1965–66 Scottish Cup

1965–66 Scottish Cup
Tournament details
Country	Scotland
Final positions
Champions	Rangers
Runner-up	Celtic
	← 1964–65 1966–67 →

The 1965–66 Scottish Cup was the 81st staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers who defeated Celtic in the replayed final.

Preliminary round 1

Home team	Score	Away team
Berwick Rangers	1 – 0	Stenhousemuir
Dumbarton	2 – 2	Peebles Rovers
Forfar Athletic	1 – 1	Brechin City
Gala Fairydean	6 – 1	Selkirk
Raith Rovers	1 – 0	Inverness Caledonian

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Brechin City	1 – 3	Forfar Athletic
Peebles Rovers	2 – 3	Dumbarton

Preliminary round 2

Home team	Score	Away team
Arbroath	2 – 2	Cowdenbeath
Ayr United	1 – 0	Fraserburgh
Berwick Rangers	0 – 0	Albion Rovers
East Fife	1 – 0	Elgin City
Gala Fairydean	4 – 5	Montrose
Glasgow University	1 – 2	Dumbarton
Raith Rovers	0 – 1	Alloa Athletic
Ross County	4 – 3	Forfar Athletic

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Albion Rovers	3 – 0	Berwick Rangers
Cowdenbeath	1 – 1	Arbroath

Second Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Arbroath	2 – 3	Cowdenbeath

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Alloa Athletic	3 – 5	Ross County
Falkirk	1 – 2	Dundee United
Cowdenbeath	1 – 0	St Mirren
Dumbarton	2 – 1	Montrose
Dundee	9-1	East Fife
East Stirlingshire	0 – 0	Motherwell
Hearts	2 – 1	Clyde
Dundee United	0 – 0	Falkirk
Ayr United	1 – 1	St Johnstone
Celtic	4 – 0	Stranraer
Dunfermline Athletic	3 – 1	Partick Thistle
Hamilton Academical	1 – 3	Aberdeen
Hibernian	4 – 3	Third Lanark
Greenock Morton	1 – 1	Kilmarnock
Queen of the South	3 – 0	Albion Rovers
Rangers	5 – 1	Airdrieonians
Stirling Albion	3 – 1	Queen’s Park

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Motherwell	4 – 1	East Stirlingshire
St Johnstone	1 – 0	Ayr United
Kilmarnock	3 – 0	Greenock Morton

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Cowdenbeath	3 – 3	St Johnstone
Ross County	0 – 2	Rangers
Aberdeen	5 – 0	Dundee United
Dumbarton	1 – 0	Queen of the South
Dundee	0 – 2	Celtic
Stirling Albion	0 – 0	Dunfermline Athletic
Hearts	2 – 1	Hibernian
Kilmarnock	5 – 0	Motherwell

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
St Johnstone	3 – 0	Cowdenbeath
Dunfermline Athletic	4 – 1	Stirling Albion

Quarter-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Dumbarton	0 – 3	Aberdeen
Dunfermline Athletic	2 – 1	Kilmarnock
Hearts	3 – 3	Celtic
Rangers	1 – 0	St Johnstone

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team
Celtic	3 – 1	Hearts

Semi-finals

Aberdeen v Rangers

26 March 1966

Aberdeen	0 – 0	Rangers

Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 49,360
Referee: JW Paterson

Celtic v Dunfermline Athletic

26 March 1966

Celtic	2 – 0	Dunfermline Athletic

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
Attendance: 53,900

Replay

Aberdeen v Rangers

29 March 1966

Aberdeen	1 – 2	Rangers
Harry Melrose 38'		Forrest 8' George McLean 80'

Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 40,852
Referee: JW Paterson

Final

Rangers v Celtic

23 April 1966

Rangers	0 – 0	Celtic

Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 126,552
Referee: Tiny Wharton

Teams


RANGERS:
GK		Billy Ritchie
RB		Kai Johansen
LB		David Provan
RH		John Greig
CH		Ronnie McKinnon
LH		Bobby Watson
RW		Willie Henderson
IR		Jimmy Millar
CF		Jim Forrest
IL		Willie Johnston
LW		Davie Wilson
Manager:
Scot Symon


CELTIC:
GK		Ronnie Simpson
RB		Ian Young
LB		Tommy Gemmell
RH		Bobby Murdoch
CH		Billy McNeill
LH		John Clark
RW		Jimmy Johnstone
IR		Joe McBride
CF		Stevie Chalmers
IL		Charlie Gallagher
LW		John Hughes
Manager:
Jock Stein

Replay

Rangers v Celtic

27 April 1966

Rangers	1 – 0	Celtic
Kai Johansen

Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 98,202
Referee: Tiny Wharton

Teams


RANGERS:
GK		Billy Ritchie
RB		Kai Johansen
LB		David Provan
RH		John Greig
CH		Ronnie McKinnon
LH		Bobby Watson
RW		Willie Henderson
IR		George McLean
CF		Jimmy Millar
IL		Willie Johnston
LW		Davie Wilson
Manager:
Scot Symon


CELTIC:
GK		Ronnie Simpson
RB		Jim Craig
LB		Tommy Gemmell
RH		Bobby Murdoch
CH		Billy McNeill
LH		John Clark
RW		Jimmy Johnstone
IR		Joe McBride
CF		Stevie Chalmers
IL		Bertie Auld
LW		John Hughes
Manager:
Jock Stein

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1965–66 Scottish Cup

Contents

Preliminary round 1

Replays

Preliminary round 2

Replays

Second Replays

First round

Replays

Second round

Replays

Quarter-finals

Replays

Semi-finals

Replay

Final

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