St Mirren are enjoying a very solid season in the Scottish Premier League with Jim Goodwin’s side having made a lot of progress throughout the campaign.

The aim will now be for them to have as strong an end to the season as possible with them safe from any relegation danger and there is still a realistic chance that they could end up in the top half of the division. That would represent an excellent season in the league for the club and show that they have progressed from last term where they finished in 9^th place in the table.

The summer transfer window will be important for them and they will need to hang on to some of their better players to avoid losing the progress they have managed to make throughout the season. While they will also need to continue to add wisely to the squad where they can.

While we wait to see what St Mirren do during the rest of the campaign, here we have put together a list of the club’s top 10 best ever managers according to points per game (since three points was introduced for a win in Scotland in 1994). Click ‘next’ to scroll through this list.

Coming in at tenth place on this list is John Coughlin, who makes this list having managed to secure 13 wins, 16 draws and 24 defeats in his 53 games in charge of St Mirren. That leaves him with 1.01 points per game.

Coughlin was appointed manager of St Mirren in September 2002 and he guided the club to a seventh-placed finish in the First Division in his first season in charge. However, he left the club in November 2003 after results had dropped off at the start of the 2003/04 campaign.

Coming in at ninth place on this list is Gary Teale, who managed to secure seven wins and one draw and also suffered 15 losses from his 23 games in charge which leaves him with 1.07 points per game.

Teale took over as manager in December 2014, but he was unable to keep the club in the Scottish Premier League with then finishing bottom of the table. He then left the club in May 2015.

Coming in at eighth place in this list is Jimmy Bone who managed to secure 22 wins and 20 draws and also suffered 35 defeats during his 77 games in charge of the club that leaves him with a 1.12 points per game.

Bone took over as manager of St Mirren in 1992 and spent four years with the club, but he was unable to get the club promoted during his time in charge finishing in 4^th, 6^th, 7^th and 6^th in his four campaigns in charge before resigning in 1996.

In seventh place on this list is Danny Lennon, who managed to secure 50 wins and 54 draws and suffered 75 defeats and managed to accumulate 1.14 points per game.

Lennon took over as St Mirren manager in June 2010 and managed to secure an 11^th place finish in his first season in charge in the Scottish Premier League. They then finished in 8^th, 11^th and 8^th place in the next three campaigns and then left the club in May 2014.

Coming in at sixth place on this list is St Mirren’s current manager Jim Goodwin who has managed to accumulate 1.28 points per game so far during his time in charge of the club.

Goodwin took over as manager in June 2019 and he managed to guide the club to a 9^th place finish in the Scottish Premier League last term and also to the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup. So far this term, they have managed to secure ten wins, ten draws and 13 defeats from their 33 games at the time of writing.

In at fifth place on this list is Tom Hendrie who managed to secure 55 wins and 38 draws and suffered 60 defeats in his 153 games in charge, which left him with 1.32 points per game.

Hendrie took over the club in December 1998 and guided them to a 5^th place finish in the 1998/99 campaign. The following season he guided them the first division title and promotion back to the Scottish Premier League. However, they were relegated finishing bottom of the table the following year and then left the club in September 2002.

In fourth place on this list is Gus MacPherson, who managed to secure 101 wins, 83 draws and 105 defeats in his 289 games in charge leaving him with 1.34 points per game.

MacPherson took over as manager in November 2003 and he managed to guide the club to a 7^th place finish during the 2003/04 campaign. They then secured a second-placed finish in the first division in 2004/05 before winning the title the following year. St Mirren then finished 11^th, 10^th, 11^th and 10^th in the next four years before leaving in May 2010.

Coming in at third place in this list is Tony Fitzpatrick who managed to secure 36 wins, 19 draws and 39 defeats during his 94 games in charge of his second spell with the club. That left him with 1.35 points per game.

Fitzpatrick took over as St Mirren manager in September 1996 and managed to guide the club to a fourth-place finish in the 1996/97 campaign. He left the club in December 1998 with the club struggling to mount a promotion challenge.

Coming in at second place on this list is Alex Rae who has managed to secure 13 wins and six draws as well as losing 13 matches from his 32 games in charge which leaves him with 1.41 points per game.

Rae only managed the club for a short period of time taking over December 2015 and he managed to guide the club to a 6^th placed finish in the Championship in the 2015/16 campaign. However, he left the club in September 2016.

Currently, St Mirren’s most successful manager in terms of points accumulated per game is Jack Ross, who managed to secure 42 wins, 13 draws and 25 losses in his 80 matches in charge of the club. That left him with 1.74 points per game.

Ross took over as manager in October 2016 and he managed to guide the club to a seventh-place finish in the Championship in the 2016/17 season and to the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup. The following campaign he managed to guide the club to the Championship title and to promotion back to the Scottish Premier League. He left in May 2018 to take over at Sunderland.