Welcome

Welcome to the St.Mirren Programme Archive. This is an unofficial site devoted to the history of football match programmes involving St. Mirren Football Club from season 1945/46 to the present day.

Background

Collectors of Scottish football club programmes have always faced difiiculties in detemining if a programme was issued for each of their club's matches. The late 'Eighties saw an attempt to redress the situation, with the publication of programme guides for Celtic, Rangers, Falkirk and Kilmarnock. Some years later, these were joined by similar booklets for Hearts and Hibs.

Much of the information here is based on 'A Collector's Guide to St.Mirren Programmes 1946/47 - 1990/91', a booklet which I researched and produced in late 1991. In 2008, when I decided to revive my collection after a number of years hibernation, it felt like the right time to revise and extend the details of the Collector's Guide to cover all programmes up to the present day.

What you'll find here

The site has a simple structure :

• History documents the production of the St.Mirren programme from its humble beginnings just before the Second World War through to the glossy matchday magazine of the 21st Century.
• Seasons provides links into seven decades of match information, including dates, opponents, venues, scores, attendances and match programme information. Where available, a scan of the programme cover can be displayed.
• For Sale lists a number of surplus St.Mirren items from my own collection which are available at reasonable prices.
• Links provides a list of similar sites and useful programme resources.

Acknowledgements

Many of the images come from my own collection, but I would like to thank the Club-specific web sites listed on the Links page and fellow collectors Jim Crawford, Leslie Robertson, William Clark, Stuart Black and Mark Smith for the use of additional programme scans.

Match information has been sourced from various Scotish Football record books and programmes. The historical articles in the St.Mirren programmes over the years have been an invaluable reference, and I am also grateful to the authors of "Marching On...: 125 Years of the St.Mirren Football Club" for producing such a well documented history of the Club.

Errors and omissions

Inevitably, with so much information gathered in one place, there are bound to be errors and omissions and I apologise for these. Please contact me if you have any corrections, additional information or good quality scans of any missing programmes.