FA Women's Premier League Cup

The Football Association Women's Premier League Cup is a cup competition in English Women's association football. It is also referred to as the Women's League Cup as it is the women's equivalent to the men's League Cup, although both competitions are organised by different governing bodies.

The competition is open to the 72 teams in the FA Women's Premier League (Northern and Southern divisions, plus the four Division 1). Unlike the men's League Cup, the women's semi-finals are not done over two legs, as the semi-finals and final venues are usually rented from a men's League team and are thus larger than a usual women's League match venue.

Up to the creation of the FA WSL it was England's top league cup. Since then the country's top teams enter the WSL League Cup only.

Format

The format changed over the years. It either was played as a straight knock-out and since 2011 with preceding group stage.

After the league restructuring of the Women's Premier League in 2015 up to 72 teams are eligible to participate. At first all teams are drawn against each other in the determining round. The winning teams then are drawn into either a prelininary round or directly into the first round of the cup. Thus 32 teams then play the first round.

2015 League 1 Cup

The 2015 League 1 Cup or 2015 iPro Cup for sponsorship reasons is the first year in the tournaments existence. 16 teams are playing in this years tournament, no team in a division higher than the Championship One. The tournament is seen as a replacement for the recently ceased Northern Rail Cup however teams from the Championship are not eligible to compete.

Teams Competing

First Round

Second Round

Semi Final

Final

References

2016 League 1 Cup

The 2016 League 1 Cup is the second edition of the competition first played in 2015.

Teams

First Round

The first round draw of the 2016 iPro Sport Cup will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Newcastle on Thursday November 26 from 6.45pm. Last year’s winners, North Wales Crusaders, will join the other 13 Kingstone Press League 1 clubs and Kingstone Press National Conference League teams Leigh Miners Rangers and Wath Brow Hornets in the bag from which eight ties to be played over the weekend of February 20-21 will be selected.

The draw will be made by former England, Huddersfield Giants, Hull FC and York City Knights player Chris Thorman. The 35-year-old, who hails from the Wallsend area of Newcastle, will be joined by members of the Total Sport radio show to conduct the first round draw that has been split into two pools this year – Pool A (northern regions) and Pool B (midlands and southern regions).

Pool A

Pool B

Final

References

2009–10 Football League Cup

The 2009–10 Football League Cup, known as the Carling Cup due to the competition's sponsorship by lager brand Carling, was the 50th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs.Manchester United successfully defended their Football League Cup title after defeating Aston Villa by 2–1 in the final at Wembley Stadium on 28 February 2010.

Each season, the League Cup winners – like the winners of the FA Cup – are granted a place in the UEFA Europa League for the following season. However, in cases where a team has already gained a place in European competition via their league position or progress in other cup competitions, their place in the Europa League is deferred to the next-placed league side. In this season, since Manchester United and FA Cup winners Chelsea qualified for the UEFA Champions League via the Premier League, Aston Villa and Liverpool qualified for the Europa League as the sixth- and seventh-placed sides in the league.

Women's League

Women's League may refer to: