2009–10 Football League Cup

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Football League Cup 2009-10
Region	England Wales
Number of teams	92
Defending champions	Manchester United
Champions	Manchester United
Runner-up	Aston Villa
Total matches played	88
Total goals scored	283
Top goal scorer	Carlos Tévez (5 goals)
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The 2009-10 Football League Cup, known as the Carling Cup due to the competition's sponsorship by lager brand Carling, is the 50th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The winners will qualify for the third qualifying round of the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League, if not already qualified for European competition.

Manchester United are the defending champions.

First Round

The draw for the First Round took place on 16 June 2009, with matches played two months later in the week beginning 10 August 2009.

Newcastle United and Middlesbrough received a first round bye as the highest ranked Football League teams from the previous season's league placings. The other 70 of the 72 Football League clubs competed in the First Round, divided into North and South sections. Each section was divided equally into a pot of seeded clubs and a pot of unseeded clubs. Clubs' rankings depend upon their finishing position in the 2008-09 season.

North

Tie no	Home team	Score1	Away team	Attendance
1	Accrington Stanley	2 – 1	Walsall	1,041
2	Huddersfield Town	3 – 1	Stockport County	5,120
3	Rotherham United	2 – 1	Derby County	4,345
4	Tranmere Rovers	4 – 0	Grimsby Town	3,527
5	Sheffield Wednesday	3 – 0	Rochdale	6,696
6	Bury	0 – 2	West Bromwich Albion	3,077
7	Notts County	0 – 1	Doncaster Rovers	4,893
8	Lincoln City	0 – 1	Barnsley	3,635
9	Scunthorpe United	2 – 1	Chesterfield	2,501
10	Coventry City	0 – 0	Hartlepool United	6,055
Hartlepool United won 1 – 0 after extra time
11	Darlington	0 – 1	Leeds United	4,487
12	Preston North End	5 – 1	Morecambe	5,407
13	Crewe Alexandra	1 – 2	Blackpool	2,991
14	Carlisle United	1 – 0	Oldham Athletic	2,509
15	Nottingham Forest	3 – 0	Bradford City	4,639
16	Macclesfield Town	0 – 2	Leicester City	2,197
17	Sheffield United	1 – 2	Port Vale	7,627

South

Tie no	Home team	Score1	Away team	Attendance
1	Cardiff City	3 – 1	Dagenham & Redbridge	5,545
2	Wycombe Wanderers	0 – 4	Peterborough United	2,078
3	Southampton	2 – 0	Northampton Town	10,921
4	Barnet	0 – 0	Watford	3,139
Watford won 2 – 0 after extra time
5	Hereford United	0 – 0	Charlton Athletic	2,017
Hereford United won 1 – 0 after extra time
6	Bristol Rovers	2 – 1	Aldershot Town	3,644
7	Millwall	4 – 0	AFC Bournemouth	3,552
8	Gillingham	2 – 1	Plymouth Argyle	3,306
9	Colchester United	1 – 2	Leyton Orient	3,308
10	Reading	5 – 1	Burton Albion	5,893
11	Exeter City	0 – 5	Queens Park Rangers	4,614
12	Cheltenham Town	1 – 2	Southend United	1,918
13	Brentford	0 – 1	Bristol City	3,024
14	Yeovil Town	0 – 4	Norwich City	3,860
15	Crystal Palace	2 – 1	Torquay United	3,140
16	Milton Keynes Dons	1 – 4	Swindon Town	4,812
17	Swansea City	3 – 0	Brighton & Hove Albion	6,400
18	Shrewsbury Town	3 – 3	Ipswich Town	4,184
3 – 3 after extra time – Ipswich Town won 4 – 2 on penalties

¹ Score after 90 minutes

Second Round

The 13 Premier League teams not involved in European competitions entered at this stage, along with the winners from the First Round plus Newcastle United and Middlesbrough, who received a First Round bye. From the Second Round onwards, the teams are no longer split geographically. The draw for the Second Round took place on 12 August 2009, after the First Round games had been completed, and the matches were played in the week beginning 24 August 2009.

Tie no	Home team	Score1	Away team	Attendance
1	West Bromwich Albion	2 – 2	Rotherham United	10,659
West Bromwich Albion won 4 – 3 after extra time
2	Norwich City	1 – 4	Sunderland	12,345
3	Tranmere Rovers	0 – 1	Bolton Wanderers	5,381
4	Queens Park Rangers	2 – 1	Accrington Stanley	5,203
5	Bristol City	0 – 2	Carlisle United	6,359
6	Leyton Orient	0 – 0	Stoke City	2,742
Stoke City won 1 – 0 after extra time
7	Port Vale	2 – 0	Sheffield Wednesday	6,667
8	Hull City	3 – 1	Southend United	7,994
9	Leeds United	1 – 1	Watford	14,681
Leeds United won 2 – 1 after extra time
10	Cardiff City	3 – 1	Bristol Rovers	9,767
11	Portsmouth	4 – 1	Hereford United	6,645
12	Crystal Palace	0 – 2	Manchester City	14,725
13	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0 – 0	Swindon Town	11,416
0 – 0 after extra time – Wolverhampton Wanderers won 6 – 5 on penalties
14	Gillingham	1 – 3	Blackburn Rovers	7,203
15	Blackpool	4 – 1	Wigan Athletic	8,089
16	Southampton	1 – 2	Birmingham City	11,753
17	Preston North End	2 – 1	Leicester City	6,977
18	Newcastle United	4 – 3	Huddersfield Town	23,815
19	West Ham United	1 – 1	Millwall	24,492
West Ham United won 3 – 1 after extra time
20	Hartlepool United	1 – 1	Burnley	3,501
Burnley won 2 – 1 after extra time
21	Nottingham Forest	1 – 1	Middlesbrough	8,838
Nottingham Forest won 2 – 1 after extra time
22	Reading	1 – 2	Barnsley	5,576
23	Swansea City	1 – 2	Scunthorpe United	7,321
24	Doncaster Rovers	1 – 5	Tottenham Hotspur	12,923
25	Peterborough United	2 – 1	Ipswich Town	5,451

¹ Score after 90 minutes

Third Round

The seven Premier League teams involved in European competition enter at this stage, along with the winners from the Second Round. The draw for the Third Round took place on 29 August 2009, after the Second Round games had been played. The matches were played in the week beginning 21 September 2009.

Tie no	Home team	Score1	Away team	Attendance
1	Arsenal	2 – 0	West Bromwich Albion	56,592
2	Chelsea	1 – 0	Queens Park Rangers	37,781
3	Bolton Wanderers	1 – 1	West Ham United	8,050
Bolton Wanderers won 3 – 1 after extra time
4	Barnsley	3 – 2	Burnley	6,270
5	Hull City	0 – 4	Everton	13,558
6	Leeds United	0 – 1	Liverpool	38,168
7	Manchester United	1 – 0	Wolverhampton Wanderers	51,160
8	Manchester City	1 – 1	Fulham	24,507
Manchester City won 2 – 1 after extra time
9	Sunderland	2 – 0	Birmingham City	20,576
10	Peterborough United	2 – 0	Newcastle United	10,298
11	Carlisle United	1 – 3	Portsmouth	7,042
12	Nottingham Forest	0 – 1	Blackburn Rovers	11,553
13	Stoke City	4 – 3	Blackpool	13,957
14	Scunthorpe United	0 – 0	Port Vale	3,383
Scunthorpe United won 2 – 0 after extra time
15	Preston North End	1 – 5	Tottenham Hotspur	16,533
16	Aston Villa	1 – 0	Cardiff City	22,527

¹ Score after 90 minutes

Fourth Round

The draw for the Fourth Round took place after the Third Round games had been played, on 26 September 2009, and the matches were played on the week beginning on 26 October 2009. The only clubs from outside the Premier League left in the draw were Barnsley, Peterborough United and Scunthorpe United.

Tie no	Home team	Score1	Away team	Attendance
1	Blackburn Rovers	5 – 2	Peterborough United	8,419
2	Manchester City	5 – 1	Scunthorpe United	36,358
3	Tottenham Hotspur	2 – 0	Everton	35,843
4	Barnsley	0 – 2	Manchester United	20,019
5	Chelsea	4 – 0	Bolton Wanderers	41,538
6	Sunderland	0 – 0	Aston Villa	27,666
0 – 0 after extra time – Aston Villa won 3 – 1 on penalties
7	Arsenal	2 – 1	Liverpool	60,004
8	Portsmouth	4 – 0	Stoke City	11,251

¹ Score after 90 minutes

Fifth Round

The Fifth Round draw took place on 31 October, and the matches were played in the week commencing 30 November 2009.

1 December 2009 19:45	Portsmouth	2 – 4	Aston Villa	Fratton Park, Portsmouth Attendance: 17,034 Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)
	Petrov  10' (o.g.) Kanu  87'	Report	Heskey  12' Milner  27' Downing  74' A. Young  89'

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1 December 2009 20:00	Manchester United	2 – 0	Tottenham Hotspur	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 57,212 Referee: Mark Clattenburg County Durham)
	Gibson  16', 38'	Report

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2 December 2009 19:45	Manchester City	3 – 0	Arsenal	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Attendance: 46,015 Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)
	Tévez  50' Wright-Phillips  69' Weiss  89'	Report

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2 December 2009 20:00	Blackburn Rovers	3 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Chelsea	Ewood Park, Blackburn Attendance: 18,136 Referee: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire)
	Kalinić  9' Emerton  64' McCarthy  93' (pen.)	Report	Drogba  48' Kalou  52' Ferreira  120+2'
		Penalties
	McCarthy Emerton Grella Kalinić Hoilett	4 – 3	Ballack Drogba Malouda Zhirkov Kakuta

Semi-finals

The semi-final draw took place on 2 December 2009, after the completion of the first three Fifth Round matches. The first leg matches were to be played the week commencing 4 January 2010, but adverse weather conditions including severe snow and ice in North West England caused the games to be rearranged.

First leg

14 January 2010 20:00	Blackburn Rovers	0 – 1	Aston Villa	Ewood Park, Blackburn Attendance: 18,595 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (County Durham)
		Report	Milner  23'

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19 January 2010 20:00	Manchester City	2 – 1	Manchester United	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Attendance: 46,067 Referee: Mike Dean (Cheshire)
	Tévez  42' (pen.), 65'	Report	Giggs  17'

Second leg

20 January 2010 19:45	Aston Villa	6 – 4	Blackburn Rovers	Villa Park, Birmingham Attendance: 40,406 Referee: Martin Atkinson (West Yorkshire)
	Warnock  30' Milner  40' (pen.) N'Zonzi  53' (o.g.) Agbonlahor  58' Heskey  62' A. Young  90+3'	Report	Kalinić  10', 26' Olsson  63' Emerton  84'

Aston Villa won 7–4 on aggregate.

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27 January 2010 20:00	Manchester United	3 – 1	Manchester City	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 74,576 Referee: Howard Webb (South Yorkshire)
	Scholes  52' Carrick  71' Rooney  90+2'	Report	Tévez  76'

Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 2010 Football League Cup Final

The final will be played at Wembley Stadium, London, on Sunday, 28 February 2010.

28 February 2010 15:00	Aston Villa	1 - 2	Manchester United	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 88,596 Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire)
	Milner  3' (Pen)		Owen  12' Rooney  74'

Prize money

The prize money is awarded by the Football League. The winners of the League Cup win £100,000 and the runners-up win £50,000. The losing semi-finalists each take home £25,000.

External links

• Official Carling Cup website
• Carling Cup News at football-league.co.uk
• Carling Cup at bbc.co.uk