⚽ The Kick-Off - Wednesday 29th April 2026
Hearts win Scottish FA Youth Cup. St Mirren's Jonah Ayunga suffers an ACL injury. Scotland fans to receive free shuttle to stadium in Miami. Hearts win in SWPL.
📒 Random Scottish Football Fact #298: The 2018-19 League One season was the last time all four senior Angus clubs (Arbroath, Brechin City, Forfar Athletic & Montrose) were last in the same division.
LATEST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL RESULTS
➡️ ScottishPower SWPL 1
Heart of Midlothian 3 - 0 Partick Thistle
➡️ Scottish FA Youth Cup Final
Queen’s Park 0 - 4 Heart of Midlothian
plus matches in the North of Scotland League, East of Scotland League, and West of Scotland League. View all results on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
NEWS
🔝 Hearts have moved five points clear at the top of the ScottishPower SWPL 1. Glasgow City and Rangers will look to close the gap tonight. - view the SWPL 1 table
🏆 It was Scottish FA Youth Cup glory for the Under-18 Hearts side as they beat Queen’s Park 4-0 at Hampden last night.
It was the first time the Edinburgh club had lifted the trophy since 2000.
🏥 St Mirren’s Jonah Ayunga suffered an ACL injury in Saturday’s defeat to Livingston. - St Mirren website
⚽️ George Hirst was a 75th-minute substitute for Ipswich Town, and Ross Stewart was an 81st-minute substitute for Southampton last night as the two clubs played out a 2-2 draw. Ipswich are now in pole position to gain automatic promotion back to the Premier League with one game remaining.
Below is a comparison table across all competitions of all the main Scottish strikers plying their trade in the EFL Championship this season.
🚌 Scotland World Cup ticket holders will receive free shuttles to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium for Scotland v Brazil. - Dan Sheldon, The Athletic
⭐️ Celtic’s Daizen Maeda has been named the star man in the SPFL Team of the Week. - SPFL website
❓ There are only three spaces for teams left for The Scottish Football Kick-Off World Cup Quiz at The Clubhouse, Glasgow, on Monday, 1st June.
If you are one of those who have been thinking it sounds like a fun night (it will be), and you’ll get around to asking some folk to make a team, then get on the group chats now and get your team entered before it is too late.
Hosted by none other than commentator Rory Hamilton, every person participating in the quiz will receive a copy of the excellent Nutmeg Magazine. - enter your team here
⚫️ St Mirren CEO Keith Lasley has been named the SPFL CEO of the Year by the Football Business Awards. He will find out if he has won the overall CEO of the Year next month.
The SPFL Trust and Scottish FA are also up for awards. - Football Business Awards website
👏 There were Scottish winners at the British Sports Journalism Awards this week.
BBC Scotland’s Romanov: Czar of Hearts podcast won Audio Documentary of the Year and Audio Podcast (Limited Series) of the Year.
Johnathan Norcroft was named SJA Football Journalist of the Year.
Ally McCoist was named SJA Pundit of the Year.
🎟️ And if you fancy winning tickets to McCoist & MacAulay Live World Cup Special at the SEC Armadillo on Friday, 15 May? Both The Hampden Roar Podcast and Football Park Scotland are running social media competitions to win a pair.
🌎 Days until Haiti v Scotland at the World Cup: 45
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES TODAY
➡️ ScottishPower SWPL 1
Glasgow City v Celtic (7pm - live on Sky Sports)
Rangers v Hibernian (8pm)
plus matches in the Midlands League, East of Scotland League, and West of Scotland League. View all fixtures on the Scottish Football Fixtures website.
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