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(Top) 1 First round 2 Second round 3 Third round 4 Quarter-finals 5 Semi-finals 6 Final 7 References 7.1 General 7.2 Specific

1988–89 Scottish League Cup

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1988–89 Scottish League Cup
Tournament details
Country	Scotland
Defending champions	Rangers
Final positions
Champions	Rangers
Runner-up	Aberdeen
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 Scottish League Cup was the forty-third season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Rangers, who defeated Aberdeen in the Final.

First round[edit]

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Alloa Athletic (3)	2–4	Stirling Albion (3)	10 August 1988
Brechin City (3)	3–1	Montrose (3)	10 August 1988
Cowdenbeath (3)	0–0^[1]^[2]	Albion Rovers (3)	10 August 1988
East Stirlingshire (3)	0–1	Arbroath (3)	11 August 1988
Queen's Park (3)	1–2	Stranraer (3)	10 August 1988
Stenhousemuir (3)	3–0	Berwick Rangers (3)	10 August 1988

Second round[edit]

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Aberdeen (1)	4–0	Arbroath (3)	17 August 1988
Airdrieonians (2)	0–1	Motherwell (1)	17 August 1988
Albion Rovers (3)	2–4	Hamilton Academical (1)	16 August 1988
Brechin City (3)	0–2	Morton (2)	17 August 1988
Celtic (1)	4–1	Ayr United (2)	17 August 1988
Clyde (2)	0–3	Rangers (1)	17 August 1988
Clydebank (2)	2–0	Stenhousemuir (3)	17 August 1988
Dumbarton (3)	1–3^[1]	St Mirren (1)	16 August 1988
Dundee (1)	5–1	Queen of the South(2)	17 August 1988
East Fife (3)	1–1^[1]^[3]	Dunfermline Athletic (2)	17 August 1988
Falkirk (2)	1–1^[1]^[4]	Raith Rovers (2)	17 August 1988
Heart of Midlothian (1)	5–0	St Johnstone (2)	17 August 1988
Hibernian (1)	4–0	Stranraer (3)	17 August 1988
Kilmarnock (2)	1–0	Forfar Athletic (2)	17 August 1988
Meadowbank Thistle (2)	2–1	Stirling Albion (3)	16 August 1988
Partick Thistle (2)	0–2	Dundee United (1)	16 August 1988

Third round[edit]

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Celtic (1)	7–2	Hamilton Academical (1)	24 August 1988
Dundee (1)	2–1	Falkirk (2)	24 August 1988
Dunfermline Athletic (2)	2–1	Motherwell (1)	24 August 1988
Morton (2)	1–2	Aberdeen (1)	23 August 1988
Hibernian (1)	1–0	Kilmarnock (2)	23 August 1988
Meadowbank Thistle (2)	0–2	Heart of Midlothian (1)	23 August 1988
Rangers (1)	6–0	Clydebank (2)	24 August 1988
St Mirren (1)	1–3	Dundee United (1)	24 August 1988

Quarter-finals[edit]

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Dundee United (1)	2–0	Celtic (1)	31 August 1988
Dunfermline Athletic (2)	1–4	Heart of Midlothian (1)	31 August 1988
Hibernian (1)	1–2^[1]	Aberdeen (1)	31 August 1988
Rangers (1)	4–1	Dundee (1)	31 August 1988

Semi-finals[edit]

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Aberdeen (1)	2–0	Dundee United (1)	20 September 1988
Rangers (1)	3–0	Heart of Midlothian (1)	21 September 1988

Final[edit]

23 October 1988

Aberdeen (1)	2–3	Rangers (1)
Dodds		McCoist Ferguson

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 72,122

Referee: George Smith

References[edit]

General[edit]

"Scottish League Cup 1988–1989 : Results". Statto. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2012.

Specific[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e After Extra Time

^ Albion Rovers F.C. won 4–3 on penalties

^ Dunfermline Athletic F.C. won 4–3 on penalties

^ Falkirk F.C. won 9–8 on penalties

Scottish League Cup

Seasons

1946–47
1947–48
1948–49
1949–50
1950–51
1951–52
1952–53
1953–54
1954–55
1955–56
1956–57
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1988–89
1989–90
1990–91
1991–92
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1994–95
1995–96
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1999–2000
2000–01
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2014–15
2015–16
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Finals

v t e 1988–89 in Scottish football
« 1987–88 1989–90 »
Domestic leagues	Football League Premier Division First Division Second Division Highland League
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup Final League Cup Final Junior Cup Tennent's Sixes
European competitions	European Cup European Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup
Related to national team	Results 1990 World Cup qualifying (Group 5) Rous Cup
Club seasons
Premier Division	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Motherwell Rangers St. Mirren
First Division	Airdrieonians Ayr United Clyde Clydebank Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Forfar Athletic Kilmarnock Meadowbank Thistle Morton Partick Thistle Queen of the South Raith Rovers St. Johnstone
Second Division	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Arbroath Brechin City Berwick Rangers Cowdenbeath Dumbarton East Fife East Stirlingshire Montrose Queen's Park Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

v t e 1988–89 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '88 '89 England Faroe Islands '88 '89 Finland '88 '89 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '88 '89 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '88 '89 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '88 '89 Spain Sweden '88 '89 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '88 '89 Finland '88 '89 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '88 '89 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '88 '89 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Soviet Union '88 '89
Supercups	West Germany
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '87–'88 '88–'89

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