VIAPLAY CUP DRAW INFORMATION

The SPFL has confirmed the seeding pots for the 2023/24 Viaplay Cup group stage draw, which takes place tomorrow, 1pm Thursday 8 June.

The draw will be shown live by Viaplay Sports on Viaplay Xtra. Viaplay Xtra is available on Sky HD channel 420, Virgin HD 553, Samsung TV Player and on the Viaplay streaming service. The draw will be made available on the Viaplay YouTube channel and Viaplay Twitter page. You can also watch it on the SPFL YouTube channel.

With five SPFL clubs again taking part in UEFA competitions next season, the group stage draw will involve the remaining 37 SPFL clubs from 2022/23, plus Highland League champions Brechin City and Lowland League champions The Spartans, who won promotion to the SPFL last month.

Cowdenbeath, who were relegated from cinch League 2 in 2022, have accepted an invitation to take the remaining space in this year’s first-round group stage.

As was the case last season, there is no regionalised aspect to the group stage draw. The 40 participating clubs will be split into five seeding pots based on final league placings in season 2022/23. One club from each pot will be drawn into the eight Groups A-H.

The eight group winners and three best runners-up will join European entrants Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian in the last 16 of the competition on the weekend of August 19/20.

Pot 1

1 St Mirren, 2 Motherwell, 3 Livingston, 4 St Johnstone, 5 Kilmarnock, 6 Ross County, 7 Dundee United, 8 Dundee

Pot 2

9 Ayr United, 10 Queen’s Park, 11 Partick Thistle, 12 Greenock Morton, 13 Inverness Caledonian Thistle, 14 Raith Rovers, 15 Arbroath, 16 Hamilton Academical

Pot 3

17 Cove Rangers, 18 Dunfermline Athletic, 19 Falkirk, 20 Airdrieonians, 21 Alloa Athletic, 22 Queen of the South, 23 FC Edinburgh, 24 Montrose

Pot 4

25 Kelty Hearts, 26 Clyde, 27 Peterhead, 28 Stirling Albion, 29 Dumbarton, 30 Annan Athletic, 31 East Fife, 32 Forfar Athletic

Pot 5

33 Stenhousemuir, 34 Stranraer, 35 Bonnyrigg Rose, 36 Elgin City, 37 Albion Rovers, 38 Brechin City, 39 The Spartans, 40 Cowdenbeath

Key Dates

Group stage

MD1: Weekend of July 15/16
MD2: Midweek of July 18/19
MD3: Weekend of July 22/23
MD4: Midweek of July 25/26
MD5: Weekend of July 29/30

Second round

Weekend of August 19/20

Quarter-finals

Midweek of September 26-28

Semi-finals

Weekend of November 4/5

Final

Sunday 17 December