Scottish Cup Overview

The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup are commonly known as the Scottish Cup or the William Hill Scottish Cup for sponsorship purposes is the main national cup competition in Scottish football. It is a knockout cup competition run by and named after the Scottish Football Association. The Scottish Cup trophy is the oldest national trophy in the world. It was first held in 1873-74, with the first winners being Queen’s Park.
The competition is a Knockout one. Teams are drawn against each other randomly. The team who is drawn first from each tie is the home team. If the first match finishes in a draw, a reply is played at the stadium of the second team drawn. In the replay, if the scores are still level at full time, extra time is played and (if necessary) penalties are used to decide the winner of the tie. The final and semi-final do not have replays and are played to a finish. Extra time is played and penalties are used if necessary. Two finals (1990 and 206) have been decided by penalties.


Previously clubs in the Third and Second Division qualified automatically for the first round, along with four non-league teams each from the Scottish qualifying Cup (North) and (South) competitions. Clubs in the First Division and the Scottish Premier League had automatic byes to the third round. As with all domestic cup competitions in UEFA countries, the winners of the Scottish Cup qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (previously the UEFA Cup). If the winners have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League, the cup runners-up are awarded the Europa League place.

This has been quite a regular occurrence in Scotland, with either Rangers or Celtic often winning The Double, while Aberdeen also achieved that feat in 1984. Celtic, with a debutante Roy Kean in tow, also fell victim to Clyde, a side whose average age was 21, when they were beaten 2–1 at Broadwood Stadium in January 2006. On 10 April 2010, First Division club Ross County beat Celtic 2-0 to reach the final for the first time in their history.

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