With the group winners and four best placed runners up qualifying for the Last 16 alongside the four teams competing in UEFA competions, it’s a format which has had mixed results for Falkirk over the past five years.
Ahead of this season’s competition, now named the Premier Sports Cup, we look back on every group stage match the Bairns have taken part in since the shake up.
17. Dunfermline Athletic 2-0 Falkirk (2020)
With the competition delayed due to the covid-19 pandemic, Falkirk eventually got underway with a 2-0 defeat at East End Park but it could have been different had the referee not missed a blatant handball from McManus who had just signed for the Pars Photo: Michael Gillen
18. Falkirk 2-1 Clyde (2020)
Aidan Keena and Callumn Morrison on the score sheet as Falkirk beat a side who had gotten the better of them in all three meeting the previous league season Photo: Michael Gillen
19. Montrose 1-3 Falkirk (2020)
Falkirk have faced the Gable Endies more than any other team in the League Cup group stages and Morrison, Leitch and Akeel Francis scored the goals to get the win on this occasion Photo: Michael Gillen
20. Kilmarnock 0-3 Falkirk by forfeit (2020)
An outbreak of coronavirus in the Killie squad meant Falkirk were awarded a 3-0 win without playing as the Ayrshire side could not fulfil the fixture. It was enough for the Bairns to qualify for the Last 16 as a best place runner up where they were beaten 4-0 by Rangers Photo: (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)