The 1985
Tennents' Sixes was the second staging of the indoor 6-a-side football tournament at
Ingliston Showground near
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...
on 20 and 21 January. It was again televised on
BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland. Its headquarters are in Glasgow, employing approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year. BBC Scotla ...
.
The format had changed from 3 groups of 3 teams to 2 groups of 10 with all from the
1984–85 Scottish Premier Division
The 1984–85 Scottish Premier Division season was won by Aberdeen, seven points ahead of Celtic. Dumbarton and Morton were relegated. As of 2025, this is the last season that a team other than Rangers or Celtic has won the top level of Scottish ...
season except
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
*Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Foot ...
. First Division club
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 the . They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United Football Club ...
replaced them.
The two group winners and runners-up qualified to the semi-finals and
Hearts beat
Morton 4–1 in the final.
Group stage
Group 1
Group 2
Semi-finals
----
Final
Hearts beat
Morton to win the tournament for the first time.
Prize money
A breakdown of the prize money from the tournament sponsors.
*''
Tennents'' also promised £1,000 to be awarded to charity if the total number of goals broke the 100 barrier.
References
External links
Scottish Football Historical Archive
{{Tennent's Sixes
Tennent's Sixes
1980s in Edinburgh
Football competitions in Edinburgh
January 1985 sports events in the United Kingdom
Tennents' Sixes