St Johnstone W.F.C.

St Johnstone
Full name St Johnstone Women's Football Club
Founded 2016
Ground McDiarmid Park, Perth[1]
Capacity 10,696
Chairman Steve Grossi
Manager Jason McCrindle
League SWPL 2
2017 5th
Website Club website

St Johnstone Women's Football Club (formerly Jeanfield Swifts Ladies Football Club) is a Scottish women's association football club based in Perth. They are members of the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL), the highest level women's football league in Scotland, and have competed in its second tier, SWPL 2, since 2016.[2]

History

Jeanfield Swifts

The club is part of Jeanfield Swifts Community Football Club, a community-orientated umbrella organisation that also included the men's junior football club, Jeanfield Swifts F.C., as well as amateur and youth teams.[3][4] Jeanfield Swifts were promoted to SWPL2, the second tier of the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) in 2016. During a league match against Glasgow Girls in August 2016, the club's director of coaching Donna Shaw played alongside her 14-year-old daughter Rachel Wolecki.[2]

St Johnstone

Following promotion to the SWPL, the club embarked on a partnership with local senior men's club St Johnstone, allowing them to use the facilities at the latter's McDiarmid Park stadium. The two clubs announced in November 2017, under a further development of their partnership, that the Swifts first team would play under the St Johnstone name from the 2018 season onwards.[5][6]

On 11 February 2018, the team played their first SWPL match under the St Johnstone name, losing 3-1 at home to newly-promoted Central Girls.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.womenspremierleague.co.uk/teams/jeanfield-swifts/
  2. 1 2 Gallagher, Matthew (25 August 2016). "Jeanfield Swifts Ladies' make history by fielding mother and her daughter". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Information - Community Club". Jeanfield Swifts F.C. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Jeanfield Swifts Development". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Introducing St Johnstone WFC". St Johnstone F.C. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Campbell, Alan (17 December 2017). "Top club set to lose their Ladies". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  7. ↑ http://www.womenspremierleague.co.uk/fixtures-results/


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