Partick Thistle Season 2021-22

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2021-22

The 147th season of Partick Thistle F.C.

Matches

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1. Sat-26-Jun-2021 [a] (1-1) W3-2 Kelty Hearts (Friendly)

2. Sat-03-Jul-2021 [a] (1-0) W2-1 East Kilbride (Friendly)

3. Mon-05-Jul-2021 [h] (0-0) L0-1 Rangers (Friendly)

4. Sat-10-Jul-2021 [h] (1-3) L2-4 Dunfermline Athletic (League Cup Group H - game 1)

5. Sat-17-Jul-2021 [a] (0-1) W2-1 Stenhousemuir (League Cup Group H - game 2)

6. Tue-20-Jul-2021 [h] (1-0) W2-0 Dumbarton (League Cup Group H - game 3)

7. Sun-25-Jul-2021 [a] (0-1) L0-2 St Mirren (League Cup Group H - game 4)

8. Sat-31-Jul-2021 [h] (2-1) W3-2 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 1)

9. Sat-07-Aug-2021 [a] (2-0) W3-0 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 2)

10. Sat-21-Aug-2021 [a] (1-1) L1-3 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 3)

11. Sat-28-Aug-2021 [h] (1-0) W3-0 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 4)

12. Sat-04-Sep-2021 [a] (1-0) W2-0 Stranraer (Challenge Cup 2nd Round)

13. Sat-11-Sep-2021 [a] (1-0) L1-3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Championship - game 5)

14. Sat-18-Sep-2021 [h] (0-0) L0-2 Kilmarnock (SPFL Championship - game 6)

15. Sun-26-Sep-2021 [a] (0-1) L2-3 Raith Rovers (SPFL Championship - game 7)

16. Sat-02-Oct-2021 [h] (2-0) W4-0 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 8)

17. Fri-08-Oct-2021 [a] (0-0) L0-2 Queen of the South (Challenge Cup 3rd Round)

18. Fri-15-Oct-2021 [a] (1-0) W6-1 Hamilton Academical (SPFL Championship - game 9)

19. Sat-23-Oct-2021 [h] (0-0) D0-0 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 10)

20. Tue-26-Oct-2021 [a] (0-0) D0-0 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 11)

21. Sat-30-Oct-2021 [h] (0-0) D0-0 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Championship - game 12)

22. Sat-06-Nov-2021 [a] (1-0) W1-0 Kilmarnock (SPFL Championship - game 13)

23. Sat-13-Nov-2021 [a] (2-0) W4-0 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 14)

24. Sat-20-Nov-2021 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Hamilton Academical (SPFL Championship - game 15)

25. Fri-26-Nov-2021 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Dunfermline Athletic (Scottish Cup 3rd Round)

26. Sat-04-Dec-2021 [a] (0-0) D0-0 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 16)

27. Sat-11-Dec-2021 [h] (0-1) L0-2 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 17)

28. Sat-18-Dec-2021 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Raith Rovers (SPFL Championship - game 18)

29. Sat-08-Jan-2022 [a] (1-0) D2-2 Hamilton Academical (SPFL Championship - game 19)

30. Fri-14-Jan-2022 [h] (0-0) D1-1 Kilmarnock (SPFL Championship - game 20)

31. Sat-22-Jan-2022 [h] (1-0) W1-0 Airdrieonians (Scottish Cup 4th Round)

32. Tue-01-Feb-2022 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 21)

33. Wed-09-Feb-2022 [a] (2-2) D3-3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Championship - game 22)

34. Sat-12-Feb-2022 [h] (0-1) L0-1 Dundee United (Scottish Cup 5th Round)

35. Tue-22-Feb-2022 [h] (0-0) L0-1 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 23)

36. Sat-26-Feb-2022 [a] (0-0) D0-0 Raith Rovers (SPFL Championship - game 24)

37. Tue-01-Mar-2022 [a] (0-1) D1-1 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 25)

38. Fri-04-Mar-2022 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Championship - game 26)

39. Tue-08-Mar-2022 [h] (0-0) W1-0 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 27)

40. Sat-12-Mar-2022 [a] (1-0) L1-2 Greenock Morton (SPFL Championship - game 28)

41. Sat-19-Mar-2022 [h] (0-2) L0-4 Hamilton Academical (SPFL Championship - game 29)

42. Tue-22-Mar-2022 [a] (1-3) L1-4 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 30)

43. Sat-26-Mar-2022 [a] (0-1) L1-2 Kilmarnock (SPFL Championship - game 31)

44. Sat-02-Apr-2022 [h] (0-0) D0-0 Arbroath (SPFL Championship - game 32)

45. Fri-08-Apr-2022 [a] (0-0) W1-0 Queen of the South (SPFL Championship - game 33)

46. Sat-16-Apr-2022 [h] (0-0) L0-1 Raith Rovers (SPFL Championship - game 34)

47. Sat-23-Apr-2022 [h] (1-0) W1-0 Dunfermline Athletic (SPFL Championship - game 35)

48. Fri-29-Apr-2022 [a] (0-2) L1-3 Ayr United (SPFL Championship - game 36)

49. Tue-03-May-2022 [h] (0-0) L1-2 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Premiership play-off Quarter Final, 1st leg)

50. Fri-06-May-2022 [a] (0-1) L0-1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (SPFL Premiership play-off Quarter Final, 2nd leg) agg: L1-3

2021-22 summary

P50 W21 D10 L19 (1.46 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 16th club out of 42 in the Leagues. At the end of 2021-22, 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:

2021-22 (reserves) →

2021-22 (women) →

Crime Count

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Stewart Luke	26.06.2021 Kelty Hearts [a] W3-2 (Friendly)		0			0	0	W6-1
Ross Birrell	03.07.2021 East Kilbride [a] W2-1 (Friendly)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Greg Aitken	05.07.2021 Rangers [h] L0-1 (Friendly)	0		0	0	0	0	L0-5
Bobby Madden	10.07.2021 Dunfermline Athletic [h] L2-4 (League Cup Group H - game 1)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-1
Colin Steven	17.07.2021 Stenhousemuir [a] W2-1 (League Cup Group H - game 2)	0		0		0	0	L1-5
Mike Roncone	20.07.2021 Dumbarton [h] W2-0 (League Cup Group H - game 3)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
Alan Muir	25.07.2021 St Mirren [a] L0-2 (League Cup Group H - game 4)	0				0	0	L1-6
Greg Aitken	31.07.2021 Queen of the South [h] W3-2 (SPFL Championship - game 1)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Craig Napier	07.08.2021 Dunfermline Athletic [a] W3-0 (SPFL Championship - game 2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Grant Irvine	21.08.2021 Arbroath [a] L1-3 (SPFL Championship - game 3)	0	0			0	0	L1-3
Peter Stuart	28.08.2021 Greenock Morton [h] W3-0 (SPFL Championship - game 4)	0	0			0	0	L1-3
Craig Napier	04.09.2021 Stranraer [a] W2-0 (Challenge Cup 2nd Round)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Euan Anderson	11.09.2021 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [a] L1-3 (SPFL Championship - game 5)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Willie Collum	18.09.2021 Kilmarnock [h] L0-2 (SPFL Championship - game 6)	0			0	0	0	L0-7
Andrew Dallas	26.09.2021 Raith Rovers [a] L2-3 (SPFL Championship - game 7)	0				0	0	L2-8
Duncan Williams	02.10.2021 Ayr United [h] W4-0 (SPFL Championship - game 8)	0	0			0	0	D2-2
Alan Newlands	08.10.2021 Queen of the South [a] L0-2 (Challenge Cup 3rd Round)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
Euan Anderson	15.10.2021 Hamilton Academical [a] W6-1 (SPFL Championship - game 9)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
Grant Irvine	23.10.2021 Dunfermline Athletic [h] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 10)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Greg Aitken	26.10.2021 Greenock Morton [a] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 11)	0	0	0		0	0	W3-0
Gavin Duncan	30.10.2021 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [h] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 12)	0				0	0	L1-7
Colin Steven	06.11.2021 Kilmarnock [a] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 13)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
Gavin Duncan	13.11.2021 Ayr United [a] W4-0 (SPFL Championship - game 14)	0	0	0		0	0	W2-0
Euan Anderson	20.11.2021 Hamilton Academical [h] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 15)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
John Beaton	26.11.2021 Dunfermline Athletic [h] W1-0 (Scottish Cup 3rd Round)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
Gavin Duncan	04.12.2021 Queen of the South [a] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 16)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Alan Newlands	11.12.2021 Arbroath [h] L0-2 (SPFL Championship - game 17)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
Steven Kirkland	18.12.2021 Raith Rovers [h] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 18)	0	0			0		W7-1
Willie Collum	08.01.2022 Hamilton Academical [a] D2-2 (SPFL Championship - game 19)	0				0	0	L2-6
Nick Walsh	14.01.2022 Kilmarnock [h] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 20)	0				0	0	L1-7
David Munro	22.01.2022 Airdrieonians [h] W1-0 (Scottish Cup 4th Round)	0	0				0	L2-7
Greg Aitken	01.02.2022 Ayr United [h] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 21)	0	0			0	0	D3-3
Peter Stuart	09.02.2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [a] D3-3 (SPFL Championship - game 22)		0			0	0	W6-1
John Beaton	12.02.2022 Dundee United [h] L0-1 (Scottish Cup 5th Round)	0	0	0		0	0	W2-0
Euan Anderson	22.02.2022 Greenock Morton [h] L0-1 (SPFL Championship - game 23)		0			0	0	W6-1
Willie Collum	26.02.2022 Raith Rovers [a] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 24)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-3
Peter Stuart	01.03.2022 Arbroath [a] D1-1 (SPFL Championship - game 25)	0	0			0	0	W3-2
Colin Steven	04.03.2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [h] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 26)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Nick Walsh	08.03.2022 Queen of the South [h] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 27)		0			0	0	W7-1
David Munro	12.03.2022 Greenock Morton [a] L1-2 (SPFL Championship - game 28)	0	0			0	0	W2-1
Andrew Dallas	19.03.2022 Hamilton Academical [h] L0-4 (SPFL Championship - game 29)	0	0			0	0	L2-3
Steven McLean	22.03.2022 Dunfermline Athletic [a] L1-4 (SPFL Championship - game 30)	0	0			0	0	L1-2
Willie Collum	26.03.2022 Kilmarnock [a] L1-2 (SPFL Championship - game 31)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-3
Alan Newlands	02.04.2022 Arbroath [h] D0-0 (SPFL Championship - game 32)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
Kevin Clancy	08.04.2022 Queen of the South [a] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 33)	0	0			0	0	L1-4
David Munro	16.04.2022 Raith Rovers [h] L0-1 (SPFL Championship - game 34)	0	0			0	0	D2-2
Don Robertson	23.04.2022 Dunfermline Athletic [h] W1-0 (SPFL Championship - game 35)	0	0	0		0	0	W1-0
Bobby Madden	29.04.2022 Ayr United [a] L1-3 (SPFL Championship - game 36)	0			0	0	0	L0-12
Steven McLean	03.05.2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [h] L1-2 (SPFL Premiership play-off Quarter Final, 1st leg	0	0			0	0	D2-2
Kevin Clancy	06.05.2022 Inverness Caledonian Thistle [a] L0-1 (SPFL Premiership play-off Quarter Final, 2nd leg	0	0	0		0	0	W3-0
50	← Totals →	4	10	76	66	1	1	L90-130

Thistle's 2021-22 Summary
Average crime count per game	4.4 pts
The crime count % balance	41-59 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.52 (W22 D10 L18)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 14-May-2022

Thistle's Historical Summary
Average crime count per game ᵃ	1.447 pts
Average crime count per game ᵇ	5.767 pts
The crime count % balance	48-52 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.409 (W2716 D1422 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 @ 28-Sep-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)

06-May-2022 23:59

Table is limited to all competitive matches played by Partick Thistle in 2021-22, 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 were 4 own-goals. There were 9 non-assists. There were 39 minutes of man-down game-time. There were 47 instances where allocated bench slots were not filled. (Note: Allocated bench slots were variable this season between 7 and 11, depending on dates and the competition in question.)

SPFL Championship Table

	Kilmarnock (relegated) and Partick Thistle (champions) were the new participants. 3 points for a win. 2nd Bottom Premiership v Winner of Championship Play-Offs: Inverness CT 2 St Johnstone 2 (20 May 2022); St Johnstone 4 Inverness CT 0 (23 May 2022).
	Thistle's 50% (18/36) clean-sheet ratio matched the previous club-records set in 1991-92 (22/44) and 2020-21 (11/22). Best home defence. Best away attack.

League Cup Table

3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. Drawn matches were to be concluded with a penalty shoot-out, the winner of which would earn a bonus point. Teams finishing level on points were placed in order of superior goal difference, then by goals scored. Scotland's 5 European representatives were given a bye, and 3 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 3 best runners up advanced to the round of 16 single-legged knockout phase, where they were joined by the 'big 5'. After a COVID-19 outbreak among players and staff, Dumbarton were unable to raise a team for their home match with St Mirren and the SPFL consequently awarded a 3-0 away win, included in the tabulations above. Table figures per spfl.co.uk, with the data integrity verified by The Thistle Archive.

After 5 consecutive qualifications, Thistle fail to qualify from the first round group stages of the League Cup for the second season in a row.

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