{"id":474273,"date":"2026-03-13T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474273\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:38:11","slug":"bbc-to-show-dunfermline-v-falkirk-scottish-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474273\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to show Dunfermline v Falkirk Scottish Cup semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish Cup semi-final between rivals Dunfermline and Falkirk will be shown live on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first of this year&#8217;s semi-finals will be televised on BBC One Scotland on Saturday 18 April (12:30 BST). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil Lennon&#8217;s Dunfermline, the only Championship side left in the competition, will be taking on John McGlynn&#8217;s high-flying Falkirk side, who have impressed on their return the top flight and now eye Scottish Cup glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other semi-final, which pits last season&#8217;s beaten finalists Celtic against League Cup holders St Mirren, takes place on Sunday 19 April at 14:00 BST and will be broadcast by Premier Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC will also televise both of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup semi-finals in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic face Glasgow City on Saturday 2 May (12:30 BST) on BBC Alba, before Rangers and Montrose meet on Sunday 3 May (13:30 BST) on the BBC Scotland channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish Cup semi-final between rivals Dunfermline and Falkirk will be shown live on the BBC. The first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474273","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\/474273","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=474273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}