Our 2025/26 season starts in Elgin for our first Premier Sports Cup match.
Elgin City vs Raith Rovers
Saturday, 12th July 2025
3pm KO
Borough Briggs
Ticketing
Supporters can either sit in the stand or stand in the terracing.
Prices – Stand
Adult: £18
Concession: £12
Under-12: £2
Prices – Ground
Adult: £16
Concession: £10
Under-12: FREE
Concessions are available to supporters over 65 years of age, under 16 years of age and to students.
Disabled supporters are charged Concession prices and their personal assistants are admitted free of charge.
Purchasing A Ticket
Tickets are available to purchase online at anytime.
Rovers fans should select Section D for Stand tickets and General Admission for Ground tickets.
Travel Information
By Train:
Elgin Railway Station is about a mile from the Borough Briggs ground and should take about 15 minutes to walk. As you leave the station, turn left and continue up a steep hill. Continue straight on this road crossing two roundabouts and at the third roundabout turn left. Go up this road for around 500 yards and you should see the ground on your left hand side.
By Car:
Coming from the East or West along the A96, continue into Elgin until you reach the roundabout that has Elgin Town Hall situated on one corner. Turn at this roundabout onto the A941 (North Street) towards Lossiemouth. After a short distance down this road, take the second road on your left (Borough Briggs Road) and the ground is situated down this road on your right. There is plenty of street parking around the ground.
Additional Information
The advice to all is to arrive early to avoid delays at the turnstiles.
The stadium turnstiles will open at 2pm and stewards will be on hand to check tickets and undertake searches.
Anyone arriving at the turnstiles intoxicated or in possession of alcohol will be refused entry.
All supporters are reminded that all forms of smoking including vapes are prohibited.
The use of pyrotechnics is illegal, and anyone caught in possession of one risks arrest by the police and a ban on attending further matches.
SPFL Ground Rules are displayed at all points of entry.
Match Preview
With the pre-season campaign complete for the summer, Raith Rovers attention now turns to the competitive stuff, as the Premier Sports League Cup group stage kicks off this weekend.
Barry Robson’s side were selected to take part in Group F, along with St Johnstone, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, newcomers East Kilbride and Elgin City, and it’s the last of that quartet they face this Saturday, as Rovers embark on the long journey north to Borough Briggs.
Allan Hale’s side built on their impressive end to the 2023/24 campaign by finishing fourth in League Two last season, eventually being edged out in the playoffs 5-4 on aggregate by Annan Athletic, who would go on to lose the final to East Fife and get relegated from League One in the process.
While important players like Dajon Golding and Aidan Glavin, who joined Raith Rovers, have departed City, they’ve still retained the bulk of the squad which impressed last term, while adding goalkeeper Tom Ritchie from Aberdeen, as well as Finnish midfielder Miko Virtanen, who has experience at a number of clubs further up the SPFL pyramid.
For Rovers, this game could see the competitive debuts of this summer’s new arrivals. Along with the aforementioned Glavin, right back Jai Rowe has could start at right back, while Richard Chin has impressed further forward since his arrival from Farnborough.
Paul McMullan has a vast array of experience and success at this level after spells with both Dundee clubs, while Josh Rae has made his loan move from St Johnstone permanent.
This will be just the sides fourth competitive meeting since the Black and White’s joined the league in 2000, and their first against one another in the League Cup.
Their last meeting was in the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup back in November 2019, a competition which was eventually shared by Raith and Inverness after the season was cut short due to Covid.
Kieron Bowie’s brace put Rovers in the driving seat after just 25 minutes, although Kane Hester reduced the arrears 10 minutes later.
David McKay stretched the lead back to two 10 minutes after the restart, and when Elgin were reduced to 10 men due to Rabin Omar’s dismissal with 25 minutes remaining, the game seemed done and dusted.
However, Shane Sutherland made it 3-2 with five minutes to go, and Rovers had to survive a tense closing spell before sealing their berth in the semi final.
Saturday’s match referee will be Sean Murdoch.
Head-to-Head Record:
Elgin City wins: 0
Raith Rovers wins: 3
Draws: 0