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Details confirmed for Wednesday’s group stage draw…<\/p>\n
The SPFL has confirmed the seeding pots for the 2025\/26 Premier Sports Cup group stage draw, which takes place tomorrow, Wednesday May 28, at 1.00pm.<\/p>\n
The draw will be shown live on Premier Sports 1 and can also be followed on the Premier Sports YouTube channel and their X\/Twitter page. In addition, the draw will be broadcast live on the SPFL YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
The five SPFL clubs competing in UEFA competitions will again enter the tournament at the knock-out stage, with the group stage draw involving the other 37 SPFL clubs for 2025\/26, including newcomers East Kilbride. Also participating as guest clubs this season are Bonnyrigg Rose of the Lowland League, Highland League champions Brora Rangers, and Highland League runners-up Brechin City.<\/p>\n
As has been the case for the previous three seasons, there is no regionalised aspect to the draw. The 40 participating clubs have been split into five seeding pots based on final league placings in season 2024\/25. One club from each pot will be drawn into the eight Groups A-H.<\/p>\n
The 2025\/26 Premier Sports Cup will kick off on the weekend of July 12\/13, with further group stage matchdays on July 15\/16, July 19\/20, July 22\/23 and July 26\/27.<\/p>\n
The eight group winners and three best runners-up will join the five clubs who qualified for Europe \u2013 Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Hibernian and Dundee United \u2013 in the last 16 on the weekend of August 16\/17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The quarter-finals will be played on the weekend of September 20\/21 and the semi-finals are scheduled for the weekend of November 1\/2. The 2025\/26 Premier Sports Cup final will take place at Hampden Park on Sunday December 14.<\/p>\n
Last season\u2019s competition saw record prize money on offer and that has been maintained for the 2025\/26 edition, with participating clubs guaranteed a minimum of \u00a330,000. Reaching the last 16 is worth at least \u00a360,000 while the cup winners will receive \u00a3400,000.<\/p>\n
Group stage draw seeding pots<\/strong><\/p>\n Pot 1<\/strong> Pot 2<\/strong> Pot 3<\/strong> Pot 4<\/strong> Pot 5<\/strong> Premier Sports Cup dates 2025\/26<\/strong><\/p>\n Group stage<\/strong> Second round<\/strong> Quarter-finals<\/strong> Semi-finals<\/strong> Final<\/strong>
\n1 St Mirren
\n2 Heart of Midlothian
\n3 Motherwell
\n4 Kilmarnock
\n5 Dundee
\n6 Ross County
\n7 St Johnstone
\n8 Falkirk<\/p>\n
\n9 Livingston
\n10 Ayr United
\n11 Partick Thistle
\n12 Raith Rovers
\n13 Greenock Morton
\n14 Dunfermline Athletic
\n15 Queen’s Park
\n16 Airdrieonians<\/p>\n
\n17 Hamilton Academical
\n18 Arbroath
\n19 Cove Rangers
\n20 Queen of the South
\n21 Stenhousemuir
\n22 Alloa Athletic
\n23 Kelty Hearts
\n24 Inverness Caledonian Thistle<\/p>\n
\n25 Montrose
\n26 Annan Athletic
\n27 Dumbarton
\n28 Peterhead
\n29 East Fife
\n30 Edinburgh City
\n31 Elgin City
\n32 The Spartans<\/p>\n
\n33 Stirling Albion\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
\n34 Clyde
\n35 Stranraer
\n36 Forfar Athletic
\n37 Bonnyrigg Rose
\n38 East Kilbride
\n39 Brora Rangers
\n40 Brechin City<\/p>\n
\nMD1: Weekend of July 12\/13
\nMD2: Midweek of July 15\/16
\nMD3: Weekend of July 19\/20
\nMD4: Midweek of July 22\/23
\nMD5: Weekend of July 26\/27<\/p>\n
\nWeekend of August 16\/17<\/p>\n
\nWeekend of September 20\/21<\/p>\n
\nWeekend of November 1\/2<\/p>\n
\nSunday December 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Details confirmed for Wednesday’s group stage draw… The SPFL has confirmed the seeding pots for the 2025\/26 Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,94,4884,12,1144,712,59507,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-135853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-spfl","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114579694177954564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}