FA Women's Premier League Cup

FA Women's Premier League Cup
Founded	1991
Region	England
Number of teams	72
Current champions	Tottenham Hotspur
Most successful club(s)	Arsenal (10 times)
2015–16

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.^[1]

The losers of the determining round play a preliminary round and then a round of 32 onwards for the Premier League Plate, first played out in 2015–16.

List of finals

The finals were:^[2]

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Site
1992	Arsenal	Millwall Lionesses	1-0	Alt Park
1993	Arsenal	Knowsley	3-0	Wembley
1994	Arsenal	Doncaster Rovers Belles	4-0	Abbey Stadium
1995	Wimbledon	Villa Aztecs	2-0	Butlin Road
1996	Wembley	Doncaster Rovers Belles	2-2 (5-3 pens)	Underhill Stadium
1997	Millwall Lionesses	Everton	2-1	Underhill Stadium
1998	Arsenal	Croydon Athletic	0-0 (4-2 pens)	Underhill Stadium
1999	Arsenal	Everton	3-1	Prenton Park
2000	Arsenal	Croydon Athletic	4-1	Underhill Stadium
2001	Arsenal	Tranmere Rovers	3-0	Deva Stadium
2002	Fulham	Birmingham City	7-1	Adams Park
2003	Fulham	Arsenal	1-1 aet (3-2 pens)	County Ground, Swindon
2004	Charlton Athletic	Fulham	1-0	Underhill Stadium
2005	Arsenal	Charlton Athletic	3-0	Griffin Park
2006	Charlton Athletic	Arsenal	2-1	Adams Park
2007	Arsenal	Leeds United	1-0	Glanford Park
2008	Everton	Arsenal	1-0	Brisbane Road
2009	Arsenal	Doncaster Rovers Belles	5-0	Glanford Park
2010	Leeds Carnegie	Everton	3-1	Spotland
2011	Barnet	Nottingham Forest	0-0 aet (4-3 pens)	Adams Park
2012	Sunderland	Leeds United	2-1	Sixfields Stadium
2013	Aston Villa	Leeds United	0-0 aet (5-4 pens)	Bootham Crescent
2014	Sheffield	Cardiff City	6-2	Pirelli Stadium, Burton Albion FC^[3]
2015^[4]	Charlton Athletic	Sheffield	0-0 a.e.t. (4–2 pen.)	James Parnell Stadium
2016	Tottenham Hotspur	Cardiff City	2–1 a.e.t.	Aggborough

Performance by Club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
Arsenal	10	3	1991-92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2008–09
Charlton Athletic	3	2	2003-04, 2005–06, 2014–15
Fulham	2	1	2001-02, 2002–03
Barnet	2	-	1995–96, 2010-11
Leeds United	1	3	2009–2010
Everton	1	2	2007–08
Millwall Lionesses	1	1	1996–97
Aston Villa	1	1	2012–13
Sheffield	1	1	2013–14
AFC Wimbledon Ladies	1	-	1994–95
Sunderland	1	-	2011–12
Tottenham Hotspur	1	-	2015-16
Doncaster Rovers Belles	-	3
Cardiff City	-	2
Birmingham City	-	1
Liverpool	-	1
Tranmere Rovers	-	1

References

↑ "Premier League Cup and Plate Preliminary rounds". shekicks.net. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
↑ "England - List of Women League Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
↑ http://www.thefa.com/news/fawsl/2014/may/fa-womens-premier-league-cup-final-cardiff-sheffield-burton
↑ http://www.thefa.com/news/fawsl/2015/may/the-final-charlton-athletic-sheffield-fc-nuneaton-town-report

External links

Official Site - TheFA.com
Results 2014/15

FA Women's Premier League

Northern Division	Blackburn Rovers Bradford City Derby County Fylde Ladies Huddersfield Town Leicester City Womens Middlesbrough Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Nuneaton Town Stoke City West Bromwich Albion

Southern Division	C & K Basildon Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Coventry United Crystal Palace Forest Green Rovers Lewes Portsmouth Queens Park Rangers Swindon Town Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United

Northern Div. One	Blackpool Wren Rovers Brighouse Town Chester Le Street Chorley Crewe Alexandra Guiseley Vixens Hull City Leeds Liverpool Marshalls Feds Morecambe Mossley Hill Tranmere Rovers

Midlands Div. One	Birmingham & West Midlands Leicester City Ladies Long Eaton United Loughborough Foxes Loughborough Students Radcliffe Olympic Rotherham United Solihull Sporting Khalsa Steel City Wanderers The New Saints Wolverhampton Wanderers

South East Div. One	Actonians AFC Wimbledon Cambridge United Denham United Enfield Town Gillingham Ipswich Town Lowestoft Town Luton Town Milton Keynes Dons Norwich City Stevenage

South West Div. One	Basingstoke Brislington Cheltenham Town Chichester City Exeter City Keynsham Town Larkhall Athletic Maidenhead United Plymouth Argyle Shanklin Southampton Saints St Nicholas

Seasons	1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Cup seasons	1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Plate seasons	2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Women's football in England

The Football Association

National teams

League system

Levels 1–2	Women's Super League 1 Women's Super League 2

Levels 3–4	Women's Premier League

Levels 5–6	Eastern East Midlands London & South East (level 5 only) North East North West Southern South West West Midlands Greater London (levels 6–9) South East Counties (levels 6–8)

Levels 7–10	Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Birmingham Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Riding Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Midwest Counties Norfolk North Riding Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Sheffield & Hallamshire Somerset Staffs Suffolk Surrey (level 9) Sussex (level 8) Thames Valley Counties West Riding Wiltshire

Cup competitions

List of clubs

National football league cups around the world (FIFA)

Active	England Finland France Gibraltar Hong Kong Iceland India Israel Japan Latvia Malaysia Northern Ireland Philippines Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Singapore South Africa Thailand Trinidad and Tobago United Arab Emirates Wales

Defunct	Belgium China Denmark Germany Greece Hungary Japan (JSL) Korea Republic Poland Russia Spain Switzerland Tunisia Turkey Ukraine USSR

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