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1951–52 Scottish League Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4567374 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1951–52 Scottish League Cup was the sixth season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Dundee, who defeated Rangers in the Final.

First round

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

Final

References

General

"Scottish League Cup 1951–1952 : Results". Statto. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1951–52 Scottish League Cup” as football tournament season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1952, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Scottish, League and football can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football tournament season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4567374. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1952 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “1951–52 Scottish League Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.