The Bullough Cup is a knock-out competition in the sport

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

 of shinty

Shinty

Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the...

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It is played for by reserve-level teams from the South of Scotland, that is all teams playing in South Division Two, Lochside Rovers, Inverary Second Team as well as non-league teams such as London Camanachd

London Camanachd

London Camanachd is the only shinty club in England. They do not field a competitive team at present. They have historically been attached to the South District. They went into abeyance in 1992 but were reconstituted in 2005...

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History

Lochside Rovers were champions in 2009 defeating Kyles Athletic in a rearranged final in Tighnabruaich

Tighnabruaich

Tighnabruaich is a village on the Kyles of Bute in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.Tighnabruaich is part of Argyll's Secret Coast, just an hour and a half west of Glasgow, and is nestled along the east coast of Loch Fyne and stretching into the beautiful Kyles of Bute.Tighnabruaich is popular for...

 after the original final was called off.

The Bullough Cup has seen several interesting developments in recent years, in 2005 it was run as a league cup, which marked the re-entry of Col-Glen and London to competition as well as the first senior fixtures of Aberdour Shinty Club

Aberdour Shinty Club

Aberdour Shinty Club is a shinty club which plays in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. It is the only senior Shinty Club in Fife and was founded in 2001...

. It has also seen the first Camanachd Association fixture in England for 80 years http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5179126.stm and the victory by the Highlanders

The Scots Shinty Club

The SCOTS is the only shinty team in the British Armed Forces. It was established in 1994 and the club originally played under the name of the Queen's Own Highlanders...

in 2006.

As of 2010, the opening rounds of the cup will be played midweek, in order to reduce the backlog of fixtures that has regularly afflicted shinty.http://www.skyecamanachd.com/default.aspx.locid-087new1e7.Lang-EN.htm

Glasgow Mid-Argyll won the 2010 cup defeating Kyles 3-1.http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/Shinty-Kyles-suffer-heartache-for.6514218.jp

Winners

• 2011 Lochside Rovers 5, Aberdour 0
• 2010 Glasgow Mid-Argyll 3, Kyles Athletic 1
• 2009 Lochside Rovers 6, Kyles Athletic 4 (A.E.T.)
• 2008 Lochside Rovers 4, Oban Celtic 1http://sport.scotsman.com/other-sports/Shinty-Lochside-enjoy-Bullough-glory.4536411.jp
• 2007
• 2006 The Highlanders
• 2005
• 2004 Kyles Athletic 4, Glasgow Mid-Argyll 1

• 1991 Ballachulish 3, Tayforth 1 (A.E.T.)

• 1973 Glenorchy
• 1927 Oban Celtic