1968–69 Scottish Cup

The 1968–69 Scottish Cup was the 84th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic who defeated Rangers in the final.

1968–69 Scottish Cup
Country	Scotland
Champions	Celtic
Runners-up	Rangers
← 1967–68 1969–70 →

Preliminary round 1

Home team	Score	Away team
Alloa Athletic	6 – 1	Ross County
Brechin City	1 – 1	Montrose
Cowdenbeath	1 – 0	Clydebank
Forfar Athletic	1 – 2	Nairn County
St Cuthbert Wanderers	1 – 0	Civil Service Strollers

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Montrose	3 – 2	Brechin City

Preliminary round 2

Home team	Score	Away team
Alloa Athletic	0 – 0	East Stirlingshire
Dumbarton	3 – 2	Vale of Leithen
Glasgow University	5 – 2	St Cuthbert Wanderers
Hamilton Academical	0 – 2	Cowdenbeath
Montrose	6 – 1	Fraserburgh
Nairn County	0 – 2	Berwick Rangers
Stenhousemuir	1 – 0	Albion Rovers
Stranraer	2 – 0	Elgin City

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
East Stirlingshire	2 – 1	Alloa Athletic

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Aberdeen	3 – 0	Berwick Rangers
Ayr United	1 – 0	Queen of the South
Dumbarton	0 – 1	St Mirren
Dundee	1 – 2	Hearts
Dundee United	2 – 1	Queen's Park
East Stirlingshire	2 – 0	Stirling Albion
Falkirk	1 – 2	Greenock Morton
Kilmarnock	6 – 0	Glasgow University
Montrose	1 – 0	Cowdenbeath
Motherwell	1 – 1	Clyde
Partick Thistle	3 – 3	Celtic
Raith Rovers	0 – 2	Dunfermline Athletic
Rangers	1 – 0	Hibernian
St Johnstone	3 – 2	Arbroath
Stenhousemuir	0 – 3	Airdrieonians
Stranraer	3 – 1	East Fife

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Celtic	8 – 1	Partick Thistle
Clyde	2 – 1	Motherwell

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Aberdeen	2 – 2	Dunfermline Athletic
Rangers	2 – 0	Hearts
Airdrieonians	1 – 1	St Mirren
Clyde	0 – 0	Celtic
Dundee United	6 – 2	Ayr United
East Stirlingshire	1 – 1	St Johnstone
Montrose	1 – 1	Kilmarnock
Stranraer	1 – 3	Greenock Morton

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Dunfermline Athletic	0 – 2	Aberdeen
Celtic	3 – 0	Clyde
St Johnstone	3 – 0	East Stirlingshire
St Mirren	1 – 3	Airdrieonians
Kilmarnock	4 – 1	Montrose

Quarter-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Aberdeen	0 – 0	Kilmarnock
Celtic	3 – 2	St Johnstone
Dundee United	2 – 3	Greenock Morton
Rangers	1 – 0	Airdrieonians

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Kilmarnock	0 – 3	Aberdeen

Semi-finals

22 March 1969

Celtic	4–1	Greenock Morton

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 48,394

22 March 1969

Rangers	6–1	Aberdeen
Andy Penman 14' 51' Willie Henderson 39' Willie Johnston 47' 72' 84'		Forrest 45'

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 66,197

Referee: WJ Mullen

Final

26 April 1969

Celtic	4–0[1]	Rangers
Stevie Chalmers 76' George Connelly 45' Bobby Lennox 44' Billy McNeill 3'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 132,000

Referee: Jim Callaghan

Teams


CELTIC:
GK		John Fallon
DF		Jim Craig
DF		Billy McNeill
DF		Jim Brogan
DF		Tommy Gemmell
MF		George Connelly
MF		Bobby Murdoch
MF		Bertie Auld
MF		Bobby Lennox
FW		Stevie Chalmers
FW		Willie Wallace
Manager:
Jock Stein


RANGERS:
GK		Norrie Martin
DF		Kai Johansen
DF		John Greig
DF		Ronnie McKinnon
DF		Willie Mathieson
MF		Willie Henderson
MF		Dave Smith
MF		Andy Penman
MF		Örjan Persson
FW		Willie Johnston
FW		Alex Ferguson
Manager:
David White

The attendance of 132,870 is the biggest ever for an Old Firm match.[2]

References

"1969 Scottish Cup Final match reports". The Celtic Wiki. 26 April 1969. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
McLean, David (18 May 2017). "Scotland's all-time record football attendances". The Scotsman. Retrieved 26 November 2017.

External links

Video highlights from official Pathé News archive

Scottish Cup
Seasons	1873–74 1874–75 1875–76 1876–77 1877–78 1878–79 1879–80 1880–81 1881–82 1882–83 1883–84 1884–85 1885–86 1886–87 1887–88 1888–89 1889–90 1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21
Finals	1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915–19 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–46 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
List of finals Winning managers Scottish Qualifying Cup

1968–69 in Scottish football
« 1967–68 1969–70 »
Domestic leagues	Football League Division One Division Two Highland League
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Junior Cup
European competitions	European Cup European Cup Winners' Cup Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Related to national team	Results 1970 World Cup qualifying (Group 7) British Home Championship
Club seasons
Division One	Aberdeen Airdrieonians Arbroath Celtic Clyde Dundee Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Morton Partick Thistle Raith Rovers Rangers St. Johnstone St. Mirren
Division Two	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Ayr United Berwick Rangers Brechin City Clydebank Cowdenbeath Dumbarton East Fife East Stirlingshire Forfar Athletic Hamilton Academical Montrose Motherwell Queen of the South Queen's Park Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

1968–69 in European football (UEFA)
« 1967–68 1969–70 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '68 '69 England Faroe Islands '68 '69 Finland '68 '69 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary '68 '69 Iceland '68 '69 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '68 '69 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '68 '69 Spain Sweden '68 '69 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '68 '69 Finland '68 '69 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary '68 '69 Iceland '68 '69 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '68 '69 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Scotland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '67–'68 '69 Mitropa Cup

Celtic F.C. matches
Scottish Cup Finals	1889 1892 1893 1894 1899 1900 1901 1902 1904 1907 1908 1909 1911 1912 1914 1923 1925 1926 1927 1928 1931 1933 1937 1951 1954 1955 1956 1961 1963 1965 1966 1967 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977 1980 1984 1985 1988 1989 1990 1995 1999 2001 2002 2004 2005 2007 2011 2013 2017 2018 2019 2020
Scottish League Cup Finals	1956 1957 1964 1965 1966 1967 1969 (April) 1969 (October) 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1978 1982 1984 (March) 1986 1990 1994 1997 2000 2001 2003 2006 2009 2011 2012 2015 2016 (November) 2017 2018 2019
SFL Championship Play-offs	1905
European Cup Finals	1967 1970
UEFA Cup Final	2003
Intercontinental Cup	1967
Other matches	1888 Glasgow Exhibition Cup Final 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition Cup Final 1902 British League Cup Final 1938 Empire Exhibition Trophy Final Coronation Cup Final (1953) CNE Cup of Champions (1968) 1971 Ibrox disaster Rangers 2–2 Celtic (1987) 2007 MLS All-Star Game Lincoln Red Imps 1–0 Celtic (2016)

Rangers F.C. matches
Scottish Cup Finals	1877 1879 1894 1897 1898 1899 1903 1904 1905 1909 1921 1922 1928 1929 1930 1932 1934 1935 1936 1948 1949 1950 1953 1960 1962 1963 1964 1966 1969 1971 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1989 1992 1993 1994 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2008 2009 2016
Scottish League Cup Finals	1947 (April) 1949 (March) 1951 1957 1960 1961 1963 1964 1965 1966 1970 1975 1978 1979 (March) 1981 1982 1984 (March) 1984 (October) 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1992 1993 1996 1998 2002 2003 2005 2008 2009 2010 2011 2019
SFL Championship Play-offs	1891 1905
Scottish Challenge Cup Finals	2014 2016
European Cup Winners' Cup Finals	1961 1967 1972
UEFA Cup Final	2008
European Super Cup	1972 (unofficial)
Other matches	1901 Glasgow International Exhibition Cup Final 1902 British League Cup Final 1946 Southern League Cup 1946 Victory Cup Berwick Rangers 1–0 Rangers (1967) 1971 Ibrox disaster Rangers 2–2 Celtic (1987) Progrès Niederkorn 2–0 Rangers (2017)

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1968–69 Scottish Cup

Preliminary round 1

Replays

Preliminary round 2

Replays

First round

Replays

Second round

Replays

Quarter-finals

Replays

Semi-finals

Final

Teams

See also

References

External links