The Scottish Gas Scottish Women's Cup Final — Story of The Final

The Brief

The Scottish Gas Scottish Women's Cup Final is the showpiece occasion of the Scottish women's football calendar. Rangers vs Celtic Women — an Old Firm cup final — meant Hampden Park carried a weight of occasion that demanded more than a standard highlights package.

The SFA commissioned Monumont Studios to capture the full story of the day. Not just the goals and the final whistle, but the texture of the occasion: the build-up in the tunnel, the energy in the stands, the emotion, the raw post-match interviews. The output would be Story of The Final — a 12-minute documentary-style highlight film — plus a suite of post-match interview content, all delivered the following morning.

The brief was simple. Make the occasion feel as significant as it was.

The Approach

Monumont deployed a highlights and documentary crew rather than a live broadcast rig. That distinction matters. It freed the team to move through the stadium in a way locked-off broadcast cameras never could, prioritising the alternative angles and behind-the-scenes moments that live coverage misses entirely.

That meant positions in the tunnel during the team walk-out, handheld capture around the dugouts and technical areas, dedicated atmosphere crew tracking the fan experience across both ends of the ground, and player mic access that brought the audio of the occasion — the calls, the celebrations, the quiet moments between passages of play — directly into the edit.

The goal was to put the viewer inside the day, not just the match.

On the Ground

An Old Firm women's final at Hampden is a logistically demanding environment. Both sets of supporters generate a wall of noise and colour that needed to function as a structural element of the film — not incidental atmosphere, but a thread woven through the edit from kick-off to the final whistle. The crew covered both ends of the ground during key moments, building the footage that would anchor the fan-experience sequences throughout.

Inside the stadium, tunnel and warm-up access gave the production images that broadcast cameras never carry. Players in focus before the match, the collective stillness of a squad about to play a cup final, the specific energy of an Old Firm occasion at close range — these are the frames that give a highlight film its emotional weight.

The Turnaround

Story of The Final was delivered the morning after the match. From the final whistle to a finished 12-minute film, the post-production window was measured in hours, not days. That requires the edit to begin before the match ends — sequence decisions made on the ground, footage triaged in real time, a clear editorial framework in place before a single frame is captured.

The post-match interviews were cut and delivered in the same window, giving the SFA a complete content package — match film and player reaction — ready to deploy before the news cycle moved on.

Why This Brief Suits Monumont

National cup finals are not the place to be working out your workflow. The access is finite, the turnaround is hard, and the occasion demands an editorial instinct that only comes from having been in these environments before.

Monumont Studios brings a documentary sensibility to live sport. We are not there to point cameras at the pitch and press record. We are there to find the story of the day and deliver it at the pace the story demands. For the SFA and Scottish Women's Football, that means a film that does justice to the occasion and a full content package available the morning after the match.

That is the brief we are built for.