Liam Dolan

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Liam Dolan

• Liam Dolan, 2025 (PTFC) Liam Dolan was born on Monday, 27th April, 2009, in Scotland. * The defender signed for Brian Graham & Mark Wilson's Thistle on Thursday, 8th May, 2025, whilst a Partick Thistle U-18s player. Aged 16, he made his debut appearance on Friday, 16th May, 2025, in a 2-0 defeat away to Livingston in the SPFL Premiership play-offs. We look forward to seeing him score his first goal for Thistle. His club-list includes Partick Thistle and Albion Rovers, where he is currently on loan until January, 2027. Liam is contracted until May, 2027. * If you can help us to improve any of these marked points on The Thistle Archive, then please do get in touch →

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Liam, who has been with The Jags since he was eight, scored a long-range goal in 2023-24 as the Thistle youngsters triumphed in The Foyle Cup and was a stand-out as they secured further silverware in The CAS Cup. In 2024-25, the left sided centre back stepped out of his defensive duties to find the net when (holders) Rangers were seen off 5-3 in the Scottish FA Youth Cup. With his progress made, he was rewarded with the opportunity to train with the first team in the springtime of 2025. Stepping up from the Partick Thistle Youth Academy, Liam signed a two-year modern apprenticeship with the club on 8th May 2025. Academy director Craig Dargo said: This is an exciting day for Liam who has been with us since December 2017 and during that time he was frequently played at a higher age level. Those games have helped develop him and the next stage in his development is to train regularly with the First Team. He will be doing that soon. Liam has seen his academy team-mates Matty Falconer, Jamie Low, Nick Lockhart, Ben McKenna Liam Rooney involved in senior games for Partick Thistle, and Ceiran Loney earn a move to Everton. That has inspired him, and he now has a great platform to build on. With Thistle trailing Livingston by 4 goals to nil (on aggregate) in the play-off semi finals of May 2025, the atmosphere was relaxed enough to give youth a run-out, and Liam came on for Stuart Bannigan for around 10 minutes of the game at Almondvale Stadium. In doing so, he set an impressive club-record, becoming the youngest Jag in history to make a competitive appearance (16y, 0m, 19d), taking over from Ji Stevenson (16y, 1m, 6d) who had held the accolade since September, 2021. He was still just 16 when he got his first start for the Jags in early 2026, featuring in central defence for the first half of the Challenge Cup tie at home to Inverness CT. In what was an exciting period for Liam, he was called up to the Scotland Under 17s squad the following month for their friendlies against Norway and Poland. On 7th August 2026, Thistle announced that Liam was heading for Albion Rovers of the Lowland League West (5th tier) on a loan deal until January 2027, where he would be working under an experienced fellow defender in the shape of former Jag Steven Saunders.

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2026-27 Stats

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Official Player of the Month

August 2026

Seb Drozd

July 2026

Lewis Budinauckas

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Jul-2026	Lewis Budinauckas	Daniel O'Reilly, Gary Mackay-Steven, Seb Drozd.
Aug-2026	Seb Drozd	Aidan Fitzpatrick, Cale Loughrey, Liam McFarlane.

Squad List 2026-27

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• Table is limited to 2026-27 squad members who have featured in a competitive first-team matchday squad in any given season.
• YA = non-contracted Youth Academy player.
• Sorted by Position / Squad Number / Name. Page refreshes will return this order.
• Contract dates are based on public-domain information, and the key generic dates of 31 Jan / 31 May are utilised.
• Last updated 06-Sep-2026.

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Table is limited to all competitive matches played by Partick Thistle in 2026-27. Table is limited to 2026-27 squad members who have featured in a competitive first-team matchday squad in any given season. Table sorted by Points; Goal Difference; Goals Scored; Game Time; Matches Played; Starts; Unused Subs; Alphabetically by Forename. Page refreshes will return this order. Contract dates are based on public-domain information, and the key generic dates of 31 Jan / 31 May are utilised. YA = non-contracted Youth Academy player. There's been 1 own goal. There's been 6 non-assists. There's been 2 instances where allocated bench slots were not filled.

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Table includes all competitive matches played by Partick Thistle. Table is limited to 2026-27 squad members who have featured in a competitive first-team matchday squad in any given season. Table sorted by Points; Goal Difference; Goals Scored; Game Time; Matches Played; Starts; Unused Subs; Alphabetically by Forename. Page refreshes will return this order. The Archive's assists records date from 2012-13 onwards. The Archive's Yellow Card records date from 1997-98 onwards. Contract dates are based on public-domain information, and the key generic dates of 31 Jan / 31 May are utilised. YA = non-contracted Youth Academy player.

Every Game

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(age) 2024-25

1. (16y, 0m, 19d) #19 Fri-16-May-2025 [a] L0-2 Livingston (SPFL Premiership play-off Semi Final, 2nd leg) agg: L0-4

(age) 2025-26

2. (16y, 2m, 1d) #14 Sat-28-Jun-2025 [a] W3-1 Glenafton Athletic (Friendly)

3. (16y, 2m, 4d) #18 Tue-01-Jul-2025 [h] W3-2 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (Friendly)

4. (16y, 6m, 18d) #3 Fri-14-Nov-2025 [h] W2-1 St Mirren (Steven Lawless Testimonial)

5. (16y, 8m, 17d) #4 Tue-13-Jan-2026 [h] L*3-3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (Challenge Cup 3rd Round) * L2-4 pens

2026-27

• Liam's 2026-27 match list will be fully Archived at the end of the current season. Meantime, external sources may be useful for keeping tabs on individual appearance and data breakdowns:

— Liam Dolan @ Soccerbase

— Liam Dolan @ Soccerway