general notes
  • 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. Teams finishing level on points were separated by a new criteria - goal difference - introduced in this season to encourage attacking play. Superior goal difference, then most goals scored were the new tie-breakers.
  • For the first time in the tournament's history, Thistle were placed in the bottom half of the group stage draw with the 20 other clubs who finished outside of Scotland's top 16 from last season. This arrangement ensured that 4 'lesser' teams would qualify for the two-legged Quarter Finals. Whilst 3 of the other group winners from our half advanced to the Quarter Final stage, Thistle, by luck-of-the-draw, only advanced to the two-legged supplementary play-off round with the winner of the "outsider" 9th group, Stranraer, to see who would take the final place in the last 8.
  • Tabulated by The Thistle Archive by triple corroboration, using the match results published at Wikipedia and London Hearts before verifying them against our own database.


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