The Drybrough Cup was a Scottish annual football tournament. It was held from 1971 until 1974, and was revived from 1979 to 1980. It was open to the four highest-scoring teams from Division 1, and the four highest-scoring teams from Division 2. The format allowed the tournament to have three rounds: first round, semi-final and final.

The Drybrough Cup was first competed in the season 1970-71. It was the first ever tournament in Scotland to bear a sponsors’ name, open to the eight top scoring teams in the Scottish League- four from the first division and four from the second division.

Celtic finally got their hands on the trophy winning the penalty shoot-out 4-2. After that the competition went into cold storage. Scottish football was restructured into three divisions at the end of the season, meaning two more League matches for the new Premier Division clubs.

The introduction of the Premier Division in 1974 stopped the Drybrough cup temporarily. In 1979, it was reintroduced with the four highest goal-scoring Clubs in the Premier Division plus the two highest goal-scoring Clubs in the First and Second Divisions qualifying.

Apr 7, 2019 · Incredibly Celtic levelled the score but extra time goals from Jimmy O’Rourke, a 40-yard wonder strike and a superb solo effort from Arthur Duncan meant the trophy would be heading to Leith.

Aug 3, 2012 · After losing in three successive Drybrough Cup finals ( 1971 - Aberdeen 1-2 Pittodrie; 1972 - Hibs 3-5 Hampden ; 1973 - Hibs 0-1 Hampden) Celtic reached the last stage of the competition again a year later, when they faced …

Sauchie Juniors won the East Region St Michael's Cup twice, in 1972 and 1974. After winning the East Dryburgh Cup in Season 1982–83, the team went on to defeat the other Dryburgh winners (Sunnybank, East Kilbride Thistle and Auchinleck Talbot) to win the National Dryburgh Trophy.

Blairgowrie is amongst the most successful teams in Perthshire, [citation needed] having won ten Currie Cups, eight Perthshire Junior League Championships, and thirteen Perthshire Junior Cups between the time of formation in 1946 and the disbandment of the Perthshire League in 1969.

Mar 13, 2022 · The thread on trophies got me thinking …… what trophies have been retired and where are they now? Skol Cup is in our trophy room Dryburgh Cup I guess is...

Even though the League Championship was won in the 1979-1980 season, the Dryburgh Cup triumph would be the catalyst for Fergie’s Aberdeen to prove their mental strength and win regularly at Hampden.