Partick Thistle Women's Football Club, formerly known as Thistle Weir Ladies Football Club, is a Scottish women's football club based in the city of

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. It has been the women's section of

Partick Thistle Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football, football club from Glasgow, Scotland. Despite their name, the club are based at Firhill Stadium in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not played in Partick since 1908. ...

since 2013. The club currently plays in the

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, the top division of women's football in Scotland.

History

Thistle Weir Ladies Football Club was officially founded as part of the Thistle Weir Academy in 2014, having previously existed as part of the Charitable Trust for one year prior to that. On 22 October 2018, because the top two teams in the SWFL 1 South ( Hibernian U23s and Celtic Academy) were not eligible for promotion as subsidiaries of top division clubs, third-placed Thistle Weir were promoted to the

Scottish Women's Premier League 2 The Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) is the highest level of league competition in women's football in Scotland. Its two divisions are SWPL 1 and SWPL 2. The league was formed when the Premier Division of the Scottish Women's Football League ...

. On 23 January 2019, the club rebranded as Partick Thistle Women's Football Club. In September 2020, a new management team made up of three Partick Thistle professional men's team players was appointed, with Brian Graham as manager, in what the club believed was the first arrangement of its kind. Partick initially failed to gain promotion from the SWPL2 in

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, finishing in 3rd, but were invited to join the top division when Forfar Farmington resigned their place just before the new season began. With an expansion of the SWPL at end of 2021–22 (announced in April 2022) including no relegation, it would mean at least one more season for the ''Jags'' in the highest tier.

Stadium

The club previously played its home games at the

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-owned

Petershill Park Petershill Park is a leisure centre and football stadium located in the Springburn suburb of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. It has a third generation full-size outdoor football pitch, and has floodlights. It is host to the men's West of ...

in the

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area of Glasgow. Due to the ground being closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, matches during the 2020–21 season are being played at Lochinch, the police sports club facility located within

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Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Records

Year-by-year

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References

External links

Official website
{{Football in Glasgow Women's football clubs in Scotland Scottish Women's Premier League clubs Partick Thistle F.C. Football clubs in Glasgow Association football clubs established in 2013 2013 establishments in Scotland Springburn Maryhill Scottish Women's Football League clubs