Rugby team
ST Johnstone
Club · Scotland · Championship
«The Saints»
Perth's fiercest football rivalry runs east along the Tay rather than across town: matches against Dundee and Dundee United are known as the Tayside derby, and nothing else on the fixture list carries quite the same edge for St Johnstone.
The club's name comes from St John's Toun, Perth's old name — the same root behind the Saints nickname. Founded in 1884, the team played its first match the following February.
St Johnstone left their old ground for McDiarmid Park in 1989, the first stadium in Britain built entirely with seating rather than standing terraces. Saints, playing in blue and white, have called it home ever since; it holds 10,696.
Two Scottish Cups, won in 2014 and 2021, sit alongside a League Cup from 2021 — the two arrived in the same season for what remains the club's only domestic double.
A club-record run of sixteen straight seasons in the Scottish Premiership, the top flight, ended with relegation in 2025. St Johnstone spent just a single season out of the top division, winning the Championship in 2025-26 to return at the first attempt.
A Scottish top-flight title has never featured in any of that. Third place, last managed in 2012-13, remains as close as St Johnstone have come.
Latest results
All matches| 9 Sep | Premiership |
Celtic
H
|
0:1 | L |
| 6 Sep | Premiership |
Hibernian
H
|
2:1 | W |
| 2 Sep | Premiership |
Dundee
A
|
1:1 | D |
| 29 Aug | Premiership |
Heart of Midlothian
A
|
1:2 | L |
| 8 Aug | Premiership |
St. Mirren
A
|
0:1 | L |
| 2 Aug | Premiership |
Kilmarnock
H
|
4:3 | W |
Standing
Premiership| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 |
 Motherwell
|
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8:5 | 8 |
| 6 |
Dundee
|
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7:6 | 7 |
| 7 |
ST Johnstone
|
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8:9 | 7 |
| 8 |
Hibernian
|
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7:9 | 6 |
| 9 |
 Dundee Utd
|
6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6:11 | 5 |
Team statistics
matches counted: 299| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 299 | 145 | 154 |
| Scored | 368 | 176 | 192 |
| Conceded | 372 | 165 | 207 |
| Scored per game | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Conceded per game | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| Difference | −4 | +11 | −15 |
Key players
by appearances over the last yearSquad of ST Johnstone
by appearances over the last year| Number | Player | Position | Age | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 |  Morgan Marc Boyes |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 18 |  Kai Fotheringham |
Forward | 6 | ||
| 42 |  Reece McAlear |
Midfielder | 6 | ||
| 11 |  Sam Stanton |
Midfielder | 6 | ||
| 20 |  Ross Sinclair |
Goalkeeper | 6 | ||
| 25 |  Macalli Tate |
Midfielder | 6 | ||
| 7 |  Taylor Steven |
Midfielder | 6 | ||
| 8 |  Jason Derek Holt |
Midfielder | 6 | ||
| 33 |  Liam Smith |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 1 |  Toby Steward |
Goalkeeper | 6 | ||
| 14 |  Matty Foulds |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 3 |  Cheick Tiemoko Diabate |
Defender | 6 | ||
| 9 |  J. Fowler |
Forward | 5 | ||
| 99 |  Ruari Paton |
Forward | 5 | ||
| 10 |  James Gullan |
Forward | 5 | ||
| 19 |  Danny Finlayson |
Defender | 4 | ||
| 5 |  Zach Mitchell |
Defender | 4 | ||
| 23 |  Logan Chalmers |
Midfielder | 4 | ||
| 26 |  Matthew Todd |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 2 |  Enes Alic |
Defender | 3 | ||
| 15 |  Jack Baird |
Defender | 3 | ||
| 22 |  Danny Schmidt |
Forward | 2 | ||
| 32 |  |
 Josh Campbell |
Midfielder | 26 | 1 |
| 6 |  B. Mikulić |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 17 |  Louis Charles Lloyd |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 31 |  Craig Hepburn |
Goalkeeper | 1 |
Fixtures of ST Johnstone
-
9 Sep
Celtic
H
0:1
L
-
6 Sep
Hibernian
H
2:1
W
-
2 Sep
Dundee
A
1:1
D
-
29 Aug
Heart of Midlothian
A
1:2
L
-
8 Aug
St. Mirren
A
0:1
L
-
2 Aug
Kilmarnock
H
4:3
W
-
25 Jul
East Fife
H
1:1
D
-
21 Jul
Inverness CT
A
0:1
L
Honours of ST Johnstone
- Scottish Championship / First Division / Division One 1983, 1990, 1997, 2009, 2026 5
- Scottish Division Two 1924, 1960, 1963 3
- Scottish Cup 2014, 2021 2
- Scottish League Cup 2021 1
Transfers
TransfersArrivals
- Víctor Griffith CS Emelec 26/27
- Macalli Tate Heart of Midl. 26/27
- A. Forrest Heart of Midl. 25/26
- Kai Fotheringham Dundee United 25/26
- Víctor Griffith Árabe Unido 24/25
- Makenzie Kirk Hearts FC B 24/25
Departures
- Josh McPake Heart of Midl. 26/27
- Víctor Griffith CS Emelec 25/26
- Makenzie Kirk Portsmouth 25/26
- Benjamin Mbunga-Kimpioka Sivasspor 25/26
- A. Forrest Heart of Midl. 25/26
- André Raymond Ilves 25/26 €50.00K