That Was the Group Stage That Was

Morton defeated Hibs to make it into the 1963-64 League Cup final. Source.

The League Cup group stage comes to a conclusion today.

Matchday Four was Tuesday. Morton were off that day, so I didn’t make a post about it. The scores were:
East Fife 3 – 1 Linlithgow Rose
Inverness CT 1 – 0 St Johnstone

Group F standings after Day Four:

Today Morton host Inverness Caledonian Thistle. ICT enter today’s game with 8 points, Morton with 0. No Championship side has ever finished the modern group stage with 0 points. Brechin finished with 2 points in 2017-18. Dumbarton finished with 2 in 2016-17 and with 1 in 2017-18.

ICT’s head coach is Scott Kellacher who has been in the role since October 2024. No one on the ICT squad has played for Morton. No one on the Morton squad has played for ICT. The last Morton player to score against ICT was Kirk Broadfoot, May 3rd, 2024.

ICT are newly promoted to the Championship, so today’s match will give Morton an idea of what they’re in for this coming season.

Last weekend 15-year-old Calan Burgess became the youngest-ever Morton first-team player when he subbed on at 78′.

This is an A Ton of Snow Championship League Cup Round One match.

Morton [0 – 1] Inverness CT
St Johnstone [1 – 1] East Fife [East Fife win on PK]

Group F final standings:

The Lowland League begins today, or rather the Lowland Leagues. There are now two parallel leagues, East with 16 teams and West with 17. The Lowland League East is made up of eleven of last season’s Lowland League clubs, plus Brechin City from the Highland League, Lochee United from the Midlands League, and Hill of Beath Hawthorn, Musselburgh Athletic and Dunipace from the East of Scotland League. The Lowland League West has only six of last season’s Lowland League clubs, plus Dalbeattie Star and Newton Stewart from the South of Scotland League, and nine West of Scotland League clubs. Let’s follow Clydebank and Largs Thistle, both of the Lowland League West.

Clydebank [4 – 2] Newton Stewart
Largs Thistle [2 – 0] Cumbernauld Colts
Now that they’re in the Lowland League Largs have had to give up their 2:00 pm starts, but they’ve managed to keep them in the South Challenge Cup and Scottish Communities Cup.

Other matches:
Unionville Milliken 1 – 2 Scrosoppi (July 22)
St Pauli 1 – 4 AFC Bournemouth (friendly) (yesterday)
Raith Rovers 0 – 1 Hearts (friendly) (yesterday)
HFX Wanderers 2 – 3 Supra (yesterday) HFX goals by Kachwele and Linder.
HFX Wanderers U21 1 – 2 Nottingham Forest Academy at Charlottetown (yesterday)
HFX Wanderers have acquired forward Adonijah Reid (formerly of Pacific FC and York United) from SC Jacksonville in exchange for Marcus Godinho.
Dumbarton [2 – 0] Cove Rangers
Fraserburgh [0 – 0] Invergordon
Greenock Juniors [3 – 0] Girvan
St Andrews United [6 – 1] Edinburgh South
St Patrick’s FP vs Greenock HS FPs AFC
Larkhall Thistle [2 – 1] Port Glasgow Juniors
Royal Albert [1 – 1] Carluke Rovers
Vancouver Rise [0 – 1] Halifax Tides [Goal by de Filippo.]
Sabas [0 – 5] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Sirius [4 – 1] Göteborg (tomorrow)
Scrosoppi [2 – 1] International FC (tomorrow)
Ti-Cats [18 – 31] Alouettes (tomorrow)

Daizen Maeda is headed for Ipswich Town.

2026-27 UEFA Champions League, 2QR, leg 1 (July 21):
Sturm Graz 4 – 0 Hearts
Larne 0 – 4 Red Star Belgrade
Ararat-Armenia 2 – 0 Shamrock Rovers

2026-27 UEFA Europa League, 2QR, leg 1 (July 23):
There’s no club from Scotland, Wales or either Ireland in this round.

2026-27 UEFA Conference League, 2QR, leg 1 (mostly July 23):
Motherwell 2 – 0 HB (Faroes)
Maleshiva (Kosovo) 2 – 0 Hibs
Shelbourne 5 – 2 Kalju (Estonia)
HJK (Finland) 5 – 0 Coleraine
Flora (Estonia) 1 – 0 The New Saints
Bohemians 2 – 1 Ballkani (Kosovo) (July 22)
Rijeka (Croatia) 1 – 0 Derry City
Göteborg 1 – 2 Levadia (Estonia)

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