2007 Scottish Challenge Cup Final
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The 2007 Scottish Challenge Cup Final was played on 25 November 2007 at Dens Park
Dens Park
Dens Park is a football stadium located on Dens Road in Dundee, Scotland. The stadium is the home of Dundee F.C. and has a capacity of 12,085...

 in Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

 and was the 17th Scottish Challenge Cup Final. The final was contested by Dunfermline Athletic
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
Dunfermline Athletic Football Club are a Scottish football team based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline. They currently compete in the Scottish Premier League....

 and St. Johnstone. St. Johnstone won the match 3–2, which earned their first national trophy win in their 122 year existence.

Match details


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style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC:
GK 1   Paul Gallacher
Paul Gallacher
Paul Gallacher born in Deaconsbank, Glasgow is a Scottish professional football goalkeeper currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Dunfermline Athletic. He also made seven appearances for the Scottish national team...

RB 2   Calum Woods
Calum Woods
Calum Jack Woods is an English professional footballer who plays for Huddersfield Town in Football League One.-Early career:...

 
CB 3   Scott Wilson
CM 4   Stephen Simmons
Stephen Simmons
Stephen Simmons is a Scottish professional footballer who is currently signed with Scottish First Division club Queen of the South.-Heart of Midlothian:...

 
CB 5   Souleymane Bamba
Souleymane Bamba
Souleymane "Sol" Bamba is a professional footballer who plays for Championship club Leicester City, as a defender.Bamba started his career in his native France with Paris Saint-Germain, but failed to establish himself in their first team and moved to Scotland to join Dunfermline Athletic in 2006...

LB 6   Danny Murphy
Danny Murphy (footballer born 1982)
Daniel Thomas "Danny" Murphy is an English-born Irish football who plays as a defender for Cork City.-In England:Murphy, a left full back, previously played for Queens Park Rangers, Swindon Town, and Margate.-Queens Park Rangers:...

RM 7   Bobby Ryan
Bobby Ryan (footballer)
Bobby Ryan is an Irish footballer who plays for Galway United.-Career:Ryan had a schoolboy career with the Geraldines nursery club in Limerick and had progressed to play for Limerick and Galway United, before Stephen Kenny signed him for Bohemians in January 2002.He made his debut for the club...

CF 8   Stephen Crawford
Stephen Crawford
Stephen "Stevie" Crawford is a Scottish professional football player and manager. He is currently the assistant manager of Falkirk....

CF 9   Mark Burchill
Mark Burchill
Mark James Burchill is a Scottish professional football player who plays as a striker. He previously played for Scottish clubs Celtic, Dundee, Hearts, Dunfermline Athletic and Kilmarnock, and in England for Birmingham City, Ipswich Town, Portsmouth, Wigan Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday and...

CM 10   Stephen Glass
Stephen Glass (footballer)
Stephen Glass is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Carolina RailHawks in the North American Soccer League....

LM 11   Michael McGlinchey
Michael McGlinchey
Michael Ryan McGlinchey is an association footballer currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners....

 
Substitutes:
DF 12   Jamie Harris
Jamie Harris
Jamie Harris is a Welsh professional footballer currently playing for Leinster Senior League side Glebe North F.C.Harris began his football career at hometown club Swansea City in 1996. He impressed in a trial game against Swindon Town and manager Jan Molby offered him a two-year contract...

 
MF 14   Darren Young
Darren Young (Scottish footballer)
Darren Young is a Scottish semi-professional football player. He currently plays for Alloa Athletic.Over the course of his career he has also played for Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline Athletic and Greenock Morton...

FW 15   Jim Hamilton 
MF 16   Scott McBride
Scott McBride (footballer)
Scott McBride is a Scottish professional football player who currently plays for Scottish Division One side Raith Rovers.-Career:...

GK 18   Sean Murdoch
Sean Murdoch
Sean Murdoch is a Scottish professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for English League Two side Accrington Stanley.-Early career:Murdoch started his career playing in the youth teams at Hearts...

Manager:
  Stephen Kenny
style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> ST JOHNSTONE: | GK 1   Alan Main
Alan Main
Alan David Main is a Scottish football goalkeeper.Main made his debut in the Highland Football League aged just fifteen and went on to a professional career exceeding twenty years. He has played for Dundee United, Cowdenbeath, East Stirlingshire, St. Johnstone, Livingston, Gretna and Ayr United...

RB 2   Gary Irvine
Gary Irvine
Gary Irvine is a professional footballer who plays for Dundee FC. His preferred positions are right back and right wing....

LB 3   Goran Stanić
Goran Stanic
Goran Stanić or Stanik is a Macedonian professional footballer, currently without a club.-Domestic:He scored his first goal in Scottish League Football for St. Johnstone with a 35-yard strike against Hamilton in October 2005...

CM 4   Derek McInnes
Derek McInnes
Derek John McInnes is a former Scottish football player and current manager of Bristol City. McInnes featured prominently for Greenock Morton, Rangers, West Bromwich Albion and Dundee United during his playing career. He won two caps for the Scotland national football team while with West...

CB 5   Allan McManus
Allan McManus
Allan William McManus is a Scottish professional footballer, currently playing for Dumbarton....

CB 6   Steven Anderson
Steven Anderson
Steven James Stuart Anderson is a Scottish footballer currently playing for St. Johnstone. Anderson can play anywhere across the back line of defence although usually plays in central defence.-Career:...

  RM 7   Rocco Quinn
Rocco Quinn
Rocco Quinn is a Scottish professional football player currently playing in midfield for Ross County.-Early career:...

CM 8   Paul Sheerin
Paul Sheerin
Paul George Sheerin is a Scottish professional football player and manager. He is currently performing both of those roles at Arbroath.-Alloa Athletic:...

CF 9   Kenny Deuchar
Kenny Deuchar
Kenneth Robert John "Kenny" Deuchar is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing as a striker for Livingston.In 2005, Deuchar equaled Jimmy Greaves's British record of six league hat-tricks in a single season. He is also a practicing medical doctor...

CF 10   Andy Jackson  LM 11   Peter MacDonald
Peter MacDonald (footballer)
Peter Ian Ronald MacDonald is a Scottish professional footballer who is currently playing with Scottish Football League First Division team Greenock Morton.-Career:...

  Substitutes: DF 12   Kevin Rutkiewicz
Kevin Rutkiewicz
Kevin Rutkiewicz is a Scottish professional footballer of Polish origin, currently playing for Dunfermline Athletic.-Aberdeen:...

  MF 14   Martin Hardie
Martin Hardie
Martin Hardie is a Scottish association football midfielder who currently plays for Dunfermline Athletic.Upon joining his previous club, St. Johnstone, Hardie was suspended for the opening game of the 2006–07 season. He marked his debut for the club just three days later with a goal in a...

  GK 15   Kevin Cuthbert
Kevin Cuthbert
Kevin Cuthbert is a Scottish goalkeeper who has signed for Ayr United after playing for Greenock Morton.Cuthbert started his career at St. Johnstone, where he played from 1998 until his release a decade later.-Career:...

MF 16   Willie McLaren
Willie McLaren
William "Willie" McLaren is a Scottish professional footballer who usually plays as a creative attacking player...

FW 17   Steve Milne
Steve Milne
Steven Milne is a Scottish footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish First Division club Dundee.-Career:Milne began his career with Dundee, making two appearances midway through the club's 1997–98 Scottish First Division title-winning season...

  Caretaker Manager:   Sandy Stewart

MATCH RULES
  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Five named substitutes
  • Maximum of 3 substitutions

Road to the final

Dunfermline Athletic
Home team Score Away team
Round 2 Clyde
Clyde F.C.
Clyde Football Club are a Scottish professional football team currently playing in the Third Division of the Scottish Football League. Although based for the last fifteen years in the new town of Cumbernauld, they are traditionally associated with an area that covers Rutherglen in South...

1 – 4 Dunfermline Athletic
Quarter-final Airdrie United
Airdrie United F.C.
Airdrie United Football Club are a Scottish professional football team based in the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. They are currently managed by ex-Airdrieonians player and former Airdrie United Under 19s coach Jimmy Boyle. They are members of the Scottish Football League and play in the...

0 – 2 Dunfermline Athletic
Semi-final Dunfermline Athletic 1 – 0 Ayr United
Ayr United F.C.
Ayr United Football Club are a Scottish association football team based in Ayr, South Ayrshire, that plays in the First Division of the Scottish Football League. Formed in 1910 after the merger of former clubs Ayr Parkhouse F.C. and Ayr F.C...

St. Johnstone
Home team Score Away team
Round 1 Raith Rovers
Raith Rovers F.C.
Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. They are members of the Scottish Football League, currently playing in the First Division, having secured promotion from the Second Division as champions in 2009. Rovers have won one national trophy, the...

1 – 1
4 – 5 (pens)
St. Johnstone
Round 2 Ross County
Ross County F.C.
Ross County Football Club are a Scottish professional football team from the town of Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. Founded in 1929 they currently compete in the Scottish Football League First Division and play their home matches at Victoria Park. Prior to the 1994–95 season they played in the...

0 – 2 St. Johnstone
Quarter-final St. Johnstone 4 – 1 Brechin City
Brechin City F.C.
Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football team based in Brechin, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Football League and play in the Second Division in the 2010–11 season...

Semi-final Greenock Morton
Greenock Morton F.C.
Greenock Morton Football Club are a Scottish professional football club, who currently play in the Scottish Football League First Division. The club was founded as Morton Football Club in 1874, making it one of the oldest senior Scottish clubs....

1 – 3 St. Johnstone
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