The 2016
SWF Scottish Cup, known as the 2016
SSE Scottish Women's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 45th official edition (47th overall) of the main national cup competition in Scottish
women's football Women's football most often refers to:
* Women's association football
Women's football may also refer to:
* Women's gridiron football
* Women's Australian rules football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Women's rugby league
* Women's rugby union
...
. All teams in the
Scottish Women's Football League
The Scottish Women's Football League (SWFL) is a group of women's football divisions in Scotland. The league is owned and managed by Scottish Women's Football (SWF), an affiliated body of the Scottish Football Association (SFA).
Following on from ...
and
SWPL 1 & 2 were eligible to enter.
Hibernian won the final after penalties against Glasgow City, who had won the cup for the previous five years.
Format
Teams are either drawn into the first round or receive a bye, so there are 16 matches to play in the second round. The winners of the first round are then joined by the 16
SWPL 1 & 2 teams in the second round.
First round
30 of 32 teams were drawn into this round. Edinburgh Caledonia & Dumbarton United received a bye to the second round.
Second round
SWPL teams enter.
Third round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
The final was played between Glasgow City and Hibernian on 6 November 2016 at
New Douglas Park
New Douglas Park, also known as ZLX Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which serves as the home of Scottish League Two side Clyde, also formerly being home to Scottish League One sid ...
in
Hamilton
Hamilton may refer to:
* Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
* ''Hamilton'' (musical), a 2015 Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
** ''Hamilton'' (al ...
. It featured the same teams as the
previous year's final and the
SWPL Cup final earlier in the year (as well as the previous two editions of that competition). Hibs won their sixth Scottish Cup, their first since 2010 (Glasgow City having won all of the intervening five).
Glasgow City FC on YouTube (teams at 1:04 / 1:28, pens from 10:53)
Hibs men's team had also won the 2015–16 Scottish Cup
The 2015–16 Scottish Cup was the 131st season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The tournament was sponsored by bookmaker William Hill in what was the fifth season of a five-year partnership. The final was conteste ...
, and this was the first instance of a club holding both national trophies at the same time (albeit the women's team was only an affiliate and not a fully integrated element of the club at that point, and due to the differing schedules this was only for six months rather than a whole year).
References
External links
Cup season
at soccerway.com
{{2016–17 in European women's football (UEFA)
Scottish Women's Cup
Scottish Women's Cup
The Women's Scottish Cup is the national knockout cup competition for women's football in Scotland.
First held in 1970–71 and known as the Scottish Women's FA Cup, the competition was owned and managed by Scottish Women's Football (SWF), an ...
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...