The Scottish Women's Premier League Cup, currently known as the

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Cup due to sponsorship and commonly shortened to the SWPL Cup, is a league cup competition in

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. The cup is open only to the teams in the

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. There are four rounds, including the final. The competition was launched in 2002–03 along with the Scottish Women's Premier League, and the first winners were

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. It supplanted the

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(Kilmarnock were also its last winners) which continued as a lower-division competition. The SWPL Cup changed to run on a summer schedule played in a single calendar year (from around March to November) from the 2009 edition until the COVID-19 pandemic ended the 2020 season prematurely (leaving that year's edition unfinished) and caused the SWPL to revert to a winter format in all competitions for the following season, which was retained after pandemic restrictions ended. The trophy has been won most often by Hibernian, seven times.

Format

Up to 2015, eight of the twelve Premier League teams were drawn to play in the first round. The four winners and the other four teams then played in the quarter-finals. All matches were played over one leg. Since the addition of the division SWPL 2 in

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, all teams from the Premier League's two divisions have taken part in the cup. The last edition with the straight-knockout format was the 2019 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup In a large change to the format for the 2020 edition of the Cup, a 16-team group stage was inaugurated, planned to qualify teams for the eight-team knockout phase, with the League's top two clubs given a bye to the quarter-finals; but the SWPL was abandoned early in the 2020 season, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the League reverted to the winter format as a result. The league cup was not played in the 2020–21 season. The group phase was played with all clubs in the 2021–22 SWPL Cup, which was completed and won by

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Past winners

Previous finals are:

List of winners

References

External links

Sky Sports Cup
at SWPL website
Scotland (Women) - List of Cup Winners
at RSSSF {{National football league cups 2 2002 establishments in Scotland Recurring sporting events established in 2002

Format

Past winners

List of winners

See also

References

External links