The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,The Scottish Football League Challenge Cup Final Results
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. Retrieved 5 April 2013.Preview Forfar Athletic
''dafc.co.uk''.

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25 July 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.Scottish Football League Challenge Cup
''scottish-football-historical-archive.com''. Scottish Football Historical Archive. Retrieved 5 April 2013. commonly known as the Scottish League Challenge CupFisher, Stewart. "Beginner's Guide to the Bell's Cup ...". '' The Sunday Herald''. 4 August 2002.League Challenge Cup
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Retrieved 5 April 2013. or Scottish Challenge Cup, and currently known as the SPFL Trust Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

knock-out cup competition run by the

Scottish Professional Football League The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is the national men's association football league in Scotland. The league was formed in June 2013 following a merger between the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League. As ...

(SPFL). The competition was first held during the 1990–91 season as the B&Q Centenary Cup to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the

(SFL). It was intended to be a one-off competition but was continued due to its popularity. It was originally contested by SFL teams below the top level of the

Scottish football league system The Scottish football league system is a series of generally connected leagues for Scottish football clubs. The Scottish system is more complicated than many other national league systems, consisting of several completely separate systems or 'gr ...

; teams below SPFL level were added in 2011–12, and guest teams from outside Scotland in 2016–17. For the 2019–20 edition there were 58 teams: 30 from the SPFL; the twelve Under-21 teams of the

Scottish Premiership The Scottish Premiership, known as the cinch Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottis ...

clubs; four each from the Highland League and

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; and two guest teams from each of the

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, Cymru Premier League, English

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, and

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up until the 2019–20 season. The first winner of the tournament was

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, who defeated

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.Scottish League Challenge Cup
''soccer.mistral.co.uk''. 14 May 2001. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

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are the most successful team in the tournament with four wins, most recently in

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. The current holders are

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, who defeated Queen of the South in the 2022 final.

Format

The Challenge Cup is a

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. Within a regionalised format, clubs are paired at random and the first club drawn listed as the home team. The winner of each match progresses to the next round and the loser is eliminated from the tournament. Every match, including the final, is a one-legged tie that lasts 90 minutes plus any additional

stoppage time Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

. If no clear winner has been determined after 90 minutes of normal time, 30 minutes of

extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only ...

is played. If the score is still level after extra time then the winner is decided by a

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

. Beginning with the 2016–17 season, the competition has been expanded to 58 entrants. All

(SPFL) clubs will participate, with the thirty clubs from the

Championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this system ...

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and League Two now joined by Under-20 teams from the twelve Premiership clubs. Also participating by invitation will be four teams each from the

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and Lowland Leagues and eight entrants from outside Scottish football – two each from the

in Northern Ireland, the

in England,

League of Ireland The League of Ireland ( ga, Sraith na hÉireann), together with the Football Association of Ireland, is one of the two main governing bodies responsible for organising association football in the Republic of Ireland. The term was originally use ...

and the

Welsh Premier League The Cymru Premier, known as the JD Cymru Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the national football league of Wales. It has both professional and semi-professional status clubs and is at the top of the Welsh football league system. Prior to 20 ...

in Wales, until 2021 when the decision was made to only have the Scottish clubs participating due to the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic. Teams are seeded to enter the competition over any of the first four rounds, after which eight teams will remain to contest the quarter-finals. The final is played at a neutral venue.

History

The competition was created in the 1990–91 season to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the

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."With the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden; Now You Know". ''

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in the first final.Caught in Time: Dundee win the B&Q Centenary Cup, 1990
''thesundaytimes.co.uk''. ''

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''. 30 April 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2013. The cup was sponsored by

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retail company B&Q and named the ''B&Q Centenary Cup''Alba Cup Final: Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2 Dundee 3
''dailyrecord.co.uk''. '' Daily Record''. 23 November 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2013. for the first year and continued as the ''B&Q Cup'' for four seasons afterwards. The competition was run for three seasons without a sponsor due to the league covering the tournament costs and prize money, but was unsustainable and resulted in it being cancelled for one season in 1998–99 before being re-established in

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with a new sponsor. Although it is not as popular as competitions like the

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,McCarra, Kevin. "Shootout victory for Stenhousemuir after 111 years", ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ( ...

'', 6 November 1995. Retrieved 23 April 2013. When Stenhousemuir won the final in 1995 it was regarded as the club's greatest achievement in its 111-year history.A Brief History of Stenhousemuir Football Club
''stenhousemuirfc.com''. Stenhousemuir F.C. Retrieved 23 April 2013. Attendances at matches in the earlier rounds of the tournament are not dissimilar to average home attendances in league competition but as the competition reaches the latter stages they generally increase; Annan Athletic's record attendance of 1,575 was set in a semi-final match against

in 2011."Annan Athletic 0 – 3 Falkirk"
, ''

Annan Athletic F.C. Annan Athletic Football Club is a Scottish association football club based in the town of Annan, Dumfries and Galloway. The club was founded in 1942 and competes in Scottish League Two as a member of the Scottish Professional Football League. ...

''. 9 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2013."Record day at Annan"
''

''. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2013. The number of competitors has varied in relation to the number of clubs with Scottish Football League membership. The first tournament featured the 28 clubs in the First and Second Divisions which reduced to 26 until 1994 when the league was expanded and restructured into three divisions; increasing the number of eligible clubs to 30. In the 2010–11 competition the two highest ranked clubs from the

Highland Football League The Scottish Highland Football League (SHFL, commonly known as the Highland League) is a senior football league based in the north of Scotland. The league sits at level 5 on the Scottish football league system, acting as a feeder to the Scotti ...

with a Scottish Football Association licence were invited to compete, in order to bring the number of competitors to 32.Wick Academy to play Raith Rovers in Ramsdens cup
''johnogroat-journal.co.uk''. ''

John O'Groat Journal North of Scotland Newspapers (NOSN) is the trade name under which Scottish Provincial Press publishes two weekly newspapers, the ''John O'Groat Journal'' and the ''Caithness Courier'', both serving the Caithness area in the Highland council area of ...

''. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2013. Before the change in 2010, several clubs received a random bye in the first round in order to even out the number of fixtures. The Challenge Cup continued under the auspices of the

after the Scottish Football League merged with the

Scottish Premier League The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the top level league competition for professional football clubs in Scotland. The league was founded in 1998, when it broke away from the Scottish Football League (SFL). It was abolished in 2013, when t ...

in 2013. One change at this time was that the two invitational places were split, with only one place filled by a Highland League club (with a valid SFA club licence) and the other place going to the winner of a preliminary round tie between clubs from the

East of Scotland League The East of Scotland Football League (EoSFL) is a senior football league based in the east and south-east of Scotland. The league sits at levels 6–9 on the Scottish football league system, acting as a feeder to the Lowland Football League. Fo ...

and the South of Scotland League. This was simplified in the 2014–15 season, with the two additional places going to the Highland League champion (

Brora Rangers Brora Rangers Football Club are a Scottish football club from the village of Brora, Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. They play in the Highland Football League, of which they have been champions four times, having won their ...

) and the Lowland League champion (

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).Scottish Challenge Cup gets new sponsorship deal
BBC Sport. From 2016 to 2017 the competition has been further expanded with the addition of

Under-20 teams, additional places for the Highland and Lowland Leagues, which now have four representatives each, as well as the top two teams from Northern Ireland and Wales. The top two teams from the

were included in the competition for the 2017–18 season. From 2018–19, the competition was further expanded with the two highest ranked teams still remaining in England's

to take part from the second round. The first English teams to compete were

Sutton United Sutton United Football Club is a professional football club in Sutton, South London, England, who play in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They play home games at Gander Green Lane in Sutton about 11 miles so ...

and

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. The age level was raised for colts teams from under-20 to under-21 in a rule change introduced by the

SPFL The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is the national men's association football league in Scotland. The league was formed in June 2013 following a merger between the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League. As w ...

ahead of 2018–19 competition. The 2018–19 final also saw Connah's Quay Nomads become the first non-Scottish side to play in the final. The

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had a significant impact on the competition. The 2019–20 final, between

Inverness Caledonian Thistle Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, commonly known as Caley Thistle, is a professional football club based in Inverness, Scotland. The team currently competes in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Fo ...

and

, was originally scheduled for 28 March 2020 but has been indefinitely postponed. Continuing restrictions on fans entering stadiums meant that the competition was unviable for most SPFL clubs, and the scheduled 2020–21 edition was cancelled in October 2020. It was announced in May 2021, that only the Scottish clubs will be participating in 2021–22 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Venues

In the rounds before the final, the venue of each match is determined when the fixtures are drawn; the first club drawn in a fixture is named the home team and chooses the venue for the match, usually its own

home ground In sports, home is the place and venue identified with a team sport. Most professional teams are named for, and marketed to, particular metropolitan areas; amateur teams may be drawn from a particular region, or from institutions such as sch ...

. The venue may be switched to that of the away team or changed to a neutral venue for security reasons such as being unable to host a club with a large travelling fan base or the venue being unavailable.Ramsdens Cup Draw
''clydefc.co.uk''. Clyde F.C. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

Final venue

The final match of the tournament is played at a neutral venue, usually one that is geographically close or equidistant to where the clubs contesting the match are based. As of 2022, ten different venues have hosted the final.

Fir Park Fir Park Stadium is a football stadium situated in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The stadium plays host to the home matches of Scottish Premiership club Motherwell and was the temporary home of Gretna for the 2007–08 SPL season. M ...

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lana ...

was the first, in

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, and has since hosted four more finals, the last in

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McDiarmid Park McDiarmid Park is a stadium in Perth, Scotland, used mainly for association football. It has been the home ground of Scottish Premiership side St Johnstone since its opening in 1989. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of . As well as St Jo ...

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has been the most frequent venue, staging it ten times between

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and

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. Other venues to host the final more than once are

Broadwood Stadium Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Cumbernauld Colts and Open Goal Broomhill of the Scottish Lowland Football Le ...

(

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...

Excelsior Stadium The Excelsior Stadium, is a Association football, football stadium in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the home ground of Airdrieonians F.C., Airdrieonians of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). Since the 2021–22 season ...

( Airdrie) and

Almondvale Stadium Almondvale Stadium, also known as the Tony Macaroni Arena for sponsorship purposes, but most commonly referred to as ‘The Spaghettihad’ (alluding to the Etihad Stadium), is a football stadium, located in the Almondvale area of Livingston, We ...

(

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).Livingston to host Ramsdens Cup final for second season in row

BBC Sport BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside f ...

. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2013. The 2016 final was held at

Hampden Park Hampden Park (Scottish Gaelic: ''Pàirc Hampden''), often referred to as Hampden, is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The -capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland. It is the no ...

, the national stadium in

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, due to the large support of eventual winners Rangers; that final drew the competition's record attendance of over 48,000.

Winners and finalists

A total of 26 clubs have reached the final, of whom 16 have won the competition. The first winners were

. The most successful club is

with four wins from four final appearances.Scottish Challenge Cup Honours
''statto.com''. Retrieved 6 April 2013. Ross County,

and Queen of the South are the only three clubs to have reached the final five times, Ross County winning on three occasions, Inverness Caledonian Thistle winning two and sharing one and Queen of the South winning twice and losing thrice, whilst

Hamilton Academical Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire who currently compete in the Scottish Championship, having been relegated from the 2020–21 Scotti ...

have reached the final four times, winning twice and losing twice. Three clubs have reached the final in successive seasons;

did so in the first two years of the tournament but lost both. The only teams to have successfully defended their title are Hamilton Academical and the original

Airdrieonians Airdrieonians Football Club is a Scottish professional football team in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, who are members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and play in Scottish League One. They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United ...

.Airdrie retain Challenge Cup

. 14 October 2001. Retrieved 6 April 2013. It is possible for the winner of the tournament to be unable to defend their title; if a club is promoted from the

Scottish Championship The Scottish Championship, known as the cinch Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Champio ...

(second tier) in the same season to the

(first tier), the club becomes ineligible to compete in the tournament. This has happened to

twice,

, St Mirren, Rangers and Ross County. Most winners and finalists have been from the second tier, while only four teams have won the competition from below this division. Stenhousemuir became the first team to do so in

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, followed by

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a year later in

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and

Alloa Athletic Alloa Athletic Football Club is a Scottish association football semi-professional club based in the town of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Formed as Alloa in 1880, the football club shortly changed its name to Alloa Association, and then to Alloa At ...

. The most recent club to win from below the second tier was Queen of the South, in

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.Queen of the South 1-1 Partick Thistle (6-5 pens)

. 7 April 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013. All winners and runners-up from below the second tier have been from the third tier. In 2019, Connah's Quay Nomads of Wales were the first non-Scottish side to get to the final of the Scottish Challenge Cup; despite taking the lead in the 21st minute, they eventually lost 3–1.

Finals

The winner of the tournament is decided by a final elimination match which lasts 90 minutes plus any additional

.Format
''scottishfootballleague.com''.

. Retrieved 4 April 2013. If the score is level and a winner has not been determined after 90 minutes of normal time, 30 minutes of

is played, followed by a

if the score is still level. Eight finals have gone to extra time, with two being decided in this period of play. The further six have been decided by penalty shoot-out.

Results

Performance by club

Clubs shown in ''italics'' are no longer in existence.

List of winning managers

Sponsorship and media coverage

The Scottish Challenge Cup has been sponsored several times since it was introduced in

. The sponsor has been able to determine the name of the competition. There have been four sponsors since the competition's formation as well as several name changes within the duration of each sponsorship. The competition relies on revenue earned from sponsorship although it has been able to run without a sponsor over two periods but had to be suspended for one season in 1998–99 as a consequence. * 1990–1995: B&Q (B&Q Centenary Cup (until 1991) then B&Q Cup) * 1995–1998: No sponsor * 1999–2006:

Bell's whisky Bell's is a brand of blended Scotch whisky produced by Diageo in Scotland. It was originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd. It is the best selling whisky in the UK. History The Bells distillery was founded in 1798. In 1851, Arthur Bell ...

(Bell's Challenge Cup (until 2002) then Bell's Cup) * 2006–2008: No sponsor * 2008–2011:

MG Alba MG Alba is the operating name of the Gaelic Media Service ( gd, Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig). The organisation's remit, under the Communications Act 2003, is to ensure that a wide and diverse range of high quality Gaelic programmes is m ...

(ALBA Challenge Cup) * 2011–2014 Ramsdens (Ramsdens Cup)Ramsdens Sponsor the Challenge Cup
scottishfootballleague.com. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011. * 2014–2016:

Petrofac Petrofac Limited is an international energy services company that designs, builds, manages and maintains oil, gas, refining, petrochemicals and renewable energy infrastructure. It is registered in Jersey (number 81792), with its main corporate off ...

(Petrofac Training Cup)Petrofac Training to sponsor Challenge Cup
spfl.co.uk. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014. * 2016–2019:

Irn-Bru Irn-Bru ( "iron brew", ) is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, often described as "Scotland's other national drink" (after whisky). Introduced in 1901, the drink is produced in Westfield, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, by A.G. Barr of Glasgo ...

(Irn-Bru Cup)IRN-BRU adds fizz to Challenge Cup
spfl.co.uk. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016. * 2019–2020: Tunnock's (Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup) * 2021– : SPFL Trust (SPFL Trust Trophy) Selected games have been broadcast live on the

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

language television channel

BBC Alba BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day with BBC Radio nan Gàidheal ...

since 2008, which is run jointly by former sponsor

and the BBC.BBC Alba to cover Challenge Cup
''news.bbc.co.uk''.

. 19 September 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2009. Every final since the 2008 final has been broadcast live on the channelSFL's delight at joy sponsorship deal for Challenge Cup
''dailyrecord.co.uk''. '' Daily Record''. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2013. and the arrangement was extended for three more years in 2012 despite the end of MG Alba's sponsorship of the competition in 2011.BBC ALBA extend Ramsdens Challenge Cup TV deal
''news.bbc.co.uk''.

. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013. With the expansion of the competition to include teams from Northern Ireland and Wales from 2016 to 2017, additional contracts for live match coverage have been agreed with

Premier Sports Viaplay Sports and Premier Sports are a group of pay television sports channels owned by Viaplay Group. Viaplay Sports holds exclusive live UK and Republic of Ireland TV rights to La Liga, Scottish League Cup, Elite Ice Hockey League, NHL an ...

and

S4C S4C (, ''Sianel Pedwar Cymru'', meaning ''Channel Four Wales'') is a Welsh language free-to-air public broadcast television channel. Launched on 1 November 1982, it was the first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking ...

References

External links

* {{Football in Scotland

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