--- title: "The St Mirren Football Club Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/the-st-mirren-football-club-limited-paisley-741751 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # The St Mirren Football Club Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, The St Mirren Football Club Limited (Paisley) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the International Sportsperson route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since 9 April 2021 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: International Sportsperson - First seen on the register: 9 April 2021 - Industry: Hospitality & Food Service - Town: Paisley - Companies House number: SC005773 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC005773) - Website: https://www.stmirren.com - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/the-st-mirren-football-club-limited-paisley-741751 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 79 licensed sponsors in Paisley: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/paisley - One of 15,171 in Hospitality & Food Service: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/hospitality-food-service - Among 1,456 International Sportsperson sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/international-sportsperson ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 19 changes worth checking, checked 27 October 2026, newest first: - 11 Aug 2026: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 11 Aug 2026. If the address on your sponsor licence has changed, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Jan 2026: New director appointed: PEEBLES, Gary James. Director change recorded on 30 Jan 2026. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Jan 2026: Director resigned: GILLESPIE, James Glen. Director change recorded on 12 Jan 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Aug 2025: Director resigned: MACMILLAN, Mark. Director change recorded on 12 Aug 2025. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Aug 2025: New director appointed: FALCONER, Peter Douglas. Director change recorded on 12 Aug 2025. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 6 Jan 2025: New director appointed: BEATTIE, Ian David. Director change recorded on 6 Jan 2025. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 11 Dec 2024: Director resigned: WHITE, Alexander Crone. Director change recorded on 11 Dec 2024. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Dec 2024: Secretary resigned: STEWART, Christopher Walter. Company secretary change recorded on 10 Dec 2024. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Dec 2024: New secretary appointed: GRAHAM, Gordon. Company secretary change recorded on 10 Dec 2024. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 24 Sep 2024: Notification of Mr Jack Jerry Mcskeane as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 24 Sep 2024. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 19 Jul 2024: Cessation of The 1877 Society Limited as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 19 Jul 2024. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Oct 2023: New director appointed: IRVINE, James Francis. Director change recorded on 30 Oct 2023. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 May 2023: Director resigned: SCOTT, Gordon Robert Laidlaw. Director change recorded on 30 May 2023. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 19 Nov 2022: Director resigned: WARDROP, Alan. Director change recorded on 19 Nov 2022. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 14 Nov 2022: New director appointed: MCNEILL, Paul Hugh. Director change recorded on 14 Nov 2022. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 31 Mar 2022: Director resigned: FITZPATRICK, Anthony Charles. Director change recorded on 31 Mar 2022. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 7 Jan 2022: Director resigned: RILEY, David. Director change recorded on 7 Jan 2022. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 14 Dec 2021: New director appointed: WHITE, Alexander Crone. Director change recorded on 14 Dec 2021. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 23 Nov 2021: Director resigned: STEWART, Christopher Walter. Director change recorded on 23 Nov 2021. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about The St Mirren Football Club Limited ### Is The St Mirren Football Club Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. The St Mirren Football Club Limited in Paisley is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2021. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can The St Mirren Football Club Limited sponsor? The St Mirren Football Club Limited is licensed for International Sportsperson. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is The St Mirren Football Club Limited based? The register lists The St Mirren Football Club Limited at Paisley. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/the-st-mirren-football-club-limited-paisley-741751 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/the-st-mirren-football-club-limited-paisley-741751.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.