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The first Football League Cup was won by Aston Villa, who beat Rotherham United 3–2 on aggregate, after losing the first leg 2–0. The competition's first single-legged final was held in 1967: Queens Park Rangers defeated West Bromwich Albion 3–2 at Wembley Stadium in London. [1] As of 2024, 23 clubs have won the EFL Cup.
Winners not only receive the EFL Cup, [1] of which there have been three designs, the current one also being the original, but also qualify for European football: from 1966–67 until 1971–72 the winners received a place in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, from 1972–1973 until the 2019–20 season in the UEFA Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup ...
A national second tier of English league football was established in 1892–93, at the demise of Football Alliance, as the Second Division.In 1992, with the departure of the then First Division clubs to become the Premier League, the second tier became known as the First Division.
The 2024 EFL Cup final was the final match of the 2023–24 EFL Cup. It was played between Chelsea and Liverpool, in a repeat of the 2022 final, at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on 25 February 2024. [4] Liverpool won the match 1–0 after extra time to secure a record-extending tenth EFL Cup title. [5] [6]
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from its foundation until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split from it to form the Premier League.
The category includes winners of the competition under its original name, the Football League Cup, between 1961 and 2016. Pages in category "EFL Cup winners" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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Manchester United won the Football League Cup for the first time in their history, defeating four-time winners Nottingham Forest in the final. Blackburn Rovers, back in the top flight for the first time since the 1960s, made Alan Shearer England's most expensive footballer by paying Southampton £3.5million for his services.