St Mirren F.C.
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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.
Full name | St Mirren Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Buddies The Saints | |||
Founded | 1877; 147 years ago (1877) | |||
Ground | St Mirren Park, Paisley | |||
Capacity | 7,937[1] | |||
Chairman | John Needham | |||
Manager | Stephen Robinson | |||
League | Scottish Premiership | |||
2023–24 | Scottish Premiership, 5th of 12 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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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.