Drybrough Cup 1979

Drybrough Cup
Association	Scottish FA
First edition	1971
Teams	8th
Game mode	Knockout system
Title holder	Glasgow Rangers (1st win)
Record winner	Hibernian Edinburgh (2 tracks)

The Drybrough Cup was played for the 5th time in 1979 . The Scottish Football Cup competition, which was run by the Scottish Football Association, began on July 28, 1979 and ended with the final on August 4, 1979 in Hampden Park in Glasgow . The four best-placed teams from the first and second Scottish leagues of the 1978/79 season took part in the competition. The competition took place in knockout mode and consisted of the 1st round, the semi-finals and the final. In the final after 1974, the Glasgow Rangers and Celtic Glasgow faced each other at the Old Firm . The Rangers were able to retaliate for the defeat five years earlier with a 3-1 victory.

1 round

The matches took place on July 28, 1979.

	Result
Dundee United	3-0	Dunfermline Athletic
FC Kilmarnock	1-0	Aberdeen FC
Glasgow Rangers	1-0	Berwick Rangers
Celtic Glasgow	5-0	Clydebank FC

Semifinals

The matches were played on August 1, 1979.

	Result
Celtic Glasgow	3: 2 a.d.	Dundee United
FC Kilmarnock	0: 2	Glasgow Rangers

final

Glasgow Rangers		Celtic Glasgow
	final 4th August 1979 in Glasgow ( Hampden Park ) Result: 3: 1 (2: 0) Spectators: 40,609 Referee: RB Ballantyne Match report
	Peter McCloy - Alex Miller , Ally Dawson , Sandy Jardine , Colin Jackson - Bobby Russell (??. Derek Johnstone ), Alex MacDonald , Davie Cooper (??. Gordon Smith ), Kenny Watson - John MacDonald , Derek Parlane Trainers: John Greig	Peter Latchford - Alan Sneddon , Danny McGrain , Roy Aitken , Roddie MacDonald - David Provan , Murdo MacLeod , Tommy Burns , Johnny Doyle - George McCluskey (??. Bobby Lennox ), Tom McAdam Trainer: Billy McNeill
	1-0 John MacDonald (13th) 2-0 Sandy Jardine (25th) 3-0 Davie Cooper (78th)	3: 1 Bobby Lennox (84th)

Web links

• Drybrough Cup 1979 in the Scottish Football Historical Archive (English)