This season’s Scottish Cup comes with the huge incentive of guaranteed European group stage football. Scotland currently sits tenth in UEFA’s coefficient table and the Scottish Premiership winners are almost guaranteed automatic entry into the Champions League groups for the first time in a decade.
But there is a further boost with the massive carrot this season of the Scottish Cup winners going into the Europa League play off round.
Victory at that stage would see them into the group stage of UEFA’s second tier competition but even defeat would result in the consolation of a Conference League group stage place.
The Premiership started the season ranked 11th, and the top 12 nations see the champion of their national cup competition enter
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