When exactly that beginning was is a matter for debate.
Go to the competition’s Wikipedia page and it lists Stewarton Thistle as the first Women’s Scottish Cup winners in 1970, when the side from the Ayrshire town’s 4-2 win left the aforementioned Prima Donnas somewhat deflated.
The Scottish Football Association’s website does not start its list of past winners until Cove Rangers’ 5-1 derby win over Aberdeen – some 26 years later.
Talk to Elsie Cook, who founded Stewarton in 1961 and was player-manager as her side won the cup two seasons in a row, and even she admits the first official winners were Edinburgh Dynamos, with a 5-3 victory that left those Hooverettes dusting themselves down in 1972.
Why all the confusion? For an explanation, we have to go even further back in time.
Church documents recorded women playing football in Carstairs, Lanarkshire, as far back as 1628, while Scotland beat England 3-0 in the first women’s international at Hibernian Park, Edinburgh, in 1881.
With men preoccupied at the front and women being encouraged into the work place, the game really took off during World War One. However, fearful that some women’s games were attracting crowds of more than 50,000, the Football Association in England officially banned female football in 1921, and the SFA fell into line.