Anglo-Scottish Cup
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{{Infobox football tournament
| name = Anglo-Scottish Cup
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| organiser = {{fba|ENG|name= FA}}
{{fba|SCO|name= SFA}}
| founded = 1975
| abolished = {{start date and years ago|1981}}
| region = {{ENG}}
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| number of teams = 24 (1980–81)
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| related comps = Anglo-Italian Cup
| current champions = Chesterfield (1980–81)
| most successful club =
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File:1979-80 Anglo-Scottish Cup match day programme.jpg Group C tie between Notts County and Cambridge United]]
The Anglo-Scottish Cup was a tournament arranged for teams in the English and Scottish football leagues during the summer for several years during the 1970s. It was created in 1975 as a new incarnation of the Texaco Cup, with a similar format to its predecessor, but involving clubs from England and Scotland only.
The competition made every attempt to maintain the status of a top-level tournament. Newcastle United were expelled from the 1976–77 competition for playing a weakened team in the first leg of their quarter-final against Ayr United.F.A. Yearbook 1977–78, p.73 Over the years, however, English entrants were increasingly drawn from the lower divisions, and in 1981 the Scottish clubs withdrew as the public showed little interest in the competition. As the final winners, Chesterfield still hold the trophy and it is displayed in their Board Room. The competition continued, with English clubs only, as the Football League Group Cup.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
In the 1987–88 season, an attempt was made to revive the competition as the Anglo-Scottish Challenge, pitting the holders of the FA Cup and Scottish Cup against each other, but after a poor attendance for the first leg between Coventry City and St Mirren the competition was shelved, with the second leg never played.[https://www.scotsman.com/sport/final-curtain-last-anglo-scottish-cup-match-coventry-city-1-st-mirren-1-22-december-1987-1-756536 Final Curtain: Last Anglo-Scottish cup match: Coventry City 1 St Mirren 1, 22 December 1987] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812014957/https://www.scotsman.com/sport/final-curtain-last-anglo-scottish-cup-match-coventry-city-1-st-mirren-1-22-december-1987-1-756536 |date=12 August 2019 }}, The Scotsman, 31 January 2009, accessed 23 April 2010][https://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/30-Clubs/435-missing-a-leg Missing a leg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812014326/https://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/30-Clubs/435-missing-a-leg |date=12 August 2019 }}, When Saturday Comes, 1 August 2007[http://www.stmirren.info/id19.html Anglo-Scottish Cup Winners Challenge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226211035/http://www.stmirren.info/id19.html |date=26 December 2019 }}, StMirren.info
Nottingham Forest’s victory in the 1976-77 final over Orient was their first trophy under the management of Brian Clough, who later stated that he took the tournament seriously (when many other clubs did not) and considered it the springboard for Forest's future success, as they would go on to win a First Division title and two European Cups over the following three seasons. Clough had taken a similar stance on the competition's predecessor, the Texaco Cup, and won it with Derby County in 1972, the same year he guided them to their first league title.
Format
The format of the competition remained constant throughout the six years of its existence, and indeed the format was the same as the last edition of its forerunner, the Texaco Cup.
Sixteen English clubs competed in four groups of four, with the winners of each group qualifying for the quarter-finals. Clubs played each of the other teams in their group once, with two points awarded for a win, one for a draw, and a bonus point for each side that scored three or more goals in a single match.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablest/texacohist.html|title=Anglo-Scottish Cup & Texaco Cup – Full Results|last=Tom Lewis|date=20 December 2007|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|access-date=11 November 2011|archive-date=17 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017210849/http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/texacohist.html|url-status=live}}
Eight Scottish League clubs played a two-legged knock-out round, with the aggregate winners of each tie qualifying to the overall quarter-finals. For the overall quarter-finals, each club was paired against a club from the other country and the tournament then progressed in a knock-out format, with each tie (including the final) being played over two legs.
In the early years, around half of the English clubs were drawn from that season's First Division (excepting clubs playing in Europe), although by the latter years of the tournament only two or three top-level English sides were playing, with participation stretching down to Third and Fourth Division sides.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
List of finals
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!Ed.!!Season!!Winners!!{{abbr|Aggr.|Aggregate score}} !!Runners-up | ||
| {{center|1}} | {{centre|1975–76}}
| {{flagicon|England}} Middlesbrough |{{centre|1–0}} | {{flagicon|England}} Fulham |
| {{center|2}} | {{centre|1976–77}}
| {{flagicon|England}} Nottingham Forest |{{centre|5–1}} | {{flagicon|England}} Orient |
| {{center|3}} | {{centre|1977–78}}
| {{flagicon|England}} Bristol City |{{centre|3–2}} | {{flagicon|SCO}} St Mirren |
| {{center|4}} | {{centre|1978–79}}
| {{flagicon|England}} Burnley |{{centre|4–2}} | {{flagicon|England}} Oldham Athletic |
| {{center|5}} | {{centre|1979–80}}
| {{flagicon|SCO}} St Mirren |{{centre|5–1}} | {{flagicon|England}} Bristol City |
| {{center|6}} | {{centre|1980–81}}
| {{flagicon|England}} Chesterfield |{{centre|2–1}} | {{flagicon|England}} Notts County |
NB Finals played over two legs, aggregate score given.
St Mirren became the only Scottish winner of the event following their success in 1979–80, defeating Bristol City 2–0 at Ashton Gate Stadium in the first leg, before a 3–1 home 2nd leg victory on 16 April 1980.{{Cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/when-saints-were-kings-how-st-mirren-made-history-in-the-anglo-scottish-cup-40-years-ago-2539752|title=When Saints were kings: How St Mirren made history in the Anglo-Scottish Cup 40 years ago|date=16 April 2020|newspaper=The Scotsman|access-date=27 July 2022|archive-date=27 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727083343/https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/when-saints-were-kings-how-st-mirren-made-history-in-the-anglo-scottish-cup-40-years-ago-2539752|url-status=live}}
Chesterfield's victory in the 1980–81 event was secured with an extra-time goal from Alan Crawford.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
Participants
=1975–76=
{{flagicon|ENG}} Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bristol City, Carlisle United, Chelsea, Fulham, Hull City, Leicester City, Manchester City, Mansfield Town, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Sheffield United, Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion
{{flagicon|SCO}} Aberdeen, Ayr United, Dundee, Falkirk, Heart of Midlothian, Motherwell, Queen of the South, St Johnstone
=1976–77=
{{flagicon|ENG}} Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Burnley, Chelsea, Fulham, Hull City, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Notts County, Orient, Sheffield United, West Bromwich Albion
{{flagicon|SCO}} Aberdeen, Ayr United, Clydebank, Dundee United, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Raith Rovers
=1977–78=
{{flagicon|ENG}} Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Burnley, Chelsea, Fulham, Hull City, Leyton Orient, Norwich City, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Plymouth Argyle, Sheffield United
{{flagicon|SCO}} Alloa Athletic, Ayr United, Clydebank, Hibernian, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Stirling Albion, St Mirren
=1978–79=
{{flagicon|ENG}} Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Burnley, Cardiff City, Fulham, Leyton Orient, Mansfield Town, Norwich City, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Preston North End, Sheffield United, Sunderland
{{flagicon|SCO}} Celtic, Clyde, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Raith Rovers, St Mirren
=1979–80=
{{flagicon|ENG}} Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Burnley, Bury, Cambridge United, Fulham, Mansfield Town, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Plymouth Argyle, Preston North End, Sheffield United, Sunderland
{{flagicon|SCO}} Berwick Rangers, Dundee, Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Morton, Partick Thistle, St Mirren
=1980–81=
{{flagicon|ENG}} Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Burnley, Bury, Carlisle United, Chesterfield, Fulham, Grimsby Town, Hull City, Leyton Orient, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Preston North End, Shrewsbury
{{flagicon|SCO}} Airdrieonians, East Stirlingshire, Falkirk, Hearts, Kilmarnock, Morton, Partick Thistle, Rangers
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDpGhmZBAQ Chesterfield-related TV footage from the 1980/81 event, including a focus on the visit of Rangers]
{{Texaco Cup and Anglo-Scottish Cup}}
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