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The winner of the final receives the eponymous EFL Cup. The EFL Cup is a knockout cup competition in English football organised by and named after the English Football League (EFL). [1] The competition was established in 1960 and is considered to be the second-most important domestic cup competition for English football clubs, after the FA Cup. [2]
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 ...
Lowest ranked winners: Queens Park Rangers and Swindon Town – Third Division (now EFL League One) Lowest ranked finalists: Rochdale – Fourth Division (now EFL League Two) and Bradford City – EFL League Two; Fastest goal in League Cup Final: 45 seconds, John Arne Riise (Liverpool v. Chelsea in 3–2 defeat, 2005)
The Anglo-Italian League Cup was created in 1969 to match English cup winners against the winners of the Coppa Italia, but was permanently disbanded in 1976. [6] In 1985, the Full Members' Cup and Football League Super Cup were created as substitutes for UEFA competitions after UEFA banned English clubs for a number of years following the ...
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.
The Anglo-Italian League Cup was created in 1969 to match English cup winners against the winners of the Coppa Italia, and was permanently disbanded in 1976. [7] In 1985, the Full Members Cup and Football League Super Cup were created as substitutes for UEFA competitions after UEFA responded to the Heysel Stadium disaster by banning English clubs.
The 2008 UEFA Champions League final was the first all-English club final in European Cup history, and after 120 minutes, Manchester United defeated Chelsea on penalties after a 1–1 draw in Moscow, Russia. Leicester City were relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time in their 124-year history.
Chelsea made history in 1997 when they won the FA Cup under Dutch manager Ruud Gullit, the first foreign manager to win a major trophy in English football. They won the European Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup a year later under Gullit's successor Gianluca Vialli, who added a further FA Cup in 2000.