| 3 | Rangers | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 23 |
| 4 | Dundee United | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 19 |
| 6 | St Mirren | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 18 |
| 7 | Dundee | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 15 |
Our offices are open on Boxing Day for the sale of tickets for the derby with Hamilton Academical.
Fans can buy in advance for the derby from the ticket office from 11am until 3pm. We are also open on Christmas Eve until 4pm.
We are closed thereafter until 3 January.
We all recognise that Christmas and New Year are times of great celebration, providing people with an opportunity to come together, exchange gifts, share memories and show friends and family how important they are to us.
However it is almost impossible to get through Christmas without experiencing some level of stress.
For many, it can be a time that brings financial pressure, stress, loneliness and can remind us of sad times in our lives.
There are practical steps which we can take all year round to look after our own and others’ mental health. They include:
Self-care is an important step to help manage difficult feelings.
When things seem a struggle, it’s understandable that bigger self-care tasks can be difficult. Things which may help to improve this include:
There is only one you. Take care of yourself.
Tragically, almost one person every week dies by suicide in North Lanarkshire. Males between the ages of 34 and 54 are almost three times more likely to take their own lives.
Our advice is brought in conjunction with North Lanarkshire Council.
If you’re reading this and feel low, we want you to know that everybody feels low sometimes.
We all face difficult situations in our lives. That applies to everyone, whether they are our friends and family, supporters and even footballers.
Suicide is not the answer. There is always another way. Help is available. You are not alone. We know it is not always easy to talk but you are contemplating this, please open up to someone.
You can call the Samaritans on 116123, Breathing Space on 0800 838587 or Childline on 0800 1111. Further advice is also available from North Lanarkshire Suicide Prevention.
There’s still time to grab a great hospitality deal for our forthcoming home games with St Mirren and Kilmarnock.
On 22 December against the Buddies, our Centenary Suite will play host to a day where we invite all our guests to come dressed in their finest Christmas jumper, with prizes for the best.
On Boxing Day we welcome Killie, with our normal great hospitality on offer.
Priced at £80 for adults for our pay bar offering, or £120 for an inclusive bar, you can enjoy a three-course lunch, before taking in the game in comfort in our Phil O’Donnell stand.
With half-time refreshments and a chance to unwind in our suite after the match, it’s the perfect way to watch a match with us at Fir Park.
What’s more, season ticket holders can upgrade to our pay bar package for just £45 per person.
You can buy online now for the St Mirren game, as well as the Kilmarnock game, or give us a call on 01698 333333 to speak to one of our hospitality team.
If you’d prefer just light refreshments before the game, then there’s also our Millennium Suite.
With complimentary drinks one hour before and after the game, snacks on arrival and at half-time and a ticket for the match, for £75 per person you can come and enjoy our hospitality.
You can buy online now for St Mirren, and the Kilmarnock match, or give us a call on 01698 333333 to speak to one of our hospitality team.
Our Cooper Bar is also open from 11am on the day of the match, and offers a casual setting for you to catch up with friends ahead of the game.
On 22 December ahead of the match with St Mirren, we’re also offering a special incentive.
Turn up with your Christmas jumper on, and we’ll upgrade those with the best ones to one of our Cooper Boxes for the game, so you can watch the game from inside your own warm box behind the goal.
A new documentary charting Motherwell’s 1991 Scottish Cup victory will be shown on BBC ALBA on Friday, 18 January at 9pm.
Steelmen is the bittersweet story of life in the industrial Scottish town of Motherwell in the early 1990s. Providing a reflective insight into its community and society, the documentary is told through the football club’s Scottish Cup victory.
In 1991, as the town of faced the crippling social, economic and cultural impact of the closure of the Ravenscraig steelworks, the Steelmen lifted the prestigious Scottish Cup for the first time in 39 years, the victory a glimmer of light in the ensuing darkness.
The workers of Ravenscraig and the local community had a strong camaraderie, a characteristic shared by the squad.
As the local industry was threatened and community morale crushed, a series of footballing highs provided a clink of light in what was a devastating period for the town.
The film features Motherwell legends from the cup final victory, including captain Tom Boyd, Chris McCart, Ian Angus, Iain Ferguson, Luc Nijholt, Stevie Kirk and Jim Griffin, Ravenscraig steelworkers Donald Oliver and Kevin Harper, Motherwell club historian Keith Brown and Motherwell FC’s chief executive Alan Burrows. The story is enhanced visually by archive, memorabilia and drama reconstruction.
Steelmen, produced by purpleTV for BBC ALBA, will air at 9pm on Friday 18 January.
Our lottery scheme to help invest money in youth development and our academy has changed.
Our new Well Lottery allows you the chance to win up to £25,000, while also continuing to back the future players of the club.
Still priced at £1 per entry, our new providers Unity will also offer up smaller prizes of £1,000 and £25.
What’s more, if you sign up before Friday, 21 December, you can win hospitality for two to our Boxing Day with Kilmarnock.
To join the new Well Lottery, you can now choose one of the following options:
Once you have signed up, you will receive a letter welcoming you to the lottery which will tell you your lottery numbers. You will then be entered into the draw for as long as you wish to play.
We have teamed up with Unity to run the Well Lottery. For as little as £1 per week, you’ll have the chance to win up to £25,000. At least 50p of every £1 played goes straight to youth development but most importantly, there are no ongoing costs to the club.
New lottery numbers: Every player will be allocated a six-digit lottery number for every entry they wish to play. If you match your number with the winning number drawn on a Saturday in the correct sequence, you can win up to £25,000.
Higher prize fund: Through Unity, we can now offer a higher weekly jackpot of £25,000, with smaller prizes of £1,000, £25 and five entries into the next draw on offer.
More payment options: You can join the lottery by direct debit, credit card or cheque.
Proceeds: Every £1 ticket gains Motherwell FC at least 50p towards the club’s youth development and academy programme.
No change to the ticket price: It’s still £1 to play.
Every £1 is split three ways. At least 50p of every £1 comes straight to Motherwell FC, which is put towards the club’s youth Development and academy programme. The other 50p covers the cost of the administration of the lottery, and goes towards the fantastic prize fund.
Every player of the new Well Lottery will be allocated a six-digit lottery number for every entry they wish to play. This idea is to match your number with the winning number that is drawn on a Saturday in the correct sequence. Every entry in the Unity lottery has an equal one in 63 chance of winning a prize.
For example:
325764 – random winning number
326574 – your lottery number
This is a three-number match, winning five entries into the next draw.
Players are notified automatically, and prizes sent out by post, so you do not need to claim your prize. If you would like to check the winning number each week, these can be found on Unity’s website and here on the official Motherwell FC website.
Unity is a platform on which charities run their own fundraising lottery. It is run by an external lottery manager, Sterling Lotteries, who administer hundreds of charity lotteries for clients across the country.
Motherwell’s community trust are again running their ever-popular Festive Camp programme across the Christmas holidays.
Running on 27 and 28 December or 3 and 4 January, kids aged between five and 14 can get involved on the Fir Park astro.
Running from 9am until 3pm each day and priced at £15,
To book, or for more information, just click on the corresponding day you are interested in from the list.
Alternatively, you can sign your child up for Santa’s Soccer Saturday on 22 December.
For kids aged between five and 14 and priced at £10, we’ll have small-sided games, skill session and prizes between 12pm and 1.30pm, before taking in Motherwell’s game with St Mirren.
To book, or for more information, visit the Community Trust website.
A new film charting the success of the legendary 1991 Scottish Cup winning team is coming out, and you can win a pair of tickets to the premiere.
Steelmen has been produced by purpleTV for BBC ALBA and will air in early 2019. The film’s premiere will be held in Glasgow on Monday, 14 January.
We’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away for the event. All you have to do is retweet our tweet or share our Facebook post with your friends.
The VIP prize includes:
Winners will be chosen at random and informed by Friday, 28 December 2018.
Feeling festive? Then why not join us for Christmas lunch at our match with St Mirren on Saturday, 22 December.
Our Centenary Suite will play host to a day where we invite all our guests to come dressed in their finest Christmas jumper, with prizes for the best.
Priced at £80 for adults for our pay bar offering, or £120 for an inclusive bar, you can enjoy a three-course lunch, before taking in the game in comfort in our Phil O’Donnell stand.
With half-time refreshments and a chance to unwind in our suite after the match, it’s the perfect way to count down to Christmas with us at Fir Park.
What’s more, season ticket holders can upgrade to our pay bar package for just £45 per person.
You can buy online now, or give us a call on 01698 333333 to speak to one of our hospitality team.
If you’d prefer just light refreshments before the game, then there’s also our Millennium Suite.
With complimentary drinks one hour before and after the game, snacks on arrival and at half-time and a ticket for the match, for £75 per person you can come and enjoy our hospitality.
You can buy online now, or give us a call on 01698 333333 to speak to one of our hospitality team.
Several boxes of football training equipment have been donated by our new friends at The Soccer Store this week.
New free kick mannequins, marker cones and Mitre footballs for our academy have been delivered.
The Soccer Store is the UK’s leading online supplier of specialist football equipment and goals.
They have been supplying to the football community for the last 15 years and have a reputation for quality equipment from trusted UK suppliers including Mitre, Diamond Football and Samba Sports.
“It is great to work with a club as prestigious as Motherwell,” Jack Hart from The Soccer Store said.
“We are sure that the football equipment provided will go down well in particular with the academy players at Motherwell, as they push to develop their football careers.”
Soccer Store stock a huge range of specialised training equipment for speed and agility training, set piece training and general fitness training.
Their equipment is not just used by football clubs, as many youngsters will use the goals and training equipment at home as they push to be like their heroes at Motherwell.
You can visit their website to check out their full range of football equipment and goals at thesoccerstore.co.uk.
Motherwell Football Club is showing its support for lesbian, gay, bi and trans players and fans by backing the Rainbow Laces campaign.
Rainbow Laces is Stonewall Scotland’s awareness project to change attitudes in sport and make sure that LGBT people are welcomed and accepted at all levels of the game.
Sadly, many lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people have a poor experience in sport and have experienced discrimination because of who they are. Research shows that almost half of LGBT people think that public sporting events, such as football matches, aren’t a welcoming space for them.
As well as our continued backing, our players will show their support on the pitch during Wednesday’s home match with Celtic.
“Football is a place where everyone should be accepted,” Motherwell captain Peter Hartley said of the campaign. “As a club, we want LGBT people to feel safe and welcome, both here and everywhere else in the game.
“Discrimination should not happen. We must all be role models and stand united to remove the stigma, stop abusive behaviour and make sure football is a welcome environment for all.”
Colin Macfarlane, Director of Stonewall Scotland, said: “We are delighted that SPFL clubs are supporting our Rainbow Laces campaign, and by doing so, standing with LGBT football fans across Scotland.
“We want to see fans make similar commitments and become active allies to LGBT people by creating a welcoming environment and challenging abuse. Many LGBT people want to take part in football, either as players or fans, but abuse from a small minority makes many people feel unsafe.”
We can only stop homophobic, biphobic and transphobic behaviour and language from happening in football by showing that it is not acceptable, at every level of the game.
We are dedicated to eradicating any forms of homophobic, biphobic or transphobic behaviour and making sure our club is a place where LGBT fans can be safe and accepted. We need everyone to stand with us as allies to LGBT people.
Follow Stonewall Scotland using @StonewallScot or get involved in the conversation on Twitter via #RainbowLaces.
You can find out more about Stonewall Scotland at stonewallscotland.org.uk.
