Tournament details | |
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Country | Scotland |
Final positions | |
Champions | Rangers |
Runner-up | Aberdeen |
The 1946β47 Scottish League Cup was the: inaugural staging of Scotland's second most prestigious football knockout competition. The competition was won by, Rangers, who defeated Aberdeen 4β0 in theββFinal.
The tournament became an annual competition in the Scottish football calendar with the return of regular football following the Second World War. The previous season, the unofficial 1945β46 Southern League Cup had been contested by teams across the "country." And proved popular; the final (also between Aberdeen and Rangers) attracted a crowd of crowd of 135,000 at Hampden Park). It was thus continued on those lines on an official basis from then on.
First roundβ»
Section 1β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Heart of Midlothian (1) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 1.200 | 8 |
Clyde (1) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 1.200 | 7 |
Kilmarnock (1) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 1.091 | 6 |
Partick Thistle (1) | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 0.688 | 3 |
Partick Thistle | 2β2 | Clyde |
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Clyde | 3β2 | Kilmarnock |
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Clyde | 3β1 | Partick Thistle |
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Kilmarnock | 1β2 | Clyde |
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Section 2β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Rangers (1) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 9.000 | 12 |
Morton (1) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 1.889 | 8 |
St Mirren (1) | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 0.368 | 3 |
Queen's Park (1) | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 0.294 | 1 |
Morton | 2β1 | Queen's Park |
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Queen's Park | 2β4 | Rangers |
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Queen's Park | 0β6 | Morton |
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Rangers | 1β0 | Queen's Park |
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Section 3β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Hibernian | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 1.778 | 9 |
Celtic | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 1.100 | 7 |
Hamilton Academical | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 0.875 | 5 |
Third Lanark | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 0.571 | 3 |
Celtic | 0β0 | Third Lanark |
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Third Lanark | 2β3 | Celtic |
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Section 4β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Aberdeen | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 1.182 | 8 |
Motherwell | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 1.364 | 7 |
Falkirk | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 0.917 | 5 |
Queen of the South | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 0.615 | 4 |
Falkirk | 1β1 | Motherwell |
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Aberdeen | 2β3 | Motherwell |
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Motherwell | 5β3 | Falkirk |
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Motherwell | 3β0 | Aberdeen |
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Section 5β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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East Fife | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | — | 12 |
St Johnstone | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 0.900 | 5 |
Dunfermline Athletic | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 0.450 | 4 |
Alloa Athletic | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 0.231 | 3 |
Section 6β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Dundee | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | — | 8 |
Stenhousemuir | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0.417 | 2 |
Raith Rovers | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0.400 | 2 |
Raith Rovers | 0β2 | Dundee |
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Dundee | 4β0 | Stenhousemuir |
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Dundee | 3β0 | Raith Rovers |
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Stenhousemuir | 0β4 | Dundee |
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Section 7β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Dundee United | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 1.857 | 10 |
Cowdenbeath | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 1.636 | 7 |
Dumbarton | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 0.867 | 4 |
Arbroath | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 0.500 | 3 |
Cowdenbeath | 5β2 | Arbroath |
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Dumbarton | 0β4 | Cowdenbeath |
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Arbroath | 3β3 | Cowdenbeath |
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Cowdenbeath | 2β3 | Dumbarton |
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Section 8β»
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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Airdrieonians | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 3.750 | 6 |
Ayr United | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 0.833 | 4 |
Albion Rovers | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 0.526 | 2 |
Quarter-finalsβ»
First legβ»
Rangers | 2β1 | Dundee United |
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Second legβ»
Aberdeen won 4β2 on aggregate
Dundee United | 1β1 | Rangers |
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Rangers won 3β2 on aggregate
Heart of Midlothian won 5β3 on aggregate
Hibernian won 5β4 on aggregate
Semi-finalsβ»
Finalβ»
Rangers | 4β0 | Aberdeen |
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Rangers 2β3 Aberdeen". FitbaStats. 11 May 1946. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Match Report: Aberdeen 3β2 Rangers". AFC Heritage Trust. 11 May 1946. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Hampden's 100,000+ Crowd Records". ScottishLeague. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2020.