2020 Scottish Challenge Cup Final


The 2020 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, also known as the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, is a football match that is due to take place between Raith Rovers and Inverness Caledonian Thistle. It will be the 29th final of the Scottish Challenge Cup since it was first organised in 1990 to celebrate the centenary of the now defunct Scottish Football League, and the seventh since the SPFL was formed. The match was originally scheduled for 28 March 2020, but all of Scottish football was suspended on 13 March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Scottish Football Association confirmed on 16 March that the SPFL had postponed the match, pending further information from the Scottish Government about when and how football could be resumed.

Route to the final

The competition is a knock-out tournament and was contested by 58 teams from Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 2019–20. The competition was originally only contested by clubs in the Scottish football league system, but teams from Wales and Northern Ireland were added from 2016-17, the Republic of Ireland in 2017-18, and two teams from the English National League were added from 2018–19.

Raith Rovers

Inverness

RoundOppositionScore
Third roundGreenock Morton 3–1
Fourth roundAlloa Athletic 3–0
Quarter-finalClyde 0–0
4-2
Semi-finalRangers Under-21s 2–1

Match details

Inverness player James Keatings was initially suspended for the final, having been sent off for being shown two yellow cards during the semi-final. An appeal against one of those cards, and the resulting suspension, was rejected by a Scottish Football Association panel. A new appeal hearing was convened when one of the panel members advised the SFA that they had not considered all of the available evidence. This second panel rescinded one of the cards, making Keatings available to play in the final.