2013–14 St Johnstone F.C. season

St Johnstone
2013–14 season
St Johnstone players celebrating their victory in the 2014 Scottish Cup Final
ChairmanSteve Brown
ManagerTommy Wright
StadiumMcDiarmid Park
Premiership6th
Scottish CupWinners
League CupSemi-finals
UEFA Europa LeagueThird qualifying round
Top goalscorerLeague:
Stevie May (20)

All:
Stevie May (27)
Highest home attendance8,594 vs. Minsk
Europa Third QF Round
8 August 2013
Lowest home attendance1,892 vs. Motherwell
Premiership
25 February 2014

The 2013–14 season was St Johnstone's fifth-consecutive season in the top flight of Scottish football and their first in the newly established Scottish Premiership,[1] having been promoted from the Scottish First Division at the end of the 2008–09 season.[2] St Johnstone competed in the Europa League, losing to FC Minsk in the Third qualifying round.[3] They also reached the semi-finals of the League Cup, losing to Aberdeen and won the Scottish Cup for the first time in their history.[4]

It was Tommy Wright's first season as manager.

Results

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre season

10 July 2013[5] Friendly Cowdenbeath 0–1 St Johnstone Central Park
19:45 Wotherspoon 2'
13 July 2013[5] Friendly Greenock Morton 0–1 St Johnstone Cappielow
15:00 Mackay 73' Attendance: 1,014
21 July 2013[5] Friendly Dundee 1–1 St Johnstone Dens Park
15:00 Monti 20' Report May 8' Attendance: 1,766

Scottish Premiership

14 September 2013 Scottish Premiership St Johnstone 1–2 Hibernian McDiarmid Park
15:00 May 17' Report Heffernan 35'
Collins 59'
Attendance: 4,095
Referee: Bobby Madden
21 September 2013 Scottish Premiership Celtic 2–1 St Johnstone Celtic Park
15:00 Pukki 11'
Mulgrew 26'
Report Caddis 81' Attendance: 45,220
Referee: Alan Muir
19 October 2013 Scottish Premiership St Mirren 4–3 St Johnstone St Mirren Park
15:00 McLean 8', 76 pen'
McGowan 60'
Thompson 89'
Report MacLean 17'
Hasselbaink 61'
Fallon 84'
Attendance: 3,739
Referee: Willie Collum
8 November 2013 Scottish Premiership St Johnstone 3–1 Kilmarnock McDiarmid Park
Hasselbaink 24'
May 31', 54' (pen.)
BBC Report Irvine  52' 
Clohessy 69'
Barr  86' 
Attendance: 2,855
Referee: Finnie
7 December 2013 Scottish Premiership St Johnstone 0–2 Aberdeen McDiarmid Park
15:00 Report Pawlett 17'
McGinn 85'
Attendance: 4,741
Referee: Collum
21 December 2013 Scottish Premiership Hibernian 0–0 St Johnstone Easter Road
BBC Report Cregg  31' Attendance: 8,776
Referee: Muir
29 December 2013 Scottish Premiership St Johnstone 3–0 Dundee United McDiarmid Park
May 20' (pen.), 57', 87' BBC Report Butcher  20' Attendance: 7,231
Referee: Finnie
18 January 2014 Scottish Premiership St Johnstone 3–3 Heart of Midlothian McDiarmid Park
15:00 Anderson  21'
May 39' (pen.), 49', 62' (pen.)
Mannus  90'
BBC Report Carrick 58'
Nicholson 89'
Stevenson  89'
Wilson 91'
Attendance: 3,395
Referee: Colvin
27 January 2014 Scottish Premiership Dundee United P – P St Johnstone Tannadice Park
19:45 BBC Report Referee: Allan
Note: Match postponed due to waterlogged pitch[6]
16 February 2014 Scottish Premiership Celtic 3–0 St Johnstone Celtic Park
15:00 Stokes 16', 64', 66' BBC Report Attendance: 45,239
Referee: McLean
22 March 2014 Scottish Premiership St Johnstone 2–0 Hibernian McDiarmid Park
MacLean 18'
McGivern 55' (own goal)
BBC Report Attendance: 3,553
Referee: McLean
25 March 2014 Scottish Premiership St Mirren 0–1 St Johnstone St Mirren Park
15:00 BBC Report MacLean 39' Attendance: 2,817
Referee: Muir
26 April 2014 Scottish Premiership Aberdeen 1–1 St Johnstone Pittodrie Stadium
15:00 Rooney 31' BBC Report May 8' Attendance: 10,003
Referee: Muir

UEFA Europa League

25 July 2013 Second QF Round Leg 2 St Johnstone 1–1
(2–1 agg.)
Rosenborg BK McDiarmid Park
19:45 May 21' Report Soderlund 4' Attendance: 7,850
Referee: Miroslav Zelinka

Scottish League Cup

24 September 2013 Third round Hamilton 0–3 St Johnstone New Douglas Park
19:45 Report May 4', 90'
Edwards 86'
Attendance: 1,059
Referee: John Beaton
30 October 2013 Quarter Final Greenock Morton 0–1 St Johnstone Cappielow Park
19:45 Report McDonald Attendance: 2,619
Referee: John McKendrick
1 February 2014 Semi Final Aberdeen 4–0 St Johnstone Easter Road
15:00 Hayes 3', 79'
Pawlett 32'
Rooney 63'
BBC Report Attendance: 16,761
Referee: Madden

Scottish Cup

30 November 2013 Scottish Cup round 4 St Johnstone 2–0 Livingston McDiarmid Park
15:00 May 24'
Jahic 62'
BBC Report Attendance: 2,294
Referee: Dallas
13 April 2014 Semi Final St Johnstone 2–1 Aberdeen Ibrox Stadium
12:45 May 61', 84' BBC Report McGinn 15' Attendance: 19,057
Referee: Collum
17 May 2014 Final St Johnstone 2–0 Dundee United Celtic Park
15:00 Anderson 45+1'
MacLean 84'
BBC Report Attendance: Thomson
Referee: 47,345

Player statistics

Squad

Last updated 17 May 2014[7][8]
No. Pos Nat Player Total Premiership Europa League League Cup Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK  NIR Alan Mannus 44 0 34+0 0 4+0 0 2+0 0 4+0 0
2 DF  SCO Dave Mackay 48 3 36+0 3 4+0 0 3+0 0 5+0 0
3 DF  SCO Tam Scobbie 27 0 18+3 0 4+0 0 0+1 0 1+0 0
4 MF  IRL Patrick Cregg 28 0 13+7 0 4+0 0 2+0 0 1+1 0
5 DF  SCO Frazer Wright 36 3 25+1 1 4+0 1 3+0 0 3+0 1
6 DF  SCO Steven Anderson 39 4 29+0 2 4+0 0 2+0 0 4+0 2
7 MF  SCO Chris Millar 42 0 26+7 0 1+1 0 3+0 0 3+1 0
8 MF  SCO Gary McDonald 40 2 26+3 0 4+0 0 3+0 1 3+1 1
9 FW  SCO Steve MacLean 29 10 18+3 8 4+0 1 1+0 0 3+0 1
10 MF  SCO David Wotherspoon 50 1 32+6 1 4+0 0 2+1 0 4+1 0
11 FW  NED Nigel Hasselbaink 39 6 20+10 5 4+0 0 3+0 0 2+0 1
12 MF  SCO David Robertson 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
12 MF  ENG James Dunne 17 1 13+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 3+1 1
14 FW  WAL Gwion Edwards 17 1 4+9 0 0+3 0 0+1 1 0+0 0
15 GK  ENG Steve Banks 6 0 4+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
16 MF  SCO Liam Caddis 10 1 0+8 1 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
17 FW  SCO Stevie May 49 27 34+4 20 2+1 1 3+0 2 5+0 4
18 MF  SCO Murray Davidson 24 1 18+3 1 0+1 0 0+1 0 1+0 0
19 DF  SCO Gary Miller 29 1 18+5 1 0+2 0 1+2 0 1+0 0
20 MF  SCO Scott Brown 5 1 2+2 1 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
22 MF  ENG Lee Croft 23 0 10+9 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 2+1 0
23 DF  EIR Tim Clancy 4 1 3+1 1 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
24 DF  SCO Brian Easton 32 0 22+1 0 0+1 0 3+0 0 5+0 0
25 FW  BIH Sanel Jahić 6 1 3+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 1
25 FW  SCO Chris Iwelumo 8 0 0+6 0 0+0 0 0+1 0 0+1 0
27 FW  NZL Rory Fallon 12 1 1+7 1 0+2 0 0+1 0 0+1 0
29 FW  SCO Michael O'Halloran 19 2 9+5 1 0+0 0 0+1 0 3+1 1
30 GK  SCO Zander Clark 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
31 FW  SCO Dylan Easton 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
41 FW  SCO Chris Kane 2 0 0+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
44 MF  SCO Craig Thomson 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.

Last updated 17 May 2014
Number Nation Position Name Premiership Europa League League Cup Scottish Cup Total
1 GK Alan Mannus 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 DF Dave Mackay 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 7 0
3 DF Tam Scobbie 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
4 MF Patrick Cregg 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
5 DF Frazer Wright 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
6 DF Steven Anderson 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
7 MF Chris Millar 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
9 MF Steve MacLean 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1
10 MF David Wotherspoon 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 0
11 FW Nigel Hasselbaink 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
12 MF David Robertson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 MF James Dunne 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
14 FW Gwion Edwards 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
16 MF Liam Caddis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
17 FW Stevie May 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 0
18 MF Murray Davidson 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
19 DF Gary Miller 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
22 MF Lee Croft 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
23 DF Tim Clancy 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
24 DF Brian Easton 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0
25 FW Chris Iwelumo 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
27 FW Rory Fallon 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

Team statistics

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Celtic (C) 38 31 6 1 102 25 +77 99 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Motherwell 38 22 4 12 64 60 +4 70 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
3 Aberdeen 38 20 8 10 53 38 +15 68 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
4 Dundee United 38 16 10 12 65 50 +15 58
5 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 38 16 9 13 44 44 0 57
6 St Johnstone 38 15 8 15 48 42 +6 53 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
7 Ross County 38 11 7 20 44 62 −18 40
8 St Mirren 38 10 9 19 39 58 −19 39
9 Kilmarnock 38 11 6 21 45 66 −21 39
10 Partick Thistle 38 8 14 16 46 65 −19 38
11 Hibernian (R) 38 8 11 19 31 51 −20 35 Qualification for the Premiership play-off final
12 Heart of Midlothian (R) 38 10 8 20 45 65 −20 23[b] Relegation to the Championship
Source: SPFL Archive
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ St Johnstone, as winners of the 2013–14 Scottish Cup, qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round.
  2. ^ Heart of Midlothian were deducted 15 points for entering administration


Division summary

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GroundHAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHHHAHAHAAHA
ResultWDWLDLLDWLWWWLLDLWLLWDWLLWLWLWWDWWDLDL
Position54235588676556666667666666666666666666
Updated to match(es) played on 17 May 2014. Source: [9]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Transfers

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