2010 Football League Cup Final

2010 Football League Cup Final

Aston Villa Manchester United 1 2
Event	Football League Cup 2009-10
Date	28 February 2010
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Player of the Match	Antonio Valencia (Manchester United)
Referee	Phil Dowd (Staffordshire)
Attendance	88,596
Weather	Sunny
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The 2010 Football League Cup Final was the final match of the 2009–10 Football League Cup, the 50th season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and The Football League. The match will be played at Wembley Stadium on 28 February 2010. The final and both semi-finals will be broadcast live on the BBC and on Sky Sports. The winner will be guaranteed a UEFA Europa League place for the 2010–11 season. It will be contested by Aston Villa and the holders, Manchester United.

Background

Out of the 172 previous meetings between the two sides, Manchester United had won 87 and Aston Villa had won 49, with the remaining 36 games finishing as draws; however, Villa's record in the League Cup against United was markedly better, with four wins in six matches between them. United's only League Cup win over Aston Villa came in October 1975, when they won 2–1 at Villa Park in the third round. The only previous meeting between the two teams in the final of the competition came in 1994, when Villa won 3–1 and United winger Andrei Kanchelskis became the first player to be sent off in a League Cup final.

Both Manchester United and Aston Villa have played in seven Football League Cup finals, but Manchester United have only won three compared to Villa's five. However, United's most recent victory came in 2009 – when they beat Tottenham Hotspur on penalties – whereas Villa's last League Cup title came in 1996, when they beat Leeds United 3–0.

Pre-match

Ticketing

Since 2008, the final of the Football League Cup has been played at Wembley Stadium in London. The stadium has a capacity of 90,000 spectators, Both clubs chose to limit their initial applications to season ticket holders, with priority given to those supporters who had attended more cup games during the season so far.

Officials

Staffordshire-based referee Phil Dowd was named as the referee for the 2010 League Cup final on 1 February 2010. His only previous cup final experience came in 2006, when he was the fourth official for the 2006 FA Cup Final. His assistants for the match will be Shaun Procter-Green from Lincolnshire and David Richardson from West Yorkshire, with Lee Mason from Lancashire acting as fourth official.

Match

Details

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

ASTON VILLA: GK 1 Brad Friedel RB 24 Carlos Cuéllar 80' CB 5 Richard Dunne CB 29 James Collins 10' LB 25 Stephen Warnock RM 7 Ashley Young CM 8 James Milner CM 19 Stiliyan Petrov LM 6 Stewart Downing 17' CF 18 Emile Heskey CF 11 Gabriel Agbonlahor Substitutes: GK 22 Brad Guzan DF 2 Luke Young DF 23 Habib Beye MF 4 Steve Sidwell MF 16 Fabian Delph FW 10 John Carew 80' FW 14 Nathan Delfouneso Manager: Martin O'Neill

MANCHESTER UNITED: GK 1 Tomasz Kuszczak RB 21 Rafael 66' CB 23 Jonny Evans CB 15 Nemanja Vidić 68' LB 3 Patrice Evra 40' RM 25 Antonio Valencia CM 24 Darren Fletcher CM 16 Michael Carrick LM 13 Park Ji-Sung 85' CF 9 Dimitar Berbatov CF 7 Michael Owen 41' Substitutes: GK 12 Ben Foster DF 2 Gary Neville 66' DF 6 Wes Brown MF 18 Paul Scholes MF 28 Darron Gibson 85' FW 10 Wayne Rooney 41' FW 32 Mame Biram Diouf Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Shaun Procter-Green (Lincolnshire) David Richardson (West Yorkshire) Fourth official: Lee Mason (Lancashire) MAN OF THE MATCH Antonio Valencia (Manchester United)

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shootout if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

Road to Wembley

-See also - Football League Cup 2009-10

Manchester United			Round	Aston Villa
Manchester United	1–0	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Round 3	Aston Villa	1–0	Cardiff City
Barnsley	0–2	Manchester United	Round 4	Sunderland	0–0 (1–3p)	Aston Villa
Manchester United	2–0	Tottenham Hotspur	Round 5	Portsmouth	2–4	Aston Villa
Manchester City	2–1	Manchester United	Semi-final	Blackburn Rovers	0–1	Aston Villa
Manchester United	3–1	Manchester City		Aston Villa	6–4	Blackburn Rovers
Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate				Aston Villa won 7–4 on aggregate

See also

• 2009–10 Football League Cup
• 2010 FA Cup Final