We are pleased to announce that we are now offering digital/print at home tickets for matches at the Simple Digital Arena.

The process is straight forward with digital tickets accessed through your smfctickets.co.uk account.

To access digital tickets for home matches, please follow the below instructions. 

Step 1 - Go into your Account tab at the top of the page.

Step 2 - Select the Purchase History tab.

Step 3 -  Select the appropriate Transaction ID for the game you are attending.

Step 4 -  Scroll down and select the view button at the bottom right hand side of the page.

Step 5 -  Select the Download Digital Ticket and your ticket will be shown on the screen.

Step 6 -  Your ticket will look like this. 

Entry with our digital tickets is easy! When entering the stadium you simply put the barcode underneath the turnstile scanner's red illuminated beam and this will allow you entry as it would with a normal paper ticket. 

Please note - anyone who has any issues with digital tickets on match day is urged to contact their nearest steward.

St Mirren Reserves suffered a penalty shoot-out loss against Dundee United in the Reserve Cup this afternoon.

Allan McManus' side hosted United at the St Mirren Training Ground at Ralston and fought back from 2-0 down in the first-half to take the game to penalties. 

But Jamie Walker's sudden death spot-kick was saved by Deniz Mehmet. 

The Buddies came up against a strong United side who named ex-Saint Cammy Smith in their starting 11, along with the likes of Nicky Clark, Matty Smith, Adrian Sporle and Adam King. 

A lacklustre first-half performance saw Saints head into the interval 2-0 down thanks to a double from Matty Smith. 

Allan McManus responded by making three changes at the break with Lewis Jamieson, Matty Grant & Jay Henderson coming on for Josh Jack, Cammy MacPherson and Conor McBrearty. 

The changes paid dividends with Jamieson scoring twice in the space of 11 minutes to draw the Buddies level. Nick McAllister could have won the game late on, but headed wide from close range. 

And so it went to penalties. Scott Glover, Jay Henderson, Finlay Gray, Lewis Jamieson and Matthew Reilly all scored for Saints while Dean Lyness saved a penalty. But misses from Matty Grant and Jamie Walker saw the visitors win the shoot-out.

Up next for Saints in Group C is a trip to the Hibs Training Centre to face Hibernian on Tuesday 3rd December.

St Mirren: Lyness, MacPherson, Walker, Glover, Erhahon, Djorkaeff, McBrearty, Gray, Breadner, Jack
Subs: Law, Girvan, Henderson, Frew, Grant, Jamieson, Reilly

The St Mirren Reserves are in Reserve Cup action this afternoon as they play host Dundee United Reserves at the St Mirren Training Ground at Ralston.

Kick-off takes place at 2pm and entry is FREE so come along and show your support for the Young Buddies.

St Mirren Football Club is excited to announce its partnership with sports analytics firm SciSports.

St Mirren and SciSports will be collaborating in the field of player scouting. With the addition of SciSports’ data intelligence to the scouting department, the club is broadening its options in the recruitment process.

The advanced data models in SciSports’ football intelligence platform Insight will support St Mirren in finding the best suitable players and reducing risk purchases. Next to this, these models make a contribution to mapping potential acquisitions as quickly as possible.

The club will get access to a database with objective and statistically substantiated player insights of more than 90,000 players worldwide.

The collaboration with St Mirren is an example of the steps SciSports is making in the global football landscape. After recent success stories with clubs from other countries including Olympique Lyonnais, Ajax, Wolfsburg and Leeds United among others, SciSports are now entering the Scottish football market.

We are excited about the new partnership and look forward to a fruitful collaboration.

Jakko Slot, Head of Football at SciSports: "It's great that as of now we can say SciSports is active on the highest stage of Scottish football.

"We strongly believe this partnership will support the club in making the right decisions in the field of player acquisition.

"Furthermore, we will have a close look at St. Mirren's performances and are curious about their next-steps for the upcoming period."

Gus MacPherson, Technical Director of St Mirren, said: "We are delighted to be teaming up with SciSports as we look to enhance our recruitment model.

"Working with SciSports will allow us access to a large database of players and help us find new talent from a number of different markets.

"It’s an exciting partnership for both the club and SciSports and we are looking forward to working with them."

SciSports Insight
SciSports’ online platform ‘Insight’ offers applicable insights into more than 90,000 active players, 244 competitions and 3,698 clubs. Advanced data models offer insights into the quality, potential and influence of every player. With the ability to apply easy search filters and -functions, the platform is the ideal partner for the scouting department to operate in an effective and efficient way.

About SciSports
SciSports is one of the fastest growing sports analytics companies in the world and a leading provider of data intelligence for professional football organisations. The European Union named SciSports ‘European Unicorn’ and the HYPE Foundation named the company as the most innovative company in the world of football.

St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation in conjunction with SPFL Trust are delighted to announce they will be hosting a Festive Friends event within the stadium on Christmas Day.

Festive Friends is a wonderful community program created to accommodate elderly people, and those in need, who will be isolated and alone on Christmas Day.

The fun-filled festivities will commence at 12 noon where all of our senior Buddies will be shown into the 1877 lounge, we will have live music & games, some Saint's legends dropping by to share fond memories of St Mirren's history, the provision of a delicious Christmas dinner and a visit from father Christmas & helpers to give all a hand made gift.

St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation wish to invite all of the fans, local community, business partners and friends to nominate individuals they wish to attend the event and nominations are now open, simply email gayle.brannigan@stmirren.com to enter.

To add to the magic and ensure the success of the day we will require small Christmas gifts to be donated and also additional funds to be raised. The more funds we raise and the more gifts we receive the more nominations we can accept.

Should you wish to donate a gift or volunteer as helper or driver on the day please email gayle.brannigan@stmirren.com or call us on 0141-889-2558 ext 6124 and we will provide you with more details.

Jon Obika and Danny Mullen were on the scoresheet as their goals gave St Mirren a 2-0 win over St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena on Saturday. 

The forwards notched their first league goals of the season, with Jon grabbing his first in the Black and White of Saints, to give the Saints an important three points and a first league win since August.

Much has been made of the Buddies lack of goals, with Jim Goodwin's side heading into Saturday's match as lowest scorers in the league.

But now both are off the mark, they believe it's time to use Saturday's win as a springboard moving forward.

"This will be the benchmark now," Jon told stmirren.com post-match.

"I feel, especially the forwards, we kind of owe it to the boys because we have been defensively fantastic.

"It's feels good to score and also get the three points which is the main thing. That's what you play for - to help your team and get those goals."

Danny echoed Jon's sentiments saying: "It’s always good to get a goal especially after the start we’ve had. 

"We didn’t start great but we came into the game and when we went ahead we managed the game well and saw it out professionally.

"Overall it was a good day. We’ve scored two goals and we’ll look to keep that up when we go to Kilmarnock."

Obika's opener was a thing of beauty as the English striker acrobatically put Saints in front with an overhead kick on 37 minutes.

"I just felt it stayed in the air for long and I'm just glad I connected with it," he said.

"In training we always practice finishing and the boys had been on fire this week. Again that is the benchmark and we always have to go out and attack."

Both Danny and captain Stephen McGinn, who made his return to the side following an injury to Ryan Flynn, admitted they were happy for Jon to get off the mark, with McGinn praising the quality of both goals and the team's overall performance.

"Jon scored a fantastic goal," the skipper said.

"I'm delighted for him - I thought he was unplayable.

"When we got our noses in front I thought we looked like a really good side.

"I thought the two goals were brilliant," he continued. "Kirk [Broadfoot] does great for Jon and then it's all about the big man's athleticism.

"The second goal is something we work on all the time. Sometimes in training it feels a bit false but when you get it right you can see how good it can work."

Tickets are on-sale for St Mirren's trip to Rugby Park to face Kilmarnock in the Ladbrokes Premiership this Saturday (26th Oct).

Jim Goodwin's side travel to Ayrshire to face Killie on the back of a 2-0 win over St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena on Saturday.

St Mirren fans will be housed in Block 2 & 3 of the Chadwick Stand at Rugby Park.

The match and tickets info is as follows:

Kilmarnock vs St Mirren
Ladbrokes Premiership
Venue: Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
Date: Saturday 26th October 2019
Kick-off: 3:00pm

Prices

Adult - £22

Concession (Over-65/U21/students*) - £17

Under-16 - £5

* - Students must show a valid matriculation card when purchasing concession tickets.

Wheelchair/ambulant disabled will be charged at the appropriate price above with free carer.

Tickets will be available at Rugby Park on the day of the game.

Please note that the drum will be permitted entry as long as Kilmarnock are allowed to search it and it also must be of a size that can be comfortably fitted through a turnstile.

Regarding flags, Kilmarnock allow banners to be fastened to unused blocks of seating, however, they are not permitted entry if on sticks or without proof of a fire retardant label. 

The Ticket Office hours for the remainder of the week are as follows:

Thu, Oct 24th - 10:00am - 2:00pm & 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Fri, Oct 25th - 10:00am - 2:00pm
Sat, Oct 26th - CLOSED
Sun, Oct 27th - CLOSED

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

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

A gallery of pictures from our matchday hospitality in the Westmarch Suite following Saturday's win against St Johnstone in the Ladbrokes Premiership.

Thanks to our match sponsor Kennedy Fashion and match ball sponsor Cruden Building & Renewals Ltd for their support.

Please note that hospitality is sold out for our next home match against Ross County on November 23rd. 

A delighted Jim Goodwin gives his reaction to the Buddies 2-0 win over St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena this afternoon.

St Mirren ended the long wait for a goal and the even longer wait for a victory with a win against St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena.

The Buddies produced two goals of real quality to end the drought that stretched more than three games. The first was just before the break when Jon Obika opened his St Mirren account with a cracking overhead kick.

That was a fine individual goal, the second was a tremendous sweeping move. Kirk Broadfoot played the ball out wide to Paul McGinn and the fullback whipped in a great cross that was thumped into the top corner by Danny Mullen. There was still half an hour to go but after that setback the Saintees rarely looked like producing a comeback.

Paul wasn't the only McGinn in the home line-up as brother and skipper Stephen made his first appearance since the Betfred Cup group game against East Kilbride three months ago. He replaced Ryan Flynn, who missed out with an Achilles' injury, with Tony Andreu coming in for Ilkay Durmus. Stevie May led the St Johnstone attack with Matty Kennedy and Drey Wright offering support.

The opening stages weren't great despite Murray Davidson firing an early rasping shot wide. A rare piece of neat passing play allowed Anthony Ralston to get a shot in with Stephen McGinn in the right place to clear it. Jason Holt then looped a shot onto the roof of the net before there was a minute's applause to pay tribute to Buddies fan Steven Ingram, who recently passed away. Soon after that ended the visitors almost took the lead, Danny Swanson seeing his initial shot blocked by Broadfoot but the ball fell kindly for Kennedy, who should have done better than shoot wide.

The home Saints had posed little attacking threat but had a penalty shout turned down when Mullen was kicked in the head by a flying boot. It seemed to spur the home side on, goalie Zander Clark having to be alert to tip away Kyle Magennis' corner, before the goal drought finally came to an end. With the Saintees defence rather hesitant to mop up after a free-kick, Broadfoot headed the back back across goal for Obika to thunder a spectacular overhead kick past Clark that was in the net before he'd even seen it. Not a bad way to bag your first goal in the stripes! The visitors tried to respond before the interval, Vaclav Hladky doing well to parry Ralston's shot.

Andreu was denied by Clark just after the break as the Buddies looked to double their advantage before Mullen went agonisingly close to doing just that. Obika's tremendous flick-on found his strike partner and he lifted the ball past the hesitant Clark but was relieved to see it hit the far post and bounced to safety.

St Johnstone had done little after the break but had a decent penalty shout turned down when Kennedy went down at the end of a mazy dribble. It was a rare foray forward and the home Saints made their pressure pay soon after in fantastic style.

It soon got even harder as St Mirren bagged a tremendous second. Broadfoot fed the ball out wide to Paul McGinn and he delivered a delicious first time cross that was emphatically tucked away by Mullen for his first goal of the season.

It was the striker's last involvement as his afternoon was then cut short by injury, Junior Morias replacing him. May failed to trouble Hladky with a couple of efforts as the Perth Saints tried to reduce the deficit before Morias went close to adding a third, leaving two defenders on their backsides before shooting straight at Clark. Another chance came when Obika slipped Foley in behind the visiting defence but he tried to square to Andreu rather than go himself and played the ball behind his team-mate. It didn't prove costly, Kennedy shooting over from miles out in stoppage time pretty much summing up how the second half had gone for the visitors.

Full-Time: St Mirren 2-0 St Johnstone

St Mirren: Hladky, P.McGinn, Broadfoot, McLoughlin, Waters, S.McGinn (c), Magennis, Foley, Andreu (Durmus 84), Obika, Mullen (Morias 66)
Subs Not Used: Lyness, MacKenzie, MacPherson, Breadner, Djorkaeff

St Johnstone: Clark, Ralston, Kerr (c), Duffy, Tanser, Holt (McCann 76), Davidson, Kennedy, Swanson (Hendry 59), Wright (O'Halloran 59), May
Subs Not Used: Parish, Vihmann, Booth, McCann, Wotherspoon

#SMFCMOM - Jon Obika

Referee: Nick Walsh
Assistant Referee: Frank Connor
Assistant Referee: Craig Ferguson
Fourth Official: Andrew Dallas

Attendance: 4,791 (499 away fans)

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography