The Scottish FA Cup was played for the 61st time in 1938/39 . The most important football cup competition in Scottish club football was directed and hosted by the Scottish Football Association. He started on 21 January 1939 and ended with the final on 22 April 1939 at Hampden Park of Glasgow . The second division FC East Fife started as defending champions in the competition, which won against FC Kilmarnock in the final last year . The Fifers were eliminated from the competition in the first round against FC Montrose . In this year's Scottish Cup final, Clyde FC and Motherwell FC faced each other. FC Clyde , which comes from the Rutherglen district of Glasgow and has been based in Cumbernauld since the 1980s , reached the final for the third time since 1910 and 1912 . The FC Motherwell reached just after 1931 and 1933 for the third time in the final. Clyde won the final clearly 4-0, securing the Scottish Cup for the first time in the club's history. In the Scottish Championship , which was won by the Glasgow Rangers , Clyde finished 9th in the table and Motherwell was twelfth. The 1938/39 season was the last of the Scottish FA Cup before the outbreak of World War II . In 1940 the Scottish War Emergency Cup was held before the game was stopped. The Scottish Cup competition was played again from the 1946/47 season.