matches were cancelled due to COVID-19.

[9] The year ended prematurely due to the Covid variant Omicron and the club were forced to play in front of 500 fans against Dundee on Boxing Day as the Dens Park side struggled to field a team.

Promising young American College player Dante Polvara signed a contract for the club.

[14] After a poor run of results including a fifth-round defeat in the Scottish Cup to Motherwell, Stephen Glass left the club on 13 February.

[17] It was announced that Team Captain and player-coach Scott Brown had left to pursue his coaching career elsewhere.

[20] It was revealed that long-serving defender and former Club Captain Andrew Considine would leave at the end of the season after rejecting the offer of a new deal on reduced terms.

[22][23] A home defeat to Ross County consigned Aberdeen to a place in the bottom 6 of the league, failing to qualify for European competition for the first time since 2012-13.