Gloucestershire Cup

The Gloucestershire Senior Professional Cup was a football competition held on 99 occasions from the 1887–88 season until 1996.

It was originally a knockout tournament open to teams in Gloucestershire, but from 1907–08 became an annual match between the first teams of Bristol Rovers and Bristol City.^[1]

Creation

The Gloucestershire cup was created by Charles Lacy-Sweet from Clifton Association F.C. after a meeting in September 1887. Present at the meeting were representatives from Clifton Association, Eastville Rovers (later to become Bristol Rovers), Globe (a team made up of Old Elizabethans), Southville, and church teams St Agnes, St George and St Simon.

Cup winners

Knockout tournament

Final #	Date	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Goalscorers
1	10 March 1888	Clifton	1-1	Warmley
1R	17 March 1888	Clifton	4-1	Warmley
2	6 April 1889	Eastville Rovers	1–0	Warmley	Walter Perrin
3	22 March 1890[2]	Clifton Association	5–0	St George
4	1891	Bedminster	2-0	Warmley	Batchelor, Griffiths
5	1892	Warmley	2-1	Bedminster
6	1893	Warmley	4-1	Glocester
7	31 March 1894	St George	3–1	Eastville Rovers
8	1895	St George
9	6 April 1896	Warmley	1–0	Eastville Rovers	Bill Bowler
10	1897	Warmley
11	11 April 1898	Bristol City	2-1	Warmley	Caie, Higgins
12	3 April 1899	Bristol City	2–1	Bristol Rovers
13	1900	Bedminster	3-1	Bristol City	Russell
14	29 April 1901	Bristol City	4–0	Bristol Rovers
15	1902	Not won
16	1903	Bristol Rovers	0-0	Bristol City
16R	1903	Bristol Rovers	1-1	Bristol City
16R	1903	Bristol Rovers	4-2	Bristol City
17	1904	Bristol City	2-1	Bristol Rovers
18	1905	Bristol Rovers	2-2	Bristol City
18R	1905	Bristol Rovers	3-1	Bristol City
19	1906	Bristol City	4-0	Bristol Rovers
20	1907	Bristol City	2-0	Bristol Rovers

Bristol City v Bristol Rovers matches

Final #	Date	Winner	Score	Scorers	Notes
21	1907-08	Bristol City	2-0
22	1908-09	Bristol City	2-1
23	1909-10	Bristol City	2-0
24	1910-11	Bristol City	1-0
25	1911-12	Bristol City	1-0
26	1912-13	Bristol Rovers	1-0
27	1913-14	Bristol City
28	1919-20	Bristol City
29	1920-1	Bristol City
30	1921-2	Bristol City
31	1922-3	Bristol City
32	1923-4	Bristol City
33	1924-5	Bristol Rovers
34	1925-6	Bristol City
35	1926-7	Bristol City
36	1927-8	Bristol Rovers
37	1928-9	Bristol City
38	1929-30	Bristol City
39	1930-31	Bristol City
40	1931-32	Bristol City
41	1932-33	Bristol City
42	1933-34	Bristol City
43	1934-35	Bristol Rovers
44	1935-36	Bristol Rovers
45	1936-37	Bristol City
46	1937-38	Bristol Rovers
47	1938-39	Bristol City
48	1944-45	Bristol City
49	1945-46	Bristol City
50	1946-47	Bristol City
51	1947-48	Bristol Rovers
52	1948-49	Bristol Rovers
53	1949-50	Bristol City
54	1950-51	Shared
55	1951-52	Bristol City
56	1952-53	Bristol City
57	1953-54	Shared
58	1954-55	Bristol Rovers
59	1955-56	Bristol Rovers
60	1956-57	Bristol City
61	1957-58	Bristol City
62	1958-59	Shared
63	1959-60	Bristol City
64	1960-61	Bristol City
65	1961-62	Bristol City
66	1962-63	Bristol Rovers
67	1963-64	Shared
68	1964-65	Bristol Rovers
69	1965-66	Bristol Rovers
70	1966-67	Bristol City
71	1967-68	Shared
72	1968-69	Bristol City
73	1969-70	Bristol City
74	1970-71	Shared
75	1971-72	Bristol Rovers	1-1	John Emanuel, Sandy Allan	Rovers won 4-2 on penalties [3]
76	1972-73	Bristol City
77	1973-74	Bristol Rovers
78	1974-75	Bristol Rovers
79	1975-76	Bristol City
80	1976-77	Bristol City
81	1977-78	Bristol City
82	1978-79	Bristol City
83	1979-80	Bristol City
84	1980-81	Bristol City
85	1981-82	Bristol Rovers
86	1982-83	Bristol Rovers
87	20 September 1983 [4]	Bristol Rovers	3-2 aet
88	1984-85	Bristol Rovers
89	9 September 1985	Bristol City	1–0	Johnson (pen)	[5]
90	2 December 1987	Bristol City	2–1		Held over from 1986/7
91	15 March 1988	Bristol City	3–1
92	17 August 1988	Bristol Rovers	3–0	Mehew, White
93	8 August 1989	Bristol Rovers	2–1
94	15 August 1990	Bristol City	4–1
95	17 August 1991	Bristol City	3–2	Purnell, Mehew (Rovers)
96	5 August 1992	Bristol Rovers	2–1	Cole (City), Mehew, Stewart (Rovers)
97	5 August 1993	Bristol Rovers	1–1	Clark (Rovers), Bryant (City)	Rovers won 5–3 on penalties
98	3 August 1994	Bristol Rovers	0–0		Rovers won 11–10 on penalties
99	17 August 1996	Bristol City	1–0	Goater

Total Bristol City wins: 53 Total Bristol Rovers wins: 27

References

1. 'The Robins through the years by David M. Woods in the Bristol City v Bristol Rovers Match Programme 9 September 1985 page 30 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aGVnbG91Y2VzdGVyY3VwfGd4OjE0NTA2ZGQxYjM3YjQyNjc&pli=1
2. "Clifton Association Football Club". Clifton Rugby Football Club History. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
3. https://theballisround.co.uk/my-first-game/
4. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aGVnbG91Y2VzdGVyY3VwfGd4OjdmY2U5YTdmZmQwNzVjMTE
5. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aGVnbG91Y2VzdGVyY3VwfGd4OjU2ODE3Y2U4ODQ4ZDFmNDA

• Byrne, Stephen; Jay, Mike (2003). Bristol Rovers Football Club - The Definitive History 1883–2003. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2717-2.