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The "World Cup" Competition: The World Cup is a competition for smallbore rifle shooters and was introduced to the LSSA's competition programme in 1990. It was originally patterned on the then current football (or soccer as it's sometimes known) World Cup competition, and it basically still does although FIFA has tweaked its format since then, making it impractical to follow now.

Entries are invited for the 2010-11 season, and are due on 20th September. Please click here to request a copy of the entry form.

The latest Final took place on Saturday 6th March 2010. The winner for the fifth time in six years was Alasdair Horne, of Balerno & Currie. Runner-up was James Brown of Watsonians. The Plate was won by Patrick Jess of St Andrews, and the Bowl by Bill Vaughan of Selkirk.

Click here to see full details of the Final.

Click here to see the Qualifying round results of the latest competition (2009-10).

Click here to see Archived Results.

Click here to see trophy photos

About the competition:

This is an unclassified competition, open to all. It is shot indoors at standard short-range targets and is modelled on the football World Cup as it was in 1990 when it started.

Entry is limited to the first 72 applicants, although special arrangement can be put in place to cater for a few more than that. There is a postal qualifying stage and a shoulder-to-shoulder final where all the qualifiers gather together on the same range to compete for the handsome trophy and the not-insignificant prize money.

The total entry is drawn randomly into up to twelve groups with six competitors per group. In the postal stage, each competitor in each group will shoot one 20-shot match against each of the others in the group: two points for a win, one for a draw. These targets are shot on the competitor's own range and sent to the central organiser, who collates the scores and sends out the results. These matches are shot in five 2-week periods from October to December, and the top two in each group (i.e. 24 shooters) go through to the Final, which is held in Edinburgh, normally in early March.

The Finalists are split into six groups of four. Each shooter shoots one 10-shot target against each of the others in their group: again, two points for a win, one for a draw. The top two in each group plus the four best losers (i.e. 16 competitors) proceed to a knock-out stage, which consists of twenty shots in each round. Ties are determined by shooting an extra 10-shot target ('extra time'), and if still tied, then it's shot-for-shot sudden-death ('penalty shoot-out').

The eight shooters who are eliminated in the first KO round of the Final go into the Plate competition, and proceed to shoot their own separate quarter-, semi-finals and final. There is also a similar ‘Bowl’ competition for the eight who don’t make it past the Group stage.