Jonah Ayunga, born on 24 May 1997 (age 29), is a Kenyan right winger whose senior career has settled most firmly at St Mirren. There were earlier staging posts, including a useful 2017 loan at Sligo Rovers, where he scored four league goals in 21 appearances – still his most productive league season.
That spell matters because it points to the kind of player he became: mobile, direct, and capable of doing his work across the front line without the profile ever running away from the substance. The smaller moves were part of the education, but St Mirren is where the career has had its proper shape.
In Paisley, Ayunga has become a familiar part of the side rather than a passing squad option. Across five seasons with St Mirren he has made 87 league appearances and scored 12 league goals, wearing the number 11 shirt and operating mainly from the right. Those are not gaudy totals, but they speak to a player trusted often enough to keep coming back into the side.
He remained relevant in 2025–26, with 23 league appearances and three league goals, plus one Scottish Cup outing. Across all competitions for St Mirren that season, he made 24 appearances and scored three goals, which is a reasonable measure of his continuing place in the first-team picture.
Ayunga’s career is not hard to read: early development away from the main glare, a productive loan at Sligo Rovers, and a long St Mirren spell that has come to define him. He remains a regular senior option there.
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