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The Scottish War Emergency Cup was a temporary competition held at the start of the Second World War, due to the suspension of the Scottish Cup by the SFA. It was held between February and May in 1940, the competition involved all sixteen League clubs still operating at the time, Cowdenbeath later withdrew which meant Dunfermline Athletic received a bye in the first round. Rangers beat Dundee United 1–0 in the Final.

All match details are sourced to the Scottish Football Historical Archive.

First round

Dunfermline Athletic received a bye in the first round due to Cowdenbeath's withdrawal.

First legs

24 February 1940	Albion Rovers	3–3	Aberdeen
	Burke Dempsey		Ferguson Patillo	Attendance: 5,500

24 February 1940	Alloa	1–4	Rangers
	Gillan		Duncanson Thornton Waddell	Attendance: 7,000

24 February 1940	Celtic	4–2	Raith Rovers
	Crum Divers Gould		Murray Kinnear	Attendance: 6,200

24 February 1940	Clyde	3–1	East Fife
	Noble Wallace		Adams	Attendance: 4,500

24 February 1940	Dumbarton	4–3	Arbroath
	Dunn Milne Lang		Miller Mudie	Attendance: 4,500

24 February 1940	Dundee	1–1	Third Lanark
	McGillivray		Dewar	Attendance: 6,320

24 February 1940	Falkirk	5–0	Hibernian
	Dawson Keys Napier Carruthers			Attendance: 7,060

24 February 1940	Hamilton Academical	7–1	Stenhousemuir
	McIntyre Wilson McKerrell Harrison		Buchan	Attendance: 3,500

24 February 1940	St Johnstone	2–1	Heart of Midlothian
	Lorimer Hird		Brown	Attendance: 4,300

24 February 1940	Kilmarnock	1–0	Ayr United
	Gallacher			Attendance: 8,630

24 February 1940	King's Park	4–6	Motherwell
	Stewart McDowall Ferrier		McInally Wales McCulloch Wood Bremner	Attendance: 3,330

24 February 1940	Partick Thistle	2–4	Dundee United
	Morrison Picken		Gardiner Adamson Kerr	Attendance: 5,210

24 February 1940	Queen's Park	3–2	Airdrieonians
	Kyle Aitken Ferguson		Gillick Reid	Attendance: 7,650

24 February 1940	St Bernard's	1–5	Morton
	Philp		McGarry Calder Milne	Attendance: 5,070

24 February 1940	St Mirren	6–0	Queen of the South
	Linwood Caskie			Attendance: 10,000

Second legs

2 March 1940	Aberdeen	0–1 (3–4 agg.)	Albion Rovers
			Bell	Attendance: 8,841

2 March 1940	Airdrieonians	3–1 (5–4 agg.)	Queen's Park
	Flavell Mooney Reid		Mitchell	Attendance: 8,000

2 March 1940	Arbroath	0–2 (3–6 agg.)	Dumbarton
			Dunn	Attendance: 2,150

2 March 1940	Ayr United	2–2 (2–3 agg.)	Kilmarnock
	Marshall McKenzie		Collins Thomson	Attendance: 9,940

2 March 1940	Dundee United	1–1 (5–3 agg.)	Partick Thistle
	Fraser		Sharp	Attendance: 8,000

2 March 1940	East Fife	1–0 (2–3 agg.)	Clyde
	McLeod			Attendance: 3,100

2 March 1940	Heart of Midlothian	5–0 (6–2 agg.)	St Johnstone
	Phillips Briscoe Brook			Attendance: 7,974

2 March 1940	Hibernian	4–0 (4–5 agg.)	Falkirk
	Finnigan Nutley Cuthbertson			Attendance: 4,520

2 March 1940	Morton	5–0 (10–1 agg.)	St Bernard's
	Calder Turnbull Martin			Attendance: 3,400

2 March 1940	Motherwell	3–2 (9–6 agg.)	King's Park
	Ogilvie Bremner Wood		Binnie Black	Attendance: 2,792

2 March 1940	Queen of the South	4–1 (7–4 agg.)	St Mirren
	Connor Lang Law		Brady	Attendance: 3,800

2 March 1940	Raith Rovers	3–0 (5–4 agg.)	Celtic
	Lyons (o.g.) (o.g.) Hume Tulip			Attendance: 5,463

2 March 1940	Rangers	2–2 (6–3 agg.)	Alloa
	Venters Waddell		Rice Fitzsimmons	Attendance: 8,000

2 March 1940	Stenhousemuir	4–1 (5–8 agg.)	Hamilton Academical
	Buchan Rodi Allan		McIntyre

2 March 1940	Third Lanark	3–1 (4–2 agg.)	Dundee
	Sinclair Dewar Dykes		Adam

Second round

9 March 1940	Clyde	3–1	Dunfermline Athletic
	Agnew Beaton McLaren		Johnston	Attendance: 7,000

9 March 1940	Dumbarton	0–2	Airdrieonians
			Reid Flavell	Attendance: 5,500

9 March 1940	Dundee United	7–1	Third Lanark
	Gardiner Kerr Milne Adamson		Joyner	Attendance: 8,000

9 March 1940	Hamilton Academical	0–2	St Mirren
			Deakin Brady	Attendance: 8,000

9 March 1940	Heart of Midlothian	2–1	Raith Rovers
	Phillips Walker		Kinnear	Attendance: 9,951

9 March 1940	Kilmarnock	2–1	Albion Rovers
	Collins McGrogan		McKinlay	Attendance: 7,586

9 March 1940	Morton	1–1	Motherwell
	Milne		Bremner	Attendance: 8,688

Replays

11 March 1940	Motherwell	5–2	Morton
	McCulloch Ogilvie Bremner		McPhie Keys	Attendance: 8,600

11 March 1940	Rangers	3–2	Falkirk
	Thornton Venters		Calder Fyfe	Attendance: 46,000

Quarter-finals

Dundee United	3–0	Kilmarnock
Milne Fraser Gardiner

Motherwell	3–0	Clyde
Bremner McCulloch

Rangers	3–1	St Mirren
Thornton McNee Smith		Brady

Replay

The match was abandoned after 117 minutes due to poor light.

Heart of Midlothian	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Airdrieonians
Carruth Baxter		Reid Mooney

Second replay

Heart of Midlothian	3–4	Airdrieonians
Walker (pen.) Phillips		Mooney Flavell Reid Farr

Semi-finals

Rangers	4–1	Motherwell
Thornton Smith Venters		McCulloch

Replay

Dundee United	3–1	Airdrieonians
Glen Adamson Dunsmore		Reid

Final

Rangers	1–0	Dundee United
Smith

Teams

Dundee United: GK Charlie Thomson RB Alex Miller LB Tommy Dunsmore RH Arthur Baxter CH Jimmy Littlejohn LH Jimmy Robertson RW Alex Glen IR Bobby Gardiner CF Arthur Milne IL Tommy Adamson LW Norman Fraser Manager: Jimmy Allan

Rangers: GK Jerry Dawson RB Dougie Gray LB Jock Shaw RH Bobby Bolt CH Willie Woodburn LH Tom McKillop RW Willie Waddell IR Willie Thornton CF Jimmy Smith IL Alex Venters LW Adam Little Manager: Bill Struth

References

1. ^ "Scottish War Emergency Cup". Scottish Football Historical Archive. Brian McColl. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
2. ^ "Smith's late goal". The Glasgow Herald. 6 May 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
3. Rangers 1 Dundee Utd 0 | Emergency War Cup (Final), Arab Archive

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