National Cup

The National Cup is a domestic cup competition open to teams throughout Mindano. It was first played in 1936, as a rival to the Mulryne Cup, but quickly grew in prominence, in part down to a string of poor decisions by the Mulryne Cup organisers which culminated in professional football being banned by the AFGM in late 1939. As more sides entered the competition, the issue of who would receive byes to later rounds began to crop up. In 1940, the member sides of the Jessimine League were controversially chosen to receive all but four of the available byes - despite the fact that some had never played a game prior to the season (while half of the previous winners were not members of the Jessimine League. In response, the byes in 1941 were picked randomly. This resulted in the elimination of defending champions Shiresden Robins before the majority of teams, including several new clubs not attached to any league, had entered.

With the advent of the National League in 1942, the issue of byes became an easier one, with league members staggered to later rounds.