⚽ The Kick-Off | Wednesday 18th June 2025
A busy day for SPFL clubs signing players. Shaughnessy & Tiffoney leave Dundee. Airdrieonians see three players depart. Aberdeen to host Ipswich in a friendly. Morton announce contract extensions.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #83: A Scottish Cup First Round tie between Airdrieonians and Stranraer was postponed a record 33 times - Airdie eventually won 3-0 in the 1962/63 season.
NEWS
🔵 Kilmarnock made a double signing yesterday. Jack Thomson has signed a two-year deal after leaving Queen’s Park, and Greg Kiltie was brought back to Rugby Park from St Mirren. - Kilmarnock FC website
✍️ Jamaican international Richard King has joined St Mirren from Cavalier FC, a Jamaican Premier League side.
The 23-year-old has 30 caps. - St Mirren website
👋 Joe Shaughnessy and Scott Tiffoney have left Dundee after rejecting new deals.
Josh Mulligan remains in discussions about a new contract. - Marc Deanie, The Courier
🔵 Reghan Tumilty has signed for St Johnstone after leaving Hamilton Academical. - St Johnstone website
🔁 Tumilty wasn’t the only arrival at McDiarmid Park yesterday. Sam Stanton joined in a swap deal from Raith Rovers.
Goalkeeper Josh Rae moved to Raith Rovers. - Iain Collin, The Courier
✍️ Malaysian wide player Richard Chin also signed for Raith Rovers yesterday.
Chin played 42 times for Farnborough FC in the National League South last season. - Raith Rovers website
✍️ Partick Thistle have signed Paddy Reading from Ayr United.
He has signed a two-year contract, joining on a free transfer that contains future performance-related conditional payments. - Partick Thistle website
⚫️ Another day, another Queen’s Park signing. This time the Spiders have signed Matthew Shiels.
Shiels played with Dumbarton last season. - Queen’s Park FC website
🔵 Balint Demus has rejected a new contract and will be leaving Cove Rangers.
Demus is the second goalkeeper to leave Cove this summer after Nick Suman joined Aberdeen. - Cove Rangers website
♦️ Three players left Airdrieonians yesterday.
Forward Ben Wilson has signed for The New Saints in Wales, a record transfer for the Welsh club.
Fellow forward Lewis McGregor has joined Northern Irish side Coleraine for an undisclosed fee. Defender Mason Hancock has joined Walsall after his contract expired. - Airdrieonians website
🔵 Inverness Caledonian Thistle signed a second goalkeeper in as many days. Ross Munro has signed a one-year deal. He was at Falkirk on a short-term deal last season. - Inverness Caledonian Thistle website
📝 Greenock Morton announced that Ali Crawford, Sam Murdoch, Grant Gillespie and, Iain Wilson have all signed contract extensions at Cappielow. - Greenock Morton website
🏟️ Raith Rovers will potentially look at spending up to £80,000 on upgrading Stark’s Park’s disused Railway Stand to accommodate around 1,000 supporters. - Craig Goldthorp, Fife Today
✍️ Nat Wedderburn has signed for Lowland League side Cowdenbeath after leaving Stenhousemuir.
Wedderburn first played for the Blue Brazil in 2013 before moving to Inverness Caledonian Thistle. - Cowdenbeath FC website
🤝 Ipswich Town will travel to Pittodrie to take on Aberdeen in a pre-season friendly. The match will take place on Friday 25th July.
Aberdeen also confirmed their pre-season plans which include a training camp in the Algarve. - Aberdeen FC website
🆕 Queen of the South revealed their new home shirt yesterday.
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