1872 Cup

The 1872 Cup – also known as the 1872 Challenge Cup – is a men's rugby union tournament contested every year between the two Scottish professional clubs Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby.

1872 Cup
SportRugby union
Instituted2007–08
Number of teams2
Countries Scotland (Scottish Rugby Union)
HoldersEdinburgh Rugby (2019-2020)
Most titlesGlasgow Warriors (7 titles)

Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby use their Pro14 league matches against one another to decide the Cup winners. The highest aggregate score in the home and away ties decides the 1872 Champions.

Not only is the Glasgow – Edinburgh fixture the oldest inter-district rugby match in the world,[1] but the derby is classed as one of the biggest in world rugby. Former Edinburgh coach, the South African Alan Solomons states: "These games are massive. For me, this is one of the big derbies of world rugby."[2]

History

The 1872 Cup marks the history of the world's oldest representative match.[3] On 23 November 1872 a Glasgow District side met an Edinburgh District side at Burnbank Park, the home ground of Glasgow Academicals. Rugby Union was 20 a side in those days. Edinburgh won the first match. However, there was no cup to be won – and no cup was won until 1995.

District sides

Scotland was to have 4 District Sides: North and Midlands; South; Glasgow District and Edinburgh District. These sides would regularly play each other and a Scottish Inter-District Championship was introduced in 1953. A Scottish Exiles side was also introduced in the later McEwans District Championship.

Main article: Scottish Inter-District Championship

Professionalism and the Inter-City Cup

The 4 District Sides North and Midlands, South, Glasgow and Edinburgh were to become Caledonia Reds, Border Reivers, Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby with professionalism. These teams challenged in the Inter-District Championship for European qualification to the Heineken Cup. A Cup was offered by the Sponsors, the estate agents Slater, Hogg and Howison in 1995. In 1997–98 the competition received a new sponsor: Inter-City Trains – and the Cup became known as the Inter-City Cup.

When Caledonia Reds and Border Reivers were merged into the Glasgow and Edinburgh sides, Glasgow and Edinburgh played one-off matches for the Inter-City Cup from 1998 to 2002. The Cup became the Virgin Trains Cup with sponsorship in 2001–02 with the Welsh-Scottish League matches between the pair being used to determine the winner.[4]

When the Border Reivers were revived in 2002 the Inter-City Cup was forgotten about and it sat in the old Glasgow & District Rugby Union office in Somerset Place, Glasgow for a few years. Unfortunately the Reivers folded again in 2007.

1872 Cup begins

The Cup was revived and rebranded by Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby as the 1872 Cup in season 2007–08. 1872 thus marking the date of the oldest derby match in rugby union history between the original Glasgow and Edinburgh amateur district sides on which the professional clubs were founded.[5]

Format of the Challenge Cup

Previously, the two league encounters of the Pro12 were used to decide the winner of the 1872 Challenge Cup. Usually, these fixtures were scheduled as double-headers; home/away to rival one week and away/home to rival the next. These double-headers were often scheduled around the weekends of Christmas and New Year. The 2016–17 season's 1872 Cup matches did not follow the double header format.[6]

The aggregate score of Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby in the fixtures is taken into account in deciding the winner.

Where the aggregate score is tied the holder retains the trophy.[7]

The format of the 1872 Cup for the 2017–18 season will be over 3 Pro14 matches.[8]

Sponsorship

The cup was originally sponsored by Greaves Sports.[1] Crabbie's have been announced as the sponsor of the 2016–17 season's 1872 Cup.[9]

List of results

Two-match format (2007–08 to 2016–17)
Year Date Venue Home Score Away Trophy Winner
Agg.
2007–08 28 December 2007 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 35–31[10] Glasgow Glasgow (1)
54–49
11 April 2008 Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 23–14[11] Edinburgh
2008–09 26 December 2008 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 39–6[12] Glasgow Edinburgh (1)
59–31
2 January 2009 Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 25–20[13] Edinburgh
2009–10 27 December 2009 Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 25–12[14] Edinburgh Glasgow (2)
47–27
2 January 2010 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 15–22[15] Glasgow
2010–11 27 December 2010 Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 30–18[16] Edinburgh Glasgow (3)
47–46
2 January 2011 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 28–17[17] Glasgow
2011–12 26 December 2011 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 23–23[18] Glasgow Glasgow (4)
40–35
1 January 2012 Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 17–12[19] Edinburgh
2012–13 21 December 2012 Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 23–14[20] Edinburgh Glasgow (5)
44–31
29 December 2012 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 17–21[21] Glasgow
2013–14 26 December 2013 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 16–20[22] Glasgow Glasgow (6)
57–50
26 April 2014[lower-alpha 1] Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 37–34[24] Edinburgh
2014–15 27 December 2014 Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 16–6[25] Edinburgh Edinburgh (2)
26–24
2 January 2015 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 20–8[26] Glasgow
2015–16 27 December 2015 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 23–11[27] Glasgow Edinburgh (3)
37–22
2 January 2016 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh[lower-alpha 2] Glasgow 11–14[29] Edinburgh
2016–17 26 December 2016 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 12–25[30] Glasgow Glasgow (7)
43–41
6 May 2017 Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 18–29[31] Edinburgh

Three-match format (2017–18 onwards)

With the introduction of South African teams to the Pro14, Glasgow and Edinburgh were designated to different conferences, resulting in one meeting during the season. As well as this, two additional derby matches were scheduled by the league, resulting in a three-game format for the Cup. The winner of the Cup will be the team that wins most matches, with the previous format of aggregate scores now being the first tie-break criteria.[32]

Year Date Venue Home Score Away Trophy Winner
Score
2017–18 23 December 2017 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 18–17[33] Glasgow Edinburgh (4)
2–1
30 December 2017 Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 17–0[34] Edinburgh
28 April 2018 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 24–19[35] Glasgow
2018–19 22 December 2018 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 23–7[36] Glasgow Edinburgh (5)
2–1
29 December 2018 Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 8–16[37] Edinburgh
27 April 2019 34–10[38]
2019–20 21 December 2019 Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 20–16[39] Edinburgh Edinburgh (6)
2–1
28 December 2019 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 29–19[40] Glasgow
22 August 2020[lower-alpha 3] Glasgow 15–30[42] Edinburgh
28 August 2020[lower-alpha 4] Edinburgh 3–15[44] Glasgow
2020–21 2 January 2021 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Edinburgh 10–7[45] Glasgow 1–1
16 January 2021[lower-alpha 5] Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow 23–22[48] Edinburgh
tbc Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Glasgow Edinburgh

Notes
  1. Match originally scheduled for 1 January 2014, but was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.[23]
  2. Match originally scheduled to be played at Scotstoun Stadium, but was moved due to a waterlogged pitch.[28]
  3. Match originally scheduled for w.o 29 May but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic and then rescheduled to be played at Murrayfield but still contested as a Glasgow home leg.[41]
  4. Extra derby round added due to COVID-19 pandemic and not included in contesting for the cup.[43]
  5. Match originally scheduled for December 27th, 2020 but postponed to 8 January 2021 due to four confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 among the Glasgow Warriors, then to 16 January 2021 due to a frozen playing surface at Scotstoun.[46][47]

See also
  • Glasgow District - for results of Glasgow - Edinburgh matches from 1872 to 1953; the 'Inter-City'
  • Edinburgh District - for results of Glasgow - Edinburgh matches from 1872 to 1953; the 'Inter-City'
  • Scottish Inter-District Championship - for results of Glasgow - Edinburgh matches from 1953 to 2003 in that championship.
  • Welsh-Scottish League - for results of Glasgow - Edinburgh matches from 1999 to 2002 in that championship.
  • Pro12 - for results of Glasgow - Edinburgh matches. See especially 2001 to 2007 in that championship; before the 1872 Cup began.
  • Pro14 - for results of Glasgow - Edinburgh matches from season 2017–18.
  • - for a detailed season by season guide of Glasgow Warriors. This also includes 'friendly matches' between Glasgow - Edinburgh. For instance: 1999–2000 Glasgow Warriors season details 5 Glasgow - Edinburgh matches over the course of the season.
  • - for a detailed season by season guide of Edinburgh Rugby.

Other celtic derbies

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