The 2017–18 Scottish League Cup group stage was played from 14 July to 30 July 2017. A total of 40 teams competed in the group stage. The winners of each of the eight groups, as well as the four best runners-up progressed to the
second round (last 16) of the
2017–18 Scottish League Cup
The 2017–18 Scottish League Cup (also known as the Betfred Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 72nd season of Scotland's second-most prestigious association football, football knockout competition.
The format for the 2017–18 competition r ...
.
Format
The group stage consisted of eight teams from the
2016–17 Scottish Premiership, ten teams from each of the
2016–17 Scottish Championship,
2016–17 Scottish League One and
2016–17 Scottish League Two
The 2016–17 Scottish League Two (known as Ladbrokes League Two for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd season in the current format of 10 teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The last placed team (Cowdenbeath) entered a play-off with a ...
, as well as the winners of the
2016–17 Highland Football League
The 2016–17 Highland Football League started in July 2016 and ended on 22 April 2017.
For promotion to Scottish League Two, the league champions playoff with the Lowland Football League champions (or other eligible team from outside the SPFL ...
and
2016–17 Lowland Football League
The 2016–17 Scottish Lowland Football League (known as the Ferrari Packaging Lowland League for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth season of the Lowland Football League, the fifth tier of the Scottish football pyramid system. Edinburgh City w ...
. The 40 teams were divided into two sections: North and South; with each section containing four top seeded teams, four second seeded teams and 12 unseeded teams. Each section was drawn into four groups with each group being made up of 1 top seed, 1 second seed and 3 unseeded sides.
Seedings for the draw were confirmed on 31 May 2017, two days before the draw.
The draw for the group stages took place on Friday 2 June 2017 at 6:30pm BST at the BT Sport Studio in
London
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and was shown live on
BT Sport 2.
Teams
North
Seeding
Teams in Bold qualified for the
second round
South
Seeding
Teams in Bold qualified for the
second round
North
Group A
Matches
Group B
Matches
Group C
Matches
Group D
Matches
South
Group E
Matches
Group F
Matches
Group G
Matches
Group H
Matches
Best runners-up
Qualified teams
Top goalscorers
There were 267 goals scored in 80 matches in the group stage, for an average of goals per match.
References
External links
Scottish Professional Football League – League Cup official website
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Scottish League Cup group stages
2017–18 in Scottish football cups