The club accepts a £6,000 (about $8,100) fine and a deduction that drops it from eighth to ninth after a tribunal found breaches involving amateur-player payments and membership information.
An independent Scottish Women’s Premier League disciplinary tribunal deducted 3 points from Partick Thistle Women’s 2026/27 league total after finding that the club paid players registered as amateurs in 2025/26 and submitted incorrect information about a document required for league membership.
The Glasgow club, which finished sixth last season, falls from eighth to ninth in the ten-team table. It is three points behind Spartans and four ahead of bottom-placed Aberdeen.
At its 9 November 2026 hearing, the tribunal found breaches of Player Rule 37 and Competition Rule E31.11. The second breach concerned information about submission of the Certificate and Undertaking Document, which is required as part of the league’s membership criteria.
Of the £6,000 (about $8,100) fine, £3,000 is suspended until the end of the 2027/28 season, leaving £3,000 unsuspended. The club has the right to appeal the sanctions to the Scottish FA.
Thistle said it accepted the verdict and attributed the breaches to a failure of internal processes. It said it had addressed and resolved the failure to prevent it from happening again, admitted the breach as soon as it came to the club’s attention and apologized to fans.
If Thistle finishes ninth, it will face a relegation playoff final against the SWPL 2 team that wins the playoff semifinal. The team finishing tenth is relegated to SWPL 2.
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