SWF Championship Cup

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Scottish Women's Football Championship Cup
Organising body Scottish Women's Football
Founded2020
RegionScotland
Number of teams26
Current champions Dryburgh Athletic (2021)
Website SWF

The Scottish Women's Football Championship Cup is an annual knockout competition in Scottish women's football, for teams playing in the SWF Championship, the third tier league below the two-division SWPL.

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Established as part of a reorganisation of the lower leagues in late 2019 [1] [2] and intended to be the early-season cup for a spring-summer-autumn fixture calendar, its first edition in 2020 was played up to the quarter-final stage [3] before being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. The fixture calendar was moved to an autumn-winter-spring schedule to accommodate for restrictions of the pandemic, but even a truncated 2020–21 SWF Championship campaign had to be cancelled and no cup was played. The 2021 Championship Cup therefore coincided with the early part of the 2021–22 SWF Championship season. Its final was played at the Falkirk Stadium on 28 November 2021. [4] [5]

As the cup for third tier clubs, the competition is the equivalent of the Scottish Women's Football League First Division Cup which was first competed for in the 1970s and continued until 2019. However, the Scottish Women's Football League continued after the reorganisation (albeit as a standalone 'Recreational' level separate from the SWPL and Championship at the 'Performance' level) and has its own SWFL League Cup [6] which continues the history of that trophy, with the SWF Championship Cup being a new tournament.

Winners

YearWinnerResultRunner UpRef
2021–22 Dryburgh Athletic 1–0 Montrose [7]

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References

  1. "New Senior Structure for 2020 and beyond". Scottish Women's Premier League. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. Scottish Women’s Football announces new league structure, SheKicks.net, 20 September 2019
  3. ChampionshipCup: Renfrew twice battle back to beat Buchan, SheKicks.net, 3 March 2020
  4. SWF announces Senior and Youth League Cup Final venues, Scottish Women's Football, 12 October 2021
  5. 2021 SWF Championship Cup Final - Match Programme, Scottish Women's Football
  6. 2021 SWFL fixtures announced & SWFL Cup 1st Round Draw, Scottish Women's Football, 20 May 2021
  7. ‘This is just the start’: Dryburgh Athletic in historic cup victory – now they aim to win over more fans to the female game, Scott Lorimer, The Courier, 30 November 2021