Source.

Morton visit McDiarmid Park, home ground of St Johnstone FC, the latest Championship champions. Last season St Johnstone took three wins and a draw from Morton, outscoring them 12 to 1. The last time Morton defeated St Johnstone was in 2006.

Fortunately Josh McPake, who scored 3 goals against Morton, has moved on to Hearts. But Jamie Gullan, who scored 4, is still with them.

St Johnstone’s Jack Baird played for Morton in 2019-20 and from 2022 to 2025. Morgan Boyes played for Morton in 2024-25. Morton’s Michael O’Halloran played for St Johnstone from 2014 to 2016, in 2027-18, and from 2019 to 2023. Cammy MacPherson played for St Johnstone from 2021 to 2025. The last Morton player to score against St Johnstone was Eamonn Brophy, August 30th, 2025.

St Johnstone are managed by Simo Valakari who has been in the job since October 2024.

So far Morton have 0 points and 0 goals scored in the group stage. They must win their two remaining matches to come up to their worst-ever showing of 6 points earned in 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2024-25.

The Group F matches:
St Johnstone [3 – 0] Morton
Linlithgow Rose [0 – 2] Inverness CT
East Fife are off.

Group F standings after these matches:

Other matches:
Ottawa Rapid 2 – 1 Halifax Tides (July 16) Goal by Cho.
CF Montreal 0 – 0 Toronto FC (MLS) (July 16)
Mito HollyHock 0 – 1 Tokushima Vortis (training match) (July 16)
Mito HollyHock 3 – 0 Miyazaki Sangyo Keizai University (training match) (July 16)
Göteborg 2 – 1 Brommapojkarna (yesterday)
Scrosoppi 1 – 0 Woodbridge Strikers (yesterday)
East Kilbride [5 – 3] Dumbarton
Clydebank [4 – 1] Irvine Meadow XI (friendly)
Port Glasgow [1 – 2] Partick Thistle YA (tournament)
Shortlees AFC [2 – 2] Greenock Juniors [Shortlees win on PK] (tournament)
Largs Thistle [2 – 1] Thorn Athletic (tournament)
Greenock HS FPs AFC [4 – 0] Rutherglen Glencairn AFC
St Andrews United [0 – 0] Cowdenbeath (friendly)
Wishaw [1 – 2] Carluke Rovers (friendly)
Argos [23 – 24] Ti-Cats
Cavalry [1 – 1] HFX Wanderers [Goal by Johnston.]
Sapporo FC [0 – 2] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Dalry Thistle [0 – 9] Port Glasgow (tournament) (tomorrow)
Greenock Juniors [1 – 2] Thorn Athletic (tournament) (Sunday)
Largs Thistle [1 – 0] Shortlees AFC (tournament) (Sunday)
HFX Wanderers U21 [1 – 2] Nottingham Forest Academy at Mount Pearl (tomorrow)

The Northern Super League is adding a team in Winnipeg.

West of Scotland Charity Cup final:
Auchinleck Talbot [1 – 0] Troon
This cup pits the 2025-26 West of Scotland Premier Division champion against the 2025-26 West of Scotland League Cup champion. Neither club is in the West of Scotland League anymore.

2026-27 UEFA Champions League, 1QR, leg 2 (July 14):
Shamrock Rovers 5 – 1 Floriana
Larne 2 – 1 Tre Fiori
The New Saints 1 – 2 Sabah
Shamrock Rovers and Larne advance. The New Saints drop directly to the Conference League.

2026-27 UEFA Europa League, 1QR, leg 2 (July 16):
Derry City 1 – 2 CSKA Sofia
Derry City drop to the Conference League.

2026-27 UEFA Conference League, 1QR, leg 2 (July 16):
St Joseph’s 0 – 0 Bohemians
RFS 2 – 0 Glentoran
Linfield 2 – 2 Kalju
Levadia Tallinn 5 – 0 Caernarfon Town
Ballkani 3 – 2 Connah’s Quay Nomads
FC Santa Coloma 3 – 0 Penybont
Bohemians advance. Caernarfon Town, Connah’s Quay Nomads, Glentoran, Linfield and Penybont are out.

World Cup final (tomorrow):
Spain [1 – 0] Argentina

It’s the League Cup group stage, matchday 2. Morton visit East Fife. This is the fixture that derailed Morton’s League Cup run two years ago. East Fife won that match 3 – 0 on a hat trick by Alan Trouten. Luckily Trouten is now with Benburb.

Unluckily East Fife’s manager is Dick Campbell. He has been managing football clubs since the 1980s and has earned promotion seven times with various clubs. By my count his record against Morton is 14 wins, 9 draws and 7 losses.

Also unluckily, Derek Gaston has joined East Fife from Stirling Albion. He was Morton’s go-to goalie in the 2010s, and has bedevilled them as an opposing goalkeeper. He personally knocked them out of last year’s Challenge Cup R2 when that match went to penalty kicks.

The last Morton player to score against East Fife was Robbie Muirhead, April 3rd, 2021.

Having lost to Linlithgow Saturday Morton must win all three remaining games to have a real chance of making it to Round Two.

Ian Murray’s record to date as Morton manager (including league, cup and friendly): 4W, 5D, 10L. Morton’s last win was March 28th.

The Group F matches:
East Fife [2 – 0] Morton
Linlithgow Rose [0 – 2] St Johnstone
ICT are off.

The Group F table after these matches:

Other matches:
Carluke Rovers 0 – 1 Lanark United (Clydesdale Cup) (yesterday)
Dunfermline Athletic [4 – 1] Dumbarton
Clydebank [2 – 0] Kilsyth Rangers (friendly)
Kilbirnie Ladeside [1 – 1] Largs Thistle [Kilbirnie win on PK] (friendly) (tomorrow)
Port Glasgow [4 – 0] Rutherglen Glencairn (friendly) (tomorrow)
University of Stirling vs St Andrews United (friendly) (tomorrow)

This is a good time to introduce the 2026-27 A Ton of Snow Championship League Cup, a made-up cup which uses actual match results to generate a Championship-only knockout tournament. All ten Championship clubs participate, and no one else.

The teams are ranked according to their 2025-26 league positions and paired up on the principle of highest versus lowest. Round One includes only the bottom four teams. All league matches, cup games and playoffs are eligible for use. Higher-ranked teams are not guaranteed home-field advantage.

Tie-breakers are, in order: 1) fewer red cards, 2) fewer yellow cards, 3) more corner kicks, 4) visitor. These rules take precedence over any other tie-breakers.

Once the finalists are known, the other eight teams embark on the Consolation Cup. Because there are usually just a few weeks left when this begins, the pairings are determined on the basis of which group of fixtures can be finished soonest.

If both cups reach a conclusion within the 2026-27 season the two cup-winners meet in the Super Cup, if this can be played by the end of the calendar year.

The matches are:

Round One:
Morton vs Inverness CT (July 25)
Ayr United vs Stenhousemuir (September 25)

Round Two:
Dunfermline Athletic vs Raith Rovers (August 29)
Arbroath vs Queen’s Park (September 25)
Livingston vs Morton or Inverness CT or Stenhousemuir (after September 25)
Partick Thistle vs Ayr United or Morton or Inverness CT (after September 25)

Semi-finals and final to be determined.

The 2026 Super Cup: Partick Thistle vs Arbroath (October 3)

The people of Linlithgow celebrate victory in the 1965 Junior Cup. Source.

It’s the 2026-27 League Cup group stage. Linlithgow Rose visit Cappielow. This is the first ever competitive match between these two clubs.

Linlithgow were 2025-26 Lowland League champions, but they were denied a spot in the pyramid playoffs for lack of a bronze license. The SPFL has gotten serious about keeping substandard parks out of its circuit, having learned from Bonnyrigg Rose and their cambered pitch.

Linlithgow Rose are four-time winners of the Scottish Junior Cup. Last weekend they won the East of Scotland Cup, aka City Cup, beating The Spartans 3 – 0. Gordon Herd has been their manager since 2021.

Morton have signed Australian striker Jayden Gorman, late of Dubai FC. And 18-year-old midfielder Joey O’Toole from Jersey. [Sam Murdoch has been recalled from Annan Athletic.]

The objective in the group stage is to win your group, or else to be one of the three best second-place finishers, which usually involves earning 9 points with a good goal difference. In the present era Morton have advanced to the next round four times in ten attempts, twice without having beaten the group’s Premiership side.

Group F matches today:
Morton [0 – 1] Linlithgow Rose
Inverness CT [1 – 1] East Fife [ICT win on PK]
St Johnstone are off.

Group F standings after these matches:

Other matches: Oakley United 1 – 1 St Andrews United (friendly) (July 7)
Blantyre Victoria 3 – 1 Carluke Rovers (friendly) (July 8)
Irvine Victoria 0 – 0 Greenock Juniors (friendly) (July 8)
Largs Thistle 2 – 2 Kilmarnock U19 (friendly) (July 8)
HFX Wanderers 1 – 3 Toronto FC (friendly) (July 9) Because they’re both out of the Canadian Championship.
Kilsyth Rangers 4 – 1 Kilsyth Athletic (friendly) (yesterday)
Babelsberg [1 – 4] St Pauli (friendly)
Dumbarton [0 – 4] St Mirren (at Coatbridge)
Pumpherston [0 – 4] Carluke Rovers (friendly)
Broxburn Athletic [1 – 2] Clydebank (friendly)
Largs Thistle [3 – 1] Thornton Hibs (friendly)
Port Glasgow [3 – 3] Neilston (friendly)
Cambuslang Milan AFC [0 – 3] Greenock High School Former Pupils AFC
Scrosoppi [2 – 1] Sudbury Cyclones
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [2 – 1] BTOP Hokkaido (tomorrow)
Malmö [4 – 0] Göteborg (tomorrow)
Montreal Roses [1 – 0] Halifax Tides (tomorrow)
Ti-Cats [7 – 38] Saskatchewan Roughriders (tomorrow)

Stirlingshire Cup final (July 7):
Stenhousemuir 2 – 0 Alloa Athletic

Canadian Championship, QF, leg 1:
CS Saint-Laurent 1 – 1 Forge (July 8)
Vancouver Whitecaps 4 – 1 Cavalry (July 8)
Vancouver FC 1 – 2 CF Montréal (July 8)
Supra 3 – 1 Atlético Ottawa (July 8)

Canadian Championship, QF, leg 2:
CF Montréal [2 – 1] Vancouver FC (July 12) [CF Montréal advance.]
Forge [2 – 1] CS Saint-Laurent (July 12) [Forge advance.]
Cavalry [1 – 1] Vancouver Whitecaps (July 13) [Whitecaps advance.]
The Ottawa/Supra game will be played August 11.

CS Saint-Laurent’s captain is Cédric Toussaint, formerly of York United, Pacific FC and Grulla Morioka.

2026-27 UEFA Champions League, 1QR, leg 1 (July 7):
Floriana (Malta) 2 – 0 Shamrock Rovers
Tre Fiori (San Marino) 0 – 1 Larne
Sabah (Azerbaijan) 2 – 0 The New Saints

2026-27 UEFA Europa League, 1QR, leg 1 (July 9):
CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) 3 – 2 Derry City

2026-27 UEFA Conference League, 1QR, leg 1 (mostly July 9):
Bohemians 2 – 0 St Joseph’s (Gibraltar)
Glentoran 1 – 2 RFS (Latvia)
Kalju (Estonia) 1 – 0 Linfield
Caernarfon Town 0 – 5 Levadia Tallinn (Estonia)
Connah’s Quay Nomads 0 – 0 Ballkani (Kosovo) (July 8)
Penybont 0 – 1 FC Santa Coloma (Andorra)

Chris Aitken appeared for Morton in the early Aughties. He later played for Stranraer and is now their manager. Source.

Morton host Stranraer in a preseason friendly at Cappielow Park. These two teams have met only once in a competitive match this decade: Morton won 3 – 0 on July 18th, 2023 in the League Cup group stage. But Stranraer were awarded a 3 – 0 win on July 10th, 2021 in that year’s League Cup group stage after Morton forfeited due to Covid.

Since 1994, when the four-division structure arrived, Stranraer have appeared in the second tier three times: 1994-95, 1998-99 and 2005-06. They have been in the fourth tier all this decade. Morton’s biggest win against Stranraer was 8 – 0 in the first round of the 2011-12 Challenge Cup.

Jackson Longridge played for Stranraer in 2014-15, as did Cammy MacPherson in 2017-18. Both Morton and Stranraer have a player named McLuckie.

Morton have signed 20-year-old midfielder Callum Sandilands on loan from Hearts.

[Morton 0 – 0 Stranraer.]

The World Cup continues:

Round of 32:
South Africa 0 – 1 Canada (June 28) Goal by Eustaquio.
Brazil 2 – 1 Japan (June 29)
Mexico 2 – 0 Ecuador (June 30)

Round of 16:
Canada [0 – 3] Morocco (today)
Reminder: Morocco beat Canada 2 – 1 in the last World Cup.
Mexico [2 – 3] England (tomorrow)

Other matches:
Carluke Rovers 0 – 4 Gartcairn (friendly) (June 29)
Ayr United 3 – 0 Dumbarton (friendly) (June 30)
Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Hibs (friendly) (June 30)
Altona 93 2 – 6 St Pauli (friendly) (July 1)
[East End United 2 – 2 Greenock HS FPs AFC]
HFX Wanderers 1 – 3 Atlético Ottawa (July 1) Goal by Ciccarelli.
Kickers Emden [1 – 3] St Pauli (friendly)
Clydebank [4 – 0] Musselburgh Athletic (Blackburn Legacy Shield)
Carluke Rovers [1 – 1] Kilsyth Rangers (friendly)
Largs Thistle [1 – 2] Knightswood (friendly)
Port Glasgow [5 – 1] Lesmahagow (friendly)
Greenock Juniors vs Drumchapel United (friendly)
[Greenock HS FPs 5 – 3 AFC Rutherglen Glencairn AFC]
Invergordon [1 – 9] Aberdeen XI (friendly)
Queen of the South [1 – 2] Crusaders (friendly)
These two met in the 2018-19 Challenge Cup, R2, and QoS won 4 – 3.
Clydebank [2 – 0] Cumbernauld Colts (Blackburn Legacy Shield) (tomorrow)
Göteborg [1 – 2] AIK (tomorrow)
Blue Bombers [14 – 13] Ti-Cats (tomorrow)
Pacific [1 – 2] HFX Wanderers (tomorrow) [Goals by Ciccarelli and Callegari.]
Halifax Tides [0 – 1] AFC Toronto (tomorrow)
Vaughan Azzurri [1 – 1] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)

Recommended sites: Scottish Football Fixtures, FitbaStats, Scottish Football Historical Archive, Pie and Bovril

1942 Summer Cup final:
1942/7/4 Rangers 4 – 4 Hibs (2 – 2 on corners, Rangers won on a coin toss.)

Vancouver’s Science World rebranded. Source.

Group A:
Mexico 1 – 0 South Korea (June 18)
Video: Duck wearing a Mexico jersey goes viral.
Most Mexico players play in the Mexican league, but their top scorer Raúl Jiménez plays for Wolverhampton.

Group B:
Canada 6 – 0 Qatar (June 18) Hat-trick for Jonathan David.
Video: How many empty seats were there at Toronto’s first World Cup match?
Jacob Shaffelburg (on at 70′) is from Kings County, Nova Scotia.

Group C:
Scotland 0 – 1 Morocco (June 19)
Video: Are Scottish fans drinking all of the beer in Boston? And BBC Scotland reporter on what it’s like
Lyndon Dykes played for Queen of the South from 2016 to 2019 while they were in the Morton’s division.

Group F:
Tunisia [0 – 4] Japan (June 20)
Video: The Japanese dressing room.
Daizen Maeda played for Mito HollyHock ten years ago.

Other matches:
Simcoe County Rovers 1 – 4 Scrosoppi (June 16)
Halifax Tides 1 – 1 Vancouver Rise (June 18) Goal by Vallerand.
BC Lions 27 – 41 Tiger-Cats (June 19)
Linlithgow Rose [4 – 3] Dumbarton (friendly)
ASC Hokkaido [1 – 1] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Scrosoppi [3 – 0] Oakville (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Zak Delaney has left the club.

Goalkeeper Leif Nielsen (Morton 1969-70) has died at 84.

The 2026-27 SPFL schedule is out.

1942 Summer Cup, R2, leg 2:
1942/6/20 Third Lanark 1 – 5 Hibs
1942/6/20 Hearts 2 – 0 Albion Rovers
1942/6/20 Motherwell 2 – 1 Celtic
1942/6/20 Rangers 3 – 0 Falkirk

Scotland in the 1998 World Cup:
1998/6/10 Brazil 2 – 1 Scotland
1998/6/16 Scotland 1 – 1 Norway
1998/6/23 Scotland 0 – 3 Morocco

It’s the World Cup. Let’s follow Canada, Mexico, Scotland and Japan.

Group A
Mexico 2 – 0 South Africa (June 11)
Video: How a women from Veracruz won Mexico’s top World Cup ticket.

Group B
Canada 1 – 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 12)
Video: I attended Canada’s last match before the World Cup.

Group C
Haiti [0 – 1] Scotland (June 13)
Video: Ewen McGregor introduces the Scotland squad. (And takes back everything he said about Scotland in Trainspotting.)

Group F
Netherlands [2 – 2] Japan (June 14)
Video: Can the Japanese national team reach the quarterfinals?

Other matches:
Forge 1 – 0 HFX Wanderers (June 10)
Tiger-Cats 37 – 27 Blue Bombers (June 11)
Halifax Tides [2 – 0] Calgary Wild [Goals by Benati and Miller.]
Scrosoppi vs Vaughan Azzurri (moved to August 11)
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [6 – 0] Hokushukai Iwamizawa (tomorrow)
Mito HollyHock [6 – 8] Koji All-Stars (Koji Homma tribute match) (tomorrow)

Video: Canada is essentially three mining companies in a trenchcoat.

Mortonalia: The club has announced it will have a smaller player budget this year. They’ve signed midfielder Grant Savoury, formerly of Celtic B, Edinburgh City, Peterhead and Queen’s Park. [Cameron Blues has left the club. He was the last remaining Morton player who was signed before the pandemic.]

1942 Summer Cup, R2, leg 1:
1942/6/13 Hibs 8 – 2 Third Lanark
1942/6/13 Albion Rovers 3 – 0 Hearts
1942/6/13 Celtic 1 – 2 Motherwell
1942/6/13 Falkirk 1 – 0 Rangers

Canada in the 1986 World Cup:
1986/6/1 Canada 0 – 1 France
1986/6/6 Hungary 2 – 0 Canada
1986/6/9 Soviet Unon 2 – 0 Canada

Canada in the 2022 World Cup:
2022/11/23 Belgium 1 – 0 Canada
2022/11/27 Croatia 4 – 1 Canada
2022/12/1 Canada 1 – 2 Morocco

The first weekend in June has got to be the slowest part of the soccer calendar.

HFX Wanderers visit Calgary. Cavalry are second with 17 points, HFX Wanderers sixth with 9 points. Since 2019 HFX Wanderers have beaten Cavalry only 3 times in 26 attempts.

Halifax’s Isaiah Johnston and Calgary’s Tobias Warschewski are joint league leaders with four goals each.

This is Mario Carducci’s first game against his old teammates.

Cavalry [2 – 0] HFX Wanderers

Other matches:
Canada 2 – 0 Uzbekistan (friendly) (June 1)
Alouettes 30 – 27 Tiger-Cats (June 4)
Mexico 5 – 1 Serbia (friendly) (June 4)
Canada 1 – 1 Ireland (friendly) (yesterday)
Bolivia [0 – 4] Scotland (friendly) [Two for Shankland.]
Oakville [3 – 2] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Morton have signed 19-year-old Bobby McLuckie, previously of Hearts, Stenny, Hamilton Accies and East Kilbride. Grant Gillespie has signed on for another year. Also signed is goalkeeper Brian Kinnear, formerly of Rangers B, Camelon, Annan Athletic, West Ham U23, Falkirk and Clyde. Sam Murdoch has been loaned out to Annan Athletic.

[The 2026-27 Morton primary kit is out. The blue hoops are tartan.]

The Challenge Cup has been reformatted, as it is every year. This time the league phase will include League One, League Two, ten Premiership B teams, plus Banks o’ Dee, Clachnacuddin, Formartine United, Fraserburgh, Berwick Rangers, Bonnyrigg Rose, Cowdenbeath, Gala Fairydean Rovers, Clydebank and Cumbernauld Colts, or four from the Highland League, four from the Lowland League East and two from the Lowland League West. Clach, new Clydebank and Gala have never been in the Challenge Cup before.

J League 100 Year Vision League playoffs, leg 2 (selected matches):
Kashima Antlers [2 – 0] Vissel Kobe [Vissel finish first on aggregate.]
Mito HollyHock [0 – 1] V-Varen Nagasaki [Mito finish 18th.]
JEF United [1 – 2] Avispa Fukuoka [JEF finish 20th.]

JFL Cup final, leg 2 (tomorrow):
Okinawa SV [4 – 1] ReinMeer Aomori [Okinawa win the cup.]

Cup games of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1891/6/6 Dumbarton 5 – 1 Morton (Greenock Charity Cup final)
1891/6/10 Dumbarton 3 – 0 Celtic (SFL Charity Cup final)

1942 Summer Cup, R1, leg 2:
1942/6/6 Queen’s Park 4 – 3 Albion Rovers
1942/6/6 Partick Thistle 0 – 2 Celtic
1942/6/6 Motherwell 4 – 2 Dumbarton
1942/6/6 Morton 1 – 0 Falkirk (3 – 3 on aggregate. Falkirk won on a coin toss.)
1942/6/6 Rangers vs Hamilton Academical (not played)
1942/6/6 Clyde 0 – 2 Hibs
1942/6/6 Hearts 4 – 1 St Mirren
1942/6/6 Airdrieonians 1 – 4 Third Lanark

Largs Thistle, 1994 victors. Source.

Largs Thistle and Auchinleck Talbot meet in the final of the Scottish Communities Cup, formerly the Scottish Junior Cup. Auchinleck have won this cup 14 times, Largs once. Auchinleck beat Largs in the 2018-19 final.

Both clubs will be playing in the new Lowland League West next season.

Auchinleck Talbot [2 – 1] Largs Thistle (tomorrow)

Other matches:
Göteborg 1 – 1 Mjallby (May 25)
Halifax Tides 1 – 2 Ottawa Rapid (yesterday) Halifax goal by Benati.
Scrosoppi 2 – 1 Sigma (yesterday)
Ti-Cats 20 – 14 Argos (pre-season) (yesterday)
Lipno Stęszew [4 – 3] Unia Swarzędz
This ends the Polish III Liga, Group II season. Lipno Stęszew finish midtable fourth.
HFX Wanderers [1 – 0] Vancouver FC [Goal by Ciccarelli.]
Scotland [4 – 1] Curaçao (friendly) [Two goals for Shankland.]
Mexico [1 – 0] Australia (friendly)
Norbritz Hokkaido [0 – 2] Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth (tomorrow)
Västerås SK [4 – 5] Göteborg (tomorrow)
Japan [1 – 0] Iceland (friendly) (tomorrow)

Mortonalia: Players not returning are: Fergus Owens, Ali Crawford, Kian Taylor, Nathan Shaw, Zak McKay, James Storer, Aaron Lyall, Reuben Lopata-White, Curtis Main and Murray Johnson.

Iain (“Shug”) Wilson has signed on for another year.

Former Morton throw-in specialist Lewis Strapp has signed with Ross County. Lawrence Shankland has signed with Rangers. Josh McPake has joined Hearts.

The draw for the League Cup group stage was held Wednesday. Morton are in the same group as St Johnstone, Inverness CT, East Fife and Linlithgow Rose. Three of them are league champions.

The 2026-27 Highland League schedule is already out. That is the best organized league.

J League 100 Year Vision League playoffs, leg 1 (selected matches):
Vissel Kobe [5 – 0] Kashima Antlers (for 1st place)
V-Varen Nagasaki [1 – 0] Mito HollyHock (for 17th place)
Although there will be no relegation at the end of the 100 Year Vision League, the 18th team would be relegated in a regular J1 season, which makes V-Varen vs HollyHock important for both teams.
Avispa Fukuoka [2 – 2] JEF United (for 19th place)

JFL Cup final, leg 1 (tomorrow):
ReinMeer Aomori [0 – 0] Okinawa SV

2025-26 UEFA Conference League final (May 27):
Crystal Palace 1 – 0 Rayo Vallecano

2025-26 UEFA Champions League final:
Paris Saint-Germain [1 – 1] Arsenal [PSG win on PK]

Cup games of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1891/5/30 Celtic 6 – 1 Third Lanark (SFL Charity Cup SF)

1942 Summer Cup, R1, leg 1:
1942/5/30 Albion Rovers 2 – 0 Queen’s Park
1942/5/30 Celtic 2 – 1 Partick Thistle
1942/5/30 Dumbarton 1 – 0 Motherwell
1942/5/30 Falkirk 3 – 2 Morton
1942/5/30 Hamilton Academical 1 – 7 Rangers
1942/5/30 Hibs 2 – 1 Clyde
1942/5/30 St Mirren 3 – 3 Hearts
1942/5/30 Third Lanark 4 – 2 Airdrieonians

The 1961 Pars show off their Scottish Cup. Source.

It’s the Scottish Cup final: Celtic versus Dunfermline Athletic. Celtic have won the cup 42 times, Dunfermline twice, including 1961 when they beat Celtic. These two clubs met in the final three other times, in 1965, 2004 and 2007, and Celtic won each time.

Celtic snapped up the Championship title last weekend after trailing all season. 1985 was the last time the Old Firm did not win the title. Winning the Scottish Cup is easy in comparison; since 1985 non-Old Firm clubs have won it 15 times.

Dunfermline manager Neil Lennon has won the Scottish Cup four times as a player and four times as a manager. Celtic manager Martin O’Neill has won the cup three times as a manager.

Celtic [3 – 1] Dunfermline Athletic

Premiership playoff finals:
Partick Thistle 1 – 1 St Mirren (May 21)
St Mirren [1 – 0] Partick Thistle (May 25) [St Mirren stay up.]

Other matches:
Halifax Tides 1 – 2 Vancouver Rise (May 18)
Września [1 – 3] Lipno Stęszew
HFX Wanderers [1 – 1] Inter Toronto [Halifax goal by Johnston.]
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [6 – 2] Sabas FC (tomorrow)
Calgary Wild [0 – 4] Halifax Tides (tomorrow) [Two for Miller, two for Vallerand.]
Burlington [0 – 3] Scrosoppi (tomorrow)
Argonauts [20 – 10] Tiger-Cats (pre-season) (tomorrow)

Derek Gaston has moved from Stirling Albion to East Fife.

Cristóbal Fernández, who played Dani Rojas in Ted Lasso, has been signed by El Paso Locomotive of the USL Championship.

Coupe de France final (May 22):
Lens 3 – 1 Nice

DFB-Pokal final:
Bayern Munich [3 – 0] VfB Stuttgart

2025-26 UEFA Europa Cup final (May 20):
SC Freiburg 0 – 3 Aston Villa

2025-26 Concacaf Women’s Champions Cup, SF (May 20):
Club América 4 – 1 Gotham FC
Washington Spirit 1 – 0 Pachuca
Final (May 23):
Club América [5 – 3] Washington Spirit

J League 100 Year Vision League East, matchday 18:
Machida Zelvia (3rd) 1 – 0 Urawa Red Diamonds (5th) (yesterday)
Kashima Antlers (1st) [1 – 0] FC Tokyo (2nd)
Kashiwa Reysol (8th) [4 – 2] JEF United (10th)
Mito HollyHock (7th) [1 – 3] Kawasaki Frontale (6th) (tomorrow)
Tokyo Verdy (4th) [0 – 6] Yokohama F Marinos (9th) (tomorrow)
This ends the double round robin. [Mito finish ninth.] Next, each team will play off against the team with the same position in the West table to determine the order of the combined table.

SFL results 1890-91:
1891/5/21 Rangers 2 – 2 Dumbarton
Rangers and Dumbarton finished the 1890-91 SFL tied for first. This match was a tiebreaker, but it ended in a draw so they were declared joint champions. Under today’s rules Dumbarton, with the superior goal difference, would have been declared sole champion.