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2002–03 Scottish Cup

football tournament season

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4600953 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2002–03 Scottish Cup was the 118th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Tennent's Scottish Cup. The Cup was won by Rangers who defeated Dundee in the final.

First round

Replays

Second round

Replays

Third round

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Fourth round

Replays

Quarter-finals

Replays

Semi-finals

Final

Largest Wins

A list of the largest wins from the competition.

Editorial summary

“2002–03 Scottish Cup” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scottish, football and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scottish, football and tournament.
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Why this record matters

“2002–03 Scottish Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scottish, football and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4600953. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002–03 Scottish 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.