Scottish League Cup as it happened

Summary

Group wins for Ayr, Inverness, Kilmarnock, Queen of the South, Rangers, Ross County, St Johnstone, St Mirren, Stirling & Stranraer
East Fife, Forfar and Morton win penalty shoot-outs

Live Reporting

Andy Campbell

LINE-UPSpublished at 14:33 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Queen's Park v Queen of the South (15:00)
Queen's Park: Murphy, Burns, Wharton, McGeever, Millen, Brown, Fotheringham, Miller, Woods, Malone, Galt. Subs: Bradley, MacPherson, Watt, Mitchell, McLeish, Williams, Brady.
Queen of South: Robinson, Marshall, Christopher Higgins, Dowie, Hamill, Dykes, Pickard, Tapping, Anderson, Hilson, Rigg. Subs: Brownlie, Lyle, Jacobs, Moxon, Atkinson, Smith, Brotherston.
Referee: Alan Newlands.
LINE-UPSpublished at 14:32 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Stirling Albion v Falkirk (15:00)
Stirling Albion: Chris Smith, Verlaque, McMillan, Scott Davidson, Darren Petrie, Marc McKenzie, McCue, Hodge, Dickson, Darren Smith, Ferns. Subs: Sam Davidson, Olanrewaju, Docherty, Henderson, Binnie, Mills, Burns.
Falkirk: Rogers, Kidd, Watson, Gasparotto, Leahy, Craigen, Kerr, Sibbald, Hippolyte, McHugh, Baird. Subs: Muirhead, McCracken, Taiwo, Mehmet, Austin, Miller, O'Hara.
Referee: Colin Steve.
LINE-UPSpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Livingston v St Mirren (15:00)
Livingston: Kelly, Halkett, Lithgow, Crighton, Longridge, Miller, Sinclair, Mullin, Buchanan, Cadden, Mullen. Subs: Jamieson, Knox, Byrne, Pitman, Watt, Orr, Carrick.
St Mirren: Gallacher, Naismith, Baird, Webster, Irvine, Gallagher, Mallan, Quinn, Morgan, Clarkson, Sutton. Subs: Gordon, Hutton, Langfield, Stewart, Flanagan, O'Keefe.
Referee: Gavin Duncan.
Celtic host German sidepublished at 14:29 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Over at Celtic Park, the Scottish champions - who are not in League Cup action today - are playing Wolfsburg in a friendly.
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Recent Celtic signing Moussa Dembele
LINE-UPSpublished at 14:24 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Ayr United v Hamilton Academical (15:00)
Ayr United: Fleming, Devlin, Murphy, Meggatt, Boyle, Gilmour, Docherty, Crawford, Cairney, Adams, Forrest. Subs: McCracken, McGuffie, Wardrobe, Hart, Johnston.
Hamilton Academical: Matthews, Gillespie, Devlin, Garcia Tena, Kurakins, MacKinnon, Imrie, Docherty, Crawford, Longridge, D'Acol. Subs: McGregor, Redmond, McMann, Martin, Boyd, Hughes, Tierney.
Referee: Willie Collum.
Postpublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
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Motherwell manager Mark McGhee before kick-off at Fir Park
LINE-UPSpublished at 14:21 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Motherwell v Rangers (15:00)
Motherwell: Samson, Tait, Heneghan, McManus, Hammell, Ainsworth, McHugh, Cadden, Chalmers, Johnson, McDonald. Subs: Moult, Brill, Blyth, Thomas, Ferguson, MacLean, Campbell.
Rangers: Foderingham, Tavernier, Kiernan, Danny Wilson, Wallace, McKay, Holt, Halliday, Waghorn, Miller, Forrester. Subs: Hodson, Windass, Hill, Kranjcar, Gilks, O'Halloran, Thompson.
Referee: Steven McLean.
New Academicalpublished at 14:20 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Remi Matthews starts for Hamilton Academical after arriving from Norwich City as a replacement for Northern Ireland goalkeeper Michael McGovern.
The 22-year-old Englishman will spend a season on loan with the Scottish Premiership club.
Shocks on the cards?published at 14:18 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
With only one all-Premiership tie, most of today's games feature teams from different divisions.
Who might spring a surprise?
get involved
Get Involvedpublished at 14:16 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
To take part in today's live coverage, you can text 80295 or tweet using #bbcsportscot
BBC Radio Scotland coveragepublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Sportsound will provide live radio commentary from Motherwell v Rangers, with updates from the day's other games.
Listen on 92-95FM, 810MW, DAB or here on the BBC Sport website using the audio icon.
Kranjcar on bench for Rangerspublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
New Rangers midfielder Niko Kranjcar is on the substitutes' bench for today's match at Motherwell.
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Friday's tiespublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Last night, Partick Thistle narrowly beat hosts Airdrieonians while Raith Rovers won away to Cove Rangers.
Arbroath's tie with Dundee United went to penalties, with United victors in the shoot-out.
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David Gold's penalty for Arbroath was saved
How it all workspublished at 14:05 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Teams that win over 90 minutes are awarded three points.
If a game is drawn at the end of regulation time, a penalty shoot-out ensues. The winner of the shoot-out gets two points, the loser taking one.
There will be five rounds of group fixtures and, at the end of that process, the eight group winners and four best runners-up will progress to the second round of the tournament, which then becomes a straight knockout event.
Aberdeen, Celtic, Hearts and Hibernian - Scotland's representatives in Europe - join the tournament at the second-round stage.
Scottish League Cuppublished at 14:01 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Today's 13 group fixtures (15:00)
Albion Rovers v Greenock Morton - Group H
Annan Athletic v Stranraer - Group F
Ayr United v Hamilton Academical - Group G
Clyde v Kilmarnock - Group H
Cowdenbeath v Inverness CT - Group C
East Fife v Dundee - Group A
Elgin City v St Johnstone - Group B
Forfar Athletic v Dumbarton - Group A
Livingston v St Mirren - Group G
Montrose v Ross County - Group D
Motherwell v Rangers - Group F
Queen's Park v Queen of the South - Group E
Stirling Albion v Falkirk - Group B
Up for the cuppublished at 13:59 British Summer Time 16 July 2016
Scottish League Cup (15:00)
Hello and welcome.
The Scottish domestic football season started in earnest last night and continues today with 13 more League Cup group fixtures.