St Mirren return to cinch Premiership action on Sunday as we host Rangers at The SMiSA Stadium in our first post-split fixture.

The Buddies currently occupy fifth place in the cinch Premiership - a place that would secure European football next season following Aberdeen's exit from the Scottish Gas Scottish Cup on Saturday. Saints sit two points ahead of Dundee in sixth.

Rangers are currently in second place - three points behind league leaders Celtic. Philippe Clement's side will be aiming to get their title challenge back on track after failing to win in their previous three cinch Premiership matches. The Gers drew with both Celtic (3-3) and Dundee (0-0), while losing 3-2 to Ross County in Dingwall. 

Match Details

St Mirren v Rangers
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Sunday 28th April 2024
Kick-off: 12:30pm
Venue: The SMiSA Stadium
Live on Sky Sports

Ticket Info

This match is included in the season ticket. As is standard for matches against Celtic and Rangers, additional tickets are only available to season ticket holders from this season and last season online using the email address they used when buying their season ticket.

Non-season ticket holders that have purchased tickets for (and subsequently attended) at least two home league matches at The SMiSA Stadium this season can only purchase directly at the St Mirren Ticket Office or by calling the Ticket Office on 0141-840-6130. 

International subscribers to St Mirren TV can watch the match live on tv.stmirren.com as part of their subscription. UK subscribers can listen to live audio commentary. The match is being shown live on Sky Sports so there is no PPV available.

Previous 

Rangers have been winners in the three meetings between the sides this season. 

Saints were edged out when the teams last met back in January. Cyriel Dessers scored the only goal of the game to give Rangers a 1-0 win, but the Buddies created a number of chances throughout the game and were left frustrated to have not taken anything from it. 

An Abdallah Sima double gave Rangers a 2-0 win when the sides met at Ibrox in December.

Saints were reduced to 10-men in the first meeting back in October when Ryan Strain was shown a straight red card for denying a goalscoring opportunity. James Tavernier scored from the resulting penalty to put Rangers 1-0 up. Sima and Tavernier would score late in the second-half to secure a 3-0 win for the Ibrox side.

Saints created a number of chances when the sides last met with James Bolton coming close to a late equaliser when his header hit the bar (Image: Allan Picken)

The officials

Nick Walsh is the referee on Sunday. His assistants are Frank Connor and Jonathan Bell. The Fourth Official is Chris Graham.

Don Robertson is the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and Gary Hilland is the Assistant VAR. 

We're trying to do what we can to hook as many people into St Mirren Football Club."

Chief Operating Officer Keith Lasley reflects on the progress made at the club this season. 

Tickets for our cinch Premiership match away to Dundee on Saturday 4th May will go on sale at 10am on Thursday 25th April. 

Saints face the Dark Blues at the Scot Foam Stadium in our penultimate away match of the 2023/24 season. The club has received just over 1,300 tickets for this match.

Online sales for standard post will be available to purchase until 10am on Tuesday 30th April and online sales for Ticket Office pick-up will be available to purchase up until 10am on Thursday 2nd May. All tickets purchased selecting Ticket Office pick-up must be collected from St Mirren Ticket Office by 2pm on Friday 3rd May. 

Dundee v St Mirren
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Saturday 4th May 2024
Kick-off: 3pm
Venue: The Scot Foam Stadium, Dundee

Dundee Ticket Info

Adults - £26
Concessions* - £16
Under 18 - £12

*65+, full-time students and disabled (carer free of charge).  

Please contact the St Mirren Ticket Office for wheelchair and ambulant disabled tickets. 

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

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

As we do every year, we will be remembering all the St Mirren supporters that have sadly passed away throughout season 2023/24. 

The club will be honouring those that have passed at our home match against Kilmarnock on Saturday 11th May.

If you would like the name of someone who has passed away this season to be included on the big screen during the applause then please email scoreboard@stmirren.com by 5pm on Wednesday 8th May.

Our thoughts to all the families who have lost loved ones throughout the season. 

Voting is now open for our 2023/24 Social Media Player of the Year sponsored by Ultimate Home Solutions and our Goal of the Season sponsored by Consilium Contracting Services.

Voting is open until 5pm on Friday 26th April and the winners will be announced at our Player of the Year Awards Dinner at the Normandy Hotel on Sunday 19th May 2024.

VOTE HERE: 2023/24 Social Media Player of the Year
VOTE HERE: 2023/24 Goal of the Season

Individual places are available at £95+VAT per person, with a minimum of two places on a shared table basis. Tables are available in multiples of 10 at £950+VAT or 12 at £1,140+VAT.

To reserve packages or enquire about Event and award sponsorship as well as commemorative brochure advertising opportunities, contact Commercial Manager, Campbell Kennedy on 0141 840 1337 or email commercial@stmirren.com 

During the Easter holidays, hundreds of kids across Renfrewshire have enjoyed free school holiday activity camps.

The Street Stuff multi-sports and dance camps - provided by St Mirren Football Club and Renfrewshire Council's Community Learning and Development team - have been fully booked during the two-week break, with around 750 places taken each week.

The camps located in Ferguslie, Foxbar, Gallowhill, Johnstone, Linwood and Renfrew were open to anyone aged five to 14. Activities available included football, basketball, hand ball, hockey, badminton, tennis, dance and more.

Everyone who attended got a free healthy lunch.

Councillor Marie McGurk, convener of the Council's Communities and Housing Policy Board, visited the camp in Linwood. She said: "Seeing children and young people have a great time during the school holidays is what the holiday period is all about. By putting on these activities, we are supporting children and young people to have a fun break from school."

In addition to the school holiday camps, the award-winning Street Stuff programme provides year-round free multi-sport, gaming and educational activities to young people aged eight to 16 during the evening. Activities include football, basketball and dance, with games consoles, tablets and WiFi available within the Youth Bus.

Cllr McGurk added: "Street Stuff is well established within our communities, with the weekly activities supporting children and young people's wellbeing. The education activities support local issues and also create pathways for young people into employment through training and volunteering, with many young people who attended the activities going on to work as coaches within Street Stuff and our partners."

Tickets for our first post-split fixture in the cinch Premiership are on sale now.

Saints host Rangers at The SMiSA Stadium on matchday 34 on Sunday 28th April.

Fixture Details

St Mirren v Rangers
Competition: cinch Premiership
Date: Sunday 28th April 2024
Kick-off: 12:30pm
Venue: The SMiSA Stadium
Live on Sky Sports

This match is included in the season ticket. As is standard for matches against Celtic and Rangers, additional tickets are only available to season ticket holders from this season and last season online using the email address they used when buying their season ticket.

Non-season ticket holders that have purchased tickets for (and subsequently attended) at least two home league matches at The SMiSA Stadium this season can only purchase directly at the St Mirren Ticket Office or by calling the Ticket Office on 0141-840-6130. 

St Mirren Football Club reserve the right to cancel any tickets it feels have been purchased for or by away supporters with no refund. Away end tickets will be sold directly by Rangers.

Ticket Prices

Adults - £33
Concession* - £23
U12** - £14

*65+, 13-17 and unemployed. 
**Must be accompanied by an adult. 

The SPFL has today published the post-split fixture list for the 2023/24 cinch Premiership season.

Stephen Robinson's side achieved a second top six finish in a row - the first time the club has done so in the top-flight since 1985.

We start the split with a home match against Rangers at The SMiSA Stadium on Sunday 28th April with a 12:30pm kick-off as the game is shown live on Sky Sports. 

Saints then travel to Dundee on Saturday 4th May before back-to-back home matches against Kilmarnock (Sat 11th May) and Hearts (Wed 15th May). 

We close out the season on Saturday 18th May away to Celtic.

Ticket arrangements for these matches will be confirmed in due course. 

Post-Split fixtures

*Live on Sky Sports

We got beat by quality. I thought first-half we were absolutely superb. For me there are positives."

The manager gave his thoughts after our 3-0 loss away to Celtic in the cinch Premiership. 

Three second-half goals saw Saints defeated 3-0 at Celtic Park.

After an even first 45 finished goalless, Reo Hatate, Kyogo Furuhashi and Adam Idah netted after the interval to secure the points for Brendan Rodgers' side. 

There were two changes for the Buddies from the side that lost to Hearts last week. Captain Mark O'Hara returned to the midfield alongside Keanu Baccus who also started. Hyeokkyu Kwon was unable to play against his parent club so he dropped out of the squad while Mikael Mandron dropped to the bench. Toyosi Olusanya led the line with Greg Kiltie playing just off him. 

Saints were forced into an early change when Elvis Bwomono has to be subbed off on 23 minutes. The wing-back had tried to play on after a clash with Hyunjun Yang but a few minutes afterwards realised he couldn't continue and was replaced by Ryan Strain. The Australian went into the book not long after his introduction following a foul on Yang. 

The Buddies had a big opportunity to hit the front on 26 minutes when Olusanya played a dangerous low ball in from the right that found Kiltie. But the forward couldn't get the connection required to guide it beyond Joe Hart. The hosts then broke up the park with Matt O'Riley seeing an effort blocked inside the box. 

Greg Kiltie couldn't get the connection required to take the ball beyond Joe Hart (Image: Allan Picken)

Baccus almost got himself on the end of a Tanser cross with 10 minutes of the first-half remaining, but Celtic goalkeeper Hart managed to get in ahead of the midfielder to punch clear. Two minutes later it was Baccus' countryman Strain who had a decent chance to put Saints in-front when Kiltie's cross from the left drifted all the way to the far end of box where Strain had time to take a touch and hit only for the effort to be cleared by Maik Nawrocki.

Saints made another change at the break as Jaden Brown came on for Tanser. Stephen Robinson was forced into a THIRD change on 50 minutes when Kiltie could no longer continue after colliding with Cameron Carter-Vickers and he was replaced by Lewis Jamieson.

The home side would take the lead on 52 minutes when Hatate fired them in front. The Japanese midfielder had too much space to run on to an Alastair Johnston pass and lashed a quality finish into the top corner with the outside of his foot to break the deadlock. The hosts had a good chance to double that advantage just two minutes later but Yang fluffed his lines from close range and Saints cleared.

After a period of pressure, Saints looked for a way back into the match with Baccus' low ball finding substitute Jamieson in the Celtic box but it was blocked by Nawrocki before Tomoki Iwata managed to launch clear. Just a minute later Kyogo made it 2-0 to Celtic when he got his head on to a Johnston cross and bulleted home from close range. 

Celtic could have added a third before the eventually did in the closing stages. Hemming made a good block at his near post to deny Hatate on 66 minutes before a stunning save to turn substitute Luis Palma's effort over on 78 minutes. 

But the hosts would round off the afternoon with a third in the closing minutes of normal time when substitute Adam Idah netted. Hemming saved O'Riley's low strike after the Denmark international had been teed up by Palma, but the ball spun up in the air for Idah to nod into the net despite Hemming's best efforts to keep the ball out. 

Saints will return to league action in a fortnight - our opponents yet to be determined - with the top-six split fixtures due to be announced in the coming days. 

Full-Time: Celtic 3-0 St Mirren

St Mirren: Hemming, Fraser, Gogic, Taylor (Dunne 83), Bwomono (Strain 23), O'Hara (c), Baccus (Scott 83), Boyd-Munce, Tanser (Brown 46), Kiltie (Jamieson 50), Olusanya (Mandron 72)
Subs Not Used: Urminsky, Bolton, McMenamin

Celtic: Hart, Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Nawrocki (Welsh 64), Taylor, Iwata (Bernardo 72), Hatate (McGregor 72), O'Riley, Yang (Palma 72), Kyogo (Idah 72), Kühn (Forrest 80)
Subs Not Used: Bain, Lagerbielke, Ralston

Referee: Steven McLean
Assistant Referee: Calum Spence
Assistant Referee: John McCrossan
Fourth Official: Peter Stuart
VAR: David Dickinson