Original club There was a club with the same name that existed in the 1920s. The team won the Second Division of the
Scottish Junior League and the Lanarkshire Consolation Cup in
1922–23. The original club disbanded so that
Clyde could move to the town in to the early 1960s. After the move fell through, the junior team was reformed. After Thistle disbanded,
Strathclyde Juniors who were homeless applied to
SJFA for permission to use ground for season
1965–66.
Modern club The first trophy to be won was the
West of Scotland Junior Cup in 1974.
Cambuslang Rangers were beaten 3–1 in the final. The team reached the final again two years later, but lost to
Arthurlie in a replay. The biggest success was the
Scottish Junior Cup win in May 1983, with victory over
Bo'ness United at
Ibrox Stadium. The final result was 2–0 to Thistle, with goals from skipper Joe Reilly and Kenny Gordon. Thistle's previous manager was former
St Johnstone and
Hamilton Academical striker
John Brogan, who took charge along with Martin Clark on a co-manager basis in November 1999. Clark left to coach Celtic's youth players in 2002, but Brogan remained in sole charge and won the Sectional League Cup at
Partick Thistle's
Firhill Stadium,
Glasgow in 2002 with a 2–0 win over
Bellshill Athletic, thanks to goals from Martin McVey and Stephen Brogan. Brogan later returned the club to
Firhill for another Sectional League Cup Final in 2005 but were unfortunate to lose to
Neilston 4–3 on penalties, after a 0–0 draw. However it wasn't all bad news when the club won promotion to Super League Division One, from Central District League Division One, with a 3–0 win over
Clydebank in the last game of the season on 1 May 2006. John Brogan left the club in June 2008, and was replaced by former players Colin Mitchell and Ian Penman, as manager and assistant manager respectively. In 2008 Thistle also launched their own youth development structure, which sees coaching an teams from under 4s up to under 21s for both boys and girls. In November 2010, Mitchell and Penman were replaced as team management by
Jimmy Kerr and
Tony Gallagher. In 2012 following relegation back to the Central District First Division, most of the playing staff, along with the management team left the club. After a season of turmoil on and off the pitch which resulted in relegation to the Central District Second Division, Thistle regrouped and started looking forwards to the future, the appointment of Alan Wardlaw as manager in late 2013 led to a change in fortunes for the club and they managed to win a few games, including a home league win for the first time in over 2 years. The team are managed from the end of the 2014–15 season by Billy Campbell.
Aaron Connolly was appointed caretaker manager following the departure of Garry O'Hanlon. ==Players & Current Squad==