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The 1978–79
Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers who defeated Hibernian in the twice replayed final.


First round


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Second round


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Third round


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Fourth round


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Quarter-finals


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Semi-finals

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Final


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Second Replay


Events

Inverness Thistle's match against Falkirk became famous in Scotland because the game was postponed 29 times, It was originally supposed to be played on 6 January in Inverness at Kingsmills Park due to ice and snow, and was eventually played on 22 February once it was deemed suitable, where Falkirk won the game 4-0, and were eventually put out by Dundee 3 days later, though it was a few postponements short of beating the record of 33 games by Airdrieonians and
Stranraer Stranraer ( , in Scotland also ; ), also known as The Toon or The Cleyhole, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on Loch Ryan and the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland. Stranraer is Dumfries ...
set 16 years earlier due to similar circumstances during the
Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom Winter is the coldest and darkest season of the year in temperate and polar climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring. The tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Diffe ...
where football matches were called off due to snowstorms.


See also

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1978–79 in Scottish football The 1978–79 season was the 106th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 82nd season of Scottish league football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball) ...
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1978–79 Scottish League Cup The 1978–79 Scottish League Cup was the thirty-third season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Rangers, who defeated Aberdeen in the Final. First round First leg Second leg Second round First ...


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Cup A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, pol ...