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St. Johnstone matchday, fan first

St. Johnstone guide: official ticket route, McDiarmid Park, Perth, food and drink options, hotel bases, supporter leads, videos, images and FanChants songbook hooks.

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The answer-first version

Understand the club, get a ticket, pick a stand or route, plan food and a hotel, and find the fan culture around St. Johnstone.

Founded1884-00-00
CapacityUse official stadium/club source for the live capacity shown to fans.
Official tickets firstUse the official ticket route first; membership, resale and ID rules can change by fixture.
Ground-area baseBuild the matchday route around McDiarmid Park and Perth, then re-check live gates and transport.
Capacity needs live sourceCapacity and redevelopment claims must come from official or dated stadium sources.
Away allocation changesAway allocation and routes are safety-sensitive and fixture-dependent.
Family seating careFamily and accessibility copy should follow the official ticket map and access guidance.
Food and hotels are optionsFood, drink and hotel rows are option sets with live checks, not single ranked recommendations.

Club facts and honours

St. Johnstone profile uses official, Wikidata/Wikipedia and local map sources for stable facts, with live checks before publishing volatile ticket or venue details.

CompetitionResultYears / seasons
Scottish second-tier league titleswinners (8)1923–24, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1996–97, 2008–09, 2025–26
Scottish Cupwinners (2)2013–14, 2020–21
Scottish League Cupwinners (1)2020–21
Scottish Challenge Cupwinners (1)2007–08
B Division Supplementary Cupwinners (1)1948–49
Scottish Consolation Cupwinners (2)1910–11, 1913–14
Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cupwinner (1)2020–21

Tickets and stadium map

McDiarmid Park is the working matchday ground/ground-area for this guide; use live club and map sources for exact gates and routes.

AddressMcDiarmid Park, Crieff Road, Hillyland, Perth, Perth and Kinross, Alba / Scotland, PH1 2SJ, United Kingdom
Postcode
CapacityUse official stadium/club source for the live capacity shown to fans.
Google MapsOfficial ticketsOfficial stadium/access map

Use the official ticket route first; membership, loyalty, resale and ID rules can change by fixture. General sale is not assumed. Check the live fixture page before promising availability, delivery method or away allocation.

Ticketing rules to show clearly

  • Ballot or priority windows are fixture-dependent.
  • Use the delivery and ID rules shown on the official ticket page for the match.
  • Avoid informal resale. Use official ticketing and current supporter liaison or police guidance for away fixtures.
  • Use official resale or customer-service routes where the club provides them.
Official seating plan ↗
McDiarmid Park — where to go N↑ PITCH Home endlower · upperBlocks Exact blocks by live ticket map.Away allocation (away)lower · upperBlocks Exact blocks by live ticket map.Opposite stand (mixed)Main stand (hospitality) HomeHospitalityMixedAway Find your stand, then your tier and block. Approximate areas — not seat-exact · capacity: official source.
FanChants stand map — find your stand, tier and block area; the away end is marked. Click to enlarge. For your exact seat use the official plan.
Stand / areaWhat to sayStatus
Home endhome atmospherepartly verified
Main standpremium and mixed seatingpartly verified
Opposite standmixed seatingpartly verified
Away allocationvisiting supporterspartly verified

St. Johnstone chants

93 chants in the FanChants catalogue.

St. Johnstone chants on FanChants [missing]

Top chants

  • Blues
  • Wendy Who?
  • Supporting Your Team Is Not a Crime
  • St. Johnstone We Love You
  • I Want to Tell You - Stevie May
  • Since I Was Young
  • De Dede Perth Saints!
  • Alan Mannus
  • Blue Flag
  • Championees Ole Ole Ole
  • Stevie May
  • We're Gonna Win the Cup

Search hooks

  • St. Johnstone chants
  • St. Johnstone songs
  • St. Johnstone fan chants
  • St. Johnstone lyrics
  • St. Johnstone anthem
  • St. Johnstone player songs
  • Saints chants
  • McDiarmid Park chants

Food, drink and nights out

Option rows, not a single winner — different lanes for different fans.

near ground food

China Town

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: China Town

near ground food

Central

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: Central

near ground food

Bilal Palace

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: Bilal Palace

near ground food

New Diamond Takeaway

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: New Diamond Takeaway

near ground food

Jade Palace

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: Jade Palace

near ground food

Aladdins

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: Aladdins

near ground food

Manzil

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: Manzil

near ground food

Yummy Yummy

Perth · neutral · unknown

Named food, drink or entertainment option near the stadium area.

Use as one option in the wider food set; menus and opening hours need a live check.

keep with caveat: Named venue option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.

Sources: Yummy Yummy

Hotels

Area and fit, not prices. Prices and availability stay live-check fields.

HotelFitWhy it belongsSource
Perth Youth Hostelnear ground · station accessPractical hotel option for a ground-first football trip.
keep with caveat: Named hotel option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.		Perth Youth Hostel
Rhodes Villanear ground · station accessPractical hotel option for a ground-first football trip.
keep with caveat: Named hotel option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.		Rhodes Villa
Alma Villanear ground · station accessPractical hotel option for a ground-first football trip.
keep with caveat: Named hotel option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.		Alma Villa
Aaron-Lidhnear ground · station accessPractical hotel option for a ground-first football trip.
keep with caveat: Named hotel option found from public map/source data around the ground; use as one option, not a ranking.		Aaron-Lidh

Itineraries

Ground-first matchday

  1. China Town
  2. official gates/ticket map
  3. McDiarmid Park

Food-first route

  1. China Town
  2. Central
  3. Bilal Palace

Night-out after football

  1. New Diamond Takeaway
  2. Jade Palace
  3. Aladdins

Football plus hotel

  1. Perth Youth Hostel
  2. China Town
  3. McDiarmid Park

Away or tourist safety route

  1. Central
  2. official away guidance
  3. McDiarmid Park

Supporters and fan media

GroupTypeGeographyPublic page
St. Johnstone official supporter informationofficial branchofficialPublic page
St. Johnstone fan media and supporter-group searchfan mediapublic webPublic page

Video leads

Creator/research leads only — no embedding, cropping, transcription or clip extraction until permission and platform terms are cleared.

Social content seeds

stadium · qa_hold

Ground guide

St. Johnstone matchday starts with McDiarmid Park and the surrounding Perth area.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: stadium, Google Maps route search

food · qa_hold

Food options

Build a St. Johnstone food card from several named options near the ground, not one ranked pick.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: China Town, Central

night out · qa_hold

Night-out options

Use the city and stadium-area rows to split pre-match, post-match and late-night plans.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: Bilal Palace, New Diamond Takeaway

hotels · qa_hold

Hotel base

Show ground-first and night-out hotel options separately for St. Johnstone.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: Perth Youth Hostel, Rhodes Villa

songbook · qa_hold

Songbook hook

Use the FanChants St. Johnstone songbook for chant-count, top-song and search hooks.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: FanChants team songbook

supporters · qa_hold

Supporter lead

Treat St. Johnstone supporter groups as public organisation leads, not private fan data.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: Public supporter/fan-media search lead

video · qa_hold

Video lead

Fan videos can help check chants, routes and food, but stay lead-only until permission is cleared.

Channels: website · X · Facebook · short video

Sources: YouTube public video search lead

Image candidates and rights

ImageLicenceCreatorState
The Main Stand at McDiarmid Park.jpgCC BY-SA 3.0Grievous Angelcandidate cc
McDiarmid Park.jpgPublic domainXizor75candidate cc

QA holds before publishing

  • AI writing pass: page stays answer-first and avoids marketese.
  • Writing-for-the-web pass: short titles, scannable rows, numerals where facts are specific.
  • FanChants voice pass: no AI-isms, no inflated single-best recommendations.
  • Homegrown fact-checker pass: no stadium-recording claim, no absolute clearance claim, no tune/source-work leakage.
  • SIFT/CRAAP pass: stable facts are source-backed; volatile tickets, venues, hotels and routes require live re-check before production.
  • Recommendation QA: food, drink and hotel rows are options with caveats, not rankings.
  • Video QA: fan videos are lead-only until permission/embed/use terms are cleared.
  • Image QA: exact Commons file pages must carry licence, creator and attribution before use.

Sources

  1. Official club/team site or Wikidata official URL
  2. Wikidata entity
  3. St Johnstone F.C. honours reference
  4. Google Maps route search
  5. OpenStreetMap/Nominatim ground or area result
  6. Official ticket route or club site
  7. Public supporter/fan-media search lead
  8. YouTube public video search lead
  9. Wikimedia Commons image manifest
  10. FanChants team songbook
  11. OpenStreetMap copyright and source policy
  12. China Town
  13. Central
  14. Bilal Palace
  15. New Diamond Takeaway
  16. Jade Palace
  17. Aladdins
  18. Manzil
  19. Yummy Yummy
  20. Perth Youth Hostel
  21. Rhodes Villa
  22. Alma Villa
  23. Aaron-Lidh

FanChants is not affiliated with St. Johnstone. Songs are sent in by fans; FanChants does not claim to record inside stadiums.