Jeanfield Swifts F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Jeanfield Swifts


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fullname = Jeanfield Swifts Football Club
nickname = "Swifts"
founded = 1928
ground = Riverside Stadium
Bute Drive
Perth
Scotland
capacity = 464
chairman = Jimmy Devine
manager = Eddie O'Connor
league = SJFA East Region, Central Division
season = 2007-08
position = SJFA East Region, Central Division, 5th
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Jeanfield Swifts F.C. are a Scottish junior football club based in Perth, Scotland. Their home ground is Riverside Stadium, located on Bute Drive in the North Muirton area of the city, to which they moved in 2006 from Simpson Park, where they had been plagued by fires and vandalism. [ [http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/casc/j.htm CASC Registered clubs] - HMRC.gov.uk] [ [http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2005/07/04/newsstory7298799t0.asp Pitch plan set for swift go-ahead] - "The Courier"]

Up until the end of the 2005-06 season, they played in Tayside Division One in the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region, and they won the championship in the division's final season. The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006-07 season, and Swifts found themselves in the twelve-team East Region, Central Division. They finished in seventh place in their first season in the division.

Swifts are one of two junior football clubs based in Perth, the other being Kinnoull.

Professional side St. Johnstone are also based in Perth.

League history since 1990

[http://www.pollokfc.co.uk/directory/east/central.htm Source]

Honours

*Tayside Premier Division winners: 1972-73
*Tayside Division One winners: 1976-77, 1984-85, 1995-96, 1999-00
*Tayside District Division One winners: 2005-06
*Midland Junior League: 1943-44, 1945-46, 1946-47
*Perthshire Junior League winners: 1941-42, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69
*Currie (Findlay & Co) Cup: 1940-41, 1943-44, 1944-45, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1950-51, 1966-67, 1987-88
*Intersport Cup: 1987-88, 1995-96
*Division One (Downfield SC) Cup: 2001-02
*Perth Advertiser (PA) Cup: 1940-41, 1941-42, 1942-43, 1944-45, 1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1966-67, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1991-92
*Division One (Red House Hotel) Cup: 2004-05
*Tayside Drybrough Cup: 1976-77
*Perthshire Junior Consolation Cup: 1942-43, 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46, 1949-50, 1963-64, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69
*Laing Cup: 1943-44
*Craig Stephen Cup: 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1981-82
*Perthshire Junior Charity Cup: 1940-41, 1941-42
*Perthshire Junior Cup: 1942-43, 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1954-55, 1964-65, 1965-66, 1972-73
*Perthshire Rosebowl: 1948-49, 1949-50, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1966-67, 1967-68

Notable former players

*Hugh Kelly - played over 400 league games for Blackpool between 1946 and 1960, including two FA Cup Finals.

References

External links

* [http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2005/07/04/newsstory7298799t0.asp Article on build-up to the club's 2006 move to Riverside Stadium] – "The Courier"