Swindon Town striker Tomi Adeloye has been the subject of racial abuse during a match for his loan club Partick Thistle.

Adeloye has been spending the season in the Scottish Championship with the Glasgow club, making 20 appearances and scoring seven goals, as they presently sit in third place in the division.

During the club’s 4-3 defeat to Adeloye’s former club Ayr United on Tuesday, a game in which he scored for the away side, there was an alleged incident of racist abuse targeted towards the striker from a Partick Thistle supporting area of Somerset Park.

In a statement on the club website, Partick Thistle said: “It is particularly disappointing that the racial abuse, directed towards Tomi Adeloye, has emerged from a Partick Thistle supporting area of Somerset Park.

“Partick Thistle Football Club finds any form of discriminatory behaviour totally abhorrent. It has no place at our club or in any of our communities.

“Partick Thistle has a zero-tolerance policy towards racism and will do everything possible to ensure no incidents of racist abuse take place at Partick Thistle games, both home and away.

“The club will continue to investigate this incident and, if identified, this individual will face the strongest action from the club.”

Swindon Town have also offered their support to Adeloye on X and condemned the abuse he was subject to during the match.

The statement read: “#STFC utterly condemn any abuse of this kind and all our players, staff, and the football club stand with Tomi, to whom we have offered our full support.

“The club continues to have a zero-tolerance policy towards racism and will continue to offer our support to investigate this incident.”

The striker joined Swindon on a two-year deal in the summer of 2022, having scored 11 goals in 32 appearances for Ayr United in the Scottish Championship during the previous season, although injuries got in the way of his first campaign in Wiltshire.

He made 13 appearances in League Two last season, scoring one goal with a fine finish from the edge of the area against Newport County in February, although he played no part in the final eight games of the season.

The 28-year-old then moved back to Scotland on loan this season, being deployed largely from the bench but finding the back of the net seven times and having the best goals per 90 minutes ratio in the division.