Soccer Trivia

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League Cup

The League Cup was introduced in the 1960–61 season specifically as a mid-week floodlit tournament. In the early years of the competition, many of the top teams declined to take part. Aston Villa became the first winners of the League Cup in 1961, when they beat Rotherham United 3-2 on aggregate. 

The first six League Cup Finals were played over two legs.

The first League Cup final to be played at Wembley was in 1967.  QPR beat West Bromwich Albion 3-2. 

Nottingham Forest were the first side to successfully defend the trophy when they beat Liverpool and Southampton in 1978 and 1979 respectively. 

In 1982 the League Cup became the Milk Cup and the sponsorship of the Cup began.

Liverpool won the competition four times in succession in the early 1980s.

Liverpool’s run of 41 games without defeat was ended by Sunderland in the 1984-85 competition.

In 1987 the Milk Cup became the Littlewoods Cup.  The first winners of the newly named trophy were Arsenal, defeating Liverpool 2-1. 

The name of the Cup changed for the third time in 1991 when it was renamed the Rumbelows Cup.  The first winners of the newly sponsored Cup was Sheffield Wednesday when they defeated Manchester United 1-0. 

The name changed again in 1993 to the Coca-Cola Cup: Arsenal beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1. 

Andrei Kanchelskis became the first player to be sent-off in a Wembley League Cup Final when he was shown the red card for Manchester United against Aston Villa in 1994. 

It became the Worthington Cup in 1998-99 season: Tottenham beat Leicester City 1-0.

It became the Carling Cup in 2003-2004: Middlesbrough beat Bolton 2-1. 

The winners of the Carling Cup are guaranteed a UEFA Cup slot – England along with France are the only nations to offer qualification for Europe to its second cup competition winners.

NormanWhiteside is the youngest goalscorer in a Wembley Cup Final. Aged 17 years, 324 days, he scored for Manchester United against Liverpool in the 1983 League Cup Final.

Chris Woods became the youngest Wembley Cup Final goalkeeper when he appeared for Nottingham Forest aged 19 years, 125 days against Liverpool in the 1978 League Cup Final.