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ST Johnstone versus Falkirk remains a rare Scottish matchup with no durable hierarchy in the available history. ST Johnstone won 1-0 in the League Cup on 24 July 2018, while Falkirk replied with a 1-0 friendly victory on 8 July 2025. Both meetings were decided by one goal, but their different contexts leave the competitive profile open for future encounters to define.
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes ST Johnstone
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19D
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18F
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14D
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99F
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22F
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20G
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11M
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25M
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26M
Falkirk Substitutes
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M
99
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G
1
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F
9
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D
4
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D
15
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F
7
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M
10
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D
17
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F
47
Match events
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45'Cheick Diabate Yellow Card
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53'Cheick Diabate Red Card
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55'Daniel Finlayson Josh Campbell
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60'⚽Ethan Ross Normal Goal (Asst: Owen Eames)
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65'Ruari Paton Reece McAlear
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65'Sam Stanton Jason Holt
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67'Craig Sibbald Finley Frank Barbrook
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67'Ross Maclver Jacob Murrell
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75'Calvin Fodrey Ethan Ross
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75'Aodhan Doherty Owen Eames
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77'Danny schmidt Zach Mitchell
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89'Jack McMillan Ben krauhaus
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90'Ruari Paton Yellow Card
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90' +2Enes Alic Yellow Card
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90' +6⚽Enes Alic Normal Goal
Stats for this game
Matchup ST Johnstone VS Falkirk
A narrow competitive marker
The clearest competitive result is ST Johnstone’s 1-0 League Cup win over Falkirk on 24 July 2018. It was a one-goal result, giving ST Johnstone the stronger cup outcome, but the score alone does not establish a lasting pattern. The limited history offers too little evidence for broad claims about how either side controls the matchup.
A different context, an even response
Falkirk supplied the counterpoint with a 1-0 friendly victory at ST Johnstone on 8 July 2025. That result matched the earlier margin while carrying a different competitive setting, so the two meetings are best read as separate clues rather than a continuous sequence. What they do establish is a fixture in which neither side has won comfortably in the available results. A future competitive meeting will show whether the cup balance re-emerges, whether Falkirk can carry its resistance into that setting, or whether another single-goal contest keeps the hierarchy unresolved.