2014–15 Partick Thistle F.C. season

The 2014–15 season was Partick Thistle's second consecutive season in the Scottish Premiership and their second season back in the top-flight of Scottish football, having been promoted from the First Division at the end of the 2012–13 season.[1] Thistle also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Partick Thistle
2014–15 season
ManagerAlan Archibald
StadiumFirhill Stadium
PremiershipEighth place
League CupSecond round
Scottish CupFifth round
Top goalscorerLeague: Kris Doolan (9)
All: Kris Doolan (10)
Highest home attendance5,776 vs. Celtic, Premiership, 11 February 2015
Lowest home attendance1,879 vs. St Mirren, League Cup, 23 September 2014
Average home league attendance3,586

Summary

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Season

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Partick Thistle finished in eighth place in the Scottish Premiership with 46 points, they also reached quarter-final of the League Cup and the fifth round of the Scottish Cup.

Results and fixtures

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  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre Season

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12 July 2014 Brighton & Hove Albion 4 – 0 Partick Thistle Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain
19:00 Mackail-Smith   43'
Greer   45'
Fenelon   51'
Harris   73'
Report
19 July 2014 Dumbarton 1 – 1 Partick Thistle Dumbarton Football Stadium, Dumbarton
19:00 Prunty   56' Report Stevenson   68'
27 July 2014 Glentoran 1 – 3 Partick Thistle The Oval, Belfast
16:00 Stewart   43 pen.' Report Doolan   34'
Fraser   70'
Higginbotham   87 pen.'
2 August 2014 Fleetwood Town 0 – 0 Partick Thistle Highbury Stadium, Fleetwood
15:00 Report
6 August 2014 Partick Thistle 3 – 1 Sunderland Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
19:30 Report

Scottish Premiership

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13 August 2014 1 Partick Thistle 4 – 0 Ross County Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
19:45 Bannigan   40'
Frempah   55 o.g.'
Fraser   73'
O'Donnell   90+2'
Report Attendance: 3,261
Referee: Andrew Dallas
16 August 2014 2 Dundee 1 – 1 Partick Thistle Dens Park, Dundee
15:00 Wighton   54' Report Fraser   4'
Fox   61'
Attendance: 6,453
Referee: Craig Charleston
23 August 2014 3 Partick Thistle 1 – 2 Hamilton Academical Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Higginbotham   85' Report Andreu   87'
Scotland   90+2'
Attendance: 3,578
Referee: Kevin Clancy
30 August 2014 4 Aberdeen 2 – 0 Partick Thistle Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen
15:00 Low   47'
McGinn   66'
Report Attendance: 11,003
Referee: Brian Colvin
13 September 2014 5 Partick Thistle 3 – 1 Inverness CT Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Lawless   19'
Osman   23'
Higginbotham   72'
Report Attendance: 2,917
Referee: Stephen Finnie
19 September 2014 6 Partick Thistle 1 – 2 St Mirren Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Doolan   22' Report Ball   60'
McLean   90+5 pen.'
Attendance: 3,821
Referee: Willie Collum
27 September 2014 7 Kilmarnock 3 – 0 Partick Thistle Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
15:00 Obadeyi   25', 57'
Pascali   51'
Report Attendance: 3,980
Referee: Andrew Dallas
4 October 2014 8 Partick Thistle 3 – 1 Motherwell Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Bannigan   16'
Doolan   63'
O’Donnell   82'
Report Ainsworth   72' Attendance: 3,405
Referee: Bobby Madden
18 October 2014 9 Dundee United 1 – 0 Partick Thistle Tannadice Park, Dundee
15:00 Ciftci   84 pen.' Report Seaborne   83' Attendance: 6,756
Referee: Steven McLean
25 October 2014 10 Partick Thistle 0 – 0 St Johnstone Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Report Attendance: 3,090
Referee: Calum Murray
1 November 2014 11 Hamilton Academical 3 – 3 Partick Thistle New Douglas Park, Hamilton
15:00 MacKinnon   22'
Redmond   23'
Andreu   90+4'
Report McMillan   32'
Craigen   68'
Elliott   72'
Attendance: 2,855
Referee: Brian Colvin
8 November 2014 12 St Mirren 0 – 1 Partick Thistle St Mirren Park, Paisley
15:00 Report Elliott   75' Attendance: 4,636
Referee: John Beaton
23 November 2014 13 Partick Thistle 0 – 1 Aberdeen Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Report Rooney   34 pen.' Attendance: 4,145
Referee: Willie Collum
3 December 2014 14 Celtic 1 – 0 Partick Thistle Celtic Park, Glasgow
19:45 Van Dijk   60' Report Attendance: 40,633
Referee: Brian Colvin
6 December 2014 15 Partick Thistle 1 – 1 Kilmarnock Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Seaborne   19' Report Obadeyi   11' Attendance: 3,054
Referee: Steven McLean
13 December 2014 16 Inverness CT 0 – 4 Partick Thistle Caledonian Stadium, Inverness
15:00 Report Stevenson   12', 40'
Fraser   49'
Balatoni   56'
Attendance: 2,723
Referee: John Beaton
20 December 2014 17 Partick Thistle 1 – 1 Dundee Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Craigen   58' Report Balatoni   90 o.g.' Attendance: 3,203
Referee: Craig Thomson
27 December 2014 18 Motherwell 1 – 0 Partick Thistle Fir Park, Motherwell
15:00 Sutton   14 pen.' Report Attendance: 5,236
Referee: Brian Colvin
4 January 2015 19 Partick Thistle 2 – 2 Dundee United Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Stevenson   24'
Doolan   32'
Report Mackay-Steven   10'
Ciftci   73'
Attendance: 3,761
Referee: John Beaton
17 January 2015 20 St Johnstone 2 – 0 Partick Thistle McDiarmid Park, Perth
15:00 Mackay   4'
Anderson   49'
Report Attendance: 2,994
Referee: Greg Aitken
21 January 2015 21 Partick Thistle 5 – 0 Hamilton Academical Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
19:45 Doolan   29', 44', 60', 62'
Eccleston   89'
Report Attendance: 2,138
Referee: Craig Thomson
24 January 2015 22 Kilmarnock 2 – 2 Partick Thistle Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
15:00 Magennis   33'
Pascali   79'
Report Stevenson   2'
Frans   84'
Attendance: 4,130
Referee: Willie Collum
30 January 2015 23 Partick Thistle 0 – 1 St Mirren Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
19:45 Report Dayton   6' Attendance: 3,864
Referee: Kevin Clancy
11 February 2015 24 Partick Thistle 0 – 3 Celtic Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
19:45 Report Mackay-Steven   1'
Armstrong   30'
Johanen   66'
Attendance: 5,776
Referee: Crawford Allan
14 February 2015 25 Dundee 1 – 0 Partick Thistle Dens Park, Dundee
15:00 McGowan   90+1' Report Attendance: 5,560
Referee: Craig Thomson
21 February 2015 26 Partick Thistle 1 – 3 Ross County Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Taylor   68' Report Curran   11'
De Vita   65'
Fraser   71'
Attendance: 2,951
Referee: Stephen Finnie
28 February 2015 27 Dundee United 0 – 2 Partick Thistle Tannadice Park, Dundee
15:00 Report O'Donnell   34'
McGowan   41 o.g.'
Attendance: 6,517
Referee: Greg Aitken
7 March 2015 28 Ross County 1 – 0 Partick Thistle Victoria Park, Dingwall
15:00 Craig Curran   33' Report Higginbotham   59' Attendance: 3,358
Referee: Alan Muir
14 March 2015 29 Partick Thistle 3 – 0 St Johnstone Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Doolan   3'
Balatoni   9'
Bannigan   65'
Report Attendance: 3,196
Referee: Willie Column
21 March 2015 30 Partick Thistle 1 – 0 Inverness CT Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Lawless   84' Report Attendance: 2,603
Referee: Steven McLean
4 April 2015 31 Aberdeen 0 – 0 Partick Thistle Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen
15:00 Report Attendance: 12,727
Referee: Kevin Clancy
8 April 2015 32 Celtic 2 – 0 Partick Thistle Celtic Park, Glasgow
15:00 Commons   45 pen.'
Johansen   63'
Report Craigen   44' Attendance: 43,784
Referee: Willie Collum
11 April 2015 33 Partick Thistle 2 – 0 Motherwell Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Taylor   54', 61' Report Carswell   89' Attendance: 5,003
Referee: Bobby Madden
25 April 2015 34 Ross County 1 – 2 Partick Thistle Victoria Park, Dingwall
15:00 Gardyne   21' Report Frans   26'
O'Donnell   54'
Attendance: 3,315
Referee: Don Robertson
2 May 2015 35 Partick Thistle 3 – 0 St Mirren Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Stevenson   68'
Doolan   82'
Lawless   90+1'
Report Attendance: 3,865
Referee: Craig Thomson
9 May 2015 36 Hamilton Academical 1 – 1 Partick Thistle New Douglas Park, Hamilton
15:00 Docherty   85' Report O'Donnell   72' Attendance: 2,342
Referee: Stephen Finnie
16 May 2015 37 Partick Thistle 1 – 4 Kilmarnock Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Balatoni   67' Report Hamill   25'
Obadeyi   37', 63'
Magennis   71'
Attendance: 3,865
Referee: Craig Thomson
23 May 2015 38 Motherwell 0 – 0 Partick Thistle Fir Park, Motherwell
15:00 Report Attendance: 3,711
Referee: Steven McLean

Scottish League Cup

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26 August 2014 Second Round Greenock Morton 0 – 1 Partick Thistle Cappielow, Greenock
19:45 Report Doolan   45+1' Attendance: 2,005
Referee: Steven McLean
23 September 2014 Third Round Partick Thistle 1 – 0 (a.e.t.) St Mirren Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
19:45 Eccleston   100' Report Attendance: 1,879
Referee: Calum Murray
29 October 2014 Quarter-Final Celtic 6 – 0 Partick Thistle Celtic Park, Glasgow
19:45 Guidetti   31', 52', 56 pen.'
Izaguirre   48'
Griffiths   62', 68'
Report Bannigan   44' Attendance: 16,805
Referee: Kevin Clancy

Scottish Cup

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23 September 2014 Fourth Round Partick Thistle 2 – 0 Hamilton Academical Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Stevenson   19', 54' Report Imrie   89' Attendance: 2,467
Referee: Kevin Clancy
23 September 2014 Fifth Round Partick Thistle 1 – 2 Inverness CT Firhill Stadium, Glasgow
15:00 Taylor   67' Report Watkins   16'
Tansey   27'
Attendance: 2,915
Referee: Willie Collum

Player statistics

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As of 23 May 2015 (UTC)[2]
No. Pos Nat Player Total Premiership League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   SCO Scott Fox 24 0 22+0 0 0+0 0 2+0 0
2 DF   SCO Stephen O'Donnell 38 5 34+0 5 2+0 0 2+0 0
3 DF   ENG Danny Seaborne 22 1 18+0 1 2+0 0 2+0 0
4 MF   SCO Sean Welsh 3 0 1+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
5 DF   SCO Callum Booth 14 0 14+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
6 DF   ENG Conrad Balatoni 35 3 32+0 3 0+0 0 3+0 0
7 MF   ENG James Craigen 31 2 19+7 2 0+2 0 3+0 0
8 MF   SCO Stuart Bannigan 41 3 34+2 3 2+0 0 2+1 0
9 FW   SCO Kris Doolan 40 10 18+17 9 0+2 0 2+1 1
10 FW   SCO Ryan Stevenson 36 7 28+4 5 2+0 2 0+2 0
11 MF   SCO Steven Lawless 38 3 28+5 3 1+1 0 3+0 0
12 GK   SCO Paul Gallacher 21 0 16+2 0 2+0 0 1+0 0
13 DF   BEL Frédéric Frans 22 2 20+0 2 2+0 0 0+0 0
14 MF   ENG Christie Elliott 31 2 18+8 2 2+0 0 1+2 0
15 MF   ENG Kallum Higginbotham 35 2 24+6 2 2+0 0 2+1 0
16 DF   SCO Jordan McMillan 13 1 11+0 1 0+0 0 2+0 0
18 MF   GHA Abdul Osman 39 1 34+0 1 2+0 0 3+0 0
21 DF   ENG Ben Richards-Everton 2 0 1+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
22 MF   ENG Gary Fraser 26 3 13+10 3 2+0 0 1+0 0
23 MF   SCO David Wilson 6 0 1+5 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
24 DF   SCO Jack Hendry 1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
26 DF   SCO Liam Lindsay 1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
28 MF   SCO Declan McDaid 16 3 5+11 3 0+0 0 0+0 0
29 FW   MSR Lyle Taylor 16 4 10+5 3 0+1 1 0+0 0
30 DF   SCO Dale Keenan 6 3 4+1 3 0+0 0 1+0 0
33 FW   SCO Neil McLaughlin 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
36 MF   AUS Chris Duggan 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
Players who left the club during the 2014–15 season
5 DF   SCO Aaron Muirhead 6 0 3+2 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
17 DF   IRL Jake Carroll 13 1 8+2 1 1+0 0 1+1 0
19 FW   ENG Nathan Eccleston 11 2 0+9 1 0+0 0 1+1 1

Team statistics

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
6 Dundee[a] 38 11 12 15 46 57 −11 45
7 Hamilton Academical 38 15 8 15 50 53 −3 53
8 Partick Thistle 38 12 10 16 48 44 +4 46
9 Ross County 38 12 8 18 46 63 −17 44
10 Kilmarnock 38 11 8 19 44 59 −15 41
Source: SPFL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Notes:
  1. ^ Teams in the bottom six at the time of the split (33 games) cannot pass teams in the top six

Division summary

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Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHAHAHA
ResultWDLLWLLWLDDWLLDWDLDLWDLLLLWLWWDLWWWDLD
Position45898997889899999999999999999999888888
Updated to match(es) played on 23 May 2015. Source: [3]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

References

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  1. ^ "Falkirk 0-2 Partick Thistle". BBC Sport. BBC. 22 April 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Partick Thistle 2014/2015 player appearances". Soccerbase. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Scottish Premiership 2014/15". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 12 June 2020.