{"id":769453,"date":"2026-09-13T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:28:10","slug":"premier-sports-cup-rangers-v-aberdeen-edinburgh-derby-in-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769453\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Sports Cup: Rangers v Aberdeen &#038; Edinburgh derby in semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers have been drawn against Aberdeen in the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup, while rivals Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian will go head-to-head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The semi-final ties will take place at Hampden Park on the weekend of 31 October-1 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derek McInnes&#8217; side reached the last four with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cvj64yrgx778t#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive victory over Celtic<\/a> at Ibrox on Sunday, having last won this competition in the 2023-24 season when they beat Aberdeen 1-0 in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the other quarter-final matches, Hibernian beat League 1 Ross County 3-0, Hearts beat Stenhousemuir by the same score and Aberdeen knocked out Kilmarnock on penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has already been an Edinburgh derby this season, with Hearts winning 3-1 at Easter Road in the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers have been drawn against Aberdeen in the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup, while rivals Heart of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769453","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\/769453","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=769453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}