Partick Thistle Season 2019-20

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2019-20

The 145th season of Partick Thistle F.C.

Matches

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1. Sat-13-Jul-2019 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Airdrieonians (League Cup Group F - game 1)

2. Tue-16-Jul-2019 [a] (2-0) W2-1 Queen's Park (League Cup Group F - game 2)

3. Sat-20-Jul-2019 [a] (1-1) D2-2 Hamilton Academical (League Cup Group F - game 3) L5-6 pens

4. Wed-24-Jul-2019 [h] (1-1) W3-2 Clyde (League Cup Group F - game 4)

5. Sat-03-Aug-2019 [a] (0-1) D1-1 Alloa Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 1)

6. Fri-09-Aug-2019 [h] (1-0) L1-2 Dundee United (SPFL Championship - game 2)

7. Sat-17-Aug-2019 [h] (0-0) W3-2 Ross County (League Cup 2nd Round) aet

8. Fri-23-Aug-2019 [a] (2-0) L2-3 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 3)

9. Sat-31-Aug-2019 [h] (2-1) L2-3 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 4)

10. Sat-07-Sep-2019 [a] (1-0) W2-0 Montrose (Challenge Cup 3rd Round)

11. Fri-13-Sep-2019 [a] (0-1) D1-1 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 5)

12. Sat-21-Sep-2019 [h] (0-2) L0-3 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 6)

13. Wed-25-Sep-2019 [a] (0-1) L0-5 Celtic (League Cup Quarter Final)

14. Sat-28-Sep-2019 [a] (1-1) W3-1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Championship - game 7)

15. Sat-05-Oct-2019 [h] (0-0) L0-1 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 8)

16. Sat-12-Oct-2019 [h] (1-0) W2-0 Connah's Quay Nomads (Challenge Cup 4th Round)

17. Sat-19-Oct-2019 [a] (0-1) W3-1 Dundee (SPFL Championship - game 9)

18. Sat-26-Oct-2019 [h] (0-1) L1-3 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 10)

19. Tue-29-Oct-2019 [a] (0-0) L0-1 Dundee United (SPFL Championship - game 11)

20. Sat-02-Nov-2019 [a] (0-2) L1-4 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 12)

21. Sat-09-Nov-2019 [h] (0-0) W2-1 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 13)

22. Sat-16-Nov-2019 [a] (1-0) W4-1 Stenhousemuir (Challenge Cup Quarter Final)

23. Sat-23-Nov-2019 [h] (1-0) W1-0 Penicuik Athletic (Scottish Cup 3rd Round)

24. Tue-26-Nov-2019 [h] (1-1) D1-1 Alloa Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 14)

25. Sat-30-Nov-2019 [a] (0-4) L1-5 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 15)

26. Sat-07-Dec-2019 [a] (0-1) W2-1 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 16)

27. Sat-14-Dec-2019 [h] (0-0) W3-1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Championship - game 17)

28. Sat-21-Dec-2019 [h] (0-1) L0-1 Dundee (SPFL Championship - game 18)

29. Sat-28-Dec-2019 [a] (1-1) W2-1 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 19)

30. Sat-04-Jan-2020 [a] (0-0) D1-1 Alloa Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 20)

31. Sat-11-Jan-2020 [h] (0-2) L1-4 Dundee United (SPFL Championship - game 21)

32. Sat-18-Jan-2020 [h] (0-1) L1-2 Celtic (Scottish Cup 4th Round)

33. Sat-25-Jan-2020 [a] (0-2) L1-2 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 22)

34. Fri-31-Jan-2020 [h] (1-0) D1-1 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 23)

35. Sat-08-Feb-2020 [a] (0-2) L0-2 Dundee (SPFL Championship - game 24)

36. Fri-14-Feb-2020 [h] (0-1) L1-2 Raith Rovers (Challenge Cup Semi Final)

37. Tue-03-Mar-2020 [h] (0-0) D0-0 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 25)

38. Sat-07-Mar-2020 [a] (0-1) D1-1 Dundee United (SPFL Championship - game 26)

39. Tue-10-Mar-2020 [h] (0-0) D1-1 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 27)

2019-20 summary

P39 W14 D9 L16 (1.308 ppg) Historical PT average: 1.409 ppg (@ 22-Sep-2024) The points-per-game measurements (ppg) above are calculated from our all games criteria, based on 1 point for a draw and 3 points for a win across all eras. How does this season compare? The answers are at your fingertips via our 21 (sortable) results summary tables → Thistle finish as Scotland's 22nd club out of 42 in the Leagues. At the end of 2019-20, the club's historical average finish remains 11th. + League finish averages Table limited to the official 124 League seasons. The evolving strength of Aberdeen and Dundee United as well as the emergence of a plethora of strong new clubs vying for Top 12 places has gradually eroded Thistle's position in the Scottish game, pushing the club down around 2½ places in the pecking order since the mid 60s. sortable table headers

see also:

2019-20 (reserves) →

2019 (women) →

2020 (women) →

Crime Count

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Grant Irvine	13.07.2019 Airdrieonians [h] W1-0 (League Cup Group F - game 1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
David Dickinson	16.07.2019 Queen's Park [a] W2-1 (League Cup Group F - game 2)	0	0			0	0	D3-3
John Beaton	20.07.2019 Hamilton Academical [a] D2-2 (League Cup Group F - game 3)	0		0		0	0	L1-5
Kevin Graham	24.07.2019 Clyde [h] W3-2 (League Cup Group F - game 4)	0	0			0	0	D1-1
Nick Walsh	03.08.2019 Alloa Athletic [a] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 1)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-1
Willie Collum	09.08.2019 Dundee United [h] L1-2 (SPFL Championship - game 2)	0	0	0		0	0	W1-0
Steven McLean	17.08.2019 Ross County [h] W3-2 (League Cup 2nd Round)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Bobby Madden	23.08.2019 Greenock Morton [a] L2-3 (SPFL Championship - game 3)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Andrew Dallas	31.08.2019 Ayr United [h] L2-3 (SPFL Championship - game 4)		0				0	L6-9
Craig Napier	07.09.2019 Montrose [a] W2-0 (Challenge Cup 3rd Round)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
David Munro	13.09.2019 Arbroath [a] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 5)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Euan Anderson	21.09.2019 Dunfermline Athletic [h] L0-3 (SPFL Championship - game 6)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Steven McLean	25.09.2019 Celtic [a] L0-5 (League Cup Quarter Final)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
Don Robertson	28.09.2019 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [a] W3-1 (SPFL Championship - game 7)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-3
Andrew Dallas	05.10.2019 Queen of the South [h] L0-1 (SPFL Championship - game 8)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-1
Jamie Robinson	12.10.2019 Connah's Quay Nomads [h] W2-0 (Challenge Cup 4th Round)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
David Munro	19.10.2019 Dundee [a] W3-1 (SPFL Championship - game 9)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-3
Gavin Ross	26.10.2019 Arbroath [h] L1-3 (SPFL Championship - game 10)					0	0	W7-6
Greg Aitken	29.10.2019 Dundee United [a] L0-1 (SPFL Championship - game 11)	0	0			0	0	W3-1
Willie Collum	02.11.2019 Ayr United [a] L1-4 (SPFL Championship - game 12)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Bobby Madden	09.11.2019 Greenock Morton [h] W2-1 (SPFL Championship - game 13)	0	0		0		0	L0-5
Alan Muir	16.11.2019 Stenhousemuir [a] W4-1 (Challenge Cup Quarter Final)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-2
Mike Roncone	23.11.2019 Penicuik Athletic [h] W1-0 (Scottish Cup 3rd Round)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
David Munro	26.11.2019 Alloa Athletic [h] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 14)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
Mike Roncone	30.11.2019 Dunfermline Athletic [a] L1-5 (SPFL Championship - game 15)	0		0	0		0	L0-14
Steven McLean	07.12.2019 Queen of the South [a] W2-1 (SPFL Championship - game 16)	0	0			0	0	D1-1
Steven McLean	14.12.2019 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [h] W3-1 (SPFL Championship - game 17)	0	0	0		0	0	W1-0
Bobby Madden	21.12.2019 Dundee [h] L0-1 (SPFL Championship - game 18)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Craig Napier	28.12.2019 Greenock Morton [a] W2-1 (SPFL Championship - game 19)	0			0	0	0	L0-8
David Munro	04.01.2020 Alloa Athletic [a] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 20)		0			0	0	W13-1
Willie Collum	11.01.2020 Dundee United [h] L1-4 (SPFL Championship - game 21)	0	0			0	0	D1-1
Alan Muir	18.01.2020 Celtic [h] L1-2 (Scottish Cup 4th Round)		0			0	0	W6-1
David Lowe	25.01.2020 Arbroath [a] L1-2 (SPFL Championship - game 22)	0	0	0		0	0	W1-0
Euan Anderson	31.01.2020 Ayr United [h] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 23)	0				0	0	L3-8
Colin Steven	08.02.2020 Dundee [a] L0-2 (SPFL Championship - game 24)	0	0			0	0	W3-2
Alan Newlands	14.02.2020 Raith Rovers [h] L1-2 (Challenge Cup Semi Final)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
David Lowe	03.03.2020 Queen of the South [h] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 25)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Mike Roncone	07.03.2020 Dundee United [a] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 26)		0			0	0	W7-2
Steven Kirkland	10.03.2020 Dunfermline Athletic [h] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 27)		0	0		0	0	W7-0
39	← Totals →	7	6	49	44	4	0	L79-95

Thistle's 2019-20 Summary
Average crime count per game	4.46 pts
The crime count % balance	45-55 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.308 (W14 D9 L16)
compiled to our All Games criteria

Thistle's Historical Summary
Average crime count per game ᵃ	1.447 pts
Average crime count per game ᵇ	5.766 pts
The crime count % balance	48-52 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.409 (W2716 D1423 L2656)
ᵃ from 1886-87 to 1996-97 (see crime count notes)
ᵇ from 1997-98 to date (see crime count notes)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 10-Oct-2024

	Crime Count notes
	5 pts are allocated for a penalty, in favour of whichever team is awarded the kick. Our data is comprehensive from 1891-92 (the season of introduction) to date.
	1 pt is allocated for any given player's first yellow card, the point being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is booked and vice-versa. Second yellows are always ignored as superfluous. We introduce the yellow card count from season 1997-98 onwards as our records are comprehensive and meaningful from that season onwards. Official cautions began in the 1940s and we continue to (casually) build such data with a view to, perhaps, setting an earlier date for our yellow card analysis. Incidentally, the actual yellow card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.
	4 pts are allocated for sending offs, the points being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is sent-off and vice-versa. Our crime count database is 'open for business' from 1886-87 onwards as this was the first season that the English FA decreed that the referee had the power to send a player off, although the first known in a Scottish game wasn't until a season later and the first known in a Thistle game wasn't until 1891. Our data is comprehensive from then to the present day. As per the yellow, the actual red card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.

Squad Stats (basic)

Squad Stats (full)

10-Mar-2020 23:59

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Table is limited to all competitive matches played by Partick Thistle in 2019-20, and includes only players who've been listed in at least one match day squad under that category during the season. The artificial addition of 3-points-per-win and goal-difference is for illustrative purposes only. Table sorted by Points; Goal Difference; Team Goals For; Game Time; Starts; Unused Subs; Alphabetically by Forename. Page refreshes will return this order. There was 1 own goal. There were 11 non-assists. There were 194 minutes of man-down game-time. There were 8 instances where allocated bench slots were not filled.

SPFL Championship Table

Dundee (relegated) and Arbroath (champions) were the new participants. 3 points for a win. On 13 March 2020 all SPFL leagues were indefinitely suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. On 8 April 2020, the SPFL proposed to end the 2019–20 season by utilising a points per game ratio to determine the final standings in tiers 2 to 4. The plan was approved on 15 April 2020, with the result being that Dundee United were promoted and declared champions, and Partick Thistle relegated, declared to be the bottom club. Thistle's 9 cancelled fixtures were: 14-Mar-2020 Alloa Athletic [h]; 17-Mar-2020 Inverness CT [a]; 20-Mar-2020 Ayr United [a]; 28-Mar-2020 Greenock Morton [h]; 04-Apr-2020 Arbroath [h]; 11-Apr-2020 Queen of the South [a]; 18-Apr-2020 Inverness CT [h]; 25-Apr-2020 Dunfermline Athletic [a]; 02-May-2020 Dundee [h].

Thistle's points-per-game ratio (0.963) stands as the club's all-time lowest return outwith the top-flight, levelling all seasons to 3-pts-per-win. Thistle's 3.704% clean-sheet ratio (1 in 27) is the club's lowest return since the pathetic season of 1908-09 when the homeless Thistle registered no clean-sheets at all.

League Cup Table

3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. Drawn matches were concluded with a penalty shoot-out, the winner of which earned a bonus point. Teams finishing level on points were placed in order of superior goal difference, then by goals scored. Scotland's 4 European representatives were given a bye, and 2 non-League teams were included in the tournament. The 40 teams were split into two sub groups geographically, and seeded to ensure that top teams and lesser teams were drawn against each other across the 8 groups. 8 group winners and the 4 best runners up advanced to the round of 16 single-legged knockout phase, where they were joined by the 'big 4'. Hamilton qualified for the second round as one of the 4 best runners-up across the 8 groups. Table figures per spfl.co.uk, with the data integrity verified by The Thistle Archive.

Thistle qualify from the first round group stages of the League Cup for a fifth consecutive campaign.

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