The 1985
Tennents' Sixes
The Tennents' Sixes was an annual indoor football tournament contested each January by senior football clubs from Scotland (along with some English guests) between 1984 and 1993. The tournament was sponsored by Tennent Caledonian Breweries and ...
was the second staging of the indoor 6-a-side football tournament at
Ingliston Showground near
Edinburgh
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on 20 and 21 January. It was again televised on
BBC Scotland
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.
The format had changed from 3 groups of 3 teams to 2 groups of 10 with all from the
1984-85 Scottish Premier Division season except
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. First Division club
Airdrieonians
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replaced them.
The two group winners and runners-up qualified to the semi-finals and
Hearts beat
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4-1 in the final.
Group stage
Group 1
Group 2
Semi-finals
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Final
References
External links
Scottish Football Historical Archive
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January 1985 sports events in the United Kingdom
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