Scottish League Cup
| Founded | 1946 |
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| Region | Scotland |
| Number of teams | 42 |
| Current champions | Celtic (16th title) |
| Most successful team(s) |
Rangers (27 titles) |
| Television broadcasters | BT Sport |
 2016–17 Scottish League Cup
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The Scottish League Cup, currently known as the Betfred Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a football competition open to all Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) clubs. In the past it has been sponsored by Coca-Cola, Skol Lager, Bell's Whisky, Co-operative Insurance, QTS Group and Utilita Energy. The competition had a straight knockout format but became a group and knockout competition from 2016–17.
Rangers are the record holders of the cup, winning 27 times. Celtic are the current holders, after beating Aberdeen 3–0 at Hampden Park on 27 November 2016.
Currently, the domestic television are held by BT Sport who replaced BBC Scotland from the 2016–17 edition.
Historically, the Scottish League Cup has oscillated between being a straightforward single-elimination knockout tournament and having an initial group phase. From the 2016–17 season, the League Cup will revert to the group phase format.
The new format will see eight groups of five teams play each other once each in a round-robin format. The forty teams playing in the group stage consist of the 38 league clubs who are not participating in UEFA competitions, along with two teams from outside the league. In the group phase, three points are given for a win and one point for a draw. If matches are level after ninety minutes, a penalty shoot-out will be held with the winning team gaining a bonus point. The groups are regionalised: there are four groups in the North section, and four in the South section, with three pots for each regional section - top seeds, second seeds, and unseeded clubs. Each group will consist of one top seed, one second seed, and three unseeded clubs.
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