webassets/header2.jpg

Home | Formation | Club Records | Roll of Honour | Home Grounds | Club Strips | St Mirren Crest | Renfrewshire | Europe | Current Season | Current squad | Former Saints | Through the years | Day by day | Saints in Print | St Mirren Juniors | Around the Grounds | Related Links | Club Info | Contact/Search

Do you know....?

That April the eleventh provided Saints with one of their greatest and worst days, five years apart?

11th April 1987 - Saints defeat Hearts 2-1 to reach the Scottish Cup Final
Roll on five years
11th April 1992 - Hearts are again the opposition, this time in a league match at Tynecastle. A 0-0 draw condemning Saints to relegation from the top flight! 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That Saints are the only senior team to have their name on the Scottish Junior Cup?
It was way back in 1916 that Saints decided to field a team in the Scottish Junior Leagues and it was during that first season that they were succesful in the Junior Cup competition.
For the full story click here

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That Saints were involved in the highest ever SPL attendance?
On the 7th April 2001, 60,440 fans were at Celtic Park to witness the match between Celtic and Saints.
The match turned out to be the title winning match for the home team, which added to the attendance, but no other 'title decider' since has been better attended!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That Saints are the only team to appear in a major cup final in every decade of the 20th century?
Not even Rangers and Celtic achieved that honour!
For the record, Rangers missed out in the 1910's and Celtic in the 1940's.
Competitions included in this achievment are the ones that every club in the country are eligible to compete in, so this does not include local cups or charity/invitational competitions.
Basically any competition under the auspices of the SFA or the SFL are included, ie. Scottish Cup, League Cup, Summer Cup, Victory Cups, Drybrough Cups, Anglo Scottish Cup, League Challenge Cup.
...
Every club in the country were eligible to compete in these competitions.
And for those dismissing Saints achievments claiming 'Diddy' status for some of the competitions....... apart from the League Challenge Cup, both Rangers and Celtic participated in every other competition on several occasions, and had any of them been relegated, they would have played in that!!!

Saints record:-
1900's
1908 Scottish Cup

1910's
1919 Victory Cup

1920's
1926 Scottish Cup

1930
1934 Scottish Cup

1940's
1943 Summer Cup

1950's
1955 League Cup + 1959 Scottish Cup

1960's
1962 Scottish Cup

1970's
1977 Anglo scottish Cup

1980's
1980 Drybrough Cup + Anglo Scottish Cup + 1987 Scottish Cup

1990's
1993 League Challenge Cup

We have started the 21st century on target to continue the run with
2000's
2005 League Challenge Cup

2010's
2010 League Cup

So 12 straight decades with Saints in a cup final!! A record to be proud of.
If only we could win more of them...........!!!!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------