Come along and support St Mirren with a superb day out at corporate hospitality when we welcome Spartans on Saturday 26th November.

You will be welcomed to the Westmarch Lounge where guests will enjoy a fantastic two course gastro meal.

The corporate hospitality details for the upcoming match against Spartans are as follows:

St Mirren v Spartans
William Hill Scottish Cup, 3rd Round
Venue: Paisley 2021 Stadium, Paisley
Date: Saturday 26th November 2016
Kick-off: 3:00pm

* Arrive 12:30pm.

* Private car parking facility.

* Enter through the exclusive Westmarch Hospitality Suite entrance.

* Hostess table service.

* Two course gastro meal.

* Accreditation in the match day magazine.

* Exclusive match day competitions.

* Corporate team sheets.

* Executive seating in Main Stand.

* Match ticket (season tickets not valid for this game)

* Half-time pie served with tea or coffee.

* Post Match presentations by the Match Sponsors Man of the Match.

* Pay bar facility pre and post match.**

* Last orders: 5:30pm.

* Bar closes: 5:45pm.

Cost per person: £60 + VAT (drinks inclusive)**

Cost per person: £40 + VAT (pay bar)

Child: £20 + VAT

MENU

The Big Yin

Beef burger topped with bacon and cheese served with tomato, BBQ sauce on a brioche bun with chips

*****

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream 

*****

Tea & Coffee

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KIDS MENU

The Wee Yin

Beef burger topped with bacon and cheese served with tomato, BBQ sauce on a brioche bun with chips

*****

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream

For more information or to reserve your package please contact Commercial Manager, Campbell Kennedy by Tel: (0141) 840-1337 or E-Mail: commercial@stmirren.com.

To book your place from our e-store please click here

If you live outside the UK & Ireland, St Mirren TV is your way to watch Paisley’s top football side live in action each and every home match day.

This service, which is delivered by media students from the University of the West of Scotland, will cover all of St Mirren’s home games in the Ladbrokes Championship.

As usual the St Mirren TV team will be presenting all the action from the Paisley 2021 Stadium when Dunfermline Athletic are the visitors on Saturday evening.

If you want to tune in here is the info you will need:

St Mirren v Dunfermline Athletic
Ladbrokes Championship
Venue: Paisley 2021 Stadium, Paisley
Date: Saturday 19th November 2016
Kick-off: 5:15pm GMT

To access this match day service:

1 Day Pass – €6.99 EUR
Season Pass – €69.99 EUR

To view Terms & Conditions and get started with St Mirren TV please click HERE.

For technical support with St Mirren TV please e-mail tvsupport@stmirren.com

St Mirren in the Community are delighted to confirm that the SMiSA Panda Club will be open for Saturday’s Ladbrokes Championship fixture against Dunfermline Athletic at the Paisley 2021 Stadium.

Due to the later kick-off time the SMiSA Panda Club will open at 3:30pm on Saturday. Parents please note that you should pick up your kids after the final whistle from the community office at 7:00pm.

The cost is just £2 per child (aged 5-12) for those without a season ticket and completely FREE to our young season ticket holders (remember and bring your smartcard with you).

Panda Club details for Saturday’s game are as follows:

St Mirren v Dunfermline Athletic
Saturday 19th November 2016
3:30pm – 7:00pm

To find out more about the Panda Club click here

St Mirren v Dunfermline Athletic
Ladbrokes Championship
Venue: Paisley 2021 Stadium, Paisley
Date: Saturday 19th November 2016
Kick-off: 5:15pm

The match day officials for Saturday’s Ladbrokes Championship fixture against Allan Johnston’s Dunfermline Athleitc side are as follows:

Referee: Nick Walsh.
Assistant Referee: Brian Templeton.
Assistant Referee: Steven Strang.
Fourth Official: Colin Steven.

If you are thinking about coming to the Paisley 2021 Stadium for the first time on Saturday please click HERE for all the info you will need to make sure your match day experience runs as smoothly as possible.

Match Details

The game kicks-off at 5:15pm.

Season Tickets ARE valid for this game.

Match is all ticket – tickets will be on sale (subject to availability) UNTIL KICK OFF.

On the match day St Mirren fans can purchase their tickets (subject to availability) at the St Mirren Ticket Office from 10:00am to kick-off time (5:15pm).

We also now have a Ticket Booth sited at the West Stand beside turnstiles T11-14 on a match day.  The Ticket Booth is only for the purchase of tickets (subject to availability) for the West Stand, and also the pick-up point for pre-ordered tickets for the West Stand.  The Ticket Booth will be open from 4:15pm to 5:15pm (kick-off).

The Dunfermline Athletic fans can purchase their tickets (subject to availability) from the window at the away end of the ground (North Stand) from 4:15pm to kick-off time (5:15pm).

Tickets can also be purchased from the Online Ticket Shop.

The St Mirren Ticket Office (Main Stand) opening hours in the build up to this match are as follows:

Fri, 18th Nov: 10:00am to 2:00pm
Sat, 19th Nov 10:00am to 5:15pm

The Ticket Booth (West Stand) opening hours in the build up to this match are as follows:

Sat, 19th Nov – 4:15pm to 5:15pm (kick-off)

Ticket Office Phone No: (0141) 840-6130.
St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com.

Please note that the Club Shop is also open the same hours as the Ticket Office.

M74 Closure This Weekend

Transport Scotland is warning motorists to expect significant delays on the M74 and surrounding roads as the motorway will be closed from Junction 4 Maryville to Junction 5 Raith this coming weekend. 

As part of the M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project, the M74 will be closed to traffic in both directions from 8pm on Friday 18th November to 6am on Monday 21st November 2016. This closure is required to safely demolish Bothwellpark Road Bridge.

Transport Scotland advise road users to plan their journey, avoid the area and surrounding local roads, and if possible, to use alternative modes of transport for the weekend.

The weekend closure will result in no access from the M73 to the M74 southbound at Junction 4 Maryville or to the M74 northbound at Junction 5, Raith.

Signed diversion routes will be in place via the A725, A8 and the M73, although Transport Scotland is warning road users to expect major delays on all surrounding routes as a result of the M74 closure.

Further information on this closure can be obtained at www.transport.gov.scot/m74closure.

Ticket Information

Visitor Information

The St Mirren Under-20 side are back in action this coming Tuesday afternoon when they play host to their counterparts from Dundee.

The SPFL Development League encounter between the young Buddies and Dark Blues on Tuesday 22nd November will take place at New Western Park in Renfrew and it will kick-off at 4:00pm.

For more news on the SPFL Development League please click HERE.

Fiona Dainty has joined St Mirren as the club's new Football Development and Community officer. The Scotland woman's under-17s coach takes over from Ross Paterson who moved to Ralston to become assistant head of youth to Allan McManus. 

stmirren.com sat down with Fiona to discuss her role, the importance of community and some of her plans for the job as she gets settled in to life at St Mirren.

 Q: Fiona, firstly welcome to St Mirren. How have your first couple of weeks been?

A: It's been good. It's a job I've always wanted to do and to come into a club like this has been exciting, it's been busy and I've spent my time getting out and about in the local community to see what we're doing. 

Q: How long have you had an interest in football?

A: It started when I left school and then studied sports coaching. I followed that pathway and started some sessional coaching in at clubs and for various local authorities and always kind of forged a pathway in sport with a particularly strong interest in football. It's always been something I've wanted to do and finally got the opportunity to work full time here.

Q: Tell us a little bit about what the role actually involves?

A: There's different streams of it to be honest. It's not just going out to deliver football, but it's also looking at who the community that St Mirren engages with are. Our bread and butter sessions will be working with primary school and pre-primary school kids that don't get the opportunity to play in teams and giving them a chance to come and train whether we are in their community or whether it's in the dome. But looking at different projects, there's football memories which is working with older members of the community, we're looking at football fans in training that will start which is looking to improve the health of St Mirren supporters both male and female. We're running a winter leavers programme for school leavers to show them what happens in at a club and how that can influence a wee bit more positively in their chances of moving on to work or college when they finish. So it's varied, it's not just about football but all the other stuff that goes and we can draw people in because we are a big name in the community. 

Q: How important is it for a club like St Mirren is firmly entrenched in the local community?

A: You can talk in cliches but the heart of everything needs to be your community and looking at the competition that's in this area as such in relation to other clubs that play in different leagues, other sports that are emerging, we want to still be an attractive proposition for this local community. There's so much more going on than just 3 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon and the first team running out. 

Q: Gordon Scott said in his latest update on the website that one of the things you'll be tasked with will be looking at the women's side of the club. Can you tell us a little more about what that actually means?

A: It's a pathway that's not really been explored if I'm being totally honest. I have a keen interest in the women's game, that's where I've worked for a long time. I have done a lot of community stuff in local authorities but looking at how we can develop players and again it's a competitive market out there. There's three performance clubs within this area that will be difficult to break into but we'll start with community sessions in local schools and our facilities, working with the local clubs that are already out there because there's quite a lot of under 9's and under 11's activities. In my joint role with the SFA we'll see how we can support that, but also looking at additional sessions we can put on with players that are already playing and then look, as we establish a community programme in here, to build in your community teams and then hopefully you'll develop players.

Q: Women's football has grown in popularity in the last couple of years, there was the Scottish Cup final recently between Hibs and Glasgow City. Have you spoken to the club about there being a St Mirren women's football team?

A: I think once you establish a programme your pathway would go that way. It's probably better to start at a younger age group and then over a period whether it's a 3 year plan or a 5 year plan then the aim would be to have a senior women's squad. It would then probably take another five years to challenge at Scottish Cup level if we are being realistic but it's about the team and the provisions you have in place. I know the club are looking to develop that side of things so if the backing is there and the support is there then there's nothing to say we won't have a successful women's team in the years to come. The framework is definitely there for us to go and look in the local community at sessions we can run.

Q: Is that something that excites you?

A: Yeah. My passion is women's football, I work with the U17s national squad, I do regional performance squads, so I definitely see a gap in the market there. This club should have a team across all pathways. We have the senior men's team, but looking at other classes that we have such as walking football, the additional support needs sessions, the women's side would be part of that pathway to complete that. 

Stephen Mallan believes the win over Ayr United in the IRN-BRU Cup on Sunday was massive and hopes the side can take confidence from it heading into this Saturday's match against Dunfermline. 

The Pars visit the Paisley 2021 Stadium for the 5:15pm kick off this weekend and the midfielder, who set up the equaliser with an excellent cross for John Sutton, hopes that the Saints can carry that feeling forward in what will be a big game in the Ladbrokes Championship.

It's a real good feeling," he told stmirren.com in the aftermath of the game. "It gave us a break from the league and thankfully we came from behind and got the win and it takes us into the weekend with a bit of confidence.

"When you're on a bad run in the league you need a wee confidence booster from a win. If you can get a win in the cup it can give you that bit of confidence to take into the weekend and it gives the fans something to cheer about."

Mallan understands what winning means to the supporters and was pleased the team could give the fans something to be happy about. 

It's very important," he said. "Most weeks they've gone away unhappy and it's the same for the boys too, we are feeling it as well. It makes their weekend if we win and thankfully we gave them something to cheer about."

He also said that despite going 1-0 down in the game he felt sure that Saints would still go on to win as they had been playing well.

It's a sign of confidence that has perhaps lacked in recent times for the Buddies, but the midfielder said: "It was an eye-opener as we had so much of the ball and had chances and they got the goal and as soon as they got the goal they kind of sat in a wee bit. 

Thankfully the gaffer changed formation and brought a few boys on that changed the game in Walsh and Shanks. It was good for the boys to show the courage to get the 2-1 win. 

"I think because we played so well when their goal went in it was one of the few times I've actually felt confident we could still get the win. We carved them open and they were tiring. 

"It was good for the boys to turn it around," he continued. "As soon as we went forward we could hear the fans behind our back and that gave us more incentive with the fans cheering." 

We recently asked you to send in your suggestions for what you would like to see above the tunnel area and all the exits from all the vomitories as we look to make changes to the Paisley 2021 Stadium. 

The club would like to thank everyone who took the time to send in their suggestions and there were a lot of excellent ideas for what we could do. 

We have now narrowed down all those suggestions to these three and want you to vote on what you would like to see.

Note only one vote is permitted per IP Address. Once you have cast your vote the vote button will no longer work. Once you have cast your vote you cannot change your mind!

Voting closes on Friday (18th November 2016) at 5pm. 

Scott Gallacher says he's looking forward to the IRN-BRU Cup semi-final after St Mirren defeated Ayr United 2-1 in the quarter-final tie at the Paisley 2021 Stadium yesterday. 

The Buddies were paired with Welsh side The New Saints in a battle of the Saints that will take place in Paisley in February and speaking to stmirren.com in the aftermath of the win yesterday, the goalkeeper said there were plenty of positives to take from the victory and they can now look forward to the semi-final when it comes around. 

It's a great occasion," he said. "It's the semi-final of a cup, so we'll take as much positives as we can from the game, the fight and desire at the end got us the result.

"Obviously being behind and going in front is a big confidence boost for the lads and it's great that way.

"It's massive and it keeps our heads high and we'll kick on from there. It's important to try to win any game first and foremost and hopefully we'll kick on from here."

The goalkeeper worked with Jack Ross at Alloa last season and says he's enjoying working with the manager again.

It's been great. He's one of those managers who gets on the boys' side and everybody seems to like him. Training is a high standard and he's been great." 

Gallacher admits he's happy to be given an opportunity as number one and realises that he'll have to impress if he wants to stay between the sticks.

It's good to get games," he said. "It was a tough opposition for us but a good game. I have to take advantage as much as I can and try to play my best whenever I'm in and hopefully play well."

St Mirren have been drawn at home to face The New Saints in the IRN-BRU Cup semi-final. 

The Buddies have seen off Albion Rovers, Hibernian and Ayr United in the run to the last four and will now battle it out with the Welsh side for a place in the final. 

The match is due to take place on the weekend of February 18/19.