Scottish Cup
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The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, also known as The Scottish Cup, is the national cup knockout competition in Scottish football. The trophy awarded to the winners has the distinction of being the oldest national trophy in the world.[1]
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[edit] Format
The competition format consists of a knockout, single elimination, where teams are drawn against each other randomly (no seedings are present). In the draw, the team who is drawn first from each tie is the home team. If the first match finishes a draw then a replay is played at the stadium of the second team. In the replay, if the scores are still level, extra time is played and penalties to decide the winner of the tie. The Semi-Final matches are played at neutral stadiums, usually the national stadium Hampden Park. The Final is traditionally played at Hampden, but as the ground underwent complete rebuilding in stages during the 1990s some finals were staged at Celtic Park and Ibrox.
Clubs in the Scottish League Third Division and Second Division qualify automatically for the first round, along with four non-league teams each from the Scottish Qualifying Cup (North) and (South) competitions. Teams in the Scottish League First Division and the Scottish Premier League have automatic byes to the third round.
From the 2007/2008 season there could be a new system to the Scottish Cup which could see the Scottish Qualifying Cup scrapped and all teams given entry to the cup along with 4 Junior League sides. The winners of the previous season's North, West and South Leagues as well as the winner of the Scottish Junior Cup would gain entry.
[edit] History
The Scottish Cup started in the 1873-74 season, competition was contested by 16 teams. The trophy was first awarded to Queen's Park when they beat Clydesdale 2-0 in the final in front of a crowd of 3,000 people.
Like the FA Cup, the Scottish Cup produces occasional "giant-killings" where a team from a lower division defeats a team from a higher division. Some famous examples of giant-killings are in 1938, when second division East Fife won the Cup, and in 1967 when Berwick Rangers beat Rangers 1-0. Famous recent giant-killings include 2000 when First Division Inverness CT's victory over Celtic by 3 to 1 at Celtic Park in 2000, and Clyde beating Celtic 2-1 at home in 2005. This season Rangers suffered a 3-2 Scottish Cup exit to Dunfermline Athletic.
The final of the 2005-06 competition was played on May 13, 2006 at Hampden Park between Heart of Midlothian and Gretna, the first final in nine years that an Old Firm side has not been involved in, and the first to ever feature a team from the third tier of the Scottish League setup (Gretna played in Scottish Division Two that season).
[edit] Facts
Most clubs who have consistently maintained a spot in the Scottish Premier League have won the Cup in recent years. Unusually, Hibernian have failed to win the cup in over one hundred years, finishing runners-up nine times. Dundee United have the worst ratio of wins to losses, with only a 12.5% success rate in finals.
The cup also holds the record for the biggest victory in World senior football, when on September 12, 1885 Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 [2].[3]
The record attendance for a final is 147,365 in the 1937 final between Celtic and Aberdeen. The first final to be decided on penalties was in 1990 when Aberdeen beat Celtic 9-8 on penalties after a 0-0 draw.
[edit] Previous winners
- 1939 Clyde 4-0 Motherwell
- 1938 East Fife 4-2 Kilmarnock (AET, Replay)
- 1937 Celtic 2-1 Aberdeen
- 1936 Rangers 1-0 Third Lanark
- 1935 Rangers 2-1 Hamilton Academical F.C.
- 1934 Rangers 5-0 St Mirren
- 1933 Celtic 1-0 Motherwell
- 1932 Rangers 3-0 Kilmarnock (Replay)
- 1931 Celtic4-2 Motherwell (Replay)
- 1930 Rangers 2-1 Partick Thistle (Replay)
- 1929 Kilmarnock 2-0 Rangers
- 1928 Rangers 4-0 Celtic
- 1927 Celtic 3-1 East Fife
- 1926 St Mirren 2-0 Celtic
- 1925 Celtic 2-1 Dundee
- 1924 Airdrieonians 2-0 Hibernian
- 1923 Celtic 1-0 Hibernian
- 1922 Morton 1-0 Rangers (AET, Replay)
- 1921 Partick Thistle 1-0 Rangers
- 1920 Kilmarnock 3-2 Albion Rovers
- 1914 Celtic 4-1 Hibernian (Replay)
- 1913 Falkirk 2-0 Raith Rovers
- 1912 Celtic 2-0 Clyde
- 1911 Celtic 2-0 Hamilton Academicals (Replay)
- 1910 Dundee 2-1 Clyde (2nd Replay)
- 1909 Not awarded. The SFA withheld the cup after a riot following the replay between Celtic and Rangers.
- 1908 Celtic 5-1 St Mirren
- 1907 Celtic 3-0 Heart of Midlothian
- 1906 Hearts 1-0 Third Lanark
- 1905 Third Lanark 3-1 Rangers (Replay)
- 1904 Celtic 3-2 Rangers
- 1903 Rangers 2-0 Heart of Midlothian (2nd Replay)
- 1902 Hibernian 1-0 Celtic
- 1901 Hearts 4-3 Celtic
- 1900 Celtic 4-3 Queen's Park
- 1899 Celtic 2-0 Rangers
- 1898 Rangers 2-0 Kilmarnock
- 1897 Rangers 5-1 Dumbarton
- 1896 Hearts 3-1 Hibernian
- 1895 St Bernards 2-1 Renton
- 1894 Rangers 3-1 Celtic
- 1893 Queen's Park 2-1 Celtic (Replay)
- 1892 Celtic 5-1 Queen's Park (Replay)
- 1891 Hearts 1-0 Dumbarton
- 1890 Queen's Park 2-1 Vale of Leven
- 1889 Third Lanark 2-1 Celtic (Replay)
- 1888 Renton 6-1 Cambuslang
- 1887 Hibernian 2-1 Dumbarton
- 1886 Queen's Park 3-1 Renton
- 1885 Renton 3-1 Vale of Leven (Replay)
- 1884 Queen's Park awarded cup after Vale of Leven fail to appear at final
- 1883 Dumbarton 2-1 Vale of Leven (Replay)
- 1882 Queen's Park 4-1 Dumbarton (Replay)
- 1881 Queen's Park 3-1 Dumbarton (Replay)
- 1880 Queen's Park 3-0 Thornliebank
- 1879 Vale of Leven 1-1 Rangers (Vale of Leven awarded cup when Rangers fail to appear at replay)
- 1878 Vale of Leven 1-0 Third Lanark
- 1877 Vale of Leven 3-2 Rangers (Replay)
- 1876 Queen's Park 2-0 Third Lanark (2nd Replay)
- 1875 Queen's Park 3-0 Renton
- 1874 Queen's Park 2-0 Clydesdale
[edit] Performance by club
| Club | Winners | Runners-up | Winning Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | 33 | 19 | 1892, 1899, 1900, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2005 |
| Rangers | 31 | 18 | 1894, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 |
| Queen's Park | 10 | 2 | 1874, 1875, 1876, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1890, 1893 |
| Aberdeen | 7 | 8 | 1947, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990 |
| Heart of Midlothian | 7 | 6 | 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1956, 1998, 2006 |
| Kilmarnock | 3 | 5 | 1920, 1929, 1997 |
| Vale of Leven | 3 | 4 | 1877, 1878, 1879 |
| Clyde | 3 | 3 | 1939, 1955, 1958 |
| St Mirren | 3 | 3 | 1926, 1959, 1987 |
| Hibernian | 2 | 9 | 1887, 1902 |
| Motherwell | 2 | 4 | 1952, 1991 |
| Third Lanark | 2 | 4 | 1889, 1905 |
| Renton | 2 | 3 | 1885, 1888 |
| Dunfermline Atheltic | 2 | 2 | 1961, 1968 |
| Falkirk | 2 | 1 | 1913, 1957 |
| Dundee United | 1 | 7 | 1994 |
| Dumbarton | 1 | 5 | 1883 |
| Dundee | 1 | 4 | 1910 |
| Airdrieonians | 1 | 3 | 1924 |
| East Fife | 1 | 2 | 1938 |
| Greenock Morton | 1 | 1 | 1922 |
| Partick Thistle | 1 | 1 | 1921 |
| St Bernard's | 1 | - | 1895 |
| Hamilton Acad | - | 2 | - |
| Albion Rovers | - | 1 | - |
| Cambuslang | - | 1 | - |
| Clydesdale | - | 1 | - |
| Gretna | - | 1 | - |
| Raith Rovers | - | 1 | - |
| Thornliebank | - | 1 | - |
[edit] References
- ^ Official Site of the Tennent's Scottish Cup Scottish Football Museum Experience
- ^ A day when Scottish football scorched the record books (HTML). Scotsman (2005). Retrieved on 9 December, 2005.
- ^ The 36-0 team (HTML). Fraser Clyne (2003).
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- A league table and the positions of Scottish in teams, in terms of who has won the most honours from Europe
