A receiver and a receiving method for a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system are provided. The receiver includes a matrix selector for selecting a constant channel matrix according to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) reception scheme, a channel equalizer for equalizing a multi-path channel to a specific path channel in a frequency domain by using the constant channel matrix, and a MIMO detector for detecting a Euclidean distance of transmittable symbols from a time-domain Transmit (Tx) signal by using the channel equalized in the frequency domain and then for selecting a symbol having a minimum distance.