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1896–97 Scottish Cup

Field	Value
title	Scottish Cup
year	1896–97
country	Scotland
defending_champions	Heart of Midlothian
winners	Rangers
second	Dumbarton
prev_season	1895–96
next_season	1897–98

The 1896–97 Scottish Cup was the 24th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The cup was won by Rangers when they beat Dumbarton (by then a lower division club, and playing in their last major final to date) in the final the second Hampden Park by a 5–1 scoreline to claim the trophy for the second time.

Calendar

Round	First match date	Fixtures	Clubs
First round	9 January 1897	16	32 → 16
Second round	23 January 1897	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	13 February 1897	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	13 March 1897	2	4 → 2
Final	20 March 1897	1	2 → 1

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Abercorn	4 – 0	Hurlford
Arthurlie	4 – 2	Celtic
Blantyre	5 – 0	Bathgate
Dumbarton	2 – 1	Raith Rovers
	Duncrub Park	1 – 10	Hibernian
Dundee	7 – 1	Inverness Thistle
Falkirk	2 – 0	Orion
Heart of Midlothian	2 – 0	Clyde
Leith Athletic	5 – 1	Dunblane
Lochgelly United	1 – 2	King's Park
Greenock Morton	3 – 1		St Johnstone
Motherwell	3 – 3	Kilmarnock
Partick Thistle	2 – 4	Rangers
St Bernard's	2 – 1	Queen's Park
St Mirren	5 – 1	Renton
Third Lanark	8 – 1	Newton Stewart

First round replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Kilmarnock	5 – 2	Motherwell

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Abercorn	4 –1	Blantyre
Arthurlie	0 – 2	Greenock Morton *
Dumbarton	4 – 4	Leith Athletic
Dundee	4 – 2	King's Park *
	Kilmarnock	3 – 1	Falkirk *
Rangers	3 – 0	Hibernian
St Bernard's	5 – 0	St Mirren
Third Lanark	5 – 2	Heart of Midlothian

Match Declared Void

Second round replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Arthurlie	1 –5	Greenock Morton
Leith Athletic	3 – 3	Dumbarton
Dundee	5 – 0	King's Park
Kilmarnock	7 – 3	Falkirk

Second round second replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Dumbarton	3 – 2	Leith Athletic

Quarter-final

Home team	Score	Away team
Dumbarton	2 – 0	St Bernard's
Dundee	0 – 4	Rangers
Kilmarnock	3 – 1	Third Lanark
Greenock Morton	2 – 2	Abercorn

Quarter-final replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Abercorn	2 – 3	Greenock Morton

Semi-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Dumbarton	4 – 3	Kilmarnock
Greenock Morton	2 – 7	Rangers

Final

Hyslop McPherson A. Smith

Teams

OL		Alec Smith

OL		Jack Fraser

References

[https://www.fitbastats.com/rangers/game.php?gameid=37954 Scottish Cup Final 1897] [Rangers team], FitbaStats
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170425210740/http://www.sonsarchive.com/matchdetails.php?id=252 Rangers 5 - 1 Dumbarton], The Sons Archive (archived version, 2017)

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