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2011–12 Scottish Youth Cup

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Country
  
Scotland

Champions
  
Celtic

Teams
  
53

Runners-up
  
Queen of the South

The 2011–12 Scottish Youth Cup was the 29th season of the Scottish Youth Cup, Scotland's national cup tournament at under-19 age level. The competition is administered by the Scottish Football Association and is open to all Senior clubs.

Contents

Celtic won the tournament for a third successive season after defeating Queen of the South by a record 8–0 margin in the final.

Calendar

The ties for the 2011–12 competition are scheduled as below:

Format

  • First Round - 37 teams are divided by geographical area. 21 teams go into the Central Group, 10 into the North Group and 6 into the South Group.
    The required number of ties are drawn to reduce the number of teams in the Second Round to 32. The rest of teams receive byes into the Second Round.
  • Second Round - 5 winners from the First Round join 27 teams, who received byes in the previous round.
  • Third Round - 16 winners from the Second Round join the 16 seeded teams, who enter at this stage by virtue of having reached the Fourth Round of last years competition.
  • Fourth Round - 16 winners from the Third Round.
  • Quarter-finals - 8 winners from the Fourth Round.
  • Semi-finals - 4 winners of the Quarter-finals.
  • Final - 2 winners of the Semi-finals.

    • Fixtures & Results

    The draws for the First and Second Rounds were conducted on 22 July 2011.

    Central Group

    Alloa Athletic, Berwick Rangers, Brechin City, Cowdenbeath, Dundee, Dundee United, East Fife, East Stirlingshire, Edinburgh City, Forfar Athletic, Greenock Morton, Motherwell, Queen's Park, St Johnstone and Stirling Albion receive byes into the Second Round.

    Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_cups/default.stm
    a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

    North Group

    Clachnacuddin, Cove Rangers, Fort William, Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Ross County receive byes into the Second Round.

    Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_cups/default.stm
    a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

    South Group

    No First Round ties were drawn in this group.
    Annan Athletic, Gala Fairydean, Kilmarnock, Queen of the South, St Cuthbert Wanderers and Stranraer receive byes into the Second Round.

    Central Group

    Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_cups/default.stm
    a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

    North Group

    Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_cups/default.stm
    a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

    South Group

    Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_cups/default.stm
    a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

    Third Round

    Seeded clubs for the Third Round are Aberdeen, Airdrie United, Ayr United, Celtic, Clyde, Coldstream, Falkirk, Hamilton Academical, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Livingston, Montrose, Raith Rovers, Rangers, St Mirren and Stenhousemuir.

    The Third Round draw was made by Stewart Regan on 18 October 2011.

    Fourth Round

    The Fourth round draw was conducted on 16 November 2011.

    Quarter-finals

    The draw for the Quarter-finals was made on 12 December 2011.

    Semi-finals

    The draw for the Semi-finals took place at Hampden Park on 15 February 2012.

    References

    2011–12 Scottish Youth Cup Wikipedia
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