2019–20 Scottish Junior Cup

The 2019–20 Scottish Junior Cup is the 134th season of the Scottish Junior Cup, the national knockout tournament for member clubs of the Scottish Junior Football Association (SJFA). The competition is sponsored by Macron in the second year of a three-year deal and is known as the Macron Scottish Junior Cup.[1]

2019–20 Macron Scottish Junior Cup

Country	Scotland
Teams	132
Defending champions	Auchinleck Talbot
Matches played	141
Goals scored	625 (4.43 per match)
← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 7 March 2020.

A total of 132 clubs have entered the competition, which is 3 more than the previous season despite two teams leaving for the East of Scotland League. This is due to the return of Cruden Bay and Johnstone Burgh plus Bo'ness United Junior, Linlithgow Rose Community, Sauchie Juniors Community, and Syngenta joining the East Region.

Auchinleck Talbot are the defending champions.

On 13 March 2020, the competition was indefinitely suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Calendar

The dates for each round of the 2019–20 tournament are as follows:[3]

Round	Date	Matches	Clubs	New entries this round
First round	14 September 2019	4	132 → 128	128
Second round	28 September 2019	64	128 → 64	4
Third round	26 October 2019	32	64 → 32	none
Fourth round	23 November 2019	16	32 → 16	none
Fifth round	25 January 2020	8	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	22 February 2020	4	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	TBA	4	4 → 2	none
Final	TBA	1	2 → 1	none

Drawn matches are replayed and replays that end in a draw proceed direct to a penalty shootout, there is no extra time. Semi-finals are played home and away over two legs with the winner on aggregate progressing to the final. If the aggregate score is tied at the end of the second leg, the match will also proceed direct to a penalty shootout.

First round

Draw

The four Junior clubs competing in the Scottish Cup were not included in the draw for the first round:

• Auchinleck Talbot - Junior Cup holders and West Region Premiership champions
• Lochee United - East Superleague champions

Also qualified automatically for the second round were Banks O'Dee, who achieved SFA club licensing requirements, and Girvan, who qualify automatically as historic full members of the Scottish Football Association.

The first and second round draws took place at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 13 August 2019.

Matches

Home team	Score	Away team
14 September 2018
Kilwinning Rangers	2–1	Dundee Violet
Maybole	2–3	Benburb
Neilston	4–2	Yoker Athletic
Newburgh	0–6	Whitburn

Second round

Home team Score Away team 28 September 2019 Linlithgow Rose Community 3–2 Fraserburgh United Stonehaven 4–0 Glentanar Carluke Rovers 1–3 Clydebank Girvan 5–5 Tayport Scone Thistle 3–0 Lochee Harp Lochore Welfare 1–2 Brechin Victoria Arbroath Victoria 0–1 Islavale Troon 3–1 Montrose Roselea Glasgow Perthshire 1–2 Broughty Athletic Johnstone Burgh 4–2 Armadale Thistle Lugar Boswell Thistle 3–0 Newmachar United Dundee North End 4–1 Whitburn Sauchie Juniors Community 1–2 Hermes Maryhill 2–4 Forfar West End Ardeer Thistle 0–11 Rutherglen Glencairn St Roch's 0–0 Renfrew Kirkcaldy & Dysart 1–1 Saltcoats Victoria New Elgin 1–2 St Anthony's Gartcairn 5–2 Lanark United Dyce 2–1 Sunnybank Aberdeen East End 3–1 Port Glasgow Blantyre Victoria 2–0 Muirkirk Spey Valley United 0–5 Lesmahagow Glenafton Athletic 13–0 West Calder United Aberdeen University 4–5 Dalry Thistle Livingston United 0–1 Shotts Bon Accord Fauldhouse United 2–1 Carnoustie Panmure Irvine Victoria 0–3 Kello Rovers Largs Thistle 1–0 Luncarty Vale of Clyde 0–2 Darvel Syngenta 1–6 Shettleston Kennoway Star Hearts 0–1 Larkhall Thistle Kilwinning Rangers 2–2 Bridge of Don Thistle Irvine Meadow 1–0^[A] Buchanhaven Hearts

Home team Score Away team 28 September 2019 Cambuslang Rangers 7–0 Harthill Royal Cumbernauld United 0–1 Hurlford United Blairgowrie 1–2 Stoneywood Parkvale Ardrossan Winton Rovers 3–0 Royal Albert Downfield 2–1 Greenock Arthurlie 1–5 Beith Forfar Albion 4–5 Bathgate Thiste Bellshill Athletic 0–7 Auchinleck Talbot Forres Thistle 0–3 Pollok Dundee East Craigie 6–1 Nairn St Ninian Kilbirnie Ladeside 3–1 Vale of Leven Neilston 4–4 Forth Wanderers Burghead Thistle 2–2 Lochgelly Albert Cumnock 0–2 Rossvale Petershill 6–0 Newmains United Thornton Hibs 3–1 Rosyth Hall Russell United 0–3 Lochee United 5 October 2019 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy 2–1 Pumpherston Dufftown 2–1 East Kilbride Thistle Cruden Bay 0–4 Banchory St Ternan Colony Park 3–6 Ashfield Craigmark Burntonians 0–2 Kilsyth Rangers Wishaw 1–1 Culter Deveronside 0–0 Benburb Annbank United 1–6 Whitletts Victoria Ellon United 0–0 Bo'ness United Junior Buckie Rovers 2–1 Stoneyburn Longside 6–1 Whitehills 12 October 2019 Maud 0–3 Kirriemuir Thistle 26 October 2019 Thorniewood United 2–6 Banks O' Dee

Notes

1. ^
   A-Irvine Meadow were awarded the tie as Buchanaven Hearts were unable to field a team.

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
5 October 2019
Tayport	2–0	Girvan
Renfrew	0–1	St Roch's
Saltcoats Victoria	0–2	Kirkcaldy & Dysart
Bridge of Don Thistle	3–1	Kilwinning Rangers
Forth Wanderers	3–3 (3–5pens.)	Neilston
Lochgelly Albert	3–4	Burghead Thistle
12 October 2019
Benburb	11–0	Deveronside
Bo'ness United Junior	2–2 (2–4pens.)	Ellon United
Culter	4–2	Wishaw

Third round

Home team Score Away team 26 October 2019 Aberdeen East End 1–1 Scone Thistle Ashfield 4–1 Lugar Boswell Thistle Auchinleck Talbot 3–0 Forfar West End Banchory St Ternan 1–6 Larkhall Thistle Bathgate Thiste 1–3 Irvine Meadow Beith 7–2 Whitletts Victoria Benburb 2–1 Dyce Brechin Victoria 0–2 Neilston Bridge of Don Thistle 4–1 Ardrossan Winton Rovers Broughty Athletic 5–1 St Anthony's Buckie Rovers 1–7 Blantyre Victoria Burghead Thistle 0–2 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Cambuslang Rangers 2–1 Dundee East Craigie Culter 0–1 Rossvale Dalry Thistle 1–2 Dundee North End Dufftown 1–4 Johnstone Burgh Dundee Downfield 3–4 Tayport

Home team Score Away team 26 October 2019 Gartcairn 1–0 Kilbirnie Ladeside Islavale 3–4 Rutherglen Glencairn Kirkcaldy & Dysart 1–2 Darvel Kirriemuir Thistle 3–1 Largs Thistle Lesmahagow 0–2 St Roch's Linlithgow Rose Community 0–2 Pollok Longside 1–6 Stoneywood Parkvale Petershill 1–0 Clydebank Shettleston 0–0 Kello Rovers Shotts Bon Accord 2–2 Hurlford United Stonehaven 0–4 Ellon United Thornton Hibs 1–2 Fauldhouse United Troon 5–4 Kilsyth Rangers 2 November 2019 Glenafton Athletic 2–1 Banks O' Dee Lochee United 3–1 Hermes

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
2 November 2019
Hurlford United	3–1	Shotts Bon Accord
Kello Rovers	3–1	Shettleston
Scone Thistle	1–1 (2–4p)	Aberdeen East End

Fourth round

Home team Score Away team 23 November 2019 Aberdeen East End 1–4 Beith Blantyre Victoria 3–4 Darvel Cambuslang Rangers 0–3 Broughty Athletic Gartcairn 7–0 Ellon United Hurlford United 3–0 Benburb Irvine Meadow 0–0 Glenafton Athletic Johnstone Burgh 2–3 St Roch's Kirriemuir Thistle 1–2 Tayport

Home team Score Away team Larkhall Thistle 1–3 Kello Rovers Neilston 1–1 Lochee United Petershill 2–2 Rutherglen Glencairn Pollok 2–1 Troon Stoneywood Parkvale 4–1 Ashfield 30 November 2019 Rossvale 1–2 Auchinleck Talbot 7 December 2019 Bridge of Don Thistle 2–3 Fauldhouse United Dundee North End 0–2 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
7 December 2019
Glenafton Athletic	1–1 (2–4p)	Irvine Meadow
Lochee United	1–3	Neilston
Rutherglen Glencairn	0–4	Petershill

Fifth round

Home team Score Away team 25 January 2020 Auchinleck Talbot 2–1 Tayport Broughty Athletic 2–1 St Roch's Hurlford United 5–1 Gartcairn Kello Rovers 2–1 Irvine Meadow Kirkintilloch Rob Roy 0–1 Neilston Petershill 1–1 Darvel Pollok 4–0 Fauldhouse United Stoneywood Parkvale 0–4 Beith

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team
1 February 2020
Darvel	2–1	Petershill

Quarter-finals

Home team Score Away team 29 February 2020 Beith 4–1 Kello Rovers Neilston 1–4 Pollok 7 March 2020 Darvel 2–2 Broughty Athletic 14 March 2020 Auchinleck Talbot P–P Hurlford United

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team
14 March 2020
Broughty Athletic	P–P	Darvel

Semi-finals

The semi-finals were originally scheduled to be held on 28 March and 4 April 2020. The draw made on 17 March 2020.[4]

First leg

14:30

Beith	v	Darvel or Broughty Athletic

Bellsdale Park, Beith

14:30

Pollok	v	Auchinleck Talbot or Hurlford United

Newlandsfield, Glasgow

Second leg

14:30

Auchinleck Talbot or Hurlford United	v	Pollok

14:30

Darvel or Broughty Athletic	v	Beith

References

1. "Macron Proud Sponsors of The Scottish Junior Cup". www.scottishjuniorfa.com. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
2. "Coronavirus – Joint Response Group Update 13 March". Scottish FA. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
3. "Scottish Junior Cup 2019-20!". Twitter. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
4. "Macron Scottish Junior Cup Semi-Final Draw". Retrieved 23 May 2020.