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2010–11 Scottish Youth Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ4619877 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2010–11 Scottish Youth Cup is the 28th season of Scotland's annual competition run by Scottish Football Association. The holders Celtic defeated Rangers 2–0 in last season's final.

Calendar

Format

First Round - 40 teams are divided geographically. 19 teams go into the Central Group, 10 into the North Group and 11 into the South Group. In this groups teams are played respectively only 3, 2 and 3 matches, while rest of teams go straight into the second round as byes.

Second Round - 8 winners of the first round join 24 teams, who did not play in the previous round.

Third Round - 16 winners of the second round join 16 seeded teams, who started at this stage.

Fourth Round - 16 winners of the third round.

Quarter-finals - 8 winners of the fourth round.

Semi-finals - 4 winners of the quarter-finals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2010–11 Scottish Youth Cup” is football tournament season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Scottish, Youth and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Scottish, Youth and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2010–11 Scottish Youth 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.