1978–79 Scottish Cup

1978–79 Scottish Cup
Tournament details
Country	Scotland
Final positions
Champions	Rangers
Runner-up	Hibernian
	← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 Scottish Cup was the 94th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers who defeated Hibernian in the twice replayed final.

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Dunfermline Athletic	2 – 2	Albion Rovers
Falkirk	2 – 0	Keith
Gala Fairydean	1 – 3	Cowdenbeath
Meadowbank Thistle	1 – 1	Inverness Caledonian
Threave Rovers	0 – 2	East Stirlingshire
Vale of Leithen	1 – 4	Forfar Athletic

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Albion Rovers	2 – 3	Dunfermline Athletic
Inverness Caledonian	0 – 3	Meadowbank Thistle

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Inverness Thistle	0 – 4	Falkirk
Forfar Athletic	1 – 2	Berwick Rangers
East Stirlingshire	2 – 3	Spartans
Cowdenbeath	0 – 0	Alloa Athletic
Peterhead	2 – 3	Queen's Park
East Fife	2 – 1	Brechin City
Meadowbank Thistle	2 – 1	Stenhousemuir
Stranraer	1 – 1	Dunfermline Athletic

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Dunfermline Athletic	1 – 0	Stranraer
Alloa Athletic	2 – 0	Cowdenbeath

Third round

Home team	Score	Away team
Dundee United	0 – 2	St Mirren
Dundee	1 – 0	Falkirk
Dumbarton	1 – 0	Alloa Athletic
Greenock Morton	1 – 1	St Johnstone
Stirling Albion	0 – 2	Partick Thistle
Ayr United	4 – 0	Queen of the South
Rangers	3 – 1	Motherwell
Clyde	1 – 5	Kilmarnock
Clydebank	3 – 3	Queen's Park
Meadowbank Thistle	2 – 1	Spartans
Montrose	2 – 4	Celtic
Dunfermline Athletic	1 – 1	Hibernian
Raith Rovers	0 – 2	Hearts
Arbroath	0 – 1	Airdrieonians
East Fife	0 – 1	Berwick Rangers
Hamilton Academical	0 – 2	Aberdeen

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
St Johnstone	2 – 4	Greenock Morton
Hibernian	2 – 0	Dunfermline Athletic
Queen's Park	0 – 1	Clydebank

Fourth round

Home team	Score	Away team
Dundee	4 – 1	St Mirren
Hearts	1 – 1	Greenock Morton
Celtic	3 – 0	Berwick Rangers
Dumbarton	3 – 1	Clydebank
Partick Thistle	3 – 0	Airdrieonians
Aberdeen	6 – 2	Ayr United
Meadowbank Thistle	0 – 6	Hibernian
Rangers	1 – 1	Kilmarnock

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Greenock Morton	0 – 1	Hearts
Kilmarnock	0 – 1	Rangers

Quarter-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Aberdeen	1 – 1	Celtic
Dumbarton	0 – 1	Partick Thistle
Hibernian	2 – 1	Hearts
Rangers	6 – 3	Dundee

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Celtic	1 – 2	Aberdeen

Semi-finals

4 April 1979

Partick Thistle	0 – 0	Rangers

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 26,232

11 April 1979

Hibernian	2 – 1	Aberdeen
Rae 37' McLeod 43' (pen.)		Steve Archibald 28'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 9,387

Referee: Bob Valentine

Replay

16 April 1979

Rangers	1 – 0	Partick Thistle

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 32,300

Final

12 May 1979

Rangers	0 – 0	Hibernian

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 50,610

Referee: Brian McGinlay

Replay

16 May 1979

Rangers	0 – 0	Hibernian

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 33,504

Referee: Brian McGinlay

Second Replay

28 May 1979

Rangers	3 – 2	Hibernian
Derek Johnstone Duncan (o.g.)		Higgins Ally MacLeod

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 30,602

Referee: Ian Foote

Events

Inverness Thistle's match against Falkirk became famous in Scotland due to the fact that the game was postponed 29 times,^[1] It was originally supposed to be played on 6 January in Inverness at Kingsmills Park due to ice and snow, and was eventually played on 22 February once it was deemed suitable, where Falkirk won the game 4-0, and were eventually put out by Dundee 3 days later,^[2] though it was a few postponements short of beating the record of 33 games by Airdrieonians and Stranraer set 16 years earlier due to similar circumstances during the Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom where football matches were called off due to snowstorms.

References

^ "11+ Interesting and Funny Football Facts". twelfthman blog. 27 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
^ Dart, James (21 March 2006). "The most postponed game ever". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

[1] "11+ Interesting and Funny Football Facts". twelfthman blog. 27 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.

[2] Dart, James (21 March 2006). "The most postponed game ever". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

[1]

[2]

v t e Scottish Cup
Seasons	1873–74 1874–75 1875–76 1876–77 1877–78 1878–79 1879–80 1880–81 1881–82 1882–83 1883–84 1884–85 1885–86 1886–87 1887–88 1888–89 1889–90 1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–1919 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–1946 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Finals	1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915–1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
List of finals Winning managers Scottish Qualifying Cup

v t e 1978–79 in Scottish football
« 1977–78 1979–80 »
Domestic leagues	Football League Premier Division First Division Second Division Highland League
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup Final League Cup Final Junior Cup
European competitions	European Cup European Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup Anglo-Scottish Cup
Related to national team	Results Euro 1980 qualifying (Group 2) British Home Championship
Club seasons
Premier Division	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee United Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Morton Motherwell Partick Thistle Rangers St. Mirren
First Division	Airdrieonians Arbroath Ayr United Clyde Clydebank Dundee Dumbarton Hamilton Academical Kilmarnock Montrose Queen of the South Raith Rovers St. Johnstone Stirling Albion
Second Division	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Berwick Rangers Brechin City Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Athletic East Fife East Stirlingshire Falkirk Forfar Athletic Meadowbank Thistle Queen's Park Stenhousemuir Stranraer

v t e 1978–79 in European football (UEFA)
« 1977–78 1979–80 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '78 '79 England Faroe Islands '78 '79 Finland '78 '79 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '78 '79 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '78 '79 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '78 '79 Spain Sweden '78 '79 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '78 '79 Finland '78 '79 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '78 '79 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '78 '79 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '77–'78 '79–'80

First round

Replays

Second round

Replays

Third round

Replays

Fourth round

Replays

Quarter-finals

Replay

Semi-finals

Replay

Final

Replay

Second Replay

Events

See also

References