St Johnstone W.F.C.

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{{Infobox football club

| clubname = St Johnstone

| image =

| image_size = 175px

| fullname = St Johnstone Women's Football Club

| nickname =

| founded = 2012
(as Jeanfield Swifts)[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/jeanfield-swifts-aiming-top-scottish-7443795 Jeanfield Swifts are aiming for the top of Scottish Women’s football], Daily Record, 26 February 2016

| ground = Riverside Stadium (Jeanfield Swifts F.C.), Bute Drive, Perth

| capacity = 1,000

| manager =

| coach =

| league = SWPL 2

| season = 2023–24

| position = 5th

| website = https://women.perthsaints.co.uk

}}

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.{{cite news|last1=Gallagher|first1=Matthew|title=Jeanfield Swifts Ladies' make history by fielding mother and her daughter|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/jeanfield-swifts-ladies-make-history-8705148|accessdate=8 January 2018|work=Daily Record|date=25 August 2016|location=Glasgow}}

History

=Jeanfield Swifts=

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.{{cite news|title=Information - Community Club|url=http://www.jeanfieldswifts.co.uk/a/community-club-43591.html|accessdate=8 January 2018|publisher=Jeanfield Swifts F.C.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/football-development/clubs/developing-my-club/community-asset-transfer-guide/jeanfield-swifts-case-study/|title=Jeanfield Swifts Development |website=www.scottishfa.co.uk|access-date=13 January 2018}} Jeanfield were promoted to SWPL2, the second tier of the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) for the 2016 season. 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.

=St Johnstone=

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. 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.{{cite news|title=Introducing St Johnstone WFC|url=http://www.perthstjohnstonefc.co.uk/news/post/introducing-st-johnstone-wfc|date=26 November 2017|accessdate=8 January 2018|publisher=St Johnstone F.C.}}{{cite news|last1=Campbell|first1=Alan|title=Top club set to lose their Ladies|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/15777819.Top_club_set_to_lose_their_Ladies/|date=17 December 2017|accessdate=8 January 2018|work=The Herald|location=Glasgow}}

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.{{cite web| url = http://www.womenspremierleague.co.uk/fixtures-results/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170831044102/http://www.womenspremierleague.co.uk/fixtures-results| archive-date = 2017-08-31| title = Fixtures & Results {{!}} Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League}}

Players

=Current squad=

{{updated|25th March 2024}}.{{cite web |title=The Team - St Johnstone Women's FC |url=https://women.perthsaints.co.uk/swpl-squad/ |website=www.perthsaints.co.uk |accessdate=25 March 2024 |language=en}}

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{{fs player|no=1 |nat=ENG|name=Ellie Mitchell|pos=GK}}

{{fs player|no=20 |nat=SCO|name=Aoife Bidgood|pos=GK}}

{{fs player|no=28 |nat=SCO|name=Bobby Cochran|pos=GK}}

{{fs player|no=5 |nat=SCO|name=Anna Murray|pos=DF}}

{{fs player|no=8 |nat=SCO|name=Hannah Clark|pos=DF}}

{{fs player|no=11 |nat=SCO|name=Niamh Irvine|pos=DF}}

{{fs player|no=16 |nat=SCO|name=Megan Paterson|pos=DF}}

{{fs player|no=22 |nat=SCO|name=Eirinn McCafferty|pos=DF}}

{{fs player|no=24 |nat=SCO|name=Laura Steedman|pos=DF}}

{{fs player|no=26 |nat=SCO|name=Rebecca Robertson|pos=DF}}

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{{fs player|no=4 |nat=SCO|name=Ellie MacIver|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=6 |nat=SCO|name=Elvie McLean|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=7 |nat=SCO|name=Nicole Carter|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=10 |nat=SCO|name=Ellie-May Cowie|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=12 |nat=SCO|name=Alix Moodie|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=14 |nat=SCO|name=Scarlett Brady|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=25 |nat=ESP|name=Mariluiz Sanchez|pos=MF}}

{{fs player|no=2 |nat=SCO|name=Fallon Burke|pos=FW}}

{{fs player|no=15|nat=SCO|name=Steffi Simson|pos=FW}}

{{fs player|no=21|nat=SCO|name=Olivia Hurrell|pos=FW}}

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References

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