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.

Format

The competition is of a similar format to the FA Cup with a knockout, single elimination, format 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.

History

The Scottish Cup started in 1873 when beat 2-0.

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 won the Cup, and in 1967 when beat 1-0. The most famous recent giant-killings have came in 2000 when First Division Inverness C.T. beat 3-1 at Celtic Park and 2006 when First Division Clyde F.C. beat 2-1 at Broadwood.

The final of the 2005-06 competition was played on May 13, 2006 at Hampden Park between and , the first final in nine years that an Old Firm side has not been in the final, and the first to ever feature a team from the third tier of the Scottish League (Gretna played in Scottish Division Two this season).

Previous Winners

• 1975 Celtic 3-1 Airdrieonians
• 1974 Celtic 3-0 Dundee United
• 1973 Rangers 3-2 Celtic
• 1972 Celtic 6-1 Hibernian
• 1971 Celtic 2-1 Rangers (Replay)
• 1970 Aberdeen 3-1 Celtic
• 1969 Celtic 4-0 Rangers
• 1968 Dunfermline 3-1 Heart of Midlothian
• 1967 Celtic 2-1 Aberdeen
• 1966 Rangers 1-0 Celtic (Replay)
• 1965 Celtic 3-2 Dunfermline Athletic
• 1964 Rangers 3-0 Dundee
• 1963 Rangers 3-0 Celtic (Replay)
• 1962 Rangers 2-0 St Mirren
• 1961 Dunfermline 2-0 Celtic (Replay)
• 1960 Rangers 2-0 Kilmarnock
• 1959 St Mirren 3-1 Aberdeen
• 1958 Clyde 1-0 Hibernian
• 1957 Falkirk 2-1 Kilmarnock (AET, Replay)
• 1956 Hearts 3-1 Celtic
• 1955 Clyde 1-0 Celtic (Replay)
• 1954 Celtic 2-1 Aberdeen
• 1953 Rangers 1-0 Aberdeen (Replay)
• 1952 Motherwell 4-0 Dundee
• 1951 Celtic 1-0 Motherwell
• 1950 Rangers 3-0 East Fife
• 1949 Rangers 4-1 Clyde
• 1948 Rangers 1-0 Morton(AET, Replay)
• 1947 Aberdeen 2-1 Hibernian
• 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 Celtic 4-2 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

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