# 2018–19 St Johnstone F.C. season

The 2018–19 season was the club's sixth season in the Scottish Premiership and their tenth consecutive season in the top flight of Scottish football. St Johnstone also competed in the Scottish Cup and the League Cup, where they were knocked out of both by Celtic.

## Season summary

Tommy Wright remained as manager for the season. After getting through the Group stages of the League Cup (and losing to Kilmarnock in the first match of the season), Saints had a 4 match unbeaten run, although by the end of September they went on a 4 match win less run, which included being knocked out of the League Cup by Celtic. They were then unbeaten in the League through much of October, November and into December. They ended the year with a couple of home defeats and a couple of away wins. After losing to Hearts in league at the end of January however, the Saints went on an 8 match win less run, which included being knocked out of the Scottish Cup, again by Celtic. The win less run came to an end in a rearranged match at home to St. Mirren. They ended the regular season in seventh, therefore in the bottom six for the post-split for the second season in a row. Tony Watt announced he rejected a deal and would be leaving the club at the end of the season. The Saints finished the League season in Seventh place, claiming the best of the bottom six.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Scottish Cup
## Squad statistics
### Appearances

    As of 18 May 2019
| No. | Pos | Player | Premiership | Premiership | League Cup | League Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | Zander Clark | 34 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Scott Tanser | 37 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 3 |
| 4 | MF | Blair Alston | 10+11 | 4 | 4+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 |
| 5 | DF | Joe Shaughnessy (c) | 32+1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 3 |
| 7 | FW | Drey Wright | 13+1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | Murray Davidson | 26+2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | Chris Kane | 14+16 | 3 | 0+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 3 |
| 10 | MF | David Wotherspoon | 20+9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | Danny Swanson | 6+17 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | Cammy Bell | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | Aaron Comrie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Jason Kerr | 37 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 44 | 3 |
| 17 | MF | Michael O'Halloran | 9+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 18 | MF | Ali McCann | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | Ricky Foster | 37 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | Kyle McClean | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | Callum Hendry | 5+7 | 2 | 0+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
| 23 | DF | Liam Gordon | 9+3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | Brian Easton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Liam Craig | 33+3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 2 |
| 27 | MF | Sean Goss | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | Ross Callachan | 17+7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 27 | 1 |
| 30 | GK | Mark Hurst | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | Niall Keown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | Tony Watt | 22+7 | 3 | 5+1 | 4 | 1+1 | 1 | 37 | 8 |
| 33 | MF | Matty Kennedy | 34+2 | 6 | 2+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 7 |
| 45 | GK | Ross Sinclair | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | FW | Oliver Hamilton | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 50 | MF | Jordan Northcott | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Player who left the club during the season |||||||||||
| 6 | DF | Steven Anderson | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | Conor Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | David McMillan | 7+5 | 2 | 3+3 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 19 | 3 |
| 17 | MF | Tristan Nydam | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Stefan Scougall | 0+1 | 0 | 2+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |

## Team statistics
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 5 | Hibernian | 38 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 51 | 39 | +12 | 54 |
| 6 | Heart of Midlothian | 38 | 15 | 6 | 17 | 42 | 50 | −8 | 51 |
| 7 | St Johnstone | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 52 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 38 | 15 | 6 | 17 | 46 | 56 | −10 | 51 |
| 9 | Livingston | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 42 | 44 | −2 | 44 |
* ↑ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

#### Group B table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STJ | FAL | MON | FOR | EFI |
| 1 | St Johnstone (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 11 | Qualification for the Second round | — | 1–0 | — | — | p0–0 |
| 2 | Falkirk | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 | | — | — | 0–1 | 2–0 | — |
| 3 | Montrose | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 6 | | 0–1 | — | — | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Forfar Athletic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 5 | | 1–3 | — | 3–1 | — | — |
| 5 | East Fife | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 | | — | 1–2 | — | 1–1p | — |

## Transfers

Players in
Date
Player
From
Fee
9 May 2018
Drey Wright
Colchester United
Free
9 July 2018
Tony Watt
Free Agent
Free
21 July 2018
Matty Kennedy
Cardiff City
Free
26 July 2018
Conor Mitchell
Burnley
Loan
26 July 2018
Tristan Nydam
Ipswich Town
Loan
31 August 2018
Ross Callachan
Heart of Midlothian
Free
19 January 2019
Michael O'Halloran
Melbourne City
Free
29 January 2019
Niall Keown
Partick Thistle
Loan
31 January 2019
Cammy Bell
Partick Thistle
Loan
31 January 2019
Sean Goss
Queens Park Rangers
Loan
Players out
Date
Player
To
Fee
6 June 2018
Chris Millar
Greenock Morton
Free
21 June 2018
Keith Watson
Ross County
Free
1 July 2018
Steven MacLean
Heart of Midlothian
Free
1 July 2018
Alan Mannus
Shamrock Rovers
Free
31 August 2018
Callum Hendry
Brechin City
Loan
29 January 2019
Steven Anderson
Partick Thistle
Loan
31 January 2019
David McMillan
Hamilton Academical
Loan
31 January 2019
Stefan Scougall
Carlisle United
Free :