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2012–13 St Mirren F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4628740 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012–13 season was St Mirren's seventh consecutive season in the Scottish Premier League, having been promoted from the Scottish First Division at the end of the 2005–06 season. St Mirren also competed in the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Summary

Season

St Mirren finished eleventh in the Scottish Premier League. They reached the Quarter-final of the Scottish Cup, and won the League Cup for the first time in the club's history, beating Heart of Midlothian 3–2 in the Final.

Results and fixtures

Win

Draw

Loss

Postponed

Preseason

Scottish Premier League

Scottish League Cup

Scottish Cup

Squad information

Captains

Last updated: 18 May 2013Source: Competitive match reports.

Competitive matches only

Matches started as captain only

Country: FIFA nationality; No.: Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.

Players

Last updated 18 May 2013

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012–13 St Mirren F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.