Tommy McGrane Memorial Cup


The Tommy McGrane Memorial Cup is an annual pre-season invitational Scottish football tournament hosted by SJFA, West Region junior football club East Kilbride Thistle.

Tournament

The trophy was named in honour of Tommy McGrane, who was one of the founders of East Kilbride Thistle. The tournament has always been at the Show Park, in the Village, East Kilbride, since it began in 2005. The tournament is played in a straight knockout format of two semi-finals and a final. The semi-final losers play in a third-fourth play-off match. The tournament used to regularly attract SFL clubs, with teams such as Clyde, Hamilton Academical and, in particular, Stirling Albion taking part in previous years.
Thistle only won their own tournament for the first time in 2009, at the fifth attempt of trying. The Tommy McGrane Cup trophy suffered severe damage in May 2012, after the club's trophy cabinet was smashed up, with various other items suffering damage, during a fire that broke out at Thistle's Social Club, which resided next to the stadium. A new trophy has since been made and presented to the winners of the tournament.
YearWinnersRunners-upThird placeFourth placeRef
2005Stirling Albion East Kilbride Thistle
2006ClydeAuchinleck TalbotEast Kilbride ThistleStirling Albion
2007Stirling Albion East Kilbride ThistleHamilton AcciesArthurlie
2008Stirling Albion East Kilbride ThistlePreston AthleticGlenafton Athletic
2009East Kilbride Thistle Alloa AthleticPetershillAyr United U19s
2010Beith JuniorsEast Kilbride ThistleEddlewood AmateursYoker Athletic
2011
2012
2013
2014Clyde U20sEast Kilbride ThistleEast Kilbride AFCRolls Royce AFC
2015East Kilbride Thistle Clyde U20s
2016East Kilbride Thistle Stranraer U20s
2017East Kilbride Thistle St. Anthony's
2018