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Scottish Women's Premier League Cup

FieldValue
nameScottish Women's Premier League Cup
organiserScottish Women's Premier League
founded2002
regionScotland Scotland
number of teams17
current championsRangers (2025: 3rd title)
most successful clubHibernian (7 titles)
broadcastersSky Sports
current2025–26 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup

The Scottish Women's Premier League Cup, currently known as the Sky Sports Cup due to sponsorship and commonly shortened to the SWPL Cup, is a league cup competition in women's football in Scotland. The cup is open only to the teams in the Scottish Women's Premier League. There are four rounds, including the final.

The competition was launched in 2002–03 along with the Scottish Women's Premier League, and the first winners were Kilmarnock. It supplanted the Scottish Women's Football League Cup (Kilmarnock were also its last winners) which continued as a lower-division competition.

The SWPL Cup changed to run on a summer schedule played in a single calendar year (from around March to November) from the 2009 edition until the COVID-19 pandemic ended the 2020 season prematurely (leaving that year's edition unfinished) and caused the SWPL to revert to a winter format in all competitions for the following season, which was retained after pandemic restrictions ended.

The competition has been won most often by Hibernian, seven times.

Format

Up to 2015, eight of the twelve Premier League teams were drawn to play in the first round. The four winners and the other four teams then played in the quarter-finals. All matches were played over one leg.

Since the addition of the division SWPL 2 in 2016, all teams from the Premier League's two divisions have taken part in the cup. The last edition with the straight-knockout format was the 2019 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup

In a large change to the format for the 2020 edition of the Cup, a 16-team group stage was inaugurated, planned to qualify teams for the eight-team knockout phase, with the League's top two clubs given a bye to the quarter-finals; but the SWPL was abandoned early in the 2020 season, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the League reverted to the winter format as a result. The league cup was not played in the 2020–21 season. The group phase was played with all clubs in the 2021–22 SWPL Cup, which was completed and won by Celtic.

A new trophy was introduced for the 2022–23 season made by Thomas Lyte, along with revamped branding and logo.

Past winners

Previous finals are:

YearWinnerResultRunner upVenueRef
2002–03Kilmarnock2–0Glasgow Cityurl=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11901754.kilmarnock-women-on-course-for-double-treble-dominance/title=Kilmarnock women on course for double treble dominancework=Herald Scotlandaccess-date=25 May 2019date=5 May 2003}}
2003–04Kilmarnock3–1Glasgow City
2004–05Hibernian6–1Raith RoversStark's Park
2005–06Kilmarnock3–2Glasgow CityStark's Park
2006–07Edinburgh4–1HibernianBroadwood Stadium
2007–08Hibernian4–0Queen's Park LadiesForthbank Stadium
2008–09Glasgow City3–0SpartansForthbank Stadium
2009Glasgow City3–1HibernianRecreation Parkurl=http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/swf/competitions.cfm?page=1603&competitionID=DF94AB74-E97A-4987-E4B3-B87654077E5B-4&displayIDtitle=2009 Premier League Cup Finalwork=www.scottishfa.co.ukpublisher=Scottish Football Associationaccess-date=24 November 2012}}
2010Celtic4–1SpartansAinslie Park
2011Hibernian5–2SpartansRecreation Park
2012Glasgow City5–1SpartansRecreation Park
2013Glasgow City5–0SpartansRecreation Park
2014Glasgow City3–0HibernianAinslie Park{{cite web
2015Glasgow City2–1 (a.e.t.)HibernianAinslie Park
2016Hibernian2–1Glasgow CityAinslie Park
2017Hibernian4–1CelticBroadwood Stadium
2018Hibernian9–0CelticFalkirk Stadium
2019Hibernian0–0 (a.e.t.)
4–2 (pen.)Glasgow CityExcelsior Stadium
2020Unfinished due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.
2020–21Not played.
2021–22Celtic1–0Glasgow CityFirhill Stadiumurl= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59542464title=SWPL Cup: Celtic beat Glasgow City to win first silverware since 2010work=BBC Sportaccess-date=6 December 2021date=5 December 2021}}
2022–23Rangers2–0HibernianTynecastle Park
2023–24Rangers4–1Partick ThistleTynecastle Park
2024–25Rangers5–0HibernianFir Park

List of winners

TitlesTeam
7Hibernian
6Glasgow City
3Kilmarnock
3Rangers
2Celtic
1Spartans (as Edinburgh)

References

References

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