Anglo-Scottish Cup

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The Anglo-Scottish Cup was a 1975 been transferred to 1981 football - cup competition for football clubs in the Scottish and English professional league system. It was created when the sponsor withdrew from the Texaco Cup . After the Scottish clubs withdrew in 1981, the competition was held twice as the Football League Group Cup only for English clubs in 1982 and 1983 , making it the predecessor of the Football League Trophy competition that was created in 1983/84 .

The competition was open to the best clubs that did not qualify for the European Cup. The eight Scottish participants played four participants out of the quarter-finals in a knockout round with a round trip, the 16 English participants first played a quarter-finalist in four groups of four in a simple round-robin tournament mode . A special feature was the rule that in a few years there was a bonus point for the teams that scored three goals in a game in addition to the two-point rule that was common at the time .

From the quarter-finals, the competition was held in the cup system with two matches each (home and away game); in the quarterfinals there was always a representative of the English and Scottish leagues facing each other.

The competition was dominated by the English clubs, in six events only a representative of Scotland managed to get into the finals; In 1978 FC St. Mirren lost the final against Bristol City , and two years later the same club was the only Scottish club to win the cup.

While in the beginning the best non-European Cup clubs in England took part in the competition, over time mainly lower-class professional clubs registered, so that spectator interest continued to decline in Scotland and Scotland withdrew from the competition in 1981.

In 1987/88 there was an attempt to revive the competition as a play-off between the winners of the FA Cup and Scottish Cup , but due to a lack of support for the first leg at Coventry City (1: 1), the second leg scheduled for May 1988 at FC St Mirren no longer whistled.

Finals

Event winner finalist Overall result after the first and second leg
1975/76 EnglandEngland Middlesbrough FC EnglandEngland Fulham FC 1-0
1976/77 EnglandEngland Nottingham Forest EnglandEngland FC Orient 5: 1
1977/78 EnglandEngland Bristol City ScotlandScotland FC St. Mirren 3: 2
1978/79 EnglandEngland Burnley FC EnglandEngland Oldham Athletic 4: 2
1979/80 ScotlandScotland FC St. Mirren EnglandEngland Bristol City 5: 1
1980/81 EnglandEngland Chesterfield FC EnglandEngland Notts County 2: 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c James M. Ross: Texaco Cup & Anglo-Scottish Cup 1971-81 , rsssf.com ( as of December 20, 2007; visited April 20, 2009 ).
  2. ↑ Tom Lewis: " Anglo-Scottish Cup & Texaco Cup - Full Results ", rsssf.com ( as of December 20, 2007; visited April 20, 2009 ).
  3. ^ A b Duncan Smith: " Final Curtain: Last Anglo-Scottish cup match: Coventry City 1 St Mirren 1, 22 December 1987 ", The Scotsman , January 31, 2009 ( English ).