2012–13 Scottish League Cup

2012–13 Scottish Communities League Cup
Tournament details
Country	Scotland
Dates	4 August 2012 – 17 March 2013
Teams	42
Final positions
Champions	St Mirren
Runner-up	Heart of Midlothian
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Scottish League Cup was the 67th season of Scotland's second-most prestigious football knockout competition. It is also known as the Scottish Communities League Cup for sponsorship reasons,^[1] after the Scottish Government continued their 1.7 million sponsorship for a second season.^[2]

Format

The competition is a single elimination knock-out competition. In each round, fixtures are determined by random draw, with the first to third rounds seeded according to last season's league positions (higher 50% of finishers drawn v lower 50% of finishers, alternating which is at home with each tie drawn).

Fixtures are played to a finish, with extra time and then penalties used in the event of draws. The competition is open to all clubs in the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. Clubs involved in European competitions are given a bye to the third round in order to avoid congestion of fixtures.

First round: 28 of the 30 sides from the previous season's Scottish Football League enter, except Ross County and Dunfermline. After Rangers were placed into the Third Division, they entered at this round.^[3]
Second round: The 15 winners of the first round are joined by 6 of the 7 of last season's SPL sides not in Europe, plus newly promoted Ross County.^[3]
Third round: The 11 winners of the second round are joined by the five SPL sides participating in European competition.^[3]
Quarter-finals: The 8 winners of the third round play.
Semi-finals: The 4 winners of the quarter-finals play.
Final: The 2 winners of the semi-finals play.

Schedule

Round 1: Saturday 4 August^[3]
Round 2: Tuesday 28/Wednesday 29 August^[4]
Round 3: Tuesday 25/Wednesday 26 September^[4]
Quarter-Finals: Tuesday 30/Wednesday 31 October^[4]
Semi-Finals: Saturday 26/Sunday 27 January 2013^[4]
Final: Sunday 17 March 2013^[4]

Fixtures and results

First round

The first round draw was conducted on 20 July 2012^[5] at Ochilview Park, Stenhousemuir by the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond.^[6] Rangers were entered into the draw pending an application for membership of the Scottish Football Association, which is needed to participate.^[6]

31 July 2012^[5]	Peterhead	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (1 – 4 p)	Dundee	Balmoor Stadium
19:45		BBC Sport		Attendance: 844 Referee: Brines
	Penalties
	McAllister MacDonald McLaughlin		McBride Baird Irvine Conroy

4 August 2012	Queen of the South	5 – 2	Alloa Athletic	Palmerston Park
15:00	Mitchell 9' Higgins 67' Clark 83', 85' Lyle 89'	BBC Sport	Gordon 64' Grehan 78'	Attendance: 967 Referee: Colvin

4 August 2012	Stranraer	0 – 8	Livingston	Stair Park
15:00		BBC Sport	Morton 17', 87' McNulty 23', 66', 83' Russell 39', 80' McCann 62'	Attendance: 284 Referee: Hilland

4 August 2012	Raith Rovers	4 – 3	Berwick Rangers	Stark's Park
15:00	Graham 25', 73' Hill 58' Clarke 85'	BBC Sport	Currie 9', 65' Addison 50'	Attendance: 1,071 Referee: Norris

4 August 2012	Stenhousemuir	4 – 0	Brechin City	Ochilview Park
15:00	Gemmell 1' Smith 76', 90' Kean 88' (pen.)	BBC Sport		Attendance: 282 Referee: Somers

4 August 2012	Montrose	2 – 1	Cowdenbeath	Links Park
15:00	Boyle 31' Watson 43'	BBC Sport	McKenzie 90'	Attendance: 312 Referee: Roache

4 August 2012	Ayr United	6 – 1	Clyde	Somerset Park
15:00	Winters 48' Moffat 59', 90' (pen.) Tiffoney 63' Sinclair 68', 90'	BBC Sport	Neill 82'	Attendance: 1,022 Referee: Anderson

4 August 2012	Queen's Park	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Airdrie United	Firhill Stadium
15:00	Brough 60', 104' Shankland 88'	BBC Sport	Blockley 47' Cook 66'	Attendance: 622 Referee: Finnie

4 August 2012	Dumbarton	2 – 0	Albion Rovers	Dumbarton Football Stadium
15:00	Prunty 45' Lister 84'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 479 Referee: Salmond

4 August 2012	Forfar Athletic	0 – 2	Partick Thistle	Station Park
15:00		BBC Sport	Erskine 18' Lawless 37'	Attendance: 693 Referee: Northcroft

4 August 2012	Falkirk	2 – 0	Elgin City	Falkirk Stadium
15:00	Kingsley 67' Taylor 89'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 1,594 Referee: Allan

4 August 2012	Hamilton Academical	2 – 0	Annan Athletic	New Douglas Park
15:00	Routledge 66' MacKinnon 80'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 620 Referee: Collum

4 August 2012	Arbroath	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (3 – 2 p)	Stirling Albion	Gayfield Park
15:00	Currie 83'	BBC Sport	Ferry 42' (pen.)	Attendance: 579 Referee: Robertson
	Penalties
	Doris Holmes Sheerin Currie		Weir Davidson McSorley Ferry Ashe

5 August 2012	East Stirlingshire	1 – 5	Greenock Morton	Ochilview Park
15:00	Herd 34'	BBC Sport	McLaughlin 1' Weatherson 11' Stirling 37' Wallace 67' Tidser 86'	Attendance: 581 Referee: Beaton

7 August 2012	Rangers	4 – 0	East Fife	Ibrox Stadium
19:45	McCulloch 15', 62' Shiels 34' Wallace 47'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 38,160 Referee: McKendrick

Second round

The Second round draw was conducted on 9 August 2012.^[7]

22 August 2012	Greenock Morton	0 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Aberdeen	Cappielow
19:30		BBC Sport	Rae 109' Vernon 115'	Attendance: 2,817 Referee: Brines

28 August 2012	Dunfermline Athletic	3 – 0	Montrose	East End Park
19:45	Barrowman 4', 64' Wallace 41'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 903 Referee: Salmond

28 August 2012	Hamilton Academical	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Partick Thistle	New Douglas Park
19:45	Crawford 107'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 1,268 Referee: O'Reilly

28 August 2012	Kilmarnock	1 – 2	Stenhousemuir	Rugby Park
19:45	Nelson 90'	BBC Sport	Ferguson 20' (pen.) Gemmell 43'	Attendance: 2,538 Referee: Collum

28 August 2012	Livingston	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Dumbarton	Braidwood Motor Company Stadium
19:45	Russell 39' Barr 96' Easton 102'	BBC Sport	Lister 36' Gilhaney 110'	Attendance: 493 Referee: Crawford

28 August 2012	Ross County	1 – 4	Raith Rovers	Global Energy Stadium
19:45	Duncan 84'	BBC Sport	Spence 25' Graham 41', 63' Hill 51'	Attendance: 1,147 Referee: McKendrick

28 August 2012	Queen of the South	2 – 0	Hibernian	Palmerston Park
19:45	Clark 13' Reilly 42'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 2,658 Referee: Madden

29 August 2012	Arbroath	0 – 2	Inverness CT	Gayfield Park
19:45		BBC Sport	Shinnie 7', 71'	Attendance: 672 Referee: Finnie

29 August 2012	St Mirren	5 – 1	Ayr United	St Mirren Park
19:45	Guy 16' Thompson 24' McGowan 30' McLean 38' (pen.) Teale 58'	BBC Sport	Moffat 39'	Attendance: 2,306 Referee: Tumilty

29 August 2012	Queen's Park	2 – 1	Dundee	Hampden Park
19:45	Longworth 24' (pen.) Burns 76'	BBC Sport	Milne 5'	Attendance: 707 Referee: Colvin

30 August 2012	Rangers	3 – 0	Falkirk	Ibrox Stadium
19:45	McCulloch 18', 52' Little 32'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 26,450 Referee: Muir

Third round

The third round draw took place on 3 September 2012. The matches were played on Tuesday 25 or Wednesday 26 September 2012.^[8]

25 September 2012	Celtic	4 – 1	Raith Rovers	Celtic Park
19:45	Hooper 12', 37', 58', 60'	BBC Sport	Walker 28'	Attendance: 14,737 Referee: Muir

25 September 2012	Heart of Midlothian	3 – 1	Livingston	Tynecastle Stadium
19:45	Grainger 45' Žaliūkas 70', 74'	BBC Sport	McNulty 56'	Attendance: 6,322 Referee: McLean

25 September 2012	Queen of the South	0 – 1	Dundee United	Palmerston Park
19:45		BBC Sport	Russell 28'	Attendance: 2,374 Referee: Norris

25 September 2012	St Johnstone	4 – 1	Queen's Park	McDiarmid Park
19:45	MacLean 18', 40' Davidson 76' Craig 85'	BBC Sport	Keenan 30'	Attendance: 1,304 Referee: Clancy

25 September 2012	St Mirren	1 – 0	Hamilton Academical	St Mirren Park
19:45	Mair 90'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 1,914 Referee: Allan

25 September 2012	Stenhousemuir	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (5 – 6 p)	Inverness CT	Ochilview Park
19:45	Ferguson 40' (pen.)	BBC Sport	McKay 23'	Attendance: 705 Referee: Madden
	Penalties
	Ferguson Rodgers Hodge Gemmell McMillan Kean Smith		Foran Shinnie Morrison Doran Shinnie Draper Roberts

26 September 2012	Rangers	2 – 0	Motherwell	Ibrox Stadium
19:15	McCulloch 50' Shiels 56'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 29,413 Referee: Murray

26 September 2012	Dunfermline Athletic	0 – 1	Aberdeen	East End Park
19:45		BBC Sport	Vernon 90'	Attendance: 3,057 Referee: Beaton

Quarter-finals

The quarter-final draw took place on 4 October 2012. The matches were played on Tuesday 30 or Wednesday 31 October 2012.^[9]

30 October 2012	Aberdeen	2 – 2 (a.e.t.) (2−4 p)	St Mirren	Pittodrie Stadium
19:45	Vernon 22' Magennis 90'	BBC Sport	Parkin 6' McLean 69'	Attendance: 7,610 Referee: Allan Crawford
	Penalties
	Hughes McGinn Hayes Smith		McLean Teale Goodwin McAusland

30 October 2012	Celtic	5 – 0	St Johnstone	Celtic Park
19:45	Commons 28', 32', 57' (pen.) Hooper 38' Mulgrew 61'	BBC Sport		Attendance: 14,399 Referee: Bobby Madden

31 October 2012	Dundee United	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (4−5 p)	Heart of Midlothian	Tannadice Park
19:15	Russell 35'	BBC Sport	Paterson 21'	Attendance: 3,789 Referee: Calum Murray
	Penalties
	Russell Mackay-Steven Rankin Gunning McLean Armstrong Dillon		Grainger Sutton Webster Driver R. McGowan Robinson Žaliūkas

31 October 2012	Rangers	0 – 3	Inverness CT	Ibrox Stadium
19:45		BBC Sport	A Shinnie 27' Warren 59' G Shinnie 79' (pen.)	Attendance: 28,033 Referee: Steven McLean

Semi-finals

The semi-final draw took place on 8 November 2012. The first match was played on Saturday 26 and the second was played on Sunday 27 January 2013.^[10]

26 January 2013	Inverness CT	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p)	Heart of Midlothian	Easter Road
15:00	Andrew Shinnie 49'	BBC Sport	Michael Ngoo 66'	Attendance: 16,326 Referee: Euan Norris
	Penalties
	Graeme Shinnie Andrew Shinnie Billy McKay Owain Tudur Jones Philip Roberts		Marius Zaliukas Michael Ngoo Andy Webster Arvydas Novikovas Mehdi Taouil

27 January 2013	St Mirren	3 – 2	Celtic	Hampden Park
14:30	Gonçalves 8' McGowan 63' (pen.) Thompson 69'	BBC Sport	Hooper 45' Mulgrew 90+3'	Attendance: 24,417 Referee: William Collum

Final

17 March 2013

15:00

St Mirren	3 – 2	Heart of Midlothian
Gonçalves 37' Thompson 46' Newton 66'	BBC Sport	Stevenson 10', 85'

Hampden Park

Attendance: 44,036

Referee: Craig Thomson

References

^ "Scottish Communities League Cup". Scottish Football League. 21 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
^ "Scottish Government to continue Cup sponsorship". Scottish Football League. 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Scottish League Cup draw includes Rangers". BBC Sport. BBC. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Key dates". Scottish Premier League. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
^ ^a ^b "SCLC First Round Dates announced". Scottish Football League. 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Rangers draw East Fife in first round of Scottish Communities League Cup". STV. 20 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
^ "League Cup second round draw pits Falkirk against Division Three Rangers". STV. STV Group. 9 August 2012. Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
^ "Motherwell drawn to face Rangers in League Cup". BBC. BBC Sport. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
^ "Rangers to host Inverness in Scottish League Cup last eight". BBC. BBC Sport. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
^ "Scottish Communities League Cup: St Mirren face Celtic in semi". BBC. BBC Sport. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.

External links

Official site
Results Soccerway

[1] "Scottish Communities League Cup". Scottish Football League. 21 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2012.

[2] "Scottish Government to continue Cup sponsorship". Scottish Football League. 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

[format-3] "Scottish League Cup draw includes Rangers". BBC Sport. BBC. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2012.

[key_dates-4] "Key dates". Scottish Premier League. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2012.

[Dates-5] "SCLC First Round Dates announced". Scottish Football League. 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

[draw1-6] "Rangers draw East Fife in first round of Scottish Communities League Cup". STV. 20 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

[7] "League Cup second round draw pits Falkirk against Division Three Rangers". STV. STV Group. 9 August 2012. Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.

[8] "Motherwell drawn to face Rangers in League Cup". BBC. BBC Sport. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.

[9] "Rangers to host Inverness in Scottish League Cup last eight". BBC. BBC Sport. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.

[10] "Scottish Communities League Cup: St Mirren face Celtic in semi". BBC. BBC Sport. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.

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