The SPFL have announced a record pot of prize money for the Premier Sports Cup – upping it by more than £100,000 from last season.
The competition enters its second year with Premier Sports and is set to kick off on the weekend of July 9. Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee United and Motherwell all get a bye into the second round as they prepare for European football, but the rest of the SPFL, as well as Buckie Thistle and Fraserburgh from the Highland League and Cowdenbeath from the Lowland League, are getting set for the group stage.
The competition runs from the group stage in July until the final on February 26 and the likes of Aberdeen and Hibs will have serious ambitions of winning their groups and going all the way. And if they do so there is a significant prize pot on offer, with the league offering up a total pot of £2,157,000 – a rise of nearly £150,000 from last season’s figure of £2,015,000.
