12-423: Premier League Cup may refer to: Association football [ edit ] FA Women's Premier League Cup Russian Premier League Cup Scottish Women's Premier League Cup Premier League Cup (football) , an English youth tournament Motorcycle speedway [ edit ] Premier League Cup (speedway) , a regional league competition contested by teams in
24-426: A sparse crowd, Arsenal beat Knowsley United 3–0 to retain the trophy. This was one of very few competitive women's club games known to have been held at the old Wembley Stadium; it also remains the only women's League Cup final to be played at Wembley. The match was held prior to the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off final . Arsenal manager Vic Akers recalled that the women's teams were not given use of
36-567: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages FA Women%27s Premier League Cup The Women's National League Cup is an annual English football cup competition, founded in 1991 by the Women's Football Association (WFA) . It was renamed the FA Women's Premier League Cup from 1994 to 2018. The first edition of the Cup included clubs from
48-468: The 1991–92 WFA National League Premier Division and the winners were the second-tier Arsenal , who beat Millwall 1–0 with a goal by Naz Ball . The Football Association assumed the running of the competition in 1994–95. Clubs from league levels 1 and 2 competed in the Women's Premier League Cup tournament annually until 2009–10, with Arsenal the most frequent winners, in ten seasons. From 2011 onwards,
60-628: The National League Cup , and is a single-elimination knock-out tournament. The WPL Plate was introduced in 2014 following a restructuring of women's football in England. Historically the WPL had consisted of three divisions: a National Division at the top, with two regional divisions, North and South, below. The WPL was the top level of women's football in England until the introduction of the Women's Super League in 2011, then in 2014 WSL 2
72-786: The British Premier League Premier League Knockout Cup , a knock out competition contested by teams in the British Premier League Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Premier League Cup . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Premier_League_Cup&oldid=740311900 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
84-417: The determining round. The winning teams then are drawn into either a preliminary round or directly into the first round of the cup. Thus 32 teams then play the first round. The losers of the determining round play a preliminary round and then a round of 32 onwards for the FA Women's National League Plate , first played out in 2015–16. The 1992–93 competition ended with a final at Wembley Stadium . Before
96-589: The existing National League Cup . The teams competing in each season's Women's National League Plate is decided by the first round of the WPL Cup, which is known as the Determining Round . All 72 WPL teams are drawn in this round, with the winners of each match continuing in the Cup and the losers being entered into the Plate. As there are 36 losing teams in the determining round, a preliminary round of
108-501: The main dressing rooms. Level 1 and 2 league cup competition : Level 2 and 3 cup competition: Level 3 and 4 cup competition (Women's Premier League Cup, renamed National League Cup in 2018–19): FA Women%27s National League Plate The FA Women's National League Plate is an association football tournament organised by the FA Women's National League (WNL). It is the WNL's second league cup competition, played alongside
120-417: The men's EFL Trophy of third- and fourth-tier teams, although the competitions are organised by different governing bodies. The competitions format has changed having previously also included a preceding group stage prior to the knockout rounds. 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
132-566: The top-league teams played in the FA WSL 's League Cup instead. Since 2011, the most successful clubs in the Premier/National League Cup have been Tottenham and Blackburn with two final victories each. The current Women's National League Cup is open to the 72 teams in the FA Women's National League – Northern and Southern divisions, plus the four regional Division One leagues. It is the women's football equivalent to
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#1732772466753144-539: Was also inserted above the WPL in the league structure. This led to the National Division being abolished and the former Combination Leagues, which had been below the WPL in the pyramid, were incorporated as four regional divisions one level below the North and South. This meant the number of divisions in the Women's National League had doubled from three to six, so a second cup competition was added to complement
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