Scottish League Cup First Round

You will already know that the Scottish have already started their season with the first round of the SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP or now known as the BETFRED CUP. These games started playing on 15^th July

The Scottish FA has changed the normal format of a knock-out round and came up with groups like they do in the World Cup and Euros.

The teams were split into eight groups of five where the eight group winners and the best four runners-up progressed in the second round where it then goes back to knock-out rounds from there on. The Final will be played on 27^th November 2016.

Now we had six of our nine Scottish teams in cup action from this season’s Golden Goals teams.

From Group A: PETERHEAD are through as they win the group with two wins a draw and one lost. Number of goals scored 8.

Group B: ST JOHNSTONE are through as they win three and drew one to go top of this group. They have a total of 11 goals. FALKIRK finished in second place with two wins and two loses but failed to make it through. They are on a total of 5 goals.

Group E: STENHOUSEMUIR go out as they finished bottom of the group as they did not win any of their four games. They start their season with 2 goals.

Group F: RANGERS finished top with four wins and a total of 10 goals.

Group H: KILMARNOCK finished in second place but went out with two wins and one draw and lost. They have a total of 5 goals.

All of these goals will count as midweek goals.

The Second Round games are to be played on 9/10^th August 2016.