Rock Cup

Rock Cup
Founded1895
RegionGibraltar
Number of teams12 (2022–23)
Qualifier forUEFA Europa Conference League
Current championsLincoln Red Imps (20th title)
Most successful club(s)Lincoln Red Imps (20 titles)
2023–24 Rock Cup

The Rock Cup is Gibraltar's premier cup football competition, and is organized annually by the Gibraltar Football Association (GFA).

From 1894/95 Gibraltar's Cup Competition was known as "The Senior Merchant's Cup". In 1935 a new trophy was presented, to the Gibraltar Football Association by the Merchants, Traders and Hotels of Gibraltar and thus the Rock Cup, as it is known today, was born.

The winner of the 2014 Rock Cup was to be the first one to participate in the Europa League,[1] but as Lincoln Red Imps had already been titled league champion, thus qualifying for 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, the losing finalist College Europa qualified for the first qualifying round.

Due to a sponsorship with Gibtelecom, the cup was known as the Gibtelecom Rock Cup from 2018 to 2021.

  1. ^ "UEFA Europa League includes 18 debutants". uefa.com. 18 June 2014. Archived from the original on 5 November 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2014.