Scottish Challenge Cup Predictions, Stats And Trends.
The cup for everyone below the top flight: Championship, League One and League Two clubs, Premiership colt sides and guests from the Highland and Lowland Leagues and beyond. The Scottish Challenge Cup is where the lower leagues get a trophy of their own, and Football Hub holds every tie of it.
2026/27 season · 50 clubs · 136 ties so far this season
- Matches On Record
- 499
- Seasons Of Detail
- 7
- Goals A Game
- 3.47
- Clubs On Record
- 83
Finished ties in Football Hub, 2019/20 to 2026/27, counted on 23 October 2026.
What Football Hub Is
Everything Football Hub Does, Pointed At The Scottish Challenge Cup.
Football Hub puts a ridiculous amount of football data under one roof: ten seasons of stats, live matches, predictions and bookmaker prices for 22 leagues, 14 cups and 9 international competitions. Cheatsheets spot the patterns that keep repeating, and The Analyst, an AI that has read all of it, does the digging when you ask it a question. Here is what that means for the Scottish Challenge Cup.
The Lower Leagues’ Own Cup. Every tie from the first round to the final, for the clubs who rarely get a final of their own.
Colts And Guests. Premiership reserve sides and guest clubs appear in the app with their own pages, so a tie against an unfamiliar side is never a blank.
Goals On Record. Six seasons of results make the competition’s habits clear: nearly seven ties in ten clear 2.5 goals.
Prices Where The Bookmakers Offer Them. The app shows the best price for each market across the bookmakers where a tie is priced.
The Match Centre
Every Scottish Challenge Cup Tie, Taken Apart.
Both team sheets on the pitch in their formations the moment they are confirmed, a timeline of goals, cards and substitutions, the statistics and a rating for every player, live and long after the final whistle. Ask The Analyst, the AI that has read every match in Football Hub, about any tie and it reads all of this before it answers.
And The Rest
Everything Else In The App, Scottish Challenge Cup Included.
Every paid plan includes the whole app. These six are a click from any Scottish Challenge Cup tie, and the only thing that varies between paid plans is how many questions you can put to The Analyst each month.
The Analyst
Ask about any Scottish Challenge Cup tie, player or market and it reads Football Hub's own data on it before answering, quoting the figures it used.
Prices And Results
The analyst grades league matches and the European club competitions; cup ties come with the bookmakers' prices for every market, the result and every event as it happens, and the full record afterwards.
Cheatsheets
The runs a side or a regular has kept up in every one of their last five to ten matches, with the number from each match behind every one.
The Match Centre
Team sheets on the pitch, a timeline of goals, cards and substitutions, statistics and a rating for every player, live and long after full time.
Live Scores And Alerts
Scores every minute on match days, a pinned scorecard for the games you follow and an alert the moment anyone scores. Kick-offs in UK time.
Head To Heads
What keeps happening when two sides meet and nowhere else: goals, cards, corners and results, checked against their other matches.
How It Plays
The Scottish Challenge Cup, By The Numbers.
The Scottish Challenge Cup, played as the SPFL Trust Trophy, is for the clubs of the Scottish Championship, League One and League Two, joined by the reserve sides of the Premiership clubs and guest clubs from outside the SPFL. Football Hub holds every match since 2019/20, 499 finished ties across 83 clubs. It is a high-scoring competition, with 3.47 goals a game on record and both teams scoring in six ties out of ten, and the home side wins more often than in any Scottish league. The match centre shows every tie in full.
How 499 ties ended
Every finished tie on record, 2019/20 to 2026/27.
- Home Wins
- 51.3%
- Draws
- 17.0%
- Away Wins
- 31.7%
- Goals A Game
- 3.47
- Both Teams Scored
- 59.5%
- Over 2.5 Goals
- 67.5%
Counted from Football Hub's own record of the competition on 23 October 2026. Past results describe the competition; they are no guarantee of any single tie.
Questions
Questions About The Scottish Challenge Cup.
The ones people ask before they sign up. Anything else, send us a message.
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More In Scotland
The Other Competitions Football Hub Covers In Scotland.
Every Scottish Challenge Cup Tie, In One Place.
The form, the trends, the numbers and the prices in one place, ready before the next round starts.