St Mirren are one of Scottish football’s older fixtures, founded in 1877 and based at The SMISA Stadium. Their place in the Premiership landscape is familiar rather than ornamental: a club with enough structure to be awkward, and enough limitations to make margins matter.
The 2025-26 campaign ended with St Mirren eleventh after all 38 Premiership rounds. They also had League Cup involvement in Group C. Their recent league run was uneven: a 1-1 draw with Dundee United and a 2-0 win at Aberdeen followed a sequence of defeats, including a narrow 1-0 loss at Celtic.
The squad was listed at 33 players with an average age of 25, and a market value of around £6 million according to Transfermarkt. Mikael Mandron led their scoring with 13 goals, followed by Killian Phillips on nine, with Jonah Ayunga and Dan Nlundulu both on five.
At home, St Mirren averaged 0.6 goals scored and 1.2 conceded per match. Away from Paisley, the defensive picture was looser, with 1.7 goals conceded per match. For Celtic supporters, they remain a known domestic opponent: capable of making games untidy, but coming out of a season that left them near the foot of the table.
