Ross Tierney named in Republic of Ireland under 21s squad
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A bike ride in aid of footballer’s mental health charity
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Kelly & O’Donnell called up to Scotland squad
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Donate to our Well In Scheme
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Well In scheme returns
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2022/23 Season Tickets now on sale
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Vote for your 2021/22 goal of the season
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New hybrid pitch to be installed
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Sensory bags available for Hearts fixture
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Dundee United tickets on sale
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Ross Tierney named in Republic of Ireland under 21s squad
Thursday 26 May 2022
Ross Tierney has been selected for Republic of Ireland’s under 21s.
The young attacking midfielder will once again represent his country as they look to qualify for the UEFA Under 21 Championship.
Ireland are currently in third place in their group before this round of fixtures and four points behind leaders Italy.
Ireland face off against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday 3 June at the Tallaght Stadium in Dublin.
They then play Montenegro on Monday 6 June at the Tallaght Stadium before rounding off their qualifying campaign against current group leaders Italy on Tuesday 14 June away from home.
The group winners will qualify for the Euros and the best runners up also qualify.
Ireland are currently four points behind Netherlands who are, as it stands, the best runners-up.
The nations who finish second place will enter a play-off round to determine the last four qualified teams.
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A bike ride in aid of footballer’s mental health charity
Wednesday 25 May 2022
A message from our main sponsor and health and wellbeing partner, Paycare.
We’re calling on the community to show its support for a bike ride in aid of a mental health charity.
Paycare is one of the main sponsors of The Kris Boyd Charity Ride, which will start at the Molineux and end more than 400 miles away four days later in Scotland, with all proceeds going to The Kris Boyd Charity.
The challenge will begin on Wednesday 1st June, with riders stopping at Kris’ former clubs Nottingham Forest, Middlesbrough and Rangers, with an additional stop at Paycare-sponsored Motherwell FC before arriving at Kilmarnock FC on Saturday 4th June.
The Kris Boyd Charity was set up by the former footballer to encourage more people to talk openly about their mental health. He was inspired by the tragic loss of his brother Scott, who sadly died by suicide in 2016.
Event organiser Jim Bertram said:
“Over lockdown, mental health became an issue for everyone so I wanted to do an event which helped those impacted. The Kris Boyd Charity seemed a natural choice as they support mental health and wellbeing.”
“We are delighted to sponsor the shirts and vans for the event and will be cheering on the riders at the start and finish lines.
“The charity, and Jim’s aims with the bike ride, align perfectly with our mission of making the UK happier and healthier. We hope the community both in Wolverhampton and up in Scotland will wholeheartedly support the ride, donating whatever they’re able to and cheering the riders on, too.”
Motherwell pair Liam Kelly and Stephen O’Donnell have been called up by Scotland for the FIFA World Cup play-off match(es) and UEFA Nations League fixtures.
Scotland will take on Ukraine in the World Cup semi final play-off on Wednesday 1 June at Hampden.
Should they progress, Steve Clarke’s side will then face Wales in the play-off final on Sunday 5 June at the Cardiff City Stadium.
Scotland are also in Nations League action as they kick off their group matches against Armenia on Wednesday 8 June at Hampden.
They then travel to Dublin on Saturday 11 June to face Republic of Ireland before a trip to Armenia three days later.
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Donate to our Well In Scheme
Tuesday 17 May 2022
The Well In scheme, which was launched last summer to help families from low income and unemployed households watch their team, will continue in 2022/23.
We are once again asking supporters who feel financially able to donate towards the scheme this year.
Donations of any value are welcome, with 100% of the money going towards the purchase of season tickets. In return, the club will again match all donations to ensure as many season tickets as possible are made available to our community.
The Well In scheme, which was launched last summer to help families from low income and unemployed households continue to watch their team, will return again in 2022/23.
Beyond the challenges of Covid-19 and the recent energy and cost of living pressures, our area also faces economic issues in normal times. Our unemployment rate is higher than the Scottish and British average, and many other families and individuals are surviving on low incomes.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, our town was going through another crisis with high unemployment. Then, the club, the fans and local businesses rallied around to help people receive free tickets for matches. We displayed our community spirit and care for each other, ensuring people remained part of our family and stayed in contact with people, while they tried to get back on their feet.
Last summer, ‘Well fans, known for their generosity in all our charitable collections, got behind the idea and donated around £60,000. After match funding, that led to almost 750 people in the local area being able to watch their team when circumstances may had prevented them.
We are once asking supporters who feel financially able to donate towards the scheme this year.
All donations of any value are welcome, with 100% of the money going towards the purchase of season tickets. In return, the club will again match all donations to ensure as many season tickets as possible are made available to our community.
Season tickets for the 2022/23 campaign are now on sale.
You are able to renew or purchase your season ticket for the upcoming campaign here.
2021/22 saw a record number of you commit to getting behind the team and committing to a season ticket. The club are, as ever, hugely appreciative of your support.
Following a top-six finish and confirmation of our first-ever adventure in the UEFA Europa Conference League, a season ticket will not only guarantee you priority tickets, should they be limited, but also a discount on our first European match at Fir Park in a few months.
Our popular WELLevate scheme for free junior season tickets and our Well In scheme, providing free season tickets for the unemployed, will also be continued in 2022/23.
Get your 2022/23 season ticket now
If renewing, login to your ticketing account.
You should then have a notification to ‘renew now’ on your profile.
Then select ‘add to basket’ and follow the on screen instructions to complete the transaction.
It’s easy to buy new. Head here to our online ticketing platform and then press ‘season tickets’.
You’ll then be given the option to choose where in the stadium you would like to sit. From there, you can create yourself an account and then buy your season ticket for the 2022/23 campaign.
We’ve made a few changes to our pricing categories.
We have switched our Junior ticket so that you qualify if you are 11 and under. At the same time, we are expanding our discount offering on the Young Adult category to now include everyone from ages 12 through 17.
The other change is that we are increasing our concession ticket age group, bringing us into line with the rest of the Scottish Premiership clubs, to age 65 and over. However, any renewing season ticket holder currently aged 59 to 64 will continue to enjoy a concession discount until they reach the age of 65.
We are extending the option to pay your season ticket over a maximum of six standing order payments directly to the club, with no interest payments of fees, providing full payment is made by December 2022.
Prices
For those renewing their season ticket from 2021/22, concession tickets are for anyone aged 59 and over. For those buying new in 2022/23, it’s 65 and over.
In addition, concession prices also apply to full time students with a valid matriculation card.
The Early Bird discount will end on Friday 17th June 2022.
First off, I want to thank you for your interest in purchasing a season ticket for the 2022/23 campaign.
Fir Park has always been a home from home for me, I’ve spent the last sixty years of my life coming to this ground, making memories, enjoying magical moments and, too often, dealing with despair. It makes football what it is.
This year we again ask you to help underpin the financial health of Motherwell FC by renewing your season ticket for the forthcoming campaign. I very much hope you will continue to do so with the same unwavering loyalty and generosity that Motherwell fans have demonstrated across the decades, but particularly so in the last few challenging years.
Our aim is to always do the right thing by you, our supporters and that was particularly true during the Covid-19 crisis. We stood by our promise to roll over season tickets from the ‘behind closed doors’ 2020-21 campaign, into the current 2021-2022 season.
That, together with our Well In scheme, which was backed so fantastically by other ‘Well fans and helped 750 supporters attend matches when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to follow the team, combined to give us almost 5,700 season ticket holders. Our best total by some distance.
As we emerge from the pandemic, we do appreciate life is tough and pressures still exist. We’ve tried to make this season ticket easier and more flexible than ever to buy by increasing the option to spread interest free payments. But what is very true is that we need you now more than perhaps any time in our history.
Motherwell FC is fully fan-owned and therefore, fully fan-funded. Our determination to compete, our attempts to recruit the best players to maintain a challenge for the top-six and European football, our dedication to maintain our academy at elite status our willingness to continue to improve our facilities, depends entirely on your support and backing. We literally couldn’t do any of those things without you.
Clubs often say that season ticket holders are the lifeblood of the club. As a fan-owned club, that really is true.
For our part, the club will continue to examine new ways of generating additional revenue streams and look at ways to streamline costs and make the club more efficient. We will roll these out over the coming months.
But this needs to be done whilst remaining competitive in what is probably the most challenging top league in Scotland for decades. It is not an easy balance to get right, but it is essential that we do. Our club only works properly and with a chance of success when all the component parts – fans, owners, playing and coaching staff, the management team and the board – work in unison.
We have done that so well since the transition to fan ownership and I once again ask you to come with us on the journey for 2022/2023.
Thanks
Jim McMahon Chairman
WELLevate scheme
We are delighted to continue our WELLevate offer, which has been running now for a decade.
Any Adult or Senior Citizen Concession ticket can claim one free Junior ticket in the John Hunter Stand and Phil O’Donnell Stand and up to two in the Davie Cooper Stand.
We are making one small adjustment to the offering this season. On several occasions during the 2021/22 campaign, we have been unable to sell matchday tickets in the John Hunter Stand, with it being effectively ‘sold out’, despite a significant amount of seats lying empty, the majority of which are non-attending WELLevate tickets.
In order to try and avoid that, we are asking anyone wishing to take advantage of the scheme to do so at the point of renewing / purchasing and not on an ad-hoc basis during the campaign.
Pay by Standing Order
We are offering the option of paying for your season ticket through a standing order payment each month.
There is the option to pay your season ticket over a maximum of six standing order payments directly to the club, with no interest payments of fees, providing full payment is made by December 2022.
To set this standing order up, you must contact us directly.
The Well In scheme, which was launched last summer to help families from low income and unemployed households continue to watch their team, will return again in 2022.
After matched funding, that led to almost 750 people in the local area being able to watch their team when circumstances may had prevented them.
We are once asking supporters who feel financially able to donate towards the scheme this year.
On Thursday of this week, we will begin significant development works at the stadium with the installation of a new hybrid pitch at Fir Park.
We have selected industry-experts SIS Pitches, who will work in partnership with AllGrass, to rebuild the pitch literally from the ground up.
That will see the clearing of the current pitch, and the previous one that still exists beneath the current surface, the installation of an enhanced drainage system, a new irrigation system and new undersoil heating piping.
When the pitch construction is concluded and seed is in the ground, around five week’s worth of work, SIS will then complete the process of ‘stitching’ the new surface.
Hybrid football pitches consist of 95% natural grass which is reinforced with synthetic stitched fibres. That allows greater durability, enhanced drainage and longer playing time with the feel of real grass.
When complete, Motherwell will be the fourth Scottish Premiership club to have a hybrid pitch following Celtic, Hearts and Rangers’ installations in recent years.
“For the last decade or more, the club has spent considerable cash, each summer, patching up the pitch to try and get us through the following season,” Chief Executive Alan Burrows said.
“Owing almost exclusively to the skill and talent of Paul Matthew, our current Head Groundsman, and his deputies, we have seen a marked improvement over the last few years, albeit the root problems continue to persist under the surface and maintaining a reliable, stable pitch is becoming increasingly more challenging, particularly through the winter months.
“We are throwing away good money every year by not fully fixing this issue.
“So the Board have decided to do just that, which will not only provide an enhanced and reliable playing surface, but will also materially reduce the annual maintenance costs and allow us to further commercialise the pitch and the stadium, much like we have done in the past, but have been unable to in recent times because of the poor pitch construction.
“As a part of that rebuilding process, we also plan to reduce the slope of the pitch, which runs from the Cooper/Hunter Stand corner at its highest point, to the McLean/O’Donnell Stand corner at its lowest, by half of what it is now.
“That will improve the playability of the pitch for players, whilst significantly enhancing the sight lines in both the Cooper and McLean stands lower corners.”
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Sensory bags available for Hearts fixture
Friday 06 May 2022
Sensory bags will be available for Motherwell’s fixture with Hearts on Wednesday 11 May at Fir Park.
Bags must be pre-ordered before collection.
Each bag contains a lanyard, fidget spinner, ear defenders, stadium map and a sensory fan.
If interested, the bags can be collected from outside the Davie Cooper stand between 1845 and 1915. They must returned after the match to the same point.
These bags, which are aimed at under 16s, are only available if pre-ordered here.
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Dundee United tickets on sale
Thursday 21 April 2022
Tickets for Motherwell’s forthcoming match with Dundee United are now available to buy online.
We go to the Tannadice in the cinch Premiership on Saturday 30 April. Kick off is at 3pm.
Wheelchair supporters must contact Dundee United directly. Any supporter with mobility issues and cannot navigate the stairs must contact Dundee United direct and will be issued tickets in the lower Fair Play. To get in touch with the club, it’s 01382 833166 (option 1) or email tickets@dundeeunitedfc.co.uk.
