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Topic Originator: saltonsgonagetu
Date: Tue 26 May 12:46
The draw for the 2026/27 edition of the Premier Sports Cup takes place THIS week.
Clubs will discover their fate on Wednesday, May 27.
It begins at 1pm.
the draw will be broadcast live online by Premier Sports and the SPFL.
40 clubs enter the group phase of the competition and compete across five match days.
Celtic, Hearts, Rangers, Motherwell and Hibs go into the last 16 with the eight group winners and the best THREE runners-up joining them.
The three guest clubs this season are Linlithgow Rose, Brora Rangers and Brechin City.
Matches take place MD1: Weekend of July 11/12
MD2: Midweek of July 14/15
MD3: Weekend of July 18/19
MD4: Midweek of July 21/22
MD5: Weekend of July 25/26
Post Edited (Tue 26 May 12:47)
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Tue 26 May 15:32
Group stage draw seeding pots
POT 1
1 Falkirk
2 Dundee United
3 Dundee
4 Aberdeen
5 Kilmarnock
6 St Mirren
7 Livingston
8 St Johnstone
POT 2
9 Partick Thistle
10 Arbroath
11 Dunfermline Athletic
12 Raith Rovers
13 Queen’s Park
14 Ayr United
15 Greenock Morton
16 Airdrieonians
POT 3
17 Ross County
18 Inverness Caledonian Thistle
19 Stenhousemuir
20 Queen of the South
21 Alloa Athletic
22 Peterhead
23 Montrose
24 Cove Rangers
POT 4
25 East Fife
26 Hamilton Academical
27 Kelty Hearts
28 East Kilbride
29 The Spartans
30 Clyde
31 Forfar Athletic
32 Stranraer
POT 5
33 Elgin City
34 Annan Athletic
35 Stirling Albion
36 Dumbarton
37 Edinburgh City
38 Linlithgow Rose
39 Brora Rangers
40 Brechin City
we will be Away to Pots 1 and 4 home to 3 and 5 which is a bit crap as would want 5 away for a new ground opportunity
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Tue 26 May 15:59
Livi
Cove
Stranraer
Brora
Easiest draw for us with a chance of progress. Its a bit of a joke that 1st seeds always get a home tie v 2nd seeds though, just another example of Premiership bias.
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Topic Originator: BlackLight
Date: Wed 27 May 11:45
Keeping it local:-
Falkirk
Alloa
Kelty Hearts
Linlithgow
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Wed 27 May 11:51
avoid anyone we will play in the league as guaranteed we will have them in the first game of the season as well
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Wed 27 May 13:08
Group A
Aberdeen
Queens Park
Queen of the south
Kelty Hearts
Brora
Group B
Dundee United
Arbroath
Montrose
The Spartans
Stirling albion
Group C
St Mirren
Dunfermline
Cove Rangers
East Kilbride
Dumbarton
Group D
Dundee
Airdrie
Ross county
Clyde
Annan Athl
Group E
Livingston
Partick thistle
Stenhousemuir
Forfar Athletic
Brechin city
Group F
St Johnstone
Greenock Morton
Inverness Caledonian Thistle
East Fife
Linlithgow Rose
Group G
Falkirk
Ayr Utd
Alloa athletic
Stranraer
Edinburgh City
Group H
Kilmarnock
Raith rovers
Peterhead
Hamilton Acc
Elgin City
Post Edited (Wed 27 May 13:14)
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Topic Originator: Berry
Date: Wed 27 May 13:14
Just me that thinks that’s a pretty competitive group?
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Topic Originator: Parsdaft21346327964
Date: Wed 27 May 13:23
Could be worse could be in group E
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Wed 27 May 13:25
St Mirren and East Kilbride will be away. Allocation for East kilbride is around 300
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Wed 27 May 13:34
Fairly sure East Kilbride is more than that.
7-800 I’m sure or do you mean how many tickets we would get?
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
Post Edited (Wed 27 May 13:35)
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Topic Originator: parsmad68
Date: Wed 27 May 13:39
Dundee United group is a cracker
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Topic Originator: JohnnyLatics
Date: Wed 27 May 13:56
Just waiting for the dates to be announced.
I blame Andy Rhodes for this!
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Wed 27 May 14:06
"Fairly sure East Kilbride is more than that.
7-800 I’m sure or do you mean how many tickets we would get?"
yeah overall capacity is around 800 max of which the away allocation is in the region of 300
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Wed 27 May 15:10
We`ve knocked out the holders of the Scottish Cup this year. Opportunity to do the double.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 27 May 15:19
The way this competition is set up is it inevitable that the Championship team will always play the Premiership team away from home? That`s the way it`s always been with us I think. In fact we may have beaten SM in Paisley a few seasons ago.
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Topic Originator: Parsdaft21346327964
Date: Wed 27 May 15:57
Surely the st Mirren game is a first game of
The competition so they can bring out the cup
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Topic Originator: desparado
Date: Wed 27 May 16:07
Topic Originator: wee eck like
Date: Wed 27 May 15:19
The way this competition is set up is it inevitable that the Championship team will always play the Premiership team away from home? That`s the way it`s always been with us I think. In fact we may have beaten SM in Paisley a few seasons ago.
Remember losing to them through there in same comp a few seasons ago. Can’t remember a win….might be wrong…memory not what it was…
What an opportunity we missed in 2014.
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Topic Originator: Lucho_8
Date: Wed 27 May 16:29
We did beat them in that cup I’m sure too, we were wearing a yellow away strip and we were 3-0 up at HT. Finished 3-2 and Andy Ryan and beadling were on the scoresheet. Would need to look it up to confirm.
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Topic Originator: desparado
Date: Wed 27 May 16:44
We did indeed beat them 3-2. Can’t remember it. We lost 1-0 in another game , same cup…
What an opportunity we missed in 2014.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 27 May 17:09
2019! Can`t believe Stewart and Craigen were doing commentary that long ago!
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Topic Originator: jojo
Date: Wed 27 May 18:35
St Mirren away game could be live on Premier with a different kick off time
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Wed 27 May 18:42
I`d imagine it almost certainly will be on TV. Dundee Utd v Arbroath is the only other tie that would be a cert. They get so many picks that the likes of Aberdeen v Queens Park and Falkirk v Ayr will likely be on live too. I get that they organise it so the top seed has the best chance of going through, but from a TV standpoint, you`d think having the top seed away to the 2nd and 3rd seeds would make for better matches to broadcast.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 27 May 18:58
That 2019-20 season we won our group and played Celtic at Parkhead in the next round. Beadling equalised to take the tie to extra time but James Forrest got the winner.
That was also the Covid season where games ended up being played behind closed doors.
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Wed 27 May 19:49
Was that not the season that finished early?
The covid season was 2020/21.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 27 May 22:15
My mistake, DA-go. Covid arrived around February 2020 and meant an early finish to 2019-20 but it was the following season when we became accustomed to watching streams of games.
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Fri 29 May 15:32
confirmed Fixtures:
EK away 11/07 15:00
dumbarton home 14/07 19:45
cove home 21/07 19:45
St Mirren Away 26/07 (SUN) 15:00 (live on Prem sports)
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Fri 29 May 15:38
Quote:
Playup_Pompey, Fri 29 May 15:32
confirmed Fixtures:
EK away 11/07 15:00
dumbarton home 14/07 19:45
cove home 21/07 19:45
St Mirren Away 26/07 (SUN) 15:00 (live on Prem sports)
So both home games midweek? That`s a bit rubbish.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Fri 29 May 17:11
Quote:
Playup_Pompey, Fri 29 May 15:32
confirmed Fixtures:
EK away 11/07 15:00
dumbarton home 14/07 19:45
cove home 21/07 19:45
St Mirren Away 26/07 (SUN) 15:00 (live on Prem sports)
Good chance of having 9 points wrapped up before having to go to Saints at least.
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Topic Originator: Parsweep
Date: Sat 30 May 11:03
No disrespect intended to our 1st 3 opponents, but we ought to be aiming for 3 wins , but let`s not forget . I think we failed to get out of our group last season by a single goal .
Let`s try to avoid that next time .
Bobvo
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