2016 Scottish Women's Cup

The 2016 SWF Scottish Cup, known as the 2016 SSE Scottish Women's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 45th official edition (47th overall) of the main national cup competition in Scottish women's football. All teams in the Scottish Women's Football League and SWPL 1 & 2 were eligible to enter.

2016 Scottish Women's Cup

Tournament details
Country	Scotland
Teams	71
Defending champions	Glasgow City
Final positions
Champions	Hibernian
Runners-up	Glasgow City
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Hibernian won the final after penalties against Glasgow City, who had won the cup for the previous five years.^[1]

Format

Teams are either drawn into the first round or receive a bye, so there are 16 matches to play in the second round. The winners of the first round are then joined by the 16 SWPL 1 & 2 teams in the second round.

First round

30 of 32 teams were drawn into this round. Edinburgh Caledonia & Dumbarton United received a bye to the second round.^[2]

Elgin City	2–3	Raith Rovers
Ross County	2–1	Stranraer
Dundee City	1–2	Granite City
Kemnay	0–2	St Roch's
Boroughmuir Thistle	2–3	Kilmarnock
East Kilbride Girls	5–2	Edinburgh South
Teesside	1–3	Dee Ladies
United Glasgow	1–2	Stenhousemuir
Caithness	2–16	Dunfermline Athletic
Blackburn United	0–5	Dundee United
Renfrew	4–3	Cumbernauld Colts
Stonehaven	1–9	East Fife
Westerland	8–1	Bayside
Motherwell	12–0	Central Girls
Bistopton FCL	0–1	Dee Vale

Second round

SWPL teams enter.

Dee Vale	1–5	Granite City
Dunfermline Athletic	7–0	Dumbarton United
Glasgow City	26–0	East Kilbride Girls[3]
Spartans	0–0	Hamilton Academical (Hamilton won 4–3 on penalties)
Buchan	3–5	Forfar Farmington
Dee Ladies	3–4	Raith Rovers
Heart of Midlothian	3–0	St Roch's
Hibernian	11–0	Boroughmuir Thistle
Jeanfield Swifts	18–0	Ross County
Rangers	7–0	East Fife
Stirling University	10–0	Westerlands
Renfrew	5–0	Queen's Park
Motherwell	1–4	Glasgow Girls
Hutchison Vale	5–0	Edinburgh Caledonia
Celtic	7–0	Aberdeen
Dundee United	8–0	Stenhousemuir

Third round

Granite City	3–8	Hutchison Thistle
Hibernian	19–0	Renfrew
Celtic	3–1	Forfar Farmington
Dunfermline Athletic	0–4	Glasgow Girls
Heart of Midlothian	3–0	Hamilton Academical
Rangers	1–3	Glasgow City
Dundee United	1–6	Stirling University
Jeanfield Swifts	6–1	Raith Rovers

Quarter-finals

Hibernian v Celtic

4 September 2016	Hibernian	3–1	Celtic	Broxburn
14:00				Stadium: Albyn Park

Stirling University v Glasgow City

4 September 2016	Stirling University	0–4	Glasgow City	University of Stirling
14:00				Stadium: Stirling

Jeanfield Swifts v Glasgow Girls

4 September 2016	Jeanfield Swifts	3–5	Glasgow Girls	Perth
15:00				Stadium: McDiarmid Park

Heart of Midlothian v Hutchison Vale

18 September 2016	Heart of Midlothian	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Hutchison Vale	Dalkeith
14:00		[4]		Stadium: Kings Park

Semi-finals

Glasgow Girls v Glasgow City

16 October 2016 (2016-10-16)	Glasgow Girls	0–9	Glasgow City	Edinburgh
		[5]	Crilly Shine Boyce	Stadium: Ainslie Park

Hibernian v Heart of Midlothian

16 October 2016 (2016-10-16)	Hibernian	5–0	Heart of Midlothian	Edinburgh
	McLauchlan Arnot Ewens	[5]		Stadium: Ainslie Park

Final

The final was played between Glasgow City and Hibernian on 6 November 2016 at New Douglas Park in Hamilton. It featured the same teams as the previous year's final and the SWPL Cup final earlier in the year (as well as the previous two editions of that competition). Hibs won their sixth Scottish Cup, their first since 2010 (Glasgow City having won all of the intervening five).^[1][6][7]

Hibs men's team had also won the 2015–16 Scottish Cup, and this was the first instance of a club holding both national trophies at the same time (albeit the women's team was only an affiliate and not a fully integrated element of the club at that point, and due to the differing schedules this was only for six months rather than a whole year).

6 November 2016 (2016-11-06)

Glasgow City	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Hibernian
Lauder		Robertson 23'
Penalties
Brown Cuthbert McMurchie Lauder Shine Love Kerr	5–6	Robertson Hunter Arnot Brownlie Graham Ewens Murray

New Douglas Park, Hamilton

Referee: Lorraine Clark

Glasgow City

Hibernian

1 Gemma Fay 11 Nicola Docherty 2 Lauren McMurchie 3 Savannah McCarthy 16 Leanne Ross (c) 6 Jo Love 8 Haley Rosen 22 Erin Cuthbert 17 Fiona Brown 4 Hayley Lauder 10 Clare Shine Substitutes: 25 Erin Clachers 14 Cheryl McCulloch 13 Carla Boyce 15 Keeva Keenan 18 Sam Kerr 19 Sarah Crilly 20 Brogan Hay Manager: Scott Booth

1 Jenna Fife 11 Kirsty Smith 2 Clare Williamson 17 Joelle Murray (c) 4 Siobhan Hunter 24 Emma Brownlie 13 Lucy Graham 6 Lisa Robertson 12 Rachel McLauchlan 7 Lizzie Arnot 21 Abi Harrison Substitutes: 8 Cailin Michie 10 Sarah Ewens 14 Shannon Leishman 16 Ellis Notley 9 Caitlin Russell 23 Rachael Small 31 Kirsty Jeffries Manager: Chris Roberts