St Mirren are in midweek action as we face Celtic on Wednesday night in our final home match of 2021.

Saints sit in ninth place in the cinch Premiership and have drawn their last three home matches against Livingston (1-1), Ross County (0-0) and Hibernian (1-1). 

Celtic come into the match on the back of winning the Premier Sports Cup after the Glasgow side defeated Hibernian 2-1 at Hampden on Sunday.

Ange Postecoglou's side have won their last six cinch Premiership matches and are in second place - seven points off league leaders Rangers. 

Match Details

St Mirren v Celtic
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Wednesday 22nd December 2021
Kick-off: 7:45pm
Venue: The SMiSA Stadium

Ticket Info

Tickets for Wednesday's match are on-sale to registered home supporters at the St Mirren Ticket Office and online. Vaccine certification is not required.

The match will be live on St Mirren PPV at a cost of £14.99. As the game is on a midweek night, PPV will be available in England. 

Frank McGarvey will be the St Mirren TV guest on Wednesday night.

Previous

The two sides have faced three times in 2021 with Saints having won one and lost the other two. 

The Buddies won the first encounter between the two sides - winning 2-1 at Celtic Park back in January. Kristian Dennis and Ilkay Durmus scored to give us our first win at Celtic Park in over 30 years. Celtic would defeat Saints 4-0 at the SMiSA Stadium a few weeks later.

The only meeting in the 2021/22 season was in August with Celtic winning 6-0 at Celtic Park. 

The team celebrate after Ilkay Durmus scored the winner at Celtic Park in January (Image: Jeff Holmes)

The officials

David Munro is the man in the middle on Wednesday night. The linesmen are Ralph Gordon and Jonathan Bell with Lloyd Wilson the fourth official.

St Mirren Football Club has been in dialogue with Aberdeen Football Club regarding reported incidents of supporter disturbance at Pittodrie earlier this month.

Aberdeen Football Club have informed us that they have completed a comprehensive investigation into the alleged incidents during this match. There has been an acceptance that there are learnings on both sides, with Aberdeen striving to make Pittodrie a safe and welcoming environment for all attending on matchdays.

They are continuing to work together with Police Scotland on the outcomes of the investigation and will take appropriate action if anyone is found guilty of unacceptable conduct on matchdays at Pittodrie.

We can confirm the opening hours of the stadium and ticket office for the festive period.

Monday 20th Dec: 10am-3pm
Tuesday 21st Dec: 10am-3pm
Wednesday 22nd Dec: 10am-2pm and 5pm-7:45pm (St Mirren v Celtic)
Thursday 23rd Dec: CLOSED
Friday 24th Dec: CLOSED
Saturday 25th Dec: CLOSED
Sunday 26th Dec: CLOSED (Rangers v St Mirren)

Monday 27th Dec: CLOSED
Tuesday 28th Dec: 10am-2pm
Wednesday 29th Dec: 10am-2pm 
Thursday 30th Dec: 10am-2pm 
Friday 31st Dec: 10am-1pm
Saturday 1st Jan: CLOSED
Sunday 2nd Jan: CLOSED

Jan 3rd-Jan 9th: CLOSED

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 840-6130

St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com

St Mirren Football Club was saddened to hear of the recent passing of ex-kitman Jimmy Munro at the age of 81.

Jimmy was a Paisley Buddie born and bred – attending St Mirren matches from the age of five including the 1959 Scottish Cup final win.

In the 1990s, Jimmy was given a chance to work at his beloved Saints where he would spend almost 12 years as kitman before retiring.

In his time at the club, Jimmy was involved in our Millennium Championship winning season as well as our double winning season in 2005/06 as we won the First Division and Challenge Cup.

St Mirren Chief Executive Tony Fitzpatrick said: "I worked with Jimmy briefly during my second spell as manager and he was a really good man. On behalf of everyone at the club, I pass on my condolences to Jimmy’s family and friends at this sad time."

Jimmy’s funeral will take place on Tuesday 21st December at Woodside Crematorium at 2:30pm.  

St Mirren Football Club can confirm that following recent lateral flow testing we have unfortunately received a number of positive COVID-19 cases.

In line with Government guidelines, those affected have now taken PCR tests and will self-isolate for 10 days. 

Training has been suspended, but as it stands our upcoming matches will still go ahead. We will continue to monitor the situation over the coming days.

The health and wellbeing of our players and staff remains our utmost priority. 

St Mirren Football Club will make no further comment at this time. 

Tickets for our Boxing Day trip to Ibrox are now on-sale at the St Mirren Ticket Office. 

Rangers vs St Mirren
cinch Premiership
Venue: Ibrox
Date: Sunday 26th December 2021
Kick-off: 3pm

The ticket prices as follows:

*Over-65 and 16/17-year-olds.

Wheelchair disabled - adult £22, concession £11 and juniors £11 with carer free of charge.

Ambulant disabled supporters pay the age appropriate price. If a carer is required, the carer ticket is free of charge.

The St Mirren Ticket Office opening hours for the rest of the week are as follows:

Tue, 14th Dec - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Wed, 15th Dec - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Thu, 16th Dec - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Fri, 17th Dec - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Sat, 18th Dec - CLOSED
Sun, 19th Dec - CLOSED

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 840-6130.

St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com

Tickets for our match against Celtic on Wednesday 22nd December are now on general sale to home supporters only.

Please note that, as is always the case for matches against Celtic and Rangers, tickets are only available to those registered on our ticketing platform. Away end tickets will be sold by Celtic directly.

Tony Fitzpatrick Family Stand season ticket holders can still move their seat to the Main or West Stand and will still be able to get them at the reduced price of £10 for adults and £5 for concessions if purchased before 2pm on Tuesday 21st December.

Children with under 12 season tickets will be moved free of charge with a paying adult/concession season ticket holder. This is subject to availability. Please note these cannot be purchased online - they can only be purchased by visiting the ticket office or over the phone.

Any Tony Fitzpatrick Family Stand season ticket holder who misses the Tuesday 21st deadline will have to pay the full price of £27 for adults and £17 for concessions.

Rangers tickets

Tickets for our Boxing Day trip to Ibrox are now on-sale at the St Mirren Ticket Office. 

Rangers vs St Mirren
cinch Premiership
Venue: Ibrox
Date: Sunday 26th December 2021
Kick-off: 3pm

The ticket prices as follows:

*Over-65 and 16/17-year-olds.

Wheelchair disabled - adult £22, concession £11 and juniors £11 with carer free of charge.

Ambulant disabled supporters pay the age appropriate price. If a carer is required, the carer ticket is free of charge.

The St Mirren Ticket Office opening hours for the rest of the week are as follows:

Tue, 14th Dec - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Wed, 15th Dec - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Thu, 16th Dec - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Fri, 17th Dec - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Sat, 18th Dec - CLOSED
Sun, 19th Dec - CLOSED

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 840-6130.

St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com

Jamie McGrath has won the cinch SPFL Goal of the Month for November. 

McGrath won the award for his stunning effort against Livingston at the SMiSA Stadium in the cinch Premiership on 20th November.

The Irishman beat off competition for Motherwell's Tony Watt and Rangers' Joe Aribo to pick up the award. 

Today was a real test of character and I think you saw what the group is all about. We deserved a point."

When Saints and Hibs met in September, Joe Shaughnessy scored a late goal to give the Buddies a point. Fast forward three months and the Saints skipper repeated the trick at a wet and windy SMiSA Stadium.

The first half was rather forgettable aside from Hibs' Kevin Nisbet twice heading straight at Saints goalie Jak Alnwick. Early in the second half the visitors opened the scoring, Josh Campbell in the right place to pounce after Martin Boyle's shot had been blocked by Marcus Fraser.

That looked like being enough to give the visitors victory, but with just a few minutes to go Shaughnessy popped up to convert Scott Tanser's cross and earn the Buddies a draw.

Curtis Main was chosen to lead the Saints attack following the injury to Eamonn Brophy with Greg Kiltie coming in for Connor Ronan. It was no surprise to see changes to the Hibs side after ex Saints boss Jack Ross left during the week, red cards for Paul Hanlon and former Buddie Paul McGinn ruling them out. Lewis Stevenson, Alex Gogic, Chris Cadden and former Paisley favourite Darren McGregor all started.

Hibs threatened early on when a mistake from Charles Dunne allowed Nisbet to send Jamie Murphy racing through, his shot being turned behind by Alnwick. The corner that followed led to a bit of a scramble before Nisbet's header was easily saved by the Saints goalie. We then had to wait the best part of 20 minutes for the next – and final – meaningful attempt of the half. It was rather similar to the previous one too as Nisbet again headed straight at Alnwick.

Saints perked up after the break but fell behind from a counter attack. Murphy found Boyle in space and while his shot was cut out by Marcus Fraser, the ball sat up perfectly for Josh Campbell and he slammed it home to the delight of the travelling fans behind the goal. The Buddies forced a corner as they looked for a quick equaliser, however Joe Shaughnessy at the back post put it well wide.

Anyone hoping that brief flurry of excitement would continue was sadly mistaken as penalty box action returned to being rare. Saints fans were given hope of a goal a quarter of an hour from the end when McGregor fouled sub Kristian Dennis just outside the box, however McGrath sent his free-kick well over. A few minutes later came a great Buddies chance when Tanser's found the unmarked game in the box but Matt Macey got down to turn it behind.

With less than five minutes to go Tanser delivered another tremendous ball from the left and this time the end result was far more satisfying, Shaughnessy arriving to fire past Macey and draw Saints level. The visitors tried to restore their lead with Alnwick doing well to tip behind a drive from Christian Doidge. In stoppage time Saints thought they should have had a penalty when Dennis went down under Gogic's challenge, however the officials were unmoved and the points were shared.

Full-Time: St Mirren 1-1 Hibernian

Joe Shaughnessy celebrates after earning Saints a point (Image: Allan Picken)

St Mirren: Alnwick, Fraser, Shaughnessy (c), Dunne, Millar (McAllister 65), Flynn (Dennis 60), Power, Tanser, Kiltie (Ronan 60), McGrath, Main
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Tait, Erhahon, Erwin

Hibernian: Macey, Cadden, Porteous, McGregor, Stevenson, Gogic, Campbell, Newell (c), Boyle, Murphy (Wright 72), Nisbet (Doidge 83)
Subs Not Used: Dabrowksi, Doig, Gullan, Allan, Scott

Referee: Kevin Clancy
Assistant Referee: Graeme Leslie
Assistant Referee: Steven Traynor
Fourth Official: Scott Lambie

Attendance: 4,698