Sporting Saint Mirren F.C.

SP St. Mirren

Full name	Sporting St. Mirren Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Eagles
Founded	Unknown
Ground	Ohene Djan Stadium Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Ground Capacity	45,000
Chairman	Fred Crentsil
Manager	Fadi Omari
League	Poly Tank Division One League
Away colours

Sporting Saint Mirren FC are a Ghanaian professional football club, based in Indadfa, Greater Accra. The club is currently competing in the Ghana Poly Tank Division One League.

Biography

Overview

The Club’s home strip is Yellow and Green with matching socks in the same colour, while the away strip is Black and White with Black and White socks.

The official symbol of the club is the eagle and its motto is where only eagles dare.

Club Officials

The Club’s Board is advised by GFA Executive Committee member, Mr. Fred Crentsil, with the following occupying the respective roles; Mr. Oloboi Commodre as Director of Operations, Mr. Fadi Omari as head coach with Mr. Jimmy Kobla and Mr. Laryea Korley as Assistant Coaches.

Commercial Strategy

The Global Village Group acquired newly promoted St. Mirren FC^[1] who qualified on top of Zone III in the middle league, beating Royal Knights F.C., Fairpoint F.C., and drawing with Power FC.

The club’s name has thus been changed to Sporting Mirren FC, SP Mirren for short. The strategic plan of the new owners includes running the Club as a professional organization which will contribute to the development of the game in Ghana.

As part of the marketing strategy of the Club, Global Village has secured a sponsorship deal with Metro TV for this season to the tune of GH¢140,000.00 made up of GH¢70,000.00 cash and GH¢70,000.00 in the form of airtime to promote and market the matches and activities of SP Mirren.

Stadium

Sporting Mirren FC play its midweek & weekend matches on Thursday and Saturday respectively at Ohene Djan Stadium. The Club has chosen the Ajax Park as its training grounds, which is within the same neighbourhood of its Clubhouse located near IPS Legon.

St Mirren FC

The Ghanaian side shares its name with Saint Mirren Football Club, a Scottish professional football club based in Paisley, Scotland. The Scottish St Mirren FC were alerted to the existence of a "Ghana St. Mirren," a few years ago and were delighted to welcome the then chairman, and a selection of the latter's first team, to Scotland for a visit. A link between the two was soon established and Ghana St Mirren received brand new black and white St Mirren FC kits after their Chairman met a supporter, Stuart McIntosh, at the Normandy Hotel near Paisley with the result that McIntosh sent the club the kits. Nevertheless, SP Mirren, as they are now known, have reverted to their original green and yellow shirts.

Season 2008–2009

The Club kicked off their campaign in the Ghana Premier League on November 24 against Accra Hearts of Oak but were beaten 2–0. Other domestic league defeats have since followed, against Chelsea FC, All Stars F.C. & Real Tamale United.

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