{"id":465333,"date":"2026-03-09T04:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465333\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:39:07","slug":"scottish-cup-falkirk-dunfermline-to-meet-in-semi-final-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465333\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Cup: Falkirk &#038; Dunfermline to meet in semi-final derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Falkirk and Dunfermline Athletic will meet in a Scottish Cup semi-final derby at Hampden next month, while Celtic will face St Mirren in a repeat of this season&#8217;s League Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Mirren edged out Partick Thistle and Celtic beat Rangers on penalties &#8211; both on Sunday &#8211; to claim their places in the last four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second-tier Dunfermline beat Aberdeen on Saturday, 24 hours after Falkirk saw off Dundee United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ties will be played on the weekend of 18\/19 April at Hampden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falkirk and Dunfermline Athletic will meet in a Scottish Cup semi-final derby at Hampden next month, while Celtic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}