St Mirren F.C.

St Mirren
Full nameSt Mirren Football Club
Nickname(s)The Buddies
The Saints
Founded1877 (1877)
GroundSt Mirren Park, Paisley
Capacity7,937[1]
ChairmanJohn Needham
ManagerStephen Robinson
LeagueScottish Premiership
2023–24Scottish Premiership, 5th of 12
WebsiteClub website
Current season

St Mirren Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Paisley, Renfrewshire, that competes in the Scottish Premiership after winning the 2017–18 Scottish Championship. Founded in 1877, the team has two nicknames: The Buddies and The Saints.

St Mirren have won the Scottish Cup three times, in 1926, 1959 and 1987, and the Scottish League Cup in 2013. They have played in European competition four times: in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1987–88 and the UEFA Cup in 1980–81, 1983–84 and 1985–86. The club will return to Europe for the first time in 37 years in the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League. They are the only Scottish team to win the Anglo-Scottish Cup, beating Bristol City 5–1 over two legs in 1979–80.

The club's home ground since 2009 is St Mirren Park, an all-seater stadium on Greenhill Road, Paisley. It has a capacity of 7,937. The club's former home from 1894 until 2009 was also officially named St Mirren Park, but was more commonly known as Love Street.

  1. ^ "St Mirren Football Club". Scottish Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2018.

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