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Where was the first ever EFL Trophy final held? (no checka-ing!)

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  • Later this year, barring an apocalypse in the mean time.

  • That's no place i ever heard of! Clue...it's not Wembley

  • I'll guess the Millenium stadium

  • LX1LX1
    edited February 2017

    Fair guess..It was played there during the re-building of Wembley but started well before then in 84

    Clue..the stadium no longer exists

  • M3GM3G
    edited February 2017

    Boothferry park Hull City

  • Highbury?

  • With this one finished, another one for a guess at:

    Cup has been played in various guises for 33 years -
    q1) how many of those 33 winners have subsequently gone on to play in the premiership
    q2) how many have subsequently tasted conference football.

  • @Rolo It is Boothferry park. Thats the correct answer. The competition as we know it was formed properly in the 83/84 season.

    The history of the Associate Members' Cup and Football League Trophy can be traced back, strangely, to the Anglo-Scottish Cup that ran between 1970 and 1981 (sponsored by Texaco between 1970 and 1975). This finally bit the dust in 1981 when the Scottish clubs withdrew. Instead, a rehashed version containing just English clubs, called the Football League Group Cup (FLGC), was competed for in 1981-82. The entrants were 24 Second, Third and Fourth Division teams, including Reading, divided into six regional groups, the winners going on to the knock-out stages. Reading were eliminated at the group stage.

    A change of name, to the Football League Trophy (FLT), and the addition of two First Division clubs, Watford and Norwich, in 1982-83, did little to encourage interest. There were 32 entrants, divided into eight regional groups. Reading won through their group, beat first division Watford 5-3 in the quarter final, but went out to the eventual winners, Millwall, in the semi-final.

    The Associate Members' Cup (AMC) proper was founded in 1983-84 as a competition open to the Third and Fourth Division teams (Associate Members) of the Football League. It is organised into Northern and Southern regions, corresponding to the old Division 3 South and Division 3 North cups, but with a play-off between the two regional winners. The set-piece final at Wembley, or the Millennium Stadium, introduced in its second season, has proved the competition's one real strong point. A similar Full Members' Cup was started in 1985. The distinction between full and associate members of the Football League was abolished with the formation of the Premier League in 1992, and the name of the competition has reverted to the Football League Trophy. Various innovations have been tried, including admitting the leading Conference clubs between 2000 and 2006, and Category One Academy Sides (including Reading) from 2016.

    The competition has had various sponsors and has been known as the Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy, the Auto Windscreens Shield, the LDV Vans Trophy, the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, and the Checkatrade Trophy. The results of the finals for each of these competitions are as follows. The southern section winners are always given first.

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