List of St Johnstone F.C. seasons


St Johnstone Football Club is a Scottish professional association football club based in Perth. The club was officially formed in 1884 and the team played its first game in February 1885. St Johnstone first appeared in the Scottish Cup in the 1886–87 season and they joined the Scottish Football League in 1911–12. The club has had three home grounds, the current one since 1989 is McDiarmid Park.
St Johnstone have won only one major honour which was the Scottish Cup with a 2–0 win against Dundee United in 2014. Their highest placing in the league is third place. St Johnstone have qualified for either the UEFA Cup or the Europa League in six seasons; these include four consecutive seasons from 2013 to 2016. They have reached two Scottish League Cup finals: 1969 and 1998, losing both.
Including the 2016–17 season, the team have spent 46 seasons in the top tier of the Scottish football league system, 44 in the second and 4 in the third. The table summarises their seasons from 1886–87 in Scottish and European football. It highlights the club's achievements in senior first team competitions, lists their managers and, where known, the top goalscorer in each season. Some seasons to 1921–22 and the wartime seasons 1915–19 and 1939–45, in which the club did not compete in top-level football, are excluded.

Key

The table is correct to the end of the 2019–20 season.''
Seasons in which the team were promoted have the league position in green. Seasons in which the team were relegated have the league position in red.

Footnotes

A. Goal tallies are listed if known and are for the league competitions only. Divisions are not sorted alphabetically, but based on their placing in the Scottish football league system at that time.
B. In league matches, a win was worth 2 points until the 1993–94 season, after which it has been 3 points for a win.
C: St Johnstone's home ground from 1885 to 1924 was the Recreation Grounds, Perth.
D: Prior to Peter Grant's appointment as team manager in 1919, the team was picked by committee – a practice in wide use at the time.
E: St Johnstone joined the Second Division of the Scottish Football League in 1911–12 after Port Glasgow Athletic F.C. declined to apply for re-election.
F: Division Two was not played in 1919–20 and the club competed in the Scottish Cup only at top-level.
G: St Johnstone's home ground from 1924 to 1989 was Muirton Park.
H: St Johnstone first qualified for the First Division of the Scottish Football League in 1924–25 after winning the Second Division in 1923–24. Between 1890 and 1975, the old First Division was the highest tier in Scottish football.
I: In 1945–46, St Johnstone played in the Southern Football League, a wartime regional league that defined the Scottish Football League structure when it recommenced in 1946–47. As St Johnstone were allocated to Division B of the regional league, the club having been inactive during the war, the team was effectively relegated to the Second Division between 1938–39 and 1946–47.
J: Bobby Brown and Willie Ormond both left St Johnstone to become manager of the Scottish national team.
K: The top-ten placed teams in 1974–75 formed the new Scottish Football League Premier Division for next season
L: The Scottish Football League Premier Division was, from 1975 until 1998, the top division of the Scottish Football League, replacing the old First Division.
M: The new Scottish Football League First Division was the second tier in the Scottish football league system between 1975 and 2013.
N: The Scottish Football League Second Division was the third tier of the Scottish football league system between 1975 and 2013.
O: St Johnstone's home ground since 1989 is McDiarmid Park which currently has an all-seated capacity of 10,696.
P: The Scottish Premier Division was renamed the Scottish Premier League in 1998–99.
Q: The Scottish Premier League was renamed the Scottish Premiership in 2013–14.