Scottish Women's Premier League Cup

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Scottish Women's Premier League Cup
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Organising body Scottish Women's Premier League
Founded2002
Region Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
Number of teams17
Current champions Rangers (2024: 2nd title)
Most successful club(s) Hibernian (7 titles)
Television broadcasters Sky Sports
Soccerball current event.svg 2023–24 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup

The Scottish Women's Premier League Cup, currently known as the Sky Sports Cup due to sponsorship and commonly shortened to the SWPL Cup, is a league cup competition in women's football in Scotland. The cup is open only to the teams in the Scottish Women's Premier League. There are four rounds, including the final.

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The competition was launched in 2002–03 along with the Scottish Women's Premier League, and the first winners were Kilmarnock. [1] It supplanted the Scottish Women's Football League Cup (Kilmarnock were also its last winners) which continued as a lower-division competition.

The SWPL Cup changed to run on a summer schedule played in a single calendar year (from around March to November) from the 2009 edition [2] [3] until the COVID-19 pandemic ended the 2020 season prematurely (leaving that year's edition unfinished) and caused the SWPL to revert to a winter format in all competitions for the following season, which was retained after pandemic restrictions ended.

The trophy has been won most often by Hibernian, seven times.

Format

Up to 2015, eight of the twelve Premier League teams were drawn to play in the first round. The four winners and the other four teams then played in the quarter-finals. All matches were played over one leg. [4]

Since the addition of the division SWPL 2 in 2016, all teams from the Premier League's two divisions have taken part in the cup. The last edition with the straight-knockout format was the 2019 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup

In a large change to the format for the 2020 edition of the Cup, a 16-team group stage was inaugurated, planned to qualify teams for the eight-team knockout phase, with the League's top two clubs given a bye to the quarter-finals; but the SWPL was abandoned early in the 2020 season, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the League reverted to the winter format as a result. The league cup was not played in the 2020–21 season. The group phase was played with all clubs in the 2021–22 SWPL Cup, [5] which was completed and won by Celtic. [6]

Past winners

Previous finals are:

YearWinnerResultRunner UpVenueRef
2002–03 Kilmarnock 2–0 Glasgow City [1]
2003–04 Kilmarnock 3–1 Glasgow City
2004–05 Hibernian 6–1Raith Rovers Stark's Park [7]
2005–06 Kilmarnock 3–2 Glasgow City Stark's Park [8]
2006–07 Edinburgh 4–1 Hibernian Broadwood Stadium [9]
2007–08 Hibernian 4–0 Queen's Park Ladies Forthbank Stadium [10] [11] [12]
2008–09 Glasgow City 3–0 Spartans Forthbank Stadium [13] [14] [15]
2009 Glasgow City 3–1 Hibernian Recreation Park [16] [17]
2010 Celtic 4–1 Spartans Ainslie Park [18] [19] [20]
2011 Hibernian 5–2 Spartans Recreation Park [21] [22]
2012 Glasgow City 5–1 Spartans Recreation Park [23] [24]
2013 Glasgow City 5–0 Spartans Recreation Park [25] [26]
2014 Glasgow City 3–0 Hibernian Ainslie Park [27] [28]
2015 Glasgow City 2–1 (a.e.t.) Hibernian Ainslie Park [29]
2016 Hibernian 2–1 Glasgow City Ainslie Park [30]
2017 Hibernian 4–1 Celtic Broadwood Stadium [31]
2018 Hibernian 9–0 Celtic Falkirk Stadium [32]
2019 Hibernian 0–0 (a.e.t.)
4–2 (pen.)		 Glasgow City Excelsior Stadium [33]
2020 Unfinished due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.
2020–21Not played.
2021–22 Celtic 1–0 Glasgow City Firhill Stadium [6]
2022–23 Rangers 2–0 Hibernian Tynecastle Park [34]
2023–24 Rangers 4–1 Partick Thistle Tynecastle Park [35]

List of winners

TitlesTeam
7 Hibernian
6 Glasgow City
3 Kilmarnock
2 Celtic
2 Rangers
1 Spartans (as Edinburgh)

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