# 2018–19 Partick Thistle F.C. season

The 2018–19 season was Partick Thistle's first season back in the Scottish Championship, following their relegation from the Scottish Premiership at the end of the 2017–18 season. Thistle also competed in the League Cup, Challenge Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary
### Management

Partick Thistle began the season under the management of Alan Archibald who been in charge since February 2013. On 6 October, following a poor start to the season, Archibald left his position as manager and was replaced by Gary Caldwell who was appointed on 15 October.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Scottish League Cup
#### Group stage

Results

### Scottish Cup
## Player statistics

    As of 4 May 2019 (UTC)
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Championship | Championship | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Other | Other |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Christie Elliott | 44 | 2 | 33+0 | 1 | 5+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | James Penrice | 47 | 2 | 36+0 | 1 | 5+0 | 1 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | SCO | Thomas O'Ware | 8 | 4 | 3+0 | 3 | 4+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Steven Anderson | 16 | 3 | 13+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | IRL | Sean McGinty | 36 | 0 | 28+0 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | SCO | Blair Spittal | 47 | 8 | 33+3 | 7 | 5+0 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Stuart Bannigan | 31 | 2 | 26+2 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Kris Doolan | 39 | 6 | 24+6 | 6 | 5+0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | AUS | Scott McDonald | 13 | 7 | 10+2 | 6 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Gary Harkins | 16 | 0 | 8+5 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | NIR | Shea Gordon | 14 | 4 | 9+0 | 2 | 5+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 15 | GK | NIR | Conor Hazard | 15 | 0 | 11+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | SCO | Andrew McCarthy | 11 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Craig Slater | 41 | 2 | 27+3 | 2 | 4+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | ENG | Miles Storey | 37 | 3 | 23+7 | 2 | 2+2 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | SCO | Callum Wilson | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SCO | Aidan Fitzpatrick | 30 | 7 | 8+13 | 3 | 0+3 | 1 | 3+1 | 1 | 2+0 | 2 |
| 23 | GK | SCO | Jamie Sneddon | 16 | 0 | 13+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | CIV | Souleymane Coulibaly | 4 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | ENG | Lewis Mansell | 11 | 1 | 3+5 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | SCO | Jack McMillan | 16 | 0 | 13+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | ENG | Joe Cardle | 14 | 3 | 5+6 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+2 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 43 | DF | SCO | Steven Saunders | 17 | 0 | 9+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | SCO | Ally Roy | 5 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2018–19 season ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | SCO | Cammy Bell | 16 | 0 | 12+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | IRL | Niall Keown | 16 | 0 | 13+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | SCO | Chris Erskine | 24 | 3 | 9+9 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ENG | Jack Storer | 11 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | AUS | Aaron Lennox | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ENG | Max Melbourne | 5 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 |
| 18 | FW | COD | Andréa Mbuyi-Mutombo | 12 | 3 | 4+5 | 0 | 1+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 2 |
| 30 | DF | WAL | Daniel Jefferies | 4 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | SCO | Jai Quitongo | 13 | 1 | 4+9 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | SCO | Tam Scobbie | 8 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 39 | MF | BEL | Brice Ntambwe | 6 | 1 | 4+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |

## Club statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Ayr United | 36 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 50 | 38 | +12 | 54 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final |
| 5 | Greenock Morton | 36 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 36 | 45 | −9 | 46 | |
| 6 | Partick Thistle | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 43 | 52 | −9 | 43 | |
| 7 | Dunfermline Athletic | 36 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 41 | |
| 8 | Alloa Athletic | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 39 | 53 | −14 | 39 | |

### League Cup table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AYR | PAR | GMO | STE | ALB |
| 1 | Ayr United (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 12 | Qualification for the Second round | — | — | 3–1 | 5–0 | — |
| 2 | Partick Thistle (Q) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 9 | Qualification for the Second round | 0–2 | — | 2–1 | — | — |
| 3 | Greenock Morton | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 6 | | — | — | — | 2–0 | 5–0 |
| 4 | Stenhousemuir | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 3 | | — | 0–2 | — | — | 4–0 |
| 5 | Albion Rovers | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 | −13 | 0 | | 0–2 | 0–2 | — | — | — |

### Division summary

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | W | L | W | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | D | L | W | D | L | L | D | D | W | W | W | L | L | W | D | L | W | D | D | W | W | L | W |
| Position | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 |