2012–13 Scottish Junior Cup

2012–13 Emirates Junior Cup

Country	Scotland
Teams	163
Top goal scorer(s)	Steve Hislop (Bo'ness United) 10 goals
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The 2012–13 Scottish Junior Cup is the 127th season of the Scottish Junior Cup, the national knockout tournament for member clubs of the Scottish Junior Football Association. The competition is sponsored by Emirates and is known as The Emirates Junior Cup for sponsorship purposes.^[1] The winner of this competition is eligible to enter the following seasons Scottish Cup at the first round stage.^[2]

A total of 163 clubs are entering this year's competition, one fewer than last season. Dropping out are Stonehouse Violet who have folded and Dufftown who are in abeyance. Scone Thistle return to the tournament after taking one season out of the game.

The five Junior clubs qualified for this season's Scottish Cup, will not be included in the draw for the first round. These are the three Superleague champions: Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic (East), Hermes (North) and Irvine Meadow (West); the Scottish Junior Cup winners Shotts Bon Accord, and Girvan who qualify automatically as a full member of the Scottish Football Association.

Calendar

The scheduled dates for each round of the 2012–13 tournament are as follows:^[3]

Round	Date	Matches	Clubs	New entries this round
First Round	22 September 2012	35	158 → 123	158
Second Round	20 October 2012	64	128 → 64	5
Third Round	17 November 2012	32	64 → 32	none
Fourth Round	19 January 2013	16	32 → 16	none
Fifth Round	16 February 2013	8	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	16 March 2013	4	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	13/14 & 20/21 April 2013	4	4 → 2	none
Final	2 June 2013	1	2 → 1	none

Drawn matches are replayed the following weekend. Replays ending in a draw proceed direct to penalty shootout. Semi-finals are played home and away over two legs, subject to decision by the SJFA management committee.

First round

The first round draw took place at the Scottish Football Museum, Hampden Park, Glasgow on 22 August 2012.^[4][5]

Home team  Score  Away team Crossgates Primrose 0 – 5 Cumnock Juniors Muirkirk 0 – 6 Yoker Athletic Lesmahagow 0 – 1 Bellshill Athletic Dunbar United 4 – 4 Penicuik Athletic Port Glasgow 7 – 1 East End Sunnybank 2 – 2 Lossiemouth United Fochabers 4 – 9^1 Larkhall Thistle Troon 0 – 4 Kilwinning Rangers Bo'ness United 5 – 2 Whitletts Victoria Colony Park 1 – 6 Fauldhouse United Fraserburgh United 1 – 4 Lochgelly Albert Arbroath Victoria 1 – 4 Kelty Hearts Tayport 1 – 0 West Calder United Broughty Athletic 0 – 3 Armadale Thistle Harthill Royal 0 – 8 Whitburn Cambuslang Rangers 0 – 6 Pollok Kirkcaldy YM 2 – 6 Thorniewood United Bishopmill United 2 – 7 Longside

Home team  Score  Away team FC Stoneywood 4 – 2 Tranent Juniors Glasgow Perthshire 0 – 2 Petershill St. Roch's 0 – 6 Jeanfield Swifts St Andrews United 3 – 2 Spartans Vale of Clyde 0 – 2 Ashfield Newmachar United 0 – 1 Lugar Boswell Thistle Oakley United 7 – 3 Darvel Blantyre Victoria 1 – 1 Lochee United Renfrew 2 – 0 Lewis United Burghead Thistle 2 – 0 Maybole Buckie Rovers 3 – 0 New Elgin Beith Juniors 8 – 0 Bankfoot Athletic Newmains United 2 – 1^2 East Craigie Craigmark Burntonians 1 – 3 St. Anthony's Kello Rovers 1 – 7 Hill of Beath Hawthorn Lochore Welfare 2 – 0 Newburgh Bathgate Thistle 0 – 4 Clydebank

¹ Tie played at New Elgin F.C.
² Tie played at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility

Replays

Home team  Score  Away team Lochee United 2 – 0 Blantyre Victoria Lossiemouth United 3 – 1 Sunnybank Penicuik Athletic 3 – 1 Dunbar United

Second round

The second round draw took place at the Shotts Bon Accord Social Club, Shotts on 30 September 2012.^[6]

Home team  Score  Away team Bo'ness United 11 – 1 Portgordon Victoria Musselburgh Athletic 5 – 0 Bridge of Don Thistle Glentanar 3 – 6 Blackburn United Culter 4 – 0 Thornton Hibs Kilsyth Rangers 2 – 1 Irvine Victoria Whitburn 1 – 6 Newtongrange Star Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic 4 – 1 Maud Ellon United 1 – 2 East Kilbride Thistle Steelend Victoria 3 – 0 Lossiemouth United Kelty Hearts 4 – 0 Renfrew Rossvale 0 – 2 Ardeer Thistle Kirriemuir Thistle 4 – 2 Banks O' Dee Edinburgh United 3 – 0 Scone Thistle Carnoustie Panmure 0 – 2 Dundonald Bluebell Blairgowrie 5 – 1 Nairn St. Ninian Fauldhouse United 8 – 0 Lochee Harp Lugar Boswell Thistle 1 – 3 Yoker Athletic Inverness City 3 – 2^3 Downfield Bellshill Athletic 2 – 0 Largs Thistle Arthurlie 2 – 1 Broxburn Athletic Hurlford United 1 – 3 Rutherglen Glencairn Deveronside 3 – 1 Lochore Welfare Girvan 0 – 3 Penicuik Athletic Jeanfield Swifts 0 – 0 Port Glasgow Ashfield 3 – 0 Arniston Rangers Dundee Violet 5 – 3 Kilbirnie Ladeside Dyce Juniors 1 – 0 Hill of Beath Hawthorn Carluke Rovers 1 – 1 Kinnoull Lanark United 0 – 3 Forth Wanderers Lochgelly Albert 0 – 2 Johnstone Burgh Ballingry Rovers 0 – 0 Sauchie Juniors RAF Lossiemouth 0 – 13 Camelon Juniors

Home team  Score  Away team Forfar West End 2 – 1 Buckie Rovers Glenrothes 1 – 1 Benburb Buchanhaven Hearts 2 – 1 FC Stoneywood Ardrossan Winton Rovers 0 – 9 Linlithgow Rose Lochee United 4 – 1 Kilwinning Rangers Thorniewood United 4 – 1 Dundee North End Royal Albert 2 – 4 Montrose Roselea Glenafton Athletic 3 – 2 Clydebank Shettleston 4 – 1 Cruden Bay Greenock Juniors 6 – 1 Forres Thistle Pumpherston 3 – 2 Whitehills Falkirk Juniors 1 – 4 Hermes Cumnock Juniors 5 – 0 Larkhall Thistle Oakley United 3 – 1 Stonehaven Dunipace Juniors 0 – 0 Livingston United Brechin Victoria 1 – 2 Coupar Angus Armadale Thistle 2 – 1 Hall Russell United Longside 1 – 1 St. Anthony's Vale of Leven 0 – 2 Irvine Meadow Haddington Athletic 0 – 4 Shotts Bon Accord Islavale 4 – 0 Luncarty Tayport 1 – 0 Annbank United Dalry Thistle 0 – 4 Cumbernauld United Burghead Thistle 1 – 11 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Parkvale 1 – 2 St Andrews United Forfar Albion 1 – 5 Saltcoats Victoria Pollok 2 – 1 Neilston Juniors Auchinleck Talbot 6 – 1 Dalkeith Thistle Banchory St. Ternan 4 – 5 Rosyth Stoneyburn 1 – 1 Maryhill Petershill 3 – 0 Newmains United Wishaw 1 – 4 Beith Juniors

³ Tie played at Nairn St. Ninian F.C.

Replays

Home team  Score  Away team Port Glasgow 1 – 6 Jeanfield Swifts Kinnoull 1 – 0 Carluke Rovers Sauchie Juniors 2 – 1 Ballingry Rovers St. Anthony's 3 – 1 Longside Benburb 4 – 2 Glenrothes Livingston United 2 – 1 Dunipace Juniors Maryhill 1 – 0 Stoneyburn

Third round

The third round draw took place at the offices of the Sun newspaper, Glasgow, on 6 November 2012.^[7]

Home team  Score  Away team Armadale Thistle 2 – 5 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Rosyth 4 – 0 Brechin Victoria Kelty Hearts 2 – 1^4 Penicuik Athletic Benburb 4 – 2 Saltcoats Victoria Camelon Juniors 3 – 3 Thorniewood United Greenock Juniors 2 – 4 Shotts Bon Accord Dundonald Bluebell 2 – 1 Oakley United Cumnock Juniors 6 – 0 Islavale Johnstone Burgh 7 – 1 Buchanhaven Hearts Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic 3 – 6 Petershill Beith Juniors 2 – 1 Sauchie Juniors Montrose Roselea 3 – 1 Maryhill Shettleston 3 – 1 Tayport Dyce Juniors 1 – 6 Lochee United Linlithgow Rose 3 – 1 Fauldhouse United Glenafton Athletic 0 – 1 Pollok

Home team  Score  Away team Pumpherston 4 – 3 Inverness City Cumbernauld United 0 – 0 Forfar West End Culter 7 – 2 Edinburgh United Ashfield 0 – 1 Ardeer Thistle Dundee Violet 5 – 0 Livingston United St. Anthony's 1 – 4 Irvine Meadow St Andrews United 0 – 3 Jeanfield Swifts Musselburgh Athletic 4 – 0 Bellshill Athletic Yoker Athletic 2 – 1 Forth Wanderers Hermes 1 – 2 Bo'ness United Newtongrange Star 0 – 1 Auchinleck Talbot Steelend Victoria 1 – 6^5 Arthurlie Deveronside 0 – 6 Rutherglen Glencairn Kirriemuir Thistle 1 – 4 Kilsyth Rangers East Kilbride Thistle 0 – 4^6 Kinnoull Blackburn United 3 – 2 Blairgowrie

⁴ Tie played at Oakley United F.C.
⁵ Tie played at Arthurlie F.C.
⁶ Tie played at Kinnoull F.C.

Replays

Home team  Score  Away team Thorniewood United 2 – 3^7 Camelon Juniors Forfar West End 1 – 4^8 Cumbernauld United

⁷ Tie played at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility
⁸ Tie played at Forfar Athletic F.C.

Fourth round

The fourth round draw took place at the offices of the Evening Times newspaper, Glasgow, on 27 November 2012.^[8]

Home team  Score  Away team Blackburn United 0 – 1 Rutherglen Glencairn Yoker Athletic 0 – 2 Camelon Juniors Lochee United 1 – 0 Ardeer Thistle Pollok 3 – 2 Beith Juniors Irvine Meadow 2 – 2 Shettleston Shotts Bon Accord 2 – 1 Benburb Musselburgh Athletic 3 – 3 Pumpherston Kelty Hearts 2 – 0 Cumbernauld United Johnstone Burgh 0 – 2 Dundonald Bluebell Auchinleck Talbot 7 – 0 Petershill Arthurlie 2 – 4 Linlithgow Rose Montrose Roselea 1 – 1 Jeanfield Swifts Kinnoull 0 – 0 Kilsyth Rangers Dundee Violet 1 – 1 Bo'ness United Culter 4 – 5 Cumnock Juniors Kirkintilloch Rob Roy 5 – 0 Rosyth

Replays

Home team  Score  Away team Jeanfield Swifts 5 – 0 Montrose Roselea Shettleston 0 – 1 Irvine Meadow Pumpherston 3 – 0 Musselburgh Athletic Kilsyth Rangers 4 – 1 Kinnoull Bo'ness United 4 – 1 Dundee Violet

Fifth round

The fifth round draw took place on the Clyde 1 football phone-in show, on 7 February 2013.^[9]

Home team  Score  Away team Dundonald Bluebell 0 – 3 Camelon Juniors Kirkintilloch Rob Roy 2 – 3 Bo'ness United Lochee United 1 – 3 Auchinleck Talbot Pollok 0 – 1 Shotts Bon Accord Irvine Meadow 0 – 1 Cumnock Juniors Rutherglen Glencairn 3 – 2 Pumpherston Linlithgow Rose 3 – 1 Jeanfield Swifts Kelty Hearts 2 – 0 Kilsyth Rangers

Quarter finals

The draw for the quarter finals took place on the Central 103.1 FM football phone-in show, on 26 February 2013.^[10]

Home team  Score  Away team Linlithgow Rose 4 – 1 Bo'ness United Rutherglen Glencairn 3 – 1 Camelon Juniors Cumnock Juniors 3 – 5 Shotts Bon Accord Kelty Hearts 0 – 4^9 Auchinleck Talbot

⁹ Tie played at Ballingry Rovers F.C. ^[11]

Semi finals

The draw for the semi finals took place at Mar Hall, Erskine on 24 March 2013, at a training base of the Scotland national football team.^[12]

First leg

Auchinleck Talbot v Rutherglen Glencairn

13 April 2013 15:00

Auchinleck Talbot	1 – 1	Rutherglen Glencairn
Bryan Young  6'	Report	84' (pen.) Mark McCarry

Beechwood Park, Auchinleck Referee: Colin Steven

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Linlithgow Rose v Shotts Bon Accord

13 April 2013 14:00

Linlithgow Rose	3 – 1	Shotts Bon Accord
Tommy Coyne  33', 42' Ruari MacLennan  67'	Report	34' Allan Mackenzie

Prestonfield, Linlithgow Attendance: 1,425 Referee: Gavin Duncan

Second leg

Rutherglen Glencairn v Auchinleck Talbot

20 April 2013 15:00

Rutherglen Glencairn	0 – 1 (aggregate 1 – 2)	Auchinleck Talbot
		8' (o.g.) Brian Welsh

Clyde Gateway Stadium, Rutherglen Attendance: 1,155 Referee: Alan Newlands

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Shotts Bon Accord v Linlithgow Rose

20 April 2013 14:00

Shotts Bon Accord	1 – 1 (aggregate 2 – 4)	Linlithgow Rose
Hugh Kerr  82'		52' (pen.) Tommy Coyne

Hannah Park, Shotts Attendance: 1,011 Referee: Gavin Ross

Final

Auchinleck Talbot v Linlithgow Rose

2 June 2013 16:05

Auchinleck Talbot	1 – 0	Linlithgow Rose
David Gormley  76'	Report

Braidwood Motor Company Stadium, Livingston Attendance: 6,492 Referee: Nick Walsh

1 Andy Leishman 2 Willie Lyle 3 Gordon Pope 4 Craig Pettigrew 5 Martin McGoldrick 6 Colin Spence  71' 7 Bryan Young 8 Steven White 9 Graham Wilson  71' 10 Keir Milliken  90' 11 James Latta Substitutes: 12 David Gormley  71' 14 Michael McCann  90' 15 Kyle Faulds  71' 16 Gavin Collins 17 Brian McGarrity Manager: Tommy Sloan

1 David Hay 2 Billy Gibson 3 Adam Nelson 4 Jamie McKenzie 5 John Ovenstone 6 Ruari MacLennan 7 Stuart McArthur 8 Andy Shirra  74' 9 Gordon Herd  57' 10 Tommy Coyne 11 Roddy MacLennan  85' Substitutes: 12 Mark Tyrrell  74' 14 Colin Strickland  57' 15 Calum Smith  85' 16 Stephen Manson 18 David Scott Manager: Mark Bradley

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