St Mirren chief executive Tony Fitzpatrick said:

"We’ve learned at first hand within our club the importance of the testing regimen and 100% adherence to all social distancing and hygiene protocols.

"It is bitterly disappointing that our game tomorrow has been postponed, but it underlines the hugely damaging consequences of even one player disregarding the new rules. We absolutely support the stance of the SFA and the SPFL in this matter.

"These necessary steps are there to protect our game, our players and the very future of every single club in the country.

"The stakes could not be higher and that is why as a club we will be constantly reinforcing the need for personal responsibility and vigilance. The Scottish game simply cannot afford to shoot itself in the foot."

St Mirren will face Morton, Queen of the South, Partick Thistle and Queen's Park in Group G of the 2020/21 Betfred Cup group stage.

Saints were top seeds in the South Section of this afternoon's draw. 

Fixtures dates and venues will be confirmed in due course.

Group stage games are scheduled for October 6, 10 & 13, and November 10 & 14, subject to live TV selections.

St Mirren were beaten by Rangers on match day two of the Scottish Premiership.

A Conor McCarthy own-goal gave Rangers a first-half lead before an Alfredo Morelos double rounded off the win for the Ibrox side.

Steven Gerrard's side were on the ascendancy from the off with Ianis Hagi having a good opportunity inside the first five minutes when the ball fell to the Romanian just eight yards from goal. But the forward shot into the ground which took the sting out of it for Jak Alnwick. 

The Saints goalkeeper would have a busy first-half saving a low effort from Morelos on 12 minutes before having to gather an Aribo strike two minutes later. 

Rangers pressure told when they took the lead on 23 minutes. It was unfortunate for defender McCarthy who could do nothing as Morelos' ball across the box cannoned off him and into the Saints net.  

The home side pushed for a second before the interval with Alnwick saving well from James Tavernier twice, while Ryan Kent lashed a fierce shot just by the right-hand post.

Saints started the second-half brightly and may feel aggrieved not to have been awarded a penalty when Jamie McGrath appeared to have been fouled inside the Rangers box. The midfielder's foot was inside the area when he was brought down but referee Andrew Dallas awarded a free-kick. Durmus stepped up to take the free-kick but Gers goalkeeper McLaughlin was level to it.

Rangers doubled their advantage with a little over 20 minutes remaining. Morelos, who had already gone close twice in the second-half, somehow found himself free in the Saints box to head home a corner from the right-hand side. 

Morelos rounded off the win for Rangers when he scored his second and Rangers third on 74 minutes. Borna Barisic burst into the Saints box but had his shot blocked by Alnwick only for it to fall to Morelos two yards from goal to knock home.

Full-Time: Rangers 3-0 St Mirren 

St Mirren: Alnwick, Fraser, McCarthy, Shaughnessy, Tait, McGrath, Foley (Erhahon 85), MacPherson (Jamieson 85), Sheron (Morias 74), Durmus (McAllister 78), Obika (Thorvaldsson 85)
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Baird, Henderson, Jack

Rangers: McLaughlin, Tavernier, Goldson, Balogun, Barisic (Bassey 79), Kamara, Jack (Davis 74), Aribo (Arfield 74), Hagi, Kent (Barker 79), Morelos (Itten 74)
Subs Not Used: Firth, Helander, Patterson, Jones

Referee: Andrew Dallas
Assistant Referee: Douglas Ross
Assistant Referee: Graeme Leslie
Fourth Official: Gavin Duncan

St Mirren travel to Ibrox on Sunday for match day two of the Scottish Premiership.

Jim Goodwin's men got off to a winning start last weekend as Richard Tait's debut goal gave Saints a 1-0 win over Livingston at St Mirren Park on our first competitive match since March.

Sunday's opposition also took three points on the opening day with Ryan Kent scoring the only goal in a 1-0 victory at Pittodrie against Aberdeen.

Rangers come into Sunday's match having lost 1-0 to Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League on Thursday night.

Match Details

Rangers v St Mirren
Competition: Scottish Premiership
Kick-off: 3pm
Venue: Ibrox Stadium

Can I watch the match?

International subscribers to St Mirren TV will be able to watch the match at Ibrox with live commentary from Daniel Bowers and Saints legend Mark Yardley. Season ticket holders and UK & Ireland based St Mirren TV subscribers will be able to listen to live audio commentary on St Mirren TV or alternatively they can watch the match on Rangers TV PPV for £9.99.

Last meeting

Rangers edged out Saints by 1-0 on the Buddies last visit to Ibrox back in January. Jermain Defoe's first half goal was enough to give Steven Gerrard's side the win. 

Who are the officials?

Andrew Dallas is referee for Sunday's match with Douglas Ross and Graeme Leslie as the linesmen. Gavin Duncan is the fourth official.

The Saints In That Number initiative will reward the most deserving community-conscious individuals with a St Mirren FC family season ticket for the new Premiership season.

The club is asking Buddies to nominate people who in their view help to make Paisley a better place by their selfless acts.

St Mirren FC will provide the initial tranche of these season tickets for the Paisley heroes, but it also looking for local businesses to get involved with the scheme and donate season tickets.

Already Kibble, the specialist child and youth care charity which in January bought 27.8% of the shares in the club, has committed to taking part by providing tickets.

Several Paisley businesses have jumped at the opportunity to join Saints In That Number including Claymore Contracts Ltd and Scotjet Ltd. However, we’re looking for more to get involved.

St Mirren Chief Executive and club legend Tony Fitzpatrick said: "During these recent challenging times, it’s important that the wider community stands in solidarity to support one another as much as possible.

"St Mirren is first and foremost a community club and we are proud of Paisley and its people. So we are pleased to announce the club will donate the first sets of St Mirren FC family season tickets to outstanding keyworkers, NHS workers and other deserving local heroes who have completed selfless acts.

"But we are also inviting Paisley businesses to get involved in the Saints In That Number initiative. In return for their involvement, they will be able to choose the winner of their ticket from the nominations, or indeed nominate their own 'Saints’'"

Nominations can be made via a contact form on stmirren.com, and businesses looking to take part in the scheme should email their details to commercial@stmirren.com. 

St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce that Sam Foley and Cammy MacPherson have been named as St Mirren Player and Young Player of the Year respectively. 

Vice captain Sam had a debut season to remember after joining Saints in August 2019 following the expiry of his contract at Northampton Town.

The 33-year-old quickly became a fans favourite after debuting away to Hibernian on the opening day of the 2019/20 season. The midfielder scored twice for Saints including an 88th minute winner at home to Ross County in November. 

St Mirren Academy graduate Cammy MacPherson was a worthy recipient of the Young Player of the Year award after forcing his way into Jim Goodwin's side to become a first-team regular. 

Cammy went on to make 23 appearances for the first team last season scoring a vital winner away to Hamilton in December, whilst also scoring at St Mirren Park against champions Celtic.

Congratulations to both on their well deserved awards!

We'd like to thank our friends at Walker Laird for sponsoring the club's Player of the Year awards for a sixth consecutive year. 

Football returned to Paisley on Saturday as the Saints opened up the 2020/21 season with a win over Livingston at St Mirren Park.

Richard Tait scored the winner on his first St Mirren appearance with fellow debutants Jak Alnwick, Marcus Fraser and Joe Shaughnessy also helping Saints to their first opening day clean sheet since 2011.

The Buddies have won each of their last three opening day matches at St Mirren Park and are undefeated at home in the Scottish Premiership since December.

St Mirren TV launched last week with Saturday’s match the first to take place on the new platform. While the majority of people were able to watch Saturday’s match with no major issues we are aware that some supporters faced some problems with sound in the first half and access to the stream.

We were in constant dialogue with our partners at Stream Digital throughout the match to rectify issues that had arisen and were pleased to have everything fixed for the vast majority of supporters by half-time. We appreciate that these teething problems can be frustrating but thank supporters for their patience and we will continue working with supporters and Stream Digital this week to overcome these challenges.

The club is excited by the developments of the platform with more to look forward to as we develop this medium, thanks must go to the incredible team involved, Ali De Foy for hosting our pre-match show along with Chief Executive Tony Fitzpatrick & captain Kyle Magennis and Daniel Bowers & David Van Zanten for their work on commentary. We’ll have details later in the week on who will be on our show for our upcoming home match against Celtic.

The club were also proud to show its support for Show Racism The Red Card and PFA Scotland’s anti-racist action with players wearing special edition black t-shirts and taking a knee before the match. You can watch Show Racism The Red Card and PFA Scotland’s anti-racist video featuring Jon Obika here.

St Mirren Football Club can confirm that Gus MacPherson has left the club after almost two years as Technical Director.

The 51-year-old managed the club between 2003 and 2010, winning the First Division and Challenge Cup in 2005 and leading us to the League Cup Final in 2010.

In 2018, Gus returned to Saints following the appointment of Oran Kearney as manager to take on the newly created Technical Director role.

St Mirren Chief Executive, Tony Fitzpatrick said: "On behalf of St Mirren Football Club I would like to thank Gus for his service and all the hard work he put in during his time at the club.

"Everyone at St Mirren would like to wish Gus all the best in his future endeavours."

Richard Tait's debut goal secured an opening day win for St Mirren as football returned to St Mirren Park.

The full-back's header was enough for Saints, in competitive action for the first time since a 1-0 win over Hearts in March, to pick up all three points in Paisley.

The win means that the Buddies have won there last three home matches on opening day and extended our unbeaten run at home in the league to six matches.

There was very little of note in the opening stages with it taking until 20 minutes for either side to register any real opportunity with Livingston's Efe Ambrose having an effort from the edge of the area held by Jak Alnwick.

Saints took the lead with their first real opportunity on the half-hour mark. Jamie McGrath swung the most inviting ball into the box allowing Richard Tait, who had ghosted into the box, to bullet home a header from six yards out.

With a little over five minutes of the first-half remaining, Craig Sibbald cracked the Saints post with a powerful hit from range.  

Livingston started the second-half strongly with Alnwick getting the slightest touch on an Alan Forrest effort after the Livi winger had jinxed his way into the Saints box.

Nicky Devlin should have done better for the visitors six minutes later when he stuck a free header from close range over the bar. 

Ambrose had a shot from the edge of the area deflected over with Joe Shaughnessy, a colossus at the back on his Saints debut, clearing the resultant corner. 

Substitute Junior Morias should have wrapped the game up with eight minutes remaining. The forward was unmarked 10 yards from goal as he met an Jon Obika header but he smashed off the post. 

Again Saints could have put the seal on the points when Shaughnessy rose well to meet a pinpoint Cammy MacPherson cross but nodded wide.

Scott Pittman came close to an injury-time equaliser for the visitors with a strike from the edge of the box, but as they had done the whole match, the Saints defence stood up to block to secure a well earned three points and a much deserved clean sheet. 

Full-Time: St Mirren 1-0 Livingston 

St Mirren: Alnwick, Fraser, McCarthy, Shaughnessy, Tait, McGrath, Foley, MacPherson, McAllister (Morias 61), Obika, Durmus (Thorvaldsson 76)
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Urminsky, Baird, Erhahon, Henderson, Jamieson, Jack

Livingston: McCrorie, Devlin, Fitzwater, Taylor-Sinclair (Souda 83), Guthrie, Ambrose, Bartley, Pittman, Sibbald (Robinson 68), Forrest (Kouider-Aissa 61), Dykes
Subs Not Used: Stryjek, Crawford, McMillan, Tiffoney, Hamilton, Pignatiello

Referee: Don Robertson
Assistant Referee: Alan Mulvanny
Assistant Referee: Kylie McMullan
Fourth Official: David Munro

Football returns at long last as St Mirren host Livingston at St Mirren Park in the opening day of the 2020/21 Scottish Premiership season.

Saints will be in action for the first time since our 1-0 win over Hearts in March which secured a ninth-place finish for Jim Goodwin’s side last season.

It’s been a long time and while matches will start behind closed doors, anyone who has bought a season ticket will be given free access to live streams of all home matches while COVID-19 restrictions are in place on our new St Mirren TV platform.

We’ve had a number of test events over the last few days with the final opportunities taking place tonight at 6pm-8pm and tomorrow from 1pm.

Non-season ticket holders based in the UK and Ireland will be able to watch the match via pay-per-view with the price set at £12.50 per match.

International supporters will also be able to tune in if they purchase an international subscription charged at £14.99 per month or £149.99 per year.

Customers who encounter any issues with the streaming platform on Saturday should contact tvsupport@stmirren.com. 

Six players could make their St Mirren debuts tomorrow with Jak Alnwick, Richard Tait, Joe Shaughnessy, Marcus Fraser, Nathan Sheron and Isak Thorvaldsson all having joined Saints in the summer.

The referee for tomorrow’s match is Don Robertson who is assisted by Alan Mulvanny and Kylie McMullan. The fourth official is David Munro.

We would like to remind fans not to turn up to the stadium tomorrow before the match.