GROUP STAGE FIXTURE LIST FOR THE 2023/24 VIAPLAY CUP
Clubs playing in this year’s Viaplay Cup will share a record-breaking £3m in prize money and TV income, the SPFL has announced.
Over £2.3 million in prize money will be shared with clubs for the 2023/24 Viaplay Cup – the highest in the competition’s history.
Each participating club is guaranteed to receive at least £24,000 while the winners will earn £380,000 in prize money, with further sums available as facility fee payments for all live televised matches, meaning the final payout to clubs will top £3 million.
The total prize money to be shared with clubs for the upcoming Viaplay Cup will amount to £2,361,000 – a rise of more than £200,000 from last season’s figure of £2,157,000.
The full schedule of prize monies is set out below:
- 1st round group stage - 5th position: £24,000
- 1st round group stage - 4th position: £25,500
- 1st round group stage - 3rd position: £27,500
- 1st round group stage - 5 worst runners-up: £32,000
- 2nd round losers - £55,000
- Quarter-final losers - £87,500
- Semi-final losers - £120,000
- Runners-up - £175,000
- Winners - £380,000
In addition, each club playing in a live televised Viaplay Cup tie (home or away) will receive a facility fee payment of:
£17,000 (group stage); and £27,000 (second round, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final).
The SPFL has also confirmed the fixture list and TV selections for the 80-game group stage, with five matches to be shown live on Viaplay beginning with the Fife derby between Raith Rovers and Dunfermline Athletic on Saturday July 15.
Dundee United v Partick Thistle (July 18), Motherwell v Queen’s Park (July 22), Falkirk v Dundee United (July 25) and Dundee v Inverness Caledonian Thistle (July 30) have also been selected for live coverage on Viaplay.
The eight group winners and three best runners-up will join European representatives Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian in the last 16 on August 19/20.
Neil Doncaster, chief executive of the SPFL, said: “Thanks to Viaplay's ongoing support of our primary cup competition, we are delighted to be able to announce record prize and TV money for the 2023/24 Viaplay Cup. We are very much looking forward to the tournament getting under way in mid-July, with the final at Hampden on Sunday December 17.”
