⚽ The Kick-Off | Wednesday 10th December 2025
KDM Evolution Trophy round-up. Tawanda Maswanhise wins Premiership Player of the Month. John ‘Dixie’ Deans passes away. Several SPFL players called up to AFCON squads.
🌎 Days until Haiti v Scotland at the World Cup: 185
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #208: Andy Robertson made his 63rd UEFA Champions League appearance last night. A record high for a Scottish player excluding qualifiers.
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
🏆 KDM Evolution Trophy – Round of 32
Alloa Athletic 2 - 3 Airdrieonians
Arbroath 3 - 2 Kelty Hearts
Ayr United 2 - 1 Peterhead
Cove Rangers P - P Partick Thistle
East Kilbride 1 - 4 Stranraer
Elgin City P - P East Fife
Forfar Athletic 1 - 1 Edinburgh City (Forfar Athletic won 4-2 on penalties)
Heart of Midlothian B P - P St Johnstone
Montrose P - P The Spartans
Queen of the South P - P Dunfermline Athletic
Queen’s Park P - P Clyde
Raith Rovers 5 - 2 Hamilton Academical
Ross County 4 - 0 Celtic B
Stenhousemuir 2 - 0 Annan Athletic
Stirling Albion 2 - 2 Greenock Morton (Stirling Albion won 5-4 on penalties)
➡️ Parks Motor Group Lowland League
Broxburn Athletic 3 - 0 Albion Rovers
Civil Service Strollers P - P Berwick Rangers
Cowdenbeath A - A Linlithgow Rose (due to high winds)
Cumbernauld Colts P - P Bonnyrigg Rose
NEWS
🏆 Ross County were the biggest winners in the KDM Evolution Trophy last night. They beat Celtic B 4-0 in Dingwall.
Raith Rovers scored five at home to Hamilton, while Stranraer scored four away at East Kilbride on their way to a 4-1 win. The biggest upset of the night came at Forthbank, where League Two Stirling Albion knocked out Greenock Morton on penalties.
💨 There were several postponements in the KDM Evolution Trophy last night, including a late call off between Queen’s Park and Clyde due to structural damage caused by the wind at Lesser Hampden.
The Partick Thistle team had travelled to Aberdeen before their game against Cove Rangers was called off due to high winds. St Johnstone’s away tie at Hearts B was postponed with less than an hour to kick-off.
Queen of the South v Dunfermline Athletic was called off five minutes after the game had been due to kick-off. - Ross Hart, Dunfermline Press
🚙 Peterhead’s kitman got stuck in traffic due to an accident on the way to Somerset Park yesterday. As a result, the League One side had to play in Ayr United’s Under-19’s yellow kit. - Peterhead FC on X
🎱 The draw for the last 16 of the KDM Evolution Trophy is due to be made this Thursday, December 11, at 1.00pm.
🏅 Motherwell’s Tawanda Maswanhise has been named the William Hill Premiership Player of the Month for November. - SPFL website
⭐ Aberdeen’s Adil Aouchiche was named star man in the SPFL Team of the Week.
⚽ Several SPFL players have been called up to African Cup of Nations squads.
Motherwell’s Tawanda Maswanhise has been called up to the Zimbabwe squad.
Rangers’ Nasser Djiga and Hearts’ Pierre Landry Kaboré are in the Burkina Faso squad.
Rocky Bushiri (Hibs) and Michel-Ange Balikwisha (Celtic) have been called up by DR Congo.
Hibs duo Jordan Obita and Miguel Chaiwa have been called up to the provisional 30-man Uganda squad alongside St Johnstone’s Uche Ikpeazu.
Dunfermline Athletic’s Alfonso Amade is in the Mozambique squad.
Rangers’ Mohamed Diomande missed out on the Ivory Coast squad.
Several squads are still to be named ahead of tomorrow’s deadline. Players have to be released by December 15 ahead of the tournament starting on December 21 in Morocco. - BBC
🆕 St Mirren have released a new third kit. It was designed by SMiSA member Jordan Byrne following a competition held during the summer.
😞 Celtic legend John ‘Dixie’ Deans has died at the age of 79.
Deans played for Celtic, Motherwell, and Partick Thistle in Scotland. The prolific striker scored a hat-trick in both the 1972 Scottish Cup Final and the 1974 League Cup Final for Celtic. - BBC
🏥 A GoFundMe page organised by East Fife podcast Glory Days of Gold is aiming to raise £9000 for winger Adam Laaref’s knee operation.
The fundraising campaign has raised nearly 40% to date. The operation Laaref requires would involve a year on the NHS waiting list, then the best part of another year in rehabilitation, keeping him out of football for up to two years. If the money can be raised, he will go private and hopefully return to training at the start of next season. - Darin Hutson, Fife Today
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
🏆 Scottish Gas Scottish Cup Third Round
Tranent v Inverness Caledonian Thistle (7.45pm)
➡️ Parks Motor Group Lowland League
East Stirlingshire v Caledonian Braves (7.45pm)
University of Stirling v Clydebank (7.45pm)
🏆 Morrisons Motors Aberdeenshire Shield Second Round
Banks o’ Dee v Aberdeen (8pm)
🏆 Morrisons Motors Aberdeenshire Shield Semi-Final
Fraserburgh v Keith (8pm)
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