1884–85 Scottish Cup Explained

The 1884–85 Scottish Cup – officially the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup – was the 12th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. Renton won the competition for the first tie after they defeated Vale of Leven in a replayed final.

Defending champions Queen's Park lost to Battlefield in the third round.

Calendar

Round	First match date	Fixtures			Clubs
		width=55	Original	width=55	Byes	width=55	Replays
First Round	13 September 1884	63	4	7	130 → 68
Second Round	4 October 1884	31	6	7	68 → 39
Third Round	25 October 1884	19	1	3	39 → 20
Fourth Round	15 November 1884	10	0	3	20 → 11
Fifth Round	6 December 1884	3	5	0	11 → 8
Quarter-finals	27 December 1884	4	0	0	8 → 4
Semi-finals	24 January 1885	2	0	1	4 → 2
Final	21 February 1885	1	0	1	2 → 1

• Two teams qualified for the second round after drawing their first round replay.
• Four teams qualified for the third round after drawing their second round replay.
• Two teams qualified for the fifth round after drawing their fourth round replay.

Teams

All 130 teams entered the competition in the first round.

Ayrshire	Dunbartonshire	Glasgow and District	Lanarkshire	Renfrewshire
valign=top	Annbank Ayr Cumnock Dalry Hurlford Kilmarnock Kilmarnock Athletic Lugar Boswell Mauchline Maybole Stewarton Cunninghame	valign=top	Albion Dumbarton Dumbarton Athletic Dunbritton Jamestown Lenzie Levendale Renton Rock Vale of Leven Vale of Leven Wanderers Yoker	valign=top	Battlefield Clyde Cowlairs Cyrus Dean Park Eastern Athletic Granton Glasgow United YMCA Kinning Park Athletic Northern (Glasgow) Orchard Partick Partick Thistle Pilgrims Pollokshields Pollokshields Athletic Possilpark Queen's Park Rangers Shawlands Springburn Hibernian Thistle Whitefield Whitehill 3rd Lanark RV	valign=top	Airdrie Airdriehill Airdrieonians Albion Rovers Cambuslang Chryston Clarkston Drumpellier Dykehead Glengowan Hamilton Academical Royal Albert Shettleston Tollcross Vale of Avon West Benhar Westburn Wishaw Swifts	valign=top	Abercorn Arthurlie Cartvale Clippens Greenock Rangers Greenock Rovers Johnstone Johnstone Rovers Kilbarchan Lyle Athletic Morton Neilston Northern (Greenock) Olympic Paisley Athletic Pollokshaws Port Glasgow Athletic Renfrew Southern St Mirren Thornliebank 1st Renfrew RV
Edinburghshire	Northern Counties	Perthshire	Stirlingshire	Southern Counties
valign=top	Bo'ness Dunfermline Edina Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Newcastleton Norton Park St Bernard's West Calder	valign=top	Aberdeen Angus Arbroath Coupar Angus Dundee East End Dundee Harp Dundee Our Boys Dundee West End Lindertis Perseverance Strathmore (Arbroath) Strathmore (Dundee)	valign=top	Breadalbane Crieff Juniors Dunblane Vale of Teith	valign=top	Alloa Athletic Campsie Campsie Central Dunipace East Stirlingshire Falkirk Grasshoppers King's Park Stenhousemuir Strathblane Tayavalla	valign=top	Moffat Queen of the South Wanderers Thornhill Vale of Nith Volunteer Athletic 5th Kirkcudbrightshire RV

First round

Matches

Glasgow and District

Dean Park received a bye to the second round.

Ayrshire district

Maybole received a bye to the second round.

Stirlingshire district

Campsie Central received a bye to the second round.

Edinburghshire district

Heart of Midlothian received a bye to the second round.

Southern Counties

Replays

Lanarkshire district

Second replay

Renfrewshire district

Notes

Sources:^[1]

Second round

Matches

Glasgow and District

Partick received a bye to the third round.

Renfrewshire district

Cartvale and Morton received a bye to the third round.

Lanarkshire district

Hamilton Academical received a bye to the third round.

Edinburghshire and Perthshire district

St Bernard's received a bye to the third round.

Southern Counties

Vale of Nith received a bye to the third round.

Replays

Northern Counties

Second replay

Renfrewshire district

Notes

Sources:^[1]

Third round

Matches

Renfrewshire and Ayrshire district

Annbank received a bye to the fourth round.

Southern Counties

Replays

Renfrewshire and Ayrshire district

Second replay

Renfrewshire and Ayrshire district

Notes

Sources:^[1]

Fourth round

Replays

Notes

Sources:^[1]

Fifth round

Battlefield, Renton, Thornliebank, Vale of Leven and the winners of the replayed Arbroath vs Rangers tie received a bye to the quarter-finals.

Matches

Sources:^[1]

Quarter-finals

Replay

Notes

Sources:^[1]

Semi-finals

Replay

Final

See main article: 1885 Scottish Cup final.

Replay

External links

• Season 1884-85 Renton [results list], The Beautiful Dribbling Game
• Scottish Cup 1884/85, RSSSF
• London Hearts Scottish Cup Results 1884–85
• Scottish Football Archive 1884–85

Notes and References

1. Book: Mathers, Stewart . 2017 . The Beautiful Dribbling Game: The Scottish F.A. Challenge Cup in the 19th Century . Great Britain . Amazon . 104–112, 285–289 . 978-0-9956998-0-9.