St. Johnstone 2-1 Hamilton Academical: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 23 September 2017

Result

St. Johnstone 2-1 Hamilton Academical

Premiership · Saturday 23 September 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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St. Johnstone 2-1 Hamilton Academical: match report

St. Johnstone beat Hamilton Academical 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 23 September 2017. The half-time score was 0-1.

Greg Docherty opened the scoring in the 24th minute. St. Johnstone's goals came from Steven MacLean (49') and Murray Davidson (84'). Hamilton Academical scored through Greg Docherty (24').

Discipline: St. Johnstone received 1 yellow card; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game St. Johnstone were 3rd on 11 points from 6 and Hamilton Academical 8th on 7 points from 6. St. Johnstone went on to finish that season 8th with 46 points, and Hamilton Academical 10th with 33.

Going into the match St. Johnstone's last five read L-D-D-W-W and Hamilton Academical's L-L-D-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Goal · Greg DochertyHamilton Academical · 0-1
  • 49'Goal · Steven MacLeanSt. Johnstone · 1-1
  • 69'Yellow card · D. ImrieHamilton Academical
  • 82'Yellow card · S. ScougallSt. Johnstone
  • 84'Goal · Murray DavidsonSt. Johnstone · 2-1

Team news

St. Johnstone line-up

Alan Mannus, Joe Shaughnessy, Steven Anderson, Paul Paton, Richard Foster, Brian Easton, Murray Davidson, Stefan Scougall, Liam Craig, Steven MacLean, Graham Cummins

Hamilton Academical line-up

Gary Woods, Giannis Skondras, Xavier Tomas, Alex Gogic, Greg Docherty, Ali Crawford, Darian Mackinnon, Massimo Donati, Dougie Imrie, Rakish Bingham, Louis Longridge