Who is your team playing in the Premier Sports Cup?

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Premier Sports Cup holders St Mirren will meet Scottish Cup runners-up Dunfermline Athletic, Cove Rangers, League 2 champions East Kilbride and Dumbarton in the group phase of next season's competition.

Falkirk, who finished sixth on their return to the Premiership, face Ayr United, local rivals Alloa Athletic, Stranraer and Edinburgh City after the draw for the group stage, which begins on 11/12 July and finishes on 25/26 July.

Championship winners St Johnstone are in the same section as Greenock Morton, League 1 champions Inverness Caledonian Thistle, East Fife and Lowland League champions Linlithgow Rose.

Highland League champions Brora Rangers are in the same group as Aberdeen, Queen's Park, Queen of the South and Kelty Hearts.

Brechin City, who were runners-up behind Brora, are in a group with three Championship clubs - relegated Livingston, Partick Thistle and promoted Stenhousemuir - along with local rivals Forfar Athletic.

There will also be three derbies in Group B, where Dundee United are joined by Arbroath and Montrose, along with The Spartans and Stirling Albion.

Top-flight Dundee are joined in their group by two sides relegated from the Championship - Airdrieonians and Ross County - along with Clyde and Annan Athletic.

Finally, Premiership side Kilmarnock are paired with Raith Rovers, Peterhead, Hamilton Academical and Elgin City.

The eight group winners and three best runners-up will join European participants – Celtic, who lost to St Mirren in last season's final, Heart of Midlothian, Rangers, Motherwell and Hibernian – in the last 16 on the weekend of 15/16 August.

The quarter-finals will be played on the weekend of 12/13 September, with the semi-finals scheduled for the weekend of 31 October and 1 November and the final on 13 December.

Premier Sports Cup group stage

Group A

• Aberdeen

• Queen's Park

• Queen of the South

• Kelty Hearts

• Brora Rangers

Group B

• Dundee United

• Arbroath

• Montrose

• The Spartans

• Stirling Albion

Group C

• St Mirren

• Dunfermline Athletic

• Cove Rangers

• East Kilbride

• Dumbarton

Group D

• Dundee

• Airdrieonians

• Ross County

• Clyde

• Annan Athletic

Group E

• Livingston

• Partick Thistle

• Stenhousemuir

• Forfar Athletic

• Brechin City

Group F

• St Johnstone

• Greenock Morton

• Inverness Caledonian Thistle

• East Fife

• Linlithgow Rose

Group G

• Falkirk

• Ayr United

• Alloa Athletic

• Stranraer

• Edinburgh City

Group H

• Kilmarnock

• Raith Rovers

• Peterhead

• Hamilton Academical

• Elgin City

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