Jeanfield Swifts F.C.
Coordinates: 56°24′47″N 3°26′41″W / 56.412952°N 3.444729°W
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Full name | Jeanfield Swifts Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Swifts | ||
Founded | 1928 | ||
Ground |
Riverside Stadium Bute Drive Perth | ||
Capacity | 464 | ||
Chairman | Iain Armit | ||
Manager | Ross Gunnion | ||
League | East of Scotland League Conference C | ||
2017–18 | SJFA East Super League, 14th of 16 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Jeanfield Swifts Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Perth. The team plays in the East of Scotland Football League (Conference C), having moved from the junior leagues in 2018.[1] Their home ground is Riverside Stadium, located on Bute Drive in the North Muirton area of the city, to which they moved in 2006 from Simpson Park, where they had been plagued by fires and vandalism.[2][3]
Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, they played in Tayside Division One in the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region, and they won the championship in the division's final season. The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and Swifts found themselves in the twelve-team East Region Central Division. They finished in seventh place in their first season in the division. After a further five seasons in the division, they were promoted to the East Region Premier League as champions in 2011–12. In 2015–16, they were promoted as champions to the Superleague for the first time.[4]
They are currently Under the charge of player/manager Ross Gunnion, who took over in the summer of 2015. He is assisted by John Anderson, Eric Fleming, Michael Dott and goalkeeping coach Scott Cummings.
League history since 1990
Season | Division | Position |
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1990–91 | Tayside Division One | 3rd |
1991–92 | Tayside Division One | 6th |
1992–93 | Tayside Division One | 5th |
1993–94 | Tayside Division One | 10th |
1994–95 | Tayside Division One | 13th |
1995–96 | Tayside Division Two | 1st |
1996–97 | Tayside Division One | 10th |
1997–98 | Tayside Division One | 12th |
1998–99 | Tayside Division One | 3rd |
1999–00 | Tayside Division One | 1st |
2000–01 | Tayside Premier League | 12th |
2001–02 | Tayside Division One | 3rd |
2002–03 | Tayside Division One | 8th |
2003–04 | Tayside Division One | 5th |
2004–05 | Tayside Division One | 6th |
2005–06 | Tayside Division One | 1st |
2006–07 | East Region, Central Division | 7th |
2007–08 | East Region, Central Division | 5th |
2008–09 | East Region, Central Division | 4th |
2009–10 | East Region, Central Division | 4th |
2010–11 | East Region, Central Division | 4th |
2011–12 | East Region, Central Division | 1st |
2012–13 | East Region, Premier League | 8th |
2013–14 | East Region, Premier League | 4th |
2014–15 | East Region, Premier League | 7th |
2015–16 | East Region, Premier League | 1st |
Honours
- Tayside Premier Division winners: 1972–73
- Tayside Division One winners: 1976–77, 1984–85, 1995–96, 1999–00
- Tayside District Division One winners: 2005–06
- East Region Central Division winners: 2011–12
- East Region Premier League winners: 2015–16
- Midland Junior League: 1943–44, 1945–46, 1946–47
- Perthshire Junior League winners: 1941–42, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69
- Currie (Findlay & Co) Cup: 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1966–67, 1987–88
- Intersport Cup: 1987–88, 1995–96
- Division One (Downfield SC) Cup: 2001–02
- Perth Advertiser (PA) Cup: 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1991–92
- Division One (Red House Hotel) Cup: 2004–05
- Tayside Drybrough Cup: 1976–77
- Perthshire Junior Consolation Cup: 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1949–50, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69
- Laing Cup: 1943–44
- Craig Stephen Cup: 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1981–82
- Perthshire Junior Charity Cup: 1940–41, 1941–42
- Perthshire Junior Cup: 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1954–55, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1972–73
- Perthshire Rosebowl: 1948–49, 1949–50, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1966–67, 1967–68
- North and Tayside Inter-Regional Cup (GA Cup): 2011–2012, 2012–13
- ACA Sports League Cup: 2012–13
References
- ↑ McLauchlin, Brian (7 June 2018). "East of Scotland League vote signals exodus of 25 junior clubs". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ↑ CASC Registered clubs – HMRC.gov.uk
- ↑ Pitch plan set for swift go-ahead Archived 12 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine. – The Courier
- ↑ "Perth's Jeanfield Swifts have been crowned champions of the East Premier League". Perthshire Advertiser. Daily Record. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.