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Scottish FA agreed to start the competition on the last Saturday in August, to finish during the calendar year, and the Scottish Cup first round proper starting on the second Saturday in the following January. In its first season, there were 16 clubs exempted to the first round of the competition proper, namely the four semi-finalists from the previous season, the seven other clubs from the
196:. Teams played each other within the North/South regions in a knockout format where teams were drawn against each other randomly. In the draw, the team who was drawn first from each tie was the home team. If the first match finished a draw then a replay was played at the ground of the second team. In the replay, if the scores were still level, extra time was played and penalties used if necessary to decide the winner of the tie.
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Consolation Cup for teams eliminated in the
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Qualifying Cup in favour of everyone starting at round 1, on the basis that "the exemption of the leading clubs had been the cause of much of the decadence of football in this country, and it was hastening the end of many in Lanarkshire. The exemption had killed four clubs,
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Qualifying Cup
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marshalling the defence, gained something of a smash and grab victory. Annbank reached the second round of the competition proper; the furthest any of the qualifying clubs reached in the first season was
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and the best was in a perilous state"; this was on the basis that attendances in the
Qualifying Cup were too low even to pay expenses. The proposal was defeated by 46 votes to 36.
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978:Central 1st
943:Premiership
290:Lossiemouth
270:Fraserburgh
255:Deveronvale
1425:Categories
1300:Wilson Cup
1195:Summer Cup
1190:Spring Cup
1147:Texaco Cup
964:League Two
957:League One
760:Age groups
729:Non league
501:References
344:Coldstream
151:Kilmarnock
44:non-league
184:Structure
113:Thornhill
1359:Friendly
1214:Regional
1156:National
520:Archived
487:Dykehead
473:Bathgate
384:Spartans
170:Montrose
144:Arbroath
40:Scotland
36:football
1309:Wartime
1002:Wartime
457:Records
449:of the
440:of the
431:of the
379:Selkirk
314:of the
217:2006–07
131:Paisley
74:History
848:Junior
673:Senior
438:Girvan
300:Rothes
275:Huntly
34:was a
1023:Other
625:RSSSF
285:Keith
111:beat
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1330:1919
1262:1901
1255:1888
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