2016–17 St Johnstone F.C. season: Difference between revisions

St Johnstone
2016–17 season
Chairman	Steve Brown
Manager	Tommy Wright
Stadium	McDiarmid Park; Perth, Scotland; (Capacity: 10,696)
Scottish Premiership	—
Scottish League Cup	—
Scottish Cup	—
Top goalscorer	League: ; All: Danny Swanson (5)
Highest home attendance	5,728 vs Aberdeen; Scottish Premiership; 7 August 2016
Lowest home attendance	2,725 vs Falkirk; Scottish League Cup; 23 July 2016
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2016–17 season is the club's fourth season in the Scottish Premiership and their eighth consecutive season in the top flight of Scottish football. St Johnstone will also compete in the Scottish Cup and the League Cup.^[1]

Results & fixtures

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Pre-season

Scottish Premiership

7 August 2016 1	St Johnstone	0 - 0	Aberdeen	McDiarmid Park
12:15	Craig 34' Cummins 37'	BBC Report SPFL Report		Attendance: 5,728 Referee: Collum

13 August 2016 2	Motherwell	1 - 2	St Johnstone	Fir Park
15:00	Cadden 47' Tait 39' Clay 74' McDonald 82'	BBC SPFL	Swanson 56' MacLean 75' Kane 42' Swanson 50' Davidson 90'	Attendance: 3,739 Referee: Euan Anderson

20 August 2016 3	St Johnstone	2 - 4	Celtic	McDiarmid Park
12:15	Swanson 83' (pen.) MacLean 89' Paton 45' Davidson 58' MacLean 86'	BBC SPFL	Griffiths 28' Sinclair 40' Forrest 44' Christie 90' Griffiths 38' Janko 43' Bitton 59'	Attendance: 6,823 Referee: Craig Thomson (referee)

27 August 2016 4	Inverness CT	2 - 1	St Johnstone	Caledonian Stadium
15:00	Draper 59' Meekings 90' Draper 66'	BBC SPFL	Foster 79' Wotherspoon 57'	Attendance: 2,729 Referee: Stephen Finnie

10 September 2016 5	Partick Thistle	0 - 2	St Johnstone	Firhill Stadium
15:00		BBC SPFL	Anderson 21' MacLean 64' Swanson 70'	Attendance: 2,885 Referee: Nick Walsh

17 September 2016 6	St Johnstone	1 - 0	Hearts	McDiarmid Park
15:00	Cummins 57' Cummins 15' Foster 33' Davidson 49' MacLean 75' Kane 85' Craig 90'	BBC SPFL	Rossi 75'	Attendance: 5,456 Referee: John Beaton

25 September 2016 7	Hamilton Academical	1 - 1	St Johnstone	New Douglas Park
15:00	Docherty 37' Donati 58' Doherty 63' MacKinnon 70' Seaborne 78' Crawford 90'	BBC SPFL	Craig 82' Davidson 33'	Attendance: 1,705 Referee: Euan Anderson

1 October 2016 8	Ross County	0 - 2	St Johnstone	Victoria Park, Dingwall
15:00		BBC SPFL	Swanson 42' (pen.) Kane 73'	Attendance: 3,299 Referee: Crawford Allen

15 October 2016 9	St Johnstone	0 - 1	Kilmarnock	McDiarmid Park
15:00		BBC SPFL	S Boyd 76'	Attendance: 2,930 Referee: Steven McLean

23 October 2016 10	St Johnstone	2 - 1	Dundee	McDiarmid Park
15:00	Anderson 62' Swanson 75' (pen.)	BBC SPFL	Loy 88' (pen.)	Attendance: 3,646 Referee: Andrew Dallas

26 October 2016 11	Rangers	1 - 1	St Johnstone	McDiarmid Park
19:45	Garner 62'	BBC SPFL	Alston 5'	Attendance: 46,563 Referee: Kevin Clancy

League Cup

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PW	PL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	STJ	FAL	STI	BRE	ELG
1	St Johnstone (Q)	4	3	0	1	0	11	2	+9	10	Qualification to the Second Round	—	3–0	4–0	—	—
2	Falkirk (X)	4	2	0	0	2	5	4	+1	6	Possible Second Round as one of the 4 best runners up	—	—	—	2–0	3–0
3	Stirling Albion	4	2	0	0	2	6	7	−1	6		—	1–0	—	—	4–1
4	Brechin City	4	1	1	0	2	5	8	−3	5		1–1 (4–2 p)	—	2–1	—	—
5	Elgin City	4	1	0	0	3	6	12	−6	3		1–3	—	—	4–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 30 July 2016. Source: BBC
(Q) Qualified; (X) Advances to Best runners-up

16 July 2016 (2016-07-16) Group B	Elgin City	1 – 3	St Johnstone	Borough Briggs, Elgin
15:00	Duff 48' MacLeod 43'	BBC Report SPFL Report	Swanson 16' Cummins 71' MacLean 79'	Attendance: 1,046 Referee: Alan Muir

23 July 2016 (2016-07-23) Group B	St Johnstone	3 – 0	Falkirk	McDiarmid Park, Perth
15:00	Swanson 25' (pen.), 38' (pen.) MacLean 68' Craig 16'	SPFL Report	Watson 24'	Attendance: 2,725 Referee: Bobby Madden

26 July 2016 (2016-07-26) Group B	Brechin City	1 – 1 (4–2 p)	St Johnstone	Glebe Park, Brechin
19:45	Jackson 35' Graham 73'	SPFL Report	Kane 86'	Attendance: 912 Referee: John McKendrick
	Penalties
	Hill Dyer Graham Trouten Love		Swanson Kane Cummins Coulson

30 July 2016 (2016-07-30) Group B	St Johnstone	4 – 0	Stirling Albion	McDiarmid Park, Perth
15:00	Anderson 4' MacLean 33' Craig 43' Wotherspoon 90+2'	SPFL Report	Ferns 56' McKenzie 90+3'	Attendance: 2,858 Referee: Barry Cook

10 August 2016 Second Round	St Johnstone	3 - 2	Hearts	McDiarmid Park, Perth
19:45	Swanson 10' 75' (pen.) McKay 80' Paton 45' Swanson 71' Alston 76'	SPFL Report	Paterson 43' Walker 45' (pen.) Cowie 9' Murihead 54' Ozturk 74' Rossi 81'	Attendance: 4,214 Referee: Crawford Allan

22 September 2016 Quarter final	Aberdeen	1 - 0	St Johnstone	Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen
19:45	Rooney 90' Maddison 7' Shinnie 34'	BBC Report SPFL Report	Shaughnessy 11' Wotherspoon 45' Paton 51' Swanson 67' Davidson 80'	Attendance: 8,829 Referee: Craig Thomson (referee)

Scottish Cup

Fourth Round

TBA

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TBA

Squad Statistics

Appearances

As of 10 August 2016

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premiership		League Cup		Scottish Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	NIR	Alan Mannus	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
3	DF	SCO	Tam Scobbie	5	0	1	0	4	0	0	0
4	MF	SCO	Blair Alston	6	0	1	0	4+1	0	0	0
6	DF	SCO	Steven Anderson	6	1	1	0	5	1	0	0
7	MF	SCO	Chris Millar	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
8	MF	SCO	Murray Davidson	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
9	FW	SCO	Steven MacLean	5	3	1	0	3+1	3	0	0
10	MF	SCO	David Wotherspoon	3	1	0+1	0	1+1	1	0	0
11	MF	SCO	Danny Swanson	6	5	1	0	4+1	5	0	0
12	GK	SCO	Zander Clark	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
14	DF	EIR	Joe Shaughnessy	6	0	1	0	5	0	0	0
15	DF	SCO	Brad McKay	1	1	0	0	0+1	1	0	0
17	FW	SCO	Michael Coulson	4	0	0+1	0	1+2	0	0	0
18	MF	NIR	Paul Paton	5	0	0	0	2+3	0	0	0
22	DF	SCO	Keith Watson	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
24	DF	SCO	Brian Easton	6	0	1	0	5	0	0	0
25	FW	SCO	Chris Kane	5	1	0+1	0	2+2	1	0	0
26	MF	SCO	Liam Craig	6	1	1	0	5	1	0	0
27	MF	SCO	Craig Thomson	2	0	0	0	1+1	0	0	0
29	FW	EIR	Graham Cummins	5	1	1	0	3+1	1	0	0

Disciplinary record

As of 10 August 2016

Number	Nation	Position	Name
Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premiership		League Cup		Scottish Cup		Total
4		MF	Blair Alston	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
11		MF	Danny Swanson	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
18		MF	Paul Paton	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
26		MF	Liam Craig	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
29		MF	Graham Cummins	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
			TOTALS	2	0	3	0	0	0	5	0

Team statistics

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
2	Aberdeen	38	24	4	10	74	35	+39	76	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
3	Rangers	38	19	10	9	56	44	+12	67	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
4	St Johnstone	38	17	7	14	50	46	+4	58	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
5	Heart of Midlothian	38	12	10	16	55	52	+3	46
6	Partick Thistle	38	10	12	16	38	54	−16	42

Source: Scottish Premiership, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions qualification and second stage group allocation).^[2]
Notes:

^ Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

Results by opponent

St Johnstone score first

Team	Results				Points
Team	1	2	3	4	Points
Aberdeen					0
Celtic					0
Dundee					0
Hamilton Academical					0
Heart of Midlothian					0
Inverness C.T.					0
Kilmarnock					0
Motherwell					0
Partick Thistle					0
Rangers					0
Ross County					0

Source: 2016–17 Scottish Premier League Results Table

References

^ http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/betfred-cup--group-b-preview/
^ "Premiership 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

[2] Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last five matches.

[1] ttp://spfl.co.uk/news/article/betfred-cup--group-b-preview/

[3] "Premiership 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

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