| 7 | Motherwell | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | -18 | 42 |
| 8 | Hearts | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | -2 | 40 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | -18 | 38 |
| 10 | Dundee | 33 | 10 | 7 | 16 | -20 | 37 |
| 11 | Ross County | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | -25 | 35 |
| 12 | St Johnstone | 34 | 8 | 5 | 21 | -26 | 29 |
Our popular Business Breakfast event returns on Friday 25 February with a talk from our head of recruitment Nick Daws.
Appointed in June last year, the Englishman has set about improving ‘Well’s transfer strategy. Join him from 8.30am to 10am at Fir Park to hear all about his work
Book online here to secure your place for £10. The price includes a breakfast roll, tea/coffee and orange juice.
Our Scottish Cup quarter-final with Hibernian will take place on Sunday 13 March.
Broadcast live on BBC One Scotland, the game at Fir Park will kick off at 12.30pm.
Tickets for the home stands can be purchased online now, or from the ticket office at Fir Park.
Prices are:
If you are a season ticket holder, your normal seat is being held for you until 5pm on Wednesday 9 March. To buy, visit our online ticketing service, log in and go to My Tickets.
Hibernian fans should contact their club for ticket sales.
Upgrade your quarter-final experience with one of our great value hospitality packages.
In our Centenary Suite, enjoy a traditional breakfast followed by pancakes with hot syrup and half-time refreshments, with a pay bar facility for £45 per person, and £16 for children aged 15 and under.
Or, with our Cooper Box Package, from 11am get two complimentary drinks pre-match, get traditional half-time refreshments and then enjoy a cash bar for one hour after the game for £48 per person.
To book, call our hospitality team on 01698 338003.
Motherwell return to SWPL1 action when they travel north to take on Aberdeen on Sunday 27 February.
Kick off at Balmoral Stadium is at 4pm.
Tickets for the game will be purchased via the cash turnstiles only.
Adult tickets will cost £5 whilst under 16s will be go free.
Following guidance from Scottish Government, we would encourage all supporters to take a lateral flow test prior to attending the match.
Aberdeen and Motherwell have faced off twice already this season.
In the most recent encounter, the women of steel came away with the three points after defeating the Dons 4-3. A Carla Boyce hat-trick and a Chelsie Watson goal secured the victory.
The two sides also faced in the group stages of the SWPL Cup in August, with Aberdeen winning 1-0 on that occasion.
Motherwell have only lost one of their previous six games against Aberdeen.
Aberdeen are currently one point behind Motherwell in the SWPL1 table.
The Dons beat Spartans 4-2 to advance in the Scottish Cup, after beating Hibernian 1-0 the previous week.
Aberdeen are currently on a four game winning run, dating back until the end of January.
Motherwell haven’t featured since the start of February where they were beaten by Hearts 1-0.
The women of steel have two defeats in five games and look to extend their gap to the teams below in the table.
“We were the team on the front foot. On another day we win that game and take all three points.”
Motherwell showed their resilience again to fight back and claim a point against Aberdeen.
Vicente Besuijen provided the Dons with a first half lead before a Mark O’Hara goal midway through the second gave ‘Well a deserved equaliser.
But unlike last week the Fir Park failed to produce the spark and the fightback which earned them progression in the Scottish Cup.
Blues skies and sunshine welcomed the teams for a second consecutive Saturday. Apart from the vast improvement in the weather, the sides retained a familiar look.
Not surprisingly, buoyed by the Scottish Cup win over the Dons last week, Motherwell were unchanged.
Although the Dons welcomed back goalkeeper and captain Joe Lewis, the most significant change for visitors was in the dugout where newly-appointed Jim Goodwin took charge of his first game.
Both teams came into this league encounter sharing the unenviable record of going six games without a league win.
For a second week, ‘Well started the game facing the Davie Cooper stand and similarly almost lost an early goal at the other end.
A free kick 30 yards from Liam Kelly’s goal presented Lewis Ferguson with the first chance of the game. Although he did well to curl his shot towards the top left-hand corner of the goal, the ‘Well ‘keeper responded to palm the ball clear.
Motherwell forced a couple of set pieces to test the visitors’ goal but after Kevin van Veen tried to curl one into the net from wide on the left, the ball fell to Liam Donnelly but his powerful volley raced over the bar.
After some neat footwork at the edge of the box, Mark O’Hara squeezed in a shot straight at Lewis although the ‘keeper needed two attempts to gather the ball.
The Dons’ ‘keeper was more decisive after 14 minutes when he raced from his goal to smother the ball at the feet of the inrushing Van Veen, who went headlong over Lewis and then required treatment to his right shoulder.
While nursing his shoulder, Van Veen almost caught out Lewis as he dallied on a David Bates pass back. The keeper was almost embarrassed as he watched his attempt to clear the ball clattered off the ‘Well striker’s boot and rebound a couple of feet wide of his post.
In the 32nd minute, Christian Ramirez thought he had given the Pittodrie men the lead for the second week but a raised flag cancelled out his netted effort from 10 yards.
An Aberdeen goal, though, was only delayed two minutes.
Adam Montgomery outpaced Bevis Mugabi at the edge of the box and although his cross was falling behind the inrushing Besuijen he managed to scoop the ball into the begging goal to make it 1-0.
‘Well responded with an O’Hara corner which found its way out to Sean Goss but he struggled to prevent his volley flying over the crossbar.
The game was drifting towards the half-time whistle when it ended with a bang.
Referee Nick Walsh gave the Fir Park side the advantage after a foul 10 yards outside the box. But as play continued Jonny Hayes dived into a tackle on O’Hara resulting in treatment for both players and a melee amongst both sets of players.
Remarkably, while Hayes escaped a caution, Mugabi and Declan Gallagher were shown a yellow card for their confrontation.
When play resumed, Van Veen was unlucky not to claim his sixth goal against the Dons when his terrific free kick smacked off the face of the post with Lewis well beaten.
The ‘Well striker came close again early in the second half. A long ball from Kelly found Jake Carroll and his pass allowed Van Veen to turn Gallagher, before hammering a low drive towards the near post which Lewis turned behind.
Just after the hour mark, Graham Alexander made a double substitution bringing on Ricki Lamie and Kayne Woolery.
It had an immediate impact when Woolery gathered the ball at the corner of the box and fired towards goal. Van Veen got a touch eight yards out but although Lewis got a glove to the ball it fell for O’Hara to prod it home and level the scores.
That injected some buzz into the home crowd and suddenly ‘Well looked a threat every time they progressed towards the Dons’ goal.
With Woolery posing a threat on the right, Motherwell were in the ascendancy and from a Goss corner Mugabi failed to make contact from four yards when he looked certain to nod the ball home.
As new boss Goodwin pounded the touchline, Aberdeen were not content with a draw and threatened on the break. And it took a brilliant last-ditch tackle from Carroll to prevent Ramirez from having a run on Kelly’s goal.
Four minutes from time, Connor Shields almost popped up with another winner against the Dons.
But after racing into the box from a tight angle his powerful drive couldn’t find the top corner of the goal.
Our cinch Premiership match with Aberdeen will go ahead.
Following a 10am pitch inspection at Fir Park, the match official has ruled the surface is playable.
Kick-off is at 3pm.
The Motherwell boss discusses the changes at our cinch Premiership opponents, and how the team need to focus on what they excel at before worrying about a difference in style from the Dons.
Bevis Mugabi has signed a new deal with the club.
The defender has extended his stay at Motherwell until the summer of 2024.
“We’re delighted that Bevis has committed himself to us for the next two seasons,” Motherwell boss Graham Alexander said.
“He’s been a constant in our team, and even though we have seen a great improvement from him over the last 12 months, we still believe there’s more to come from him.
“He’s a great character to have at our club and he wants to win.”
The popular Ugandan defender first joined the club in September 2019, initially on a short-term deal.
Establishing himself as a key figure, he has since gone on make 62 appearances in claret and amber, and become a regular at international level.
Our club exists to improve people’s lives, and for the benefit of our community.
That is why Motherwell Football Club stands shoulder to shoulder with the families of the 97 Liverpool FC supporters who lost their lives at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 and why we are proud to pledge our support to the Hillsborough Law Now campaign.
The campaign, formed by the Hillsborough families and survivors of the tragedy, calls for a change to the legal system in England and Wales to prevent others going through what the close relatives of the 97 have – and continue to – experience in their quest for justice.
Supported by Mayor Steve Rotheram of the Liverpool City Region and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, the new law proposes to compel all public officials to be truthful at inquiries into public tragedies or disaster situations, while also offering bereaved families better access to financial resources for legal representation at inquests.
In greater detail, the campaign calls for:
• A charter for families bereaved through public tragedy which should be binding on all public bodies.
• A statutory duty of candour on all police officers – and other public servants – which applies during all forms of public inquiry and criminal investigation.
• Proper participation of bereaved families at inquests, through publicly-funded legal representation and an end to limitless legal spending by bodies. Parity of legal funding would at least create a level playing field in courtrooms.
• A public advocate to act for families of the deceased after major incidents.
Motherwell Football Club becomes the first club in Scotland to support the campaign, following in the footsteps of our counterparts at Liverpool FC, Everton FC, Brighton & Hove Albion FC and Tranmere Rovers FC.
Motherwell FC chairman Jim McMahon said: “As the UK’s first fully fan-owned top-flight club, we are proud to stand in solidarity with the families who lost their loved ones at, or as a result of, the tragic events of football’s darkest day.
“The dignity with which the families have carried themselves represents everything anyone needs to know about them and the people of the city of Liverpool.
“Although we accept this is a devolved matter, and some of the detail is already relevant in Scots Law at a Fatal Accident Inquiry, we call on the UK government to give serious consideration to adopting Hillsborough Law and to ensure that the football fans who weren’t able to return home, or those who have suffered terribly in the aftermath of that fateful day, at least have a legacy of ensuring their injustice is unlikely to be repeated.”
Enjoying a regular run in the first team and earning himself a new contract, Barry Maguire feared the worst when he suffered injury against Hearts recently.
Buckling in a challenge, he immediately worried that he had suffered a serious knee injury, precisely at the time he was making his spot in the side his own.
Thankfully, his injury wasn’t as severe as feared, and the youth academy graduate is on the road back to recovery in the gym at Fir Park.
