Peterhead is a good launching point for a raid on Norway. Source.
It's the League Cup group stage, matchday one. Morton visit Peterhead. Peterhead have been in the Scottish League since 2000 but Morton have never faced them in the League Cup until now. (Morton have also never played new Airdrieonians, Cove Rangers or The Spartans in the League Cup.)
Peterhead finished first in League Two last season. They have won that division three times now, but have never made it up to the Championship.
Peterhead are managed by the tandem of Jordan Brown and Ryan Strachan, who have been in the job two years and four months.
Niall McGinn has signed with Peterhead. He was with Morton last season.
The last Morton player to score on Peterhead was Chris Millar in 2018 (see below).
List of Peterhead F.C. seasons.
Morton have signed 19-year-old defender Sonny Hart on loan from Swindon Town. And Nathan Shaw has signed on for another year.
Morton have never earned fewer than six points in the modern group stage (see below). But you need 8 or 9 points to make it to Round 2.
Trialists are now permitted in the group stage.
According to fitbastats (link) this is Morton's first ever July 12th fixture.
Over at Pie and Bovril, AyrshireTon points out that all of Morton's Group G matches are on grass.
Morton lost 3 - 0 to Livi in a closed-door friendly on Tuesday.
The Morton Forum was down for a week due to a cyber attack.
Morton have hired Imrie an assistant: Billy Davies, former manager of Motherwell, Preston North End, Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He is famous. His name even appears in the Wikipedia article on illeism.
[Peterhead 2 - 4 Morton. Morton goals by Blues, Moore, Crawford and Delaney.]
The other Group G match:
Clyde [2 - 2] Motherwell [Motherwell win on PK]
Stenhousemuir are off.
Group G standings after today's matches:
Morton 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 +2 3
Motherwell 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 2
Clyde 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
Stenhousemuir 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Peterhead 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 -2 0
Other matches:
Halifax Tides 1 - 0 Calgary Wild (July 7)
Goal by Nakamura.
Clydebank 6 - 1 Scoutable United (friendly) (July 8)
Neilston 0 - 2 Largs Thistle (friendly) (July 9)
HFX Wanderers U21 1 - 0 Wrexham U21 at Charlottetown (July 9)
Zwolle 2 - 1 Dundee United (friendly) (yesterday)
UCD 3 - 1 Finn Harps (yesterday)
Grulla Morioka [2 - 0] Veertien Mie
[Grulla are midtable.]
Mito HollyHock [3 - 0] Kataller Toyama
Blau-Weiß Linz vs Fortuna Düsseldorf (friendly)
Largs Thistle [0 - 1] Kilbirnie Ladeside (friendly)
Clydebank [5 - 0] Lochar Thistle (friendly)
HFX Wanderers U21 vs Wrexham U21 at Saint John
Montreal Roses vs Halifax Tides
Pacific vs HFX Wanderers
Vancouver FC played a closed door friendly against Urawa Red Diamonds back in June. Story.
2025-26 UEFA Champions League, 1QR, 1st leg:
The New Saints 0 - 0 Shkëndija (July 8)
Shelbourne 1 - 0 Linfield (July 9)
2025-26 UEFA Europa League, 1QR, 1st leg (July 10):
Shakhtar Donetsk 6 - 0 Ilves
2025-26 UEFA Conference League, 1QR, 1st leg (mostly July 10):
St Patrick's Athletic 1 - 0 Hegelmann
Larne 0 - 0 Auda
St Joseph's 2 - 2 Cliftonville (July 8)
Kauno Žalgiris 3 - 0 Penybont
Floriana 2 - 1 Haverfordwest County (July 8)
The Conference League is the inverse of the Champions League insofar as the lower-ranked countries start out with more teams than higher-ranked ones. Scotland has only one spot, whereas Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland each have three. This will change as clubs crash out of the Europa League.
Canadian Championship, QF, second leg:
Cavalry 1 - 1 Vancouver FC (July 8)
Vancouver win on PK and advance. They're in the same league but I think this counts as an upset.
York United 3 - 4 Atlético Ottawa (July 8)
Ottawa advance.
Vancouver Whitecaps 2 - 1 Valour (July 9)
Whitecaps advance.
CF Montréal 2 - 2 Forge (July 9)
Forge advance in an upset.
FIFA Club World Cup final (tomorrow):
Chelsea vs PSG
Times that CanPL teams beat MLS teams in the Canadian Championship:
2019/7/24 Vancouver Whitecaps 1 - 2 Cavalry FC
2021/8/26 Pacific FC 4 - 3 Vancouver Whitecaps
2024/5/21 Vancouver Whitecaps 0 - 1 Cavalry FC
2024/5/22 CF Montréal 1 - 2 Forge FC
2024/7/10 Forge FC 2 - 1 Toronto FC
2025/5/20 Forge FC 1 - 0 CF Montréal
How have Morton fared in the modern League Cup?
2024-25 6 pts
2023-24 9 pts R2
2022-23 7 pts
2021-22 6 pts
2020-21 6 pts
2019-20 8 pts R2
2018-19 6 pts
2017-18 8 pts
2016-17 11 pts R2 QF SF
When was Morton's most recent goal against each SPFL club and who scored it?
2025/5/2 Dunfermline Grant Gillespie
2025/4/26 Raith Rovers Grant Gillespie
2025/4/19 Airdrieonians Tomi Adeloye
2025/4/12 Livingston Ali Crawford
2025/3/22 Queen's Park Michael Garrity
2025/3/15 Hamilton Academical Ali Crawford
2025/3/8 Ayr United Jordan Davies
2025/2/1 Partick Thistle Filip Stuparević
2024/8/31 Falkirk Jack Baird
2024/7/27 Alloa Michael Garrity
2024/5/3 Inverness CT Kirk Broadfoot
2024/4/20 Arbroath George Oakley
2024/4/12 Dundee United Robbie Muirhead
2024/2/9 Motherwell George Oakley
2024/1/20 Montrose George Oakley
2023/10/14 Kelty Hearts Robbie Crawford
2023/9/9 Elgin Lewis McGrattan
2023/8/19 Rangers Grant Gillespie
2023/7/29 Edinburgh City Cameron Blues
2023/7/22 Ross County George Oakley
2023/7/18 Stranraer Robbie Crawford
2023/5/5 Cove Rangers Robbie Muirhead
2023/4/15 Dundee Robbie Muirhead
2022/11/26 Queen of the South Alexander King
2022/7/20 Hibs Grant Gillespie
2022/4/1 Kilmarnock Gozie Ugwu
2021/7/24 Clyde Robbie Muirhead
2021/4/3 East Fife Robbie Muirhead
2021/2/20 Hearts Craig McGuffie
2020/11/11 St Mirren Ross MacIver
2019/7/23 Annan Athletic Robbie Muirhead
2019/7/16 Dumbarton Bob McHugh
2018/11/27 Peterhead Chris Millar
2018/7/21 Stenhousemuir Bob McHugh
2015/10/27 St Johnstone Denny Johnstone
2015/4/18 Stirling Albion Declan McManus
2015/1/31 Forfar Peter MacDonald
2014/11/29 The Spartans Andrew Barrowman
2013/9/24 Celtic Dougie Imrie
1996/9/3 Aberdeen Derek Lilley
not yet East Kilbride
(From league play, cups and playoffs. Own goals and shootout goals not included.)
