⚽ The Kick-Off - Monday 9th February 2026
Weekend round-up. Scottish Cup Quarter-Final draw. Signings for Celtic, Inverness, Forfar and Dumbarton. Scott McTominay scores for Napoli. Kieron Bowie makes Serie A debut.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #246: Guillermo Amor who played more than 370 times for Barcelona and had won 37 caps for Spain finished his career at Livingston in 2003.
WEEKEND ROUND-UP
🏆 SCOTTISH GAS SCOTTISH CUP FIFTH ROUND
All the favourites progressed to the quarter-finals, with Rangers the highest scorers.
Aberdeen P-P Motherwell
Airdrieonians 1-2 St Mirren (after extra time)
Celtic 2-1 Dundee
Dundee United P-P The Spartans
Dunfermline Athletic 2-0 Kelty Hearts
Elgin City 2-3 Partick Thistle
Rangers 8-0 Queen’s Park
Stenhousemuir 0-2 Falkirk (after extra time)
➡️ WILLIAM HILL LEAGUE ONE
Inverness moved three points clear of second-placed Stenhousemuir. Cove Rangers moved five points clear of bottom side Kelty Hearts.
Cove Rangers 1-1 Queen of the South
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3-0 East Fife
Peterhead P-P Alloa Athletic
View the League One table here
➡️ WILLIAM HILL LEAGUE TWO
East Kilbride reduced the gap to three points at the top of League Two. Forfar Athletic are three points behind fourth-placed Stranraer in the battle for the play-offs.
Edinburgh City 0-2 East Kilbride
Forfar Athletic 2-0 Dumbarton
Stranraer 0-0 Annan Athletic
View the League Two table here
➡️ SWPL 1
Hearts have moved three points behind Glasgow City at the top. City remain undefeated. They conceded only their sixth league goal of the season after 17 games.
Glasgow City 1-1 Celtic
Hamilton Academical 0-11 Rangers
Hibernian 2-0 Motherwell
Heart of Midlothian 6-0 Aberdeen
Montrose 1-2 Partick Thistle
⚽️ THE LATE GOALS SOCIETY
(goals scored in the 85th minute or later)
Chris Kane (Dunfermline Athletic - 87’), Tochi Chukwuani (Rangers - 90’), Junior Adamu (Celtic - 90+7’), Sebastian Tounekti (Celtic - 92’), Brad Spencer (Falkirk - 104’), Roland Idowu (St Mirren - 115’), Barney Stewart (Falkirk - 108’)
Jake Dolzanski (Forfar Athletic - 85’)
Calliste Brookshire (Rangers Women - 90’)
🔴 THE RED CARD CLUB
For only the second weekend this season, there were no new members of the Red Card Club.
NEWS
🏆 The draw for the quarter-finals of the Scottish Gas Scottish Cup was made last night.
Dunfermline Athletic v Aberdeen or Motherwell
Falkirk v Dundee United or The Spartans
Rangers v Celtic
St Mirren v Partick Thistle
Ties to be played weekend of 7th March.
🟢 Celtic announced the signing of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on Saturday. The 32-year-old has signed a deal until the end of the season with an option for a further year. - Celtic website
🦁 Livingston have sold defender Josh Brenet to Turkish top-flight side Kayserispor for an undisclosed fee. The 31-year-old Curaçao international only joined the West Lothian club in October. - Livingston FC website
🔵 Inverness Caledonian Thistle have signed Ben Brannan on loan from Kilmarnock. The 19-year-old also spent the second half of last season on loan at Caley. - Inverness Caledonian Thistle website
🟡 Josh Clarke and Ben McPherson, who are on loan at Partick Thistle from Celtic, have agreed to join the Championship club permanently in the summer. - Partick Thistle website
✍️ Forfar Athletic have brought in Rangers goalkeeper Mason Munn on loan. The 19-year-old spent the first half of the season on loan at Dunfermline Athletic, making eight appearances for the Pars. - Forfar Athletic website
🔴 Dumbarton midfielder Dom Docherty left the League Two club to join Lowland League title contenders Clydebank. - Clydebank FC website
✍️ Dumbarton did bring in former Edinburgh City striker Jack Duncan on a deal until the end of the season. - Dumbarton FC website
🔄 Scotland Under-21 striker Rory Wilson has joined Austrian side Sturm Graz on loan from Aston Villa. The 20-year-old signed for the Premier League club from the Rangers Academy. - Stewart Wilson, Glasgow Times
⚽️ Scott McTominay scored from 25 yards in Napoli’s 3-2 away win over Genoa.
It was his 10th goal of the season. McTominay was taken off as a precaution at half-time.
Kieron Bowie made his Hellas Verona debut in their 0-0 draw with Pisa. - view the Serie A table
⚽️ Oli McBurnie and Ross McCrorie were both on the scoresheet in Hull City 2 - 3 Bristol City.
Ryan Oné scored his first Lincoln City goal. The Scotland Under-21 international is on loan from Sheffield United and came off the bench to score in Lincoln’s 4-1 League One win over Plymouth Argyle.
⚽️ Tyler Fletcher, son of Darren Fletcher, made his debut for Manchester United against Spurs on Saturday. The 18-year-old Scotland youth international follows on from his brother, Jack, who made his debut a few weeks ago.
➡️ There was six games in the Breedon Highland League this weekend.
The result of the weekend was bottom-side Rothes beating Deveronvale 4-2 away to pick up their first league win of the season.
Brora Rangers bounced back from their midweek defeat to Nairn County to beat Strathspey Thistle 7-1. Second-placed Formartine United’s game was postponed. Brora are four points clear but have played two games more.
Brechin City beat Huntly 1-0 away, and Fraserburgh beat Lossiemouth 4-0 away to keep up the pressure on the leaders. - view the Highland League table here
➡️ Bonnyrigg Rose took advantage of Clydebank’s game being postponed to move five points clear at the top of the Park’s Motor Group Lowland League.
Bonnyrigg beat bottom-side East Stirlingshire 4-0. Caledonian Braves moved into third with their 3-2 away win at Bo’ness United. Broxburn Athletic started the day in third but lost 3-2 away at University of Stirling. - view the Lowland League table
📺 The SPFL announced seven more matches for live broadcast in March. - SPFL website
🟢 Celtic made three changes to their European squad. Out went Johnny Kenny (on loan at Bolton Wanderers), Callum Osmand (injured), and summer signing Michel-Ange Balikwisha. In are three new signings: Julian Araujo, Tomas Cvancara, and Junior Adamu. - John McGinley, The Celtic Way
👋 Raith Rovers have let go of their technical director, John Potter. The club announced that manager Dougie Imrie will take full control of the football department. - Iain Collin, The Courier
🌎 Days until Haiti v Scotland at the World Cup: 124
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
No Scottish football fixtures today 👎
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