St Mirren vs Hamilton Academical
Ladbrokes Premiership
Venue: The Simple Digital Arena, Paisley
Date: Saturday 1st December 2018
Kick-off: 3:00pm

The match day officials for Saturday’s Ladbrokes Premiership fixture against Martin Canning's Accies side are as follows:

Referee: Kevin Clancy.
Assistant Referee: Sean Carr.
Assistant Referee: Stuart Stevenson.
Fourth Official: David Munro.

If you are thinking about coming to The Simple Digital Arena 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 3:00pm.

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 (3:00pm).

We also 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 1:30pm to 3:00pm (kick-off).

The Hamilton Academical fans can purchase their tickets (subject to availability) from the window at the away end of the ground (North Stand) from 1:30pm to kick-off time (3:00pm).

Tickets can also be purchased from the Online Ticket Shop.

The club are also offering two special ticket deals for the South 'Family' Stand which are as follows:

Offer 1 (Group): £44 for 2 adults and 20 Under 12s (application form available from the Ticket Office)

Offer 2: Anyone purchasing a £22 adult ticket in the South Stand can also bring along a free Under 12.

These offers need to be redeemed by no later than 2:00pm today (Friday 30th November).

Please note that the offers will not be available on the day of the match.

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

Fri, 30th Nov: 10:00am to 2:00pm.
Sat, 1st Dec: 10:00am to 3:00pm (kick-off).

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

Sat, 1st Dec: 1:30pm to 3:00pm (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.

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Unacceptable Conduct

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Ticket Information

Visitor Information

GoFitba is an exciting football based health and wellbeing project for primary school kids delivered by the Scottish Football Partnership Trust in association with community football clubs. 

The 12 week project offers these children weekly interactive educational journey to discover how they can stay active and lead a healthier lifestyle through diet and nutrition. 

The programme offers the young participants a chance to enjoy an hour of fun football-based activity led by club coaches, followed by an hour where they are taught how to lead a healthier lifestyle through diet and nutrition by completing their very own learning journal.

To round off each weekly session, the kids are then served a hot healthy meal which gives them an opportunity to enjoy some social time together. 

Street Stuff are involved in the delivery of the 12 week block of football activities which will take place at Glencoats Primary School in Ferguslie Park and we currently have an average of 18 young people in attendance. 

Street Stuff Manager, Stevie Gallacher said: "It's good to have our Street Stuff staff working close with the local community and being involved in the delivery of a very worthwhile project. 

"GoFitba takes place in Glencoats Primary School and is open to pupils in P6/P7. For more information on how to get involved, parents should contact the school office."

St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce that Jimmy Nicholl has joined the club as a first team coach.

The Northern Irishman joins his fellow countryman, manager Oran Kearney, at Saints.

Jimmy, who had a playing career that saw him turn out for the likes of Manchester United, Sunderland and West Brom, checks in at the Buddies after most recently being assistant manager at Rangers. 

Jimmy has also held coaches roles at the Northern Ireland national side, Falkirk, Cowdenbeath, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Dunfermline.

Speaking on joining the club, Jimmy told stmirren.com: "It's my first day today but on the evidence of what I've seen this morning there's a really good spirit about the place. 

"Oran is a young, ambitious, enthusiastic manager and you can see the drive that he has got. That enthusiasm should rub off on all the players and all the staff and that drive and determination. 

"I look forward to it," he continued. "My job will be when there are difficult times. If we are winning everyone is happy, but it's the difficult times you have to keep everyone lifted." 

St Mirren FC Community Trust would like to thank SMiSA and Paul McGrath of Consilium who have donated £500 and £700 respectively for our Festive Friends event.

In conjunction with SPFL Trust and Salvation Army, the St Mirren FC Community Trust will be hosting a 'Festive Friends' event within the Simple Digital Arena 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 event has been very positively received by other partner organisations within Renfrewshire such as RAMH, Active Communities, Shelter, ROAR, Renfrewshire Foodbank and Star Project who are all keen to nominate men & women they feel will greatly benefit from experiencing the day.

Our good friends at the Salvation Army have kindly offered to partner on the day and provide the wonderful hearty festive meal for all of our special guests and the great team at SPFL Trust have agreed to award funding towards some of the costings.

This very fun-filled Christmas Day will commence at 12noon where all of our senior Buddies will be shown into the 1877 Supporters Club.

We will have live music, games & entertainment, some special legends dropping by to share funny stories and great memories of St Mirren’s history, the provision of a delicious three course Christmas dinner from the Salvation army and a visit from Father Christmas and the elves to provide a small festive gift.

The Salvation Army and all of St Mirren FC Women’s Team have kindly offered to volunteer on the day as we will require helpers in the lounge and more importantly volunteer drivers to ensure the safe pick up and drop home of our Festive Friends.

St Mirren FC Community Trust 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 please email gayle.brannigan@stmirren.com and to make a Festive Friends financial donation please use our JustGiving page.

Thank you for all of your support.

St Mirren are in action at the Simple Digital Arena again this weekend as we play host to Hamilton Accies in the Ladbrokes Premiership.

Saints go into Saturday's match on the back of 2-0 win over Hearts and you can be there to cheer on Oran Kearney's side as we aim to make it two wins in a row.

We have two special offers available for this weekend's match.

The first is a group offer for two adults and up to 20 Under-12s for just £44. These can be redeemed by filling out this application form and returning it to the St Mirren Ticket Office.

The second will allow free entry for one Under-12 with anyone purchasing a £22 adult ticket.

Please note these offers are only available in the Family Stand and must be redeemed by Friday 30th November at 2pm. They will NOT be available on match day. 

Any youth clubs who wish to be notified when more offers like this are available should email info@stmirren.com to be added to our mailing list.

Oran Kearney says Jim Goodwin's return to Paisley will add to the occasion of Saints' Scottish Cup draw.

The Buddies were drawn at home to Alloa in the Fourth Round of the William Hill Scottish Cup on Saturday following the win over Hearts.

It will see ex-Saint Goodwin bring his Wasps side to the Simple Digital Arena in the new year and the manager believes Goodie's return to Paisley will give the game added spice.

It will give the game extra edge," he told stmirren.com.

"I don't know Jim [Goodwin] personally but I'm sure he will come here full of pride and wanting to give a hell of an account of himself and have his team fired up accordingly. 

"I think in any competition the key thing is a home draw. Then, ideally, after that not picking up someone from your own league.

"We've obviously got both of those and it will be an exciting tie when it comes around, but there is a huge amount of football to be played."

Oran is no stranger to cup success having lifted the Irish Cup with former club Coleraine in May.

And while all focus will remain on the league until the tie comes around, the manager believes a run in the cup could prove significant for Saints.

They are hugely important and particularly with the predicament we're in it's nice to keep a cup run going alongside that as it can also filter into your league form.

"So with that it's definitely something we'll place high on our list of priorities. 

"I think the extra lift it can give to the club, players and fans with a good run can coincide with good league form.

"I would absolutely see the two fall hand-in-hand and with it being the biggest and most important cup in Scotland it's so important we give it a good go."

The cup tie against Alloa will be Saints' first match back following the Premiership winter break and Oran says the side can't be complacent.

There's a danger there as Alloa won't have a break in January and they'll come into it having played two or three weeks of Saturday games.

"We'll probably have to look at a friendly or two to make sure there is time in the legs.

"There is the possibility also by that stage that we'll have a new face or two. 

"There are shocks in the cup and it does happen so it's not a game that we'll be taking lightly."

A gallery of pictures from the Westmarch Suite following St Mirren's win over Hearts in the Ladbrokes Premiership on Saturday.

Thanks to our match sponsors Claymore Contracting Services, associate sponsor Romech and our captains armband sponsors Saltire Hospitality.

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

St Mirren have been drawn to face Alloa Athletic in the fourth round of the William Hill Scottish Cup. 

The Buddies will face Jim Goodwin's Wasps side at the Simple Digital Arena on the weekend of 19th/20th January 2019.

Ticket arrangements will be announced in due course.

Saints ended the long wait for a victory this afternoon with a fine display against Hearts in Paisley.

Adam Hammill was the hero as he bagged both goals early in the second half, the first probably finishing the country's goal of the season competitions before we've even reached the end of November as the winger found the net from 45 yards.

In doing so, it gave Oran Kearney his first win as Buddies boss.

Danny Rogers had little to do on his first league start for the club following the departure of Craig Samson. Skipper Stephen McGinn returned in place of Ryan Edwards, who was unable to play against his parent club, with Jack Baird replacing the injured Anton Ferdinand at the back. Hearts made one change to the team that lost to Kilmarnock a fortnight ago with Sean Clare starting in place of Olly Lee.

Kyle Magennis headed Hammill's early free-kick straight at Zdenek Zlamal before Hearts should have taken the lead, the unmarked Steven MacLean somehow shooting wide after Craig Wighton had helped Michael Smith's cross on to the former St Johnstone man. Anyone hoping that was a sign of things to come would be sadly mistaken with chances few and far between for both teams. Hammill did show some attacking intent at times for the Buddies, slipping the ball through for Paul McGinn only for Jimmy Dunne to get back and clear the danger.

A few crosses into the Saints box caused some momentary scares for the Buddies before they went desperately close to taking the lead, Kyle Magennis beating Clevid Dikamona to a loose ball only to see his tremendous shot hit the bar. After being booked for a foul on Michael Smith, the young midfielder was then in the right place at the other end as he nodded away Dunne's goal-bound header. Just before the break Stephen McGinn had a great chance to put Saints in front as he took advantage of Dunne's dithering but Zlamal was equal to the shot.

If the first half had been short on thrills, the second was anything but as Saints took the lead in spectacular style. As the Buddies tried to play the ball forward, it sat up nicely for Hammill and he let rip from 45 yards, the ball sailing over the head of Zlamal for a spectacular opening goal that nearly lifted the roof off the Simple Digital Arena.

But the winger wasn't done there. After resisting some Hearts pressure, Saints went back on the attack, Magennis heading the ball over Smith before crossing for Paul McGinn. The ball bounced off the fullback but fell perfectly for Hammill, who curled it beyond the reach of Zlamal into the bottom corner.

Hearts thought they'd reduced the deficit when Peter Haring sent a thumping header from sub Olly Lee's free-kick past Rogers, however the flag was up for offside. The same combination threatened again from a corner but this time Haring could only head over before Hammill went close to his hat-trick, getting the better of the Hearts defence only to lob tamely into the arms of Zlamal.

Although Hearts continued to push they created little of note and Saints could have wrapped things up late on when Paul McGinn looped a shot towards goal only for Zlamal to tip it over at the last moment. It would have made the final 10 minutes or so a little easier but there was no need to worry as Kearney's men saw things out for a much-needed win.

Full Time: St Mirren 2-0 Hearts

St Mirren: Rogers, P. McGinn, Baird, Jones, Erhahon, Hodson, S.McGinn, Magennis, McShane, Hammill (Smith 71), Jackson (Mullen 84)
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Eckersley, MacPherson, Willock, Cooke

Hearts: Zlamal, Smith, Dunne, Haring, Clare (Lee 54), Djoum, Wighton (Mulraney 45), Garuccio (Mitchell 62), Maclean, Dikamona, Morrison
Subs Not Used: Doyle, Bozanic, Lee, Mitchell, Cochrane, Mulraney, Godinho

Referee: Craig Thomson
Assistant Referee: David Roome
Assistant Referee: Drew Kirkland
Fourth Official: Craig Napier

Attendance: 5,727

Match Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography and John Millar - Millar Pictures

Oran Kearney gives his reaction to St Mirren's 2-0 win over Hearts at the Simple Digital Arena this afternoon.

The manager discusses getting his first win as Saints boss, how he feels for the players, that Adam Hammill goal and also reserves praise for the fans.