Scottish football
Association football ( sco, fitbaa, gd, ball-coise) is one of the national sports of Scotland and the most popular sport in the country. There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scot ...
saw the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Queen's Park once again lifting the trophy. For the second season running, Queen's contented themselves with the domestic tournament, declining to enter the
FA Cup
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.
International competition was once again restricted to the annual clash with
England
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, while the Glasgow v
Sheffield
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representative fixture was played in Scotland for the first time.
Scottish Cup
There was a modest expansion in the competition in its second season, which attracted 25 entrants – up from 16 for the previous season. There was geographic expansion too, with the 3rd Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers team becoming the first team from the east of the country to participate.
Holders Queen's Park once again lifted the trophy, defeating
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and West End in the early rounds, then progressing to the semi-finals when opponents Rovers withdrew. The semi-final, against the previous season's runners-up,
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, took three games to settle with Queen's finally winning 1–0 at
Kinning Park
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following 0–0 and 2–2 draws. Renton, meanwhile had defeated their local rivals
Dumbarton
Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the ca ...
in their own replayed tie.
The
final
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saw Queen's Park comfortably run out 3–0 winners. The crowd, estimated at 7,000, reflected the growing interest in football as it was almost three times the number that had attended the previous year.
Scotland national team
The 1875 international saw Scotland visiting
London
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for a second time, on this occasion returning with a draw.
Representative matches
27 February 1875: Glasgow 2
Sheffield
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Hamilton Crescent
Hamilton Crescent is a cricket ground in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club.
Hamilton Crescent hosted the first international football match, between Scotland and England, played on 30 ...
,
Partick
Partick ( sco, Pairtick, Scottish Gaelic: ''Partaig'') is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch, to the east Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Park (across the River Kelvin), and to t ...