St Johnstone Women's Football Club (formerly Jeanfield Swifts Ladies Football Club) is a Scottish

women's association football Women's association football, more commonly known simply as women's football or women's soccer, is a team sport of association football when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries and 176 national te ...

club based in

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. They are members of the

Scottish Women's Premier League 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 ...

(SWPL), the highest level women's football league in Scotland, and have competed in its second tier, SWPL 2, since 2016.

History

Jeanfield Swifts

The club was developed as part of Jeanfield Swifts Community Football Club, a community-orientated umbrella organisation that also included the men's senior club, Jeanfield Swifts F.C., as well as amateur and youth teams. Jeanfield were promoted to SWPL2, the second tier of the

(SWPL) for the 2016 season. During a league match against Glasgow Girls in August of that year, the club's director of coaching Donna Shaw played alongside her 14-year-old daughter Rachel Wolecki.

St Johnstone

Following promotion to the SWPL2, the club embarked on a partnership with local senior men's club

St Johnstone St Johnstone Football Club is a professional association football club in Perth, Scotland which is a member of the Scottish Premiership for the 2022–23 season. The club's name is derived from St John's Toun ''aka'' Saint Johnstoun – an old ...

, allowing them to use the facilities at the latter's

McDiarmid Park McDiarmid Park is a stadium in Perth, Scotland, used mainly for association football. It has been the home ground of Scottish Premiership side St Johnstone since its opening in 1989. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of . As well as St Jo ...

stadium. The two clubs announced in November 2017, under a further development of their partnership, that the Swifts first team would play under the St Johnstone name from the 2018 season onwards. On 11 February 2018, the team played their first SWPL2 match under the St Johnstone name, losing 3–1 at home to newly promoted Central Girls.

Players

Current squad

References

External links

* Women's football clubs in Scotland Sport in Perth, Scotland Scottish Women's Premier League clubs 2012 establishments in Scotland Association football clubs established in 2012 St Johnstone F.C. Jeanfield Swifts F.C. Scottish Women's Football League clubs {{Scotland-footyclub-stub