The Thistle Archive

On this day 1980, Thistle's 250th Scottish Cup match was an all-ticket affair in the last 16 at Palmerston Park... a fast and furious encounter! Sat-16-Feb-1980 Queen of the South 1 Partick Thistle 3 (Scottish Cup 4th Round) →

On this night 2006... "Will it be a yes or will it be a no?" Wed-15-Feb-2006 Partick Thistle 1 Inverness CT 1 (Scottish Cup 4th Round replay) aet; won 4-2 pens → ICT x.mp4

The St Valentines Day massacre of Dundee United took place on this day 1950 at a snow-covered Firhill. Jags were into the Scottish Cup Quarter Finals once again... Tue-14-Feb-1950 Partick Thistle 5 Dundee United 0 (Scottish Cup 2nd Round) →

On this day 1954, with bugles, bells and beer, the Jags fans invaded Kirkcowan and made merry. It was a farcical Scottish Cup affair in the mud, with 10 goals in the final tally up... read the full story 👀 Sat-13-Feb-1954 Tarff Rovers 1 Partick Thistle 9 (Scottish Cup 2nd Round) →

A packed-out 7-tab match hub now in place, check it out... Elgin City archived → HIT THE NORTH ● Elgin City become the 150th club to meet Partick Thistle in competitive action, and in Thistle's 150th playing anniversary year too! ● Amazingly, Elgin is only the 18th most northerly village/town/city to host Partick Thistle. The most northerly in Scotland is Fivepenny in the Outer Hebrides where Thistle played Ness on 4th August 1990. Norway and Sweden have all 10 places in the Top 10. The most northerly of all is the beautiful and historic city of Gävle, where Thistle met Brynäs on 26th July 1972. ● Borough Briggs becomes the second most northerly venue to host Partick Thistle in the Scottish Cup. According to the precise post-codes, it's just 900 metres south of Deveronvale's Princess Royal Park on the latitude lines! ● It's a bit of history for Robbie Crawford, forever Thistle's first-ever scorer vs. Elgin City in competitive action. ● For the first time since January 1997, Thistle are awarded a penalty in a third successive match. The club-record (5) was set in August 1906. ● It's only the 7th of February, but 5 Thistle penalties in 2026 (well done Alex!) already betters each of the last two whole calendar years. ● Tony Watt becomes the second Jag to hit double figures in competitive goal action this term. ● Aidan Fitzpatrick hits 12 assists for the season, matching Chris Erskine (2012-13) and Jack McMillan (2022-23). All eyes on the tally of 14 (the highest since records began in 2012-13) set by Kyle Turner in 2022-23. ● Manager Mark Wilson reaches the 50 competitive games milestone as Thistle co-manager / manager. His 54% win rate is the highest of all-time at this stage; see graphic below for full details. ● Thistle reach the Scottish Cup Quarter Finals for the 34th time. ● The class of 2025-26 become the first Thistle team since 1982-83 to qualify for the Quarter Finals of both the League Cup & Scottish Cup in the same season. Somewhat bizarrely, Thistle have been a second tier club on both occasions!

On each manager's individual page, we have 'Summary' tabs where you can see several comparison tables for all the managers (albetit they're only updated annually). One of these tables breaks down the managers by individual spell: John Lambie →

No dishonourable shoot-outs back in the day! On this night 1983, an epic 7 hour cup battle with Killie comes to an end thanks to super Maurice Johnston. Full hub up, read all about it... Wed-09-Feb-1983 Kilmarnock 0 Partick Thistle 1 (Scottish Cup 3rd Round 3rd replay) →

6 consecutive competitive away wins (15.04.2006 to 08.08.2006) remains the all-time club-record. Awkward!

The gaffer! 👊

On this day 1913, Caledonian become the 89th club to play Partick Thistle in competitive action. Alec Raisbeck scores his last goal for the Jags. "Two trainloads of excursionists from the Northern capital" were in raptures with an early lead but "after a bombardment akin to that at Adrianople" an equaliser was achieved! Sat-08-Feb-1913 Partick Thistle 4 Caledonian 1 (Scottish Cup 2nd Round) →

Queen's Park at home hopefully. 😁

Booking a place in the Scottish Cup Quarter Finals would be a great way to mark the heavenly birthday of WILLIE PAUL and this star-studded 7th February line-up! On this day, every day →

On this night 2002, the "Dundee Derry Boys" are out-sung, their team out-played, as Lambie's upstarts continue to plot their way to Hampden... can we do it again in our 150th anniversary year? Wed-06-Feb-2002 Dundee 1 Partick Thistle 2 (Scottish Cup 4th Round replay) → My Movie.mp4

Clue: the only triple hat-trick man in Thistle history...