Rangers face fixture headache as Betfred Cup dates announced

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Rangers face a deluge of fixtures this coming December after the fixtures for this season’s Betfred Cup were announced by the SPFL.

This year’s League Cup will kick off on the 6^th of October with Rangers set to join in Round 2 in late November.

The Quarter Finals are then set to take place on the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th of December and this will give any of the Scottish clubs competing in Europe a fixture headache.

Should Rangers qualify for the Europa League – or win August’s mini-tournament and enter the Champions League – they will have two European matches in December.

Working on the assumption it’s the Europa League matches are scheduled to take place on the 3^rd and 10^th of December.

Champions League matches will take place on the 1^st and 2^nd December and 8^th and 9^th, the same week as the Europa League matches.

On top of this, Rangers have a hectic December domestic schedule.

Rangers play six Scottish Premiership matches in December, including four away from home.

This means Rangers – and anyone else in Europe and in the Betfred Cup Quarter Finals – could realistically wind up playing nine matches in the month of December.

That’s about a game every 3.5 days.

If things go to plan and Rangers both qualify for Europe and the Betfred Cupquarter finals, then their December could look as follows:

3^rd: Europa League match 5

5^th: Ross County (a) – 3pm

10^th: Europa League match 6

12^th: Dundee United (a) – 3pm

15^th/16^th/17^th: Betfred Cup Quarter Final

19^th: Motherwell (h) – 3pm

23^rd: St Johnstone (a) – 7.45pm

26^th: Hibernian (h) – 3pm

30^th: St Mirren (a) – 7.45pm

It’s a hectic run and could be a season-defining one too as we head into the Old Firm match at Ibrox on the 2^nd of January.

The semi-finals for this year’s Betfred Cup are set for Saturday 23^rd and Sunday 24^th January 2021 with the Final to take place on Sunday 28^th February.