Scottish FA Cup 2005/06

Scottish FA Cup
Association	Scottish FA
First edition	1873/74
Game mode	Knockout system
Title holder	Heart of Midlothian (7th title)
Record winner	Celtic Glasgow (33 wins)
Website	scottishfa.co.uk
Qualification for	Uefa cup

The Scottish FA Cup was played for the 121st time in 2005/06 . The most important Scottish soccer cup competition, which was officially held as Tennent's Scottish Cup and directed by the Scottish Football Association, began on November 19, 2005 and ended with the final on May 13, 2006 in Glasgow's Hampden Park . Defending champion Celtic Glasgow , who prevailed against Dundee United in the previous year's final , dropped out of the competition early in the third round against FC Clyde . Heart of Midlothian won this year's title for the 7th time in the club's history by winning the final on penalties over third division club FC Gretna . Since the Hearts were able to qualify as runners-up for the Champions League, Gretna played in the following 2006/07 UEFA Cup season in this competition, but was eliminated there early in the second qualifying round against Irish club Derry City . In August 2008 the FC Gretna was dissolved.

1 round

The matches were held on 19/26/28. November 2005. The replay took place on November 22, 2005.

	Result
Partick Thistle	1: 1	Albion Rovers
Preston Athletic	2: 6	FC Gretna
Cowdenbeath FC	0: 3	Greenock Morton
Dumbarton FC	4: 1	Forres Mechanics
FC Spartans	1-0	Berwick Rangers
Stirling Albion	2: 1	Elgin City
Alloa Athletic	9-0	FC Selkirk
FC Stenhousemuir	3: 2	East Stirlingshire FC

Replay

	Result
Albion Rovers	1: 3	Partick Thistle

2nd round

The matches took place on December 10, 2005.

	Result
Alloa Athletic	1-0	Montrose FC
FC Arbroath	1-0	Dumbarton FC
Ayr United	3: 2	Greenock Morton
East Fife FC	0: 3	Peterhead FC
FC Gretna	6: 1	Cove Rangers
Lossiemouth FC	0: 5	FC Spartans
FC Queen's Park	2-0	Raith Rovers
FC Stenhousemuir	1: 4	Partick Thistle
Stirling Albion	1-0	Inverurie Loco Works
Threave Rovers	0: 4	Forfar Athletic

3rd round

The matches were played on January 7th and 8th, 2006. The repetitions took place on 11./16. and January 17, 2006.

	Result
Alloa Athletic	1: 1	Livingston FC
Dundee United	2: 3	Aberdeen FC
Dunfermline Athletic	3: 4	Airdrie United
FC Falkirk	2: 1	Brechin City
Heart of Midlothian	2: 1	FC Kilmarnock
Hibernian Edinburgh	6-0	FC Arbroath
Inverness CT	1: 1	Ayr United
Queen of the South	1: 1	Hamilton Academical
Glasgow Rangers	5-0	Peterhead FC
Ross County	5-0	Forfar Athletic
FC Spartans	3: 2	FC Queen's Park
St. Johnstone FC	0: 1	FC Gretna
FC St. Mirren	3-0	Motherwell FC
Stirling Albion	0: 1	Partick Thistle
Clyde FC	2: 1	Celtic Glasgow
Dundee FC	2-0	FC Stranraer

Replay games

	Result
Livingston FC	1: 2	Alloa Athletic
Ayr United	0: 2	Inverness CT
Hamilton Academical	1: 0 a.d.	Queen of the South

Round of 16

The matches were played on February 4th and 8th, 2006. The repetitions took place on February 7th and 14th / 15th. February 2006.

	Result
Airdrie United	1: 1	Dundee FC
Clyde FC	0-0	FC Gretna
FC Falkirk	1: 1	Ross County
Hamilton Academical	0-0	Alloa Athletic
Heart of Midlothian	3-0	Aberdeen FC
Inverness CT	2: 2	Partick Thistle
Glasgow Rangers	0: 3	Hibernian Edinburgh
FC Spartans	0-0	FC St. Mirren

Replay games

	Result
Alloa Athletic	0: 3	Hamilton Academical
Dundee FC	2-0	Airdrie United
FC Gretna	4-0	Clyde FC
Ross County	0: 1	FC Falkirk
FC St. Mirren	3-0	FC Spartans
Partick Thistle	?:? (4: 2 n.E. )	Inverness CT

Quarter finals

The matches were played on February 25, 2006. The replay took place on March 9, 2006.

	Result
FC Falkirk	1: 5	Hibernian Edinburgh
FC Gretna	1-0	FC St. Mirren
Hamilton Academical	0-0	Dundee FC
Heart of Midlothian	2: 1	Partick Thistle

Replay

	Result
Dundee FC	3: 2 a.d.	Hamilton Academical

Semifinals

The matches were played on April 1 and 2, 2006. The two semi-finals were played in Hampden Park .

	Result
FC Gretna	3-0	Dundee FC
Hibernian Edinburgh	0: 4	Heart of Midlothian

final

Heart of Midlothian		FC Gretna
	final Saturday May 13, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. GMT in Glasgow ( Hampden Park ) Result: 1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0) , 4: 2 i. E. Spectators: 51,232 Referee: Douglas McDonald Match report
	Craig Gordon - Robbie Neilson , Steven Pressley , Ibrahim Tall , Panagiotis Fyssas - Deividas Česnauskis (86th Saulius Mikoliūnas ), Bruno Aguiar (72nd Julien Brellier ), Paul Hartley , Rudolf Skácel - Edgaras Jankauskas , Roman Bednář (70th Michal Pospíšil ) Coach: Valdas Ivanauskas ( Lithuania )	Alan Main - Mark Birch , Derek Townsley , Chris Innes , Ryan McGuffie - David Nicholls (55th David Graham ), Steve Tosh , John O'Neil , Gavin Skelton - Kenny Deuchar (103rd Jamie McQuilken ), James Grady Trainer: Rowan Alexander
	1-0 Rudolf Skácel (39th)	1: 1 Ryan McGuffie (76th)
	Panagiotis Fyssas, Paul Hartley, Rudolf Skácel	Mark Birch, Steve Tosh
	Paul Hartley

Web links

• official website
• Scottish FA Cup 2005/06 at the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation