1888–89 Scottish Cup Explained

Scottish Cup
Country:	Scotland
Num Teams:	166
Defending Champions:	Renton
Winners:	3rd Lanark RV (first title)
Second:	Celtic
Matches:	171
Goals:	1125
Prev Season:	1887–88
Next Season:	1889–90

The 1888–89 Scottish Cup was the 16th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. 3rd Lanark RV beat Glasgow rivals Celtic (making their Cup début) 2–1 in a replayed final.^[1] The original match was won 3–0 by 3rd Lanark RV but the SFA ordered a replay due to the playing conditions.

Calendar

Round	First match date	Fixtures			Clubs
		width=55	Original	width=55	Byes	width=55	Replays
First Round	1 September 1888	79	6	6	166 → 85
Second Round	22 September 1888	39	7	5	85 → 46
Third Round	13 October 1888	21	4	4	46 → 26
Fourth Round	3 November 1888	13	0	1	26 → 13
Fifth Round	24 November 1888	5	3	5	13 → 8
Quarter-finals	15 December 1888	4	0	2	8 → 4
Semi-finals	12 January 1889	2	0	0	4 → 2
Final	2 February 1889	1	0	1	2 → 1

Teams

All 166 teams entered the competition in the first round.

Ayrshire	Edinburghshire	Glasgow	Renfrewshire	Lanarkshire	Stirlingshire
valign=top	Annbank Ayr Ayr Thistle Beith Dalry Darnconner Britannia Hurlford Irvine Kilbirnie Kilmarnock Kilmarnock Thistle Lanemark Lugar Boswell Maybole Rosebank Stevenston Thistle Stewarton Cunninghame 2nd Ayrshire RV	valign=top	Adventurers Armadale Bellstane Birds Bo'ness Broxburn Broxburn Shamrock Champfleurie Erin Rovers (Bathgate) Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Leith Athletic Leith Harp Linlithgow Athletic Mossend Swifts Norton Park St Bernard's West Calder	valign=top	Battlefield Celtic Clyde Cowlairs Glasgow University Govan Athletic Kelvinside Athletic Linthouse Maryhill Northern Partick Thistle Pollokshields Athletic Queen's Park Rangers Shettleston Southern Athletic Temperance Athletic Thistle United Abstainers Athletic Whitefield 3rd Lanark RV	valign=top	Abercorn Arthurlie Carlton Dykebar Greenock Rangers Johnstone Harp Kilbarchan Lochwinnoch Morton Neilston Paisley Athletic Pollokshaws Pollokshaws Harp Port Glasgow Athletic Renfrew St Mirren Thornliebank Woodvale 1st Renfrew RV	valign=top	Airdrieonians Albion Rovers Bellshill Cambuslang Cambuslang Hibernian Carfin Shamrock Clydesdale Coatbridge Hamilton Academical Motherwell Royal Albert Rutherglen Uddingston Whifflet Shamrock Wishaw Thistle	valign=top	Alloa Athletic Alva Camelon Campsie Dunipace East Stirlingshire Falkirk Gairdoch Grangemouth Kilsyth Wanderers King's Park Laurieston Redding Athletic Slamannan Stenhousemuir Vale of Bannock
Argyll	Dunbartonshire	Fife	Northern Counties	Perthshire	Southern Counties
valign=top	Balaclava Rangers Campbeltown Athletic Lochgilphead Oban	valign=top	Bowling Clydebank Dumbarton Dumbarton Athletic Dumbarton Union Jamestown Kirkintilloch Athletic Kirkintilloch Central Methlan Park Renton Vale of Leven Vale of Leven Hibernian Vale of Leven Wanderers	valign=top	Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Dunfermline Athletic Kirkcaldy Wanderers Lassodie Townhill	valign=top	Aberdeen Aberdeen Rovers Arbroath Brechin Broughty Dundee East End Dundee Harp Dundee Our Boys Forfar Athletic Lindertis Lochee Montrose Orion Strathmore Wanderers	valign=top	Bridgend Athletic Caledonian Rangers Coupar Angus Crieff Dunblane Erin Rovers (Perth) Fair City Athletic Our Boys (Blairgowrie) St Johnstone Vale of Atholl	valign=top	Mid-Annandale Moffat Newton Stewart Athletic Nithsdale Queen of the South Wanderers Thornhill Vale of Nith 5th Kirkcudbrightshire RV

First round

Matches

Renfrewshire district

1st Renfrew RV received a bye to the second round.

Dunbartonshire district

Vale of Leven received a bye to the second round.

Edinburghshire district

Broxburn received a bye to the second round.

Lanarkshire district

Uddingston received a bye to the second round.

Northern Counties

Broughty received a bye to the second round.

Glasgow and District

Glasgow University received a bye to the second round.

Replays

Southern Counties

Second replay

Edinburghshire district

Notes

Sources:^[2]

Second round

Matches

Ayrshire district

Irvine received a bye to the third round.

Lanarkshire district

Cambuslang Hibernian received a bye to the third round.

Glasgow and District

Glasgow University received a bye to the third round.

Edinburghshire district

Armadale received a bye to the third round.

Fife district

Kirkaldy Wanderers received a bye to the third round.

Dunbartonshire district

Dumbarton received a bye to the third round.

Perthshire district

Dunblane received a bye to the third round.

Southern Counties

Replays

Stirlingshire district

Second replay

Ayrshire district

Notes

Sources:^[2]

Third round

Matches

Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire district

Methlan Park received a bye to the fourth round.

East of Scotland and Fife

Dunfermline Athletic received a bye to the fourth round.

Stirlingshire and Argyll district

Oban received a bye to the fourth round.

Northern Counties

Fair City Athletic received a bye to the fourth round.

Replays

Northern Counties

Notes

Sources:^[2]

Fourth round

Replay

Sources:^[2]

Fifth round

Campsie, Dumbarton Athletic and East Stirlingshire each received a bye to the quarter-finals.

Third replay

Notes

Sources:^[2]

Quarter-finals

Second replay

Sources:^[2]

Semi-finals

Matches

Sources:^[2]

Final

Replay

External links

• Season 1888-89 3rd Lanark R.V. [results list], The Beautiful Dribbling Game
• Scottish Cup 1888/89, RSSSF

Notes and References

1. Web site: Scottish Cup Matches . Scottish Football Association . 19 August 2019.
2. Book: Mathers, Stewart . 2017 . The Beautiful Dribbling Game: The Scottish F.A. Challenge Cup in the 19th Century . Great Britain . Amazon . 148–160, 300–305 . 978-0-9956998-0-9.