| 2017–18 season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairman | David Beattie | ||
| Manager | Alan Archibald | ||
| Stadium | Firhill Stadium,Glasgow | ||
| Scottish Premiership | 11th (Relegated) | ||
| League Cup | Quarter-final | ||
| Scottish Cup | Fifth round | ||
| Top goalscorer | League:Kris Doolan &Conor Sammon (7) All: Kris Doolan (11) | ||
| Highest home attendance | 8,264 vs. Rangers, Premiership, 15 September 2017 | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 2,185 vs. Stranraer, League Cup, 29 July 2017 | ||
| Average home league attendance | 4,441 | ||
The2017–18 season wasPartick Thistle's fifth consecutive season in the top flight of Scottish football and the fifth in the newly establishedScottish Premiership,[1] having been promoted from theScottish First Division at the end of the2012–13 season.
Thistle competed in the2017–18 Scottish League Cup where they finished second in Group H behindLivingston by 1 point and qualified for the Second Round. In the second round they surpassedSt Johnstone and in theQuarter Finals tookRangers to extra time afterKris Doolan scored an injury time equaliser to make it 1–1, however lost 3–1 after extra time.[2] Partick Thistle also competed in theScottish Cup, where they lost in an away tie toCeltic in thefifth round.[3] They ended the season being relegated from the Premiership via the play-offs, dropping to theScottish Championship.[4]
| 5 August 20171 | Hibernian | 3 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Edinburgh |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Boyle Whittaker Ambrose S.Murray McGinn | Report | Erskine Bannigan Elliott | Stadium:Easter Road Attendance: 17,634 Referee:Nick Walsh |
| 11 August 20172 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 1 | Celtic | Glasgow |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | Bannigan | Report | Ntcham Tierney | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 8,041 Referee:Andrew Dallas |
| 19 August 20173 | St Johnstone | 1 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Perth |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | O'Halloran | Report | Lawless Storey | Stadium:McDiarmid Park Attendance: 3,470 Referee:Barry Cook |
| 26 August 20174 | Partick Thistle | 3 – 4 | Aberdeen | Glasgow |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Erskine Doolan Keown Turnbull | Report | Christie McLean Wright Rooney | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 4,768 Referee:Bobby Madden |
| 9 September 20175 | Ross County | 1 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Dingwall |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Davies Kelly Routis Schalk | Report | Devine Spittal | Stadium:Global Energy Stadium Attendance: 3,660 Referee:John Beaton |
| 15 September 20176 | Partick Thistle | 2 – 2 | Rangers | Glasgow |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | McGinn Keown Spittal Erskine Turnbull Elliott Bannigan | Report | Morelos Dorrans | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 8,264 Referee:Willie Collum |
| 23 September 20177 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 1 | Heart of Midlothian | Glasgow |
| 16:00BST (UTC+1) | Spittal Devine | Report | Berra Walker Callachan | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 4,671 Referee:Don Robertson |
| 30 September 20178 | Motherwell | 3 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Motherwell |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Hartley Tanner Bowman | Report | Černý Barton Lawless Edwards | Stadium:Fir Park Attendance: 4,692 Referee: Greg Aitken |
| 14 October 20179 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 2 | Kilmarnock | Glasgow |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Barton | Report | Boyd Frizzell Taylor | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 3,662 Referee:Kevin Clancy |
| 21 October 201710 | Partick Thistle | 2 – 1 | Dundee | Glasgow |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Černý Turnbull Edwards Keown Storey | Report | Leitch-Smith Deacon O'Dea | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 3,358 Referee:Euan Anderson |
| 24 October 201711 | Hamilton Academical | 0 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Hamilton |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | Boyd | Report | Keown Turnbull | Stadium:New Douglas Park Attendance: 2,236 Referee:Steven McLean |
| 28 October 201712 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 0 | St Johnstone | Glasgow |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Storey | Report | Craig | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 2,870 Referee:John Beaton |
| 4 November 201713 | Rangers | 3 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Glasgow |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | McCrorie Candeias Windass | Report | Doolan Devine | Stadium:Ibrox Stadium Attendance: 49,502 Referee:Willie Collum |
| 19 November 201714 | Heart of Midlothian | 1 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Edinburgh |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | Gonçalves Brandon | Report | Barton Doolan Devine | Stadium:Tynecastle Stadium Attendance: 16,999 Referee:Andrew Dallas |
| 25 November 2017P | Celtic | P – P | Partick Thistle | Glasgow |
| GMT (UTC) | Stadium:Partick Thistle |
| 2 December 201715 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 1 | Hibernian | Glasgow |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | Turnbull | Report | Barton | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 4,997 Referee:Craig Thomson |
| 9 December 201716 | Kilmarnock | 5 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Kilmarnock |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | Boyd Brophy Keown | Report | Erskine Edwards Turnbull McGinn | Stadium:Rugby Park Attendance: 4,339 Referee:Bobby Madden |
| 13 December 201717 | Partick Thistle | 3 – 2 | Motherwell | Glasgow |
| 19:45GMT (UTC) | Spittal Edwards Sammon McGinn | Report | Bowman Tanner | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 2,452 Referee: Don Robertson |
| 16 December 201718 | Dundee | 3 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Dundee |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | Moussa O'Hara | Report | Stadium:Dens Park Attendance: 5,101 Referee:Greg Aitken |
| 20 December 201719 | Celtic | 2 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Glasgow |
| GMT (UTC) | Armstrong Tierney | BBC Sport Celtic Report | Stadium:Celtic Park Attendance: 54,187 Referee:Alan Muir |
| 23 December 201720 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 0 | Hamilton | Glasgow |
| 15:00 | Keown | BBC Report | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 2,912 Referee:Bobby Madden |
| 27 December 201721 | Aberdeen | 1 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Aberdeen |
| Rooney | BBC Report | Devine | Stadium:Pittodrie Stadium Attendance: 14,830 Referee: Euan Anderson |
| 30 December 201722 | Ross County | 0 – 2 | Partick Thistle | Dingwall |
| 15:00GMT | BBC Report | Doolan Sammon | Stadium:Global Energy Stadium Attendance: 2,870 Referee: Stephen Finnie |
| 23 January 201823 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 2 | Celtic | Glasgow |
| Sammon | BBC Sport Celtic Report | Sinclair Griffiths | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 6,920 Referee:John Beaton |
| 27 January 201824 | St Johnstone | 1 – 3 | Partick | Perth |
| 15:00 | Craig | BBC Report | Lawless Sammon Edwards | Stadium:McDiarmid Park Attendance: 2,848 Referee:Gavin Duncan |
| 3 February 201825 | Motherwell | 1 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Motherwell |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | Tait McHugh Çiftçi | Report | Osman Doolan McGinn Dumbuya Edwards | Stadium:Fir Park Attendance: 4,607 Referee:Nick Walsh |
| 6 February 201826 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 2 | Rangers | Glasgow |
| 19:45 | BBC Report | Windass Tavernier | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 7,332 Referee:Alan Muir |
| 17 February 201827 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 2 | Dundee | Glasgow |
| Sammon | BBC Report | Murray | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 4,267 Referee: William Collum |
| 24 February 201828 | Hamilton Academical | 2 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Hamilton |
| Sarris Rojano Imrie Ferguson Jenkins Templeton | BBC Report | Sammon Osman Erskine | Stadium:New Douglas Park Attendance: 2,243 Referee:Walsh |
| 10 March 201829 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 0 | Aberdeen | Glasgow |
| 15:00GMT | Elliott | BBC Report | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 3,931 Referee: Greg Aitken |
| 17 March 201830 | Heart of Midlothian | 3 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Edinburgh |
| 15:00 | Lafferty Naismith Souttar | BBC Report | Stadium:Tynecastle Park Attendance: 17,179 Referee:Anderson |
| 31 March 201831 | Hibernian | 2 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Edinburgh |
| Maclaren Hanlon | BBC Sport | Devine | Stadium:Easter Road Attendance: 17,497 Referee:Dallas |
| 3 April 201832 | Ross County | 4 – 0 | Partick Thistle | Dingwall |
| Lindsay Schalk Draper | BBC Report | Keown | Stadium:Global Energy Stadium Attendance: 3,944 Referee: William Collum |
| 7 April 201833 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 1 | Kilmarnock | Glasgow |
| Elliott | Report | Findlay Mulumbu | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 3,662 Referee:Kevin Clancy |
| 21 April 201834 | Partick Thistle | 2 – 1 | Hamilton | Firhill Stadium |
| Doolan Edwards | Report | Templeton | Attendance: 3,839 Referee:John Beaton |
| 28 April 201835 | St Johnstone | 1 – 1 | Partick Thistle | McDiarmid Park |
| Shaughnessy | Report | Sammon | Attendance: 2,925 Referee: Alan Muir |
| 4 May 201836 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 1 | Ross County | Firhill Stadium |
| Erskine | Report | Mckay | Attendance: 4,312 Referee: Kevin Clancy |
| 8 May 201837 | Partick Thistle | 0 – 1 | Motherwell | Firhill Stadium |
| Edwards | Report | Bowman Campbell | Attendance: 3,320 Referee:Bobby Madden |
| 12 May 201838 | Dundee | 0 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Dens Park |
| Report | Doolan | Attendance: 6,756 Referee:Steven McLean |
| 17 May 2018First leg | Livingston | 2 – 1 | Partick Thistle | Livingston |
| 19:45 | Jacobs Byrne Thompson Pittman | BBC Report | Doolan Devine | Stadium:Almondvale Stadium Attendance: 5,469 Referee:Craig Thomson |
| 20 May 2018Second leg | Partick Thistle | 0 – 1 (1–3agg.) | Livingston | Glasgow |
| 15:30 | Elliott Barton | BBC Report | Thompson Jacobs Lithgow | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 7,122 Referee:John Beaton |
| 15 July 20171 | Livingston | 1 – 1 (3 – 1p) | Partick Thistle | Livingston |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Jacobs Mackin | Report | Erskine Devine | Stadium:Almondvale Stadium Attendance: 1,119 Referee:Kevin Clancy |
| Penalties | ||||
| Mackin J.Mullin Jacobs | ||||
| 22 July 20172 | Partick Thistle | 5 – 0 | St Mirren | Glasgow |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Doolan Lawless Spittal Bannigan Osman | Report | Baird Smith | Stadium:Firhill Park Attendance: 2,727 Referee: Stephen Finnie |
| 25 July 20173 | Airdrieonians | 1 – 2 | Partick Thistle | Airdrie |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | D.Cairns | Report | Doolan Spittal | Stadium:Excelsior Stadium Attendance: 1,255 Referee: Don Robertson |
| 29 July 20174 | Partick Thistle | 1 – 0 | Stranraer | Glasgow |
| 15:00BST (UTC+1) | Elliott | Report | Stadium:Firhill Park Attendance: 2,185 Referee:John Beaton |
| 8 August 2017Second round | St Johnstone | 0 – 3 | Partick Thistle | Perth |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | Lawless Edwards Erskine Nisbet | Report | O'Halloran Davidson Foster | Stadium:McDiarmid Park Attendance: 2,619 Referee: Euan Anderson |
| 19 September 2017Quarter Final | Partick Thistle | 1 – 3 (a.e.t.) | Rangers | Glasgow |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | Lawless Doolan Elliott | Report | Peña Candeias Herrera Hodson | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Attendance: 7,394 Referee:Steven McLean |
| 15 August 2017First Round | Partick Thistle U20s | 6 – 1 | University of Stirling | Glasgow |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | McLaughlin M.Lamont Nisbet Fitzpatrick Penrice | Report | Lyons | Stadium:Firhill Stadium Referee: Stewart Luke |
| 1 September 2017Second Round | Stranraer | 2 – 0 | Partick Thistle U20s | Stranraer |
| 19:45BST (UTC+1) | Wallace D.Stoney | Report | McCarthy M.Lamont | Stadium:Stair Park Attendance: 228 Referee: Steven Reid |
| 20 January 2018Fourth round | Queen of the South | 1 – 2 | Partick Thistle | Dumfries |
| 15:00GMT (UTC) | Dykes Fergusson | BBC Report | Sammon McGinn | Stadium:Palmerston Park Attendance: 2,338 Referee:Collum |
| 10 February 2018Fifth round | Celtic | 3 – 2 | Partick Thistle | Glasgow |
| Forrest | BBC Sport | Doolan Sammon | Stadium:Celtic Park Attendance: 24,191 Referee:Steven McLean |
| Ranking | Position | Nation | Number | Name | Scottish Premiership | Scottish Cup | Scottish League Cup | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 9 | Kris Doolan | 7 | 1 | 3 | 11 | |
| 2 | FW | 18 | Conor Sammon | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 | |
| 3 | MF | 7 | Blair Spittal | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | |
| 4 | MF | 10 | Chris Erskine | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | |
| 5 | MF | 19 | Ryan Edwards | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| MF | 11 | Steven Lawless | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 7 | DF | 5 | Niall Keown | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| FW | 39 | Miles Storey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 9 | DF | 14 | Christie Elliott | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| TOTALS | 32 | 4 | 13 | 49 | ||||
| Position | Nation | Number | Name | Scottish Premiership | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Total | ||||
| GK | 1 | Tomáš Černý | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| DF | 2 | Mustapha Dumbuya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| DF | 3 | Callum Booth | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| DF | 4 | Jordan Turnbull | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| DF | 4 | Baily Cargill | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| DF | 5 | Niall Keown | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |
| MF | 6 | Abdul Osman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| MF | 8 | Stuart Bannigan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| FW | 9 | Kris Doolan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| MF | 10 | Chris Erskine | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| MF | 11 | Steven Lawless | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| MF | 13 | Adam Barton | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| DF | 14 | Christie Elliott | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| DF | 15 | Danny Devine | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |
| DF | 16 | Paul McGinn | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| FW | 18 | Conor Sammon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| MF | 19 | Ryan Edwards | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| FW | 20 | Kevin Nisbet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| DF | 21 | James Penrice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| MF | 22 | Gary Fraser | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| MF | 24 | Andrew McCarthy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| MF | 37 | Martin Woods | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| FW | 39 | Miles Storey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| TOTALS | 78 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87 | 4 | |||
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation[a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | St Johnstone | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 42 | 53 | −11 | 46 | |
| 9 | Dundee | 38 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 36 | 57 | −21 | 39 | |
| 10 | Hamilton Academical | 38 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 47 | 68 | −21 | 33 | |
| 11 | Partick Thistle(R) | 38 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 31 | 61 | −30 | 33 | Qualification for thePremiership play-off final |
| 12 | Ross County(R) | 38 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 40 | 62 | −22 | 29 | Relegation to theChampionship |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LIV | PAR | STM | AIR | STR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Livingston(Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 11 | Qualification for the Second Round | — | p1–1 | — | 2–0 | — | |
| 2 | Partick Thistle(Q) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 10 | — | — | 5–0 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 3 | St Mirren | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 6 | 0–1 | — | — | 5–0 | — | ||
| 4 | Airdrieonians | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | — | 1–2 | — | — | 3–1 | ||
| 5 | Stranraer | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 0 | 2–4 | — | 1–4 | — | — |
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