# 2021–22 Partick Thistle F.C. season

The 2021–22 season is Partick Thistle's first season back in the second tier of Scottish football in the Scottish Championship, having been promoted from League One at the end of the 2020–21 season. Thistle also competed in the League Cup, Challenge Cup, the Scottish Cup and the Glasgow Cup.

## Summary

On 3 June 2021, Queens Park announced a groundshare agreement with Partick Thistle to play their home matches at Firhill Stadium while redevelopment work continues at Lesser Hampden.
On 14 December, Thistle competed in their first fixture of the renewed Glasgow Cup tournament, which had been cancelled the previous two years because of the ongoing pandemic.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Glasgow Cup
## Squad statistics
### Player statistics

    As of 6 May 2022 (UTC)
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Championship | Championship | League Cup | League Cup | Challenge Cup | Challenge Cup | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Glasgow Cup | Glasgow Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | SCO | Jamie Sneddon | 43 | 0 | 36+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Richard Foster | 33 | 0 | 27+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Kevin Holt | 45 | 5 | 35+1 | 4 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SCO | Lewis Mayo | 34 | 1 | 32+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SCO | Darren Brownlie | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SCO | Kyle Turner | 40 | 3 | 22+10 | 3 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | SCO | Scott Tiffoney | 39 | 5 | 30+1 | 5 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Stuart Bannigan | 46 | 0 | 36+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | SCO | Brian Graham | 42 | 18 | 29+5 | 13 | 4+0 | 4 | 1+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | SCO | Alex Jakubiak | 14 | 0 | 8+5 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | SCO | Cammy Smith | 42 | 1 | 21+16 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ENG | Andy Firth | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | NIR | Shea Gordon | 13 | 1 | 1+7 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | SCO | Steven Bell | 14 | 0 | 1+7 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | SCO | Ciaran McKenna | 32 | 1 | 22+0 | 1 | 3+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SCO | Connor Murray | 26 | 1 | 5+12 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | ENG | Tunji Akinola | 33 | 1 | 26+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SEN | Mouhamed Niang | 3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | SCO | Robbie Crawford | 19 | 1 | 12+5 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | SCO | Ross Docherty | 44 | 6 | 36+0 | 5 | 3+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | COL | Juan Alegría | 12 | 0 | 5+7 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | SCO | Gospel Ocholi | 4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | SCO | Billy Owens | 5 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 28 | GK | USA | Mason McCready | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | SCO | Ben Stanway | 5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | SCO | Ji Stevenson | 3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | SCO | Jake Hastie | 6 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | SCO | Stephen Hendrie | 21 | 0 | 8+7 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | SCO | Matthew Collins | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | SCO | Kyle McAllister | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players who left the club during the 2021–22 season ||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | SCO | Thomas O'Ware | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | SCO | Zak Rudden | 26 | 10 | 17+2 | 8 | 3+1 | 2 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | SCO | Harry Stone | 5 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | USA | Aaron Cervantes | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SCO | Ross MacIver | 28 | 1 | 1+16 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 |
| 25 | FW | SCO | Blair Lyons | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 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 |
| 2 | Arbroath | 36 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 54 | 28 | +26 | 65 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off semi-final |
| 3 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 53 | 34 | +19 | 59 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final |
| 4 | Partick Thistle | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 46 | 40 | +6 | 52 | Qualification for the Premiership play-off quarter-final |
| 5 | Raith Rovers | 36 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 44 | 44 | 0 | 50 | |
| 6 | Hamilton Academical | 36 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 38 | 53 | −15 | 42 | |

### League Cup table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STM | DNF | PAR | STE | DUM |
| 1 | St Mirren | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 12 | Qualification for the second round | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | — | — |
| 2 | Dunfermline Athletic | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 9 | Qualification for the second round | — | — | — | 4–1 | 5–1 |
| 3 | Partick Thistle | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 6 | | — | 2–4 | — | — | 2–0 |
| 4 | Stenhousemuir | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 3 | | 1–3 | — | 1–2 | — | — |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 0 | | 0–3 | — | — | 1–2 | — |
* ↑ St Mirren were awarded a technical 3−0 win over Dumbarton, who were unable to raise a team after a COVID-19 outbreak among players and staff.

### Glasgow Cup table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Rangers B | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 10 | Qualification for the semi-final |
| 2 | Queen's Park | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 7 | Qualification for the semi-final |
| 3 | Celtic B | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 | Qualification for the semi-final |
| 4 | Clyde | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 4 | Qualification for the semi-final |
| 5 | Partick Thistle | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 0 | |