St Johnstone W.F.C.

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Jeanfield Swifts - St Johnstone WFC
Full nameJeanfield Swifts W - St Johnstone W Football Club
Founded
  • 2009
    (as Jeanfield Swifts G.W.FC) [1]
  • 2018 (As St Johnstone WFC)
  • 2025 (St Johnstone WFC as in own club)
GroundRiverside Stadium (Jeanfield Swifts F.C.), Bute Drive, Perth
Capacity1,000
Managervacant
Coachvacant
Website https://jeanfieldswifts.co.uk

St Johnstone WFC was part of Jeanfield Swifts Ladies Football Club is a Scottish women's football club based in Perth.

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History

Jeanfield Swifts 2009 - 2018

The club was developed as part of Jeanfield Swifts Community Football Club, a community-orientated umbrella organisation that also included the men's senior club, Jeanfield Swifts F.C., as well as amateur and youth teams. [2] [3] Jeanfield were promoted to SWPL2, the second tier of the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) for the 2016 season. [1] During a league match against Glasgow Girls in August of that year, the club's director of coaching Donna Shaw played alongside her 14-year-old daughter Rachel Wolecki. [4]

St Johnstone WFC 2018 - 2025

Following promotion to the SWPL2, 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. [1] 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 SWPL2 match under the St Johnstone name, losing 3–1 at home to newly promoted Central Girls. [7]

In late 2021, St Johnstone FC appointed their first General Manager of Women’s Football, with a key remit of further developing the reach of St Johnstone WFC and returning to play at there home ground Riverside Stadium, whilst continuing to develop the existing close ties with Jeanfield Swifts well regarded Girls Youth Pathway.

Jeanfield Swifts 2025 - Present

At the end of the 2024 / 2025 season it was agreed that St Johnstone WFC and Jeanfield Swifts would part ways and St Johnstone retaining the position in SWPL 2 and Jeanfield Swifts would enter the league at tier 5 SWFL North.

Current Players

Current squad

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Jeanfield Swifts are aiming for the top of Scottish Women’s football, Daily Record, 26 February 2016
  2. ↑ "Information - Community Club". Jeanfield Swifts F.C. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Jeanfield Swifts Development". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  4. ↑ Gallagher, Matthew (25 August 2016). "Jeanfield Swifts Ladies' make history by fielding mother and her daughter". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 8 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. ↑ "Fixtures & Results | Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League". Archived from the original on 31 August 2017.
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