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Nickname(s)
  
Swifts

Chairman
  
Iain Armit

Founded
  
1928

Ground Capacity
  
464

Manager
  
Ross Gunnion

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Full name
  
Jeanfield Swifts Football Club

Ground
  
Riverside Stadium Bute Drive Perth

Jeanfield Swifts Football Club are a Scottish Junior football club based in Perth. They currently play in the McBookie East Superleague, having won the Premier League championship in 2015–2016.

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.

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. After a further five seasons in the division, they were promoted to the East Region Premier League as champions in 2011–12. In 2015–16, they were promoted as champions to the Superleague for the first time.

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

They are currently Under the charge of player/manager Ross Gunnion, who took over in the summer of 2015. He is assisted by John Anderson, Eric Fleming, Michael Dott and goalkeeping coach Scott Cummings.

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
  • East Region Central Division winners: 2011–12
  • East Region Premier League winners: 2015–16
  • 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
  • North and Tayside Inter-Regional Cup (GA Cup): 2011–2012, 2012–13
  • ACA Sports League Cup: 2012–13

    • References

    Jeanfield Swifts F.C. Wikipedia
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