The Scottish Women's Football Championship Cup is an annual

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competition in

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, for teams playing in the SWF Championship, the third tier league below the two-division SWPL. Established as part of a reorganisation of the lower leagues in late 2019 and intended to be the early-season cup for a spring-summer-autumn fixture calendar, its first edition in 2020 was played up to the quarter-final stage before being cancelled due to the

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. The fixture calendar was moved to an autumn-winter-spring schedule to accommodate for restrictions of the pandemic, but even a truncated 2020–21 SWF Championship campaign had to be cancelled and no cup was played. The 2021 Championship Cup therefore coincided with the early part of the 2021–22 SWF Championship season. Its final was played at the

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on 28 November 2021. As the cup for third tier clubs, the competition is the equivalent of the

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which was first competed for in the 1970s and continued until 2019. However, the

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continued after the reorganisation (albeit as a standalone 'Recreational' level separate from the SWPL and Championship at the 'Performance' level) and has its own SWFL League Cup2021 SWFL fixtures announced & SWFL Cup 1st Round Draw
Scottish Women's Football, 20 May 2021 which continues the history of that trophy, with the SWF Championship Cup being a new tournament.

Winners

See also