The Scottish Women's Cup is the national knockout cup competition for

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. First held in 1970–71, the competition is owned and managed by

Scottish Women's Football Scottish Women's Football (SWF), formerly known as the Scottish Women’s Football Association (SWFA) between 1972 and 2001, is the governing body for women's association football in Scotland. It is an affiliated national association of the Scott ...

(SWF), an affiliated body of the

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(SFA). The Scottish Women's Cup is open to all senior teams affiliated with SWF.

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are the current holders.

Format

The competition consists of a preliminary round and then six rounds of which the last one is the final. The twelve teams from the

Scottish Women's Premier League The Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) is the highest level of league competition in women's football in Scotland. Its two divisions are SWPL 1 and SWPL 2. The league was formed when the Premier Division of the Scottish Women's Football League ...

enter at the second round. Thus all other teams are drawn either in the preliminary round or the first round so that 40 teams play in the first round. The 20 winners plus the 12 Premier League teams then play the second round, the round of 32. All rounds are played over a single leg.

List of winners

The finals of the cup have been:

References

External links

"Scottish Women's Cup - Past Winners (1996–2017)", SFA
(Web Archive)
Cup at women.soccerway.comScottish Cup section
at Scottish Women's Football

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