Football League Cup 2010-11

The 2010–11 Football League Cup, known as the Carling Cup due to the competition's sponsorship by lager brand Carling, is the 51st season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs.
Each season, the League Cup winners – like the winners of the FA Cup – are granted a place in the UEFA Europa League for the following season. However, in cases where a team has already gained a place in European competition via their league position or progress in other cup competitions, their place in the Europa League is deferred to the next-placed league side.
Manchester United are the defending champions for the second successive season.
==First round==
The draw for the First Round took place on 16 June 2010, with matches played two months later in the week beginning 9 August 2010.
Burnley and Hull City 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 2009–10 season.
Tie no 	Home team 	Score 	Away team 	Attendance
1 	Hartlepool United 	2–0 	Sheffield United 	2,520
2 	Leicester City 	4–3 	Macclesfield Town 	6,142
3 	Walsall 	0–1 	Tranmere Rovers 	2,253
4 	Carlisle United 	0–1 	Huddersfield Town 	3,475
5 	Stockport County 	0–5 	Preston North End 	3,724
6 	Barnsley 	0–1 	Rochdale 	4,107
7 	Morecambe 	2–0 	Coventry City 	4,002
8 	Doncaster Rovers 	1–1 	Accrington Stanley 	4,603
Accrington Stanley won 2–1 after extra time	Accrington Stanley won 2–1 after extra time	Accrington Stanley won 2–1 after extra time	Accrington Stanley won 2–1 after extra time	Accrington Stanley won 2–1 after extra time
9 	Chesterfield 	1–2 	Middlesbrough 	6,509
10 	Peterborough United 	4–1 	Rotherham United 	4,145
11 	Bradford City 	1–1 	Nottingham Forest 	5,175
Bradford City won 2–1 after extra time 	Bradford City won 2–1 after extra time 	Bradford City won 2–1 after extra time 	Bradford City won 2–1 after extra time 	Bradford City won 2–1 after extra time
12 	Leeds United 	4–0 	Lincoln City 	12,602
13 	Sheffield Wednesday 	1–0 	Bury 	7,390
14 	Scunthorpe United 	2–1 	Oldham Athletic 	2,602
15 	Crewe Alexandra 	1–0 	Derby County 	3,778
Tie no 	Home team 	Score1 	Away team 	Attendance
1 	Exeter City 	2–2 	Ipswich Town 	4,520
Ipswich Town won 3–2 after extra time	Ipswich Town won 3–2 after extra time	Ipswich Town won 3–2 after extra time	Ipswich Town won 3–2 after extra time	Ipswich Town won 3–2 after extra time
2 	Southend United 	2–2 	Bristol City 	2,940
Southend won 3–2 after extra time 	Southend won 3–2 after extra time 	Southend won 3–2 after extra time 	Southend won 3–2 after extra time 	Southend won 3–2 after extra time
3 	Southampton 	2–0 	AFC Bournemouth 	17,135
4 	Brentford 	2–1 	Cheltenham Town 	2,049
5 	Queens Park Rangers 	1–3 	Port Vale 	6,619
6 	Torquay United 	 	Reading 	
7 	Norwich City 	4–1 	Gillingham 	13,068
8 	Stevenage 	1–2 	Portsmouth 	4,236
9 	Shrewsbury Town 	4–3 	Charlton Athletic 	3,700
10 	Cardiff City 	 	Burton Albion 	
11 	Northampton Town 	2–0 	Brighton & Hove Albion 	2,431
12 	Swansea City 	3–0 	Barnet 	6,644
13 	Plymouth Argyle 	0–1 	Notts County 	5,454
14 	Wycombe Wanderers 	1–1 	Millwall 	3,028
Millwall won 2–1 after extra time 	Millwall won 2–1 after extra time 	Millwall won 2–1 after extra time 	Millwall won 2–1 after extra time 	Millwall won 2–1 after extra time
15 	Oxford United 	6–1 	Bristol Rovers 	5,008
16 	Milton Keynes Dons 	2–1 	Dagenham & Redbridge 	3,502
17 	Hereford United 	0–3 	Colchester United 	1,996
18 	Yeovil Town 	0–1 	Crystal Palace 	3,720
19 	Aldershot Town 	0–3 	Watford 	3,292
20 	Swindon Town 	1–2 	Leyton Orient 	4,450
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 Burnley and Hull City, who had received a First Round bye. If there is a draw at full time there will be extra time followed by a penalty shootout if the scores are still level. From the Second Round onwards, the teams are no longer split geographically. The draw for the Second Round took place on the evening of 11 August 2010, after the First Round matches had been completed, and the matches will be played in the week beginning 23 August 2010.
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!Tie no
!Home team
!Score1
!Away team
!Attendance
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|1||Accrington Stanley||2–3||Newcastle United||4,098
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|2||Portsmouth||1–1||Crystal Palace||8,412
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!colspan="5"|1–1 after extra time – Portsmouth won 4–3 on penalties
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|3||Leeds United||1–2||Leicester City||16,509
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|4||Wolverhampton Wanderers||1–1||Southend United||10,284
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!colspan="5"|Wolverhampton Wanderers won 2–1 after extra time
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|5||Blackburn Rovers||3–1||Norwich City||9,235
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|6||Milton Keynes Dons||3–3||Blackpool||7,458
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!colspan="5"|Milton Keynes Dons won 4–3 after extra time
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|7||Tranmere Rovers||1–3||Swansea City||2,450
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|8||Everton||5–1||Huddersfield Town||
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|9||Peterborough United||2–1||Cardiff City||3,806
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|10||Reading||2–2||Northampton Town||6,986
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!colspan="5"|3–3 after extra time – Northampton Town won 4–2 on penalties
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|11||Scunthorpe United||4–2||Sheffield Wednesday||4,680
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|12||Brentford||2–1||Hull City||3,335
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|13||Sunderland||2–0||Colchester United||13,532
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|14||Leyton Orient||0–2||West Bromwich Albion||2,349
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|15||Morecambe||1–3||Burnley||5,003
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|16||Birmingham City||3-2||Rochdale||
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|17||Crewe Alexandra||0–0||Ipswich Town||3,309
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!colspan="5"|Ipswich Town won 1–0 after extra time
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|18||Watford||1–2||Notts County||6,434
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|19||West Ham United||1–0||Oxford United||20,902
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|20||Southampton||0–1||Bolton Wanderers||10,251
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|21||Bradford City||1–1||Preston North End||4,221
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!colspan="5"|Preston North End won 2–1 after extra time
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|22||Fulham||6–0||Port Vale||9,031
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|23||Millwall||2–1||Middlesbrough||6,704
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|24||Stoke City||2–1||Shrewsbury Town||11,995
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|25||Hartlepool United||0–3||Wigan Athletic||3,196
1 Score after 90 minutes
==Third Round==
The seven Premier League teams involved in European competition entered at this stage, along with the winners from the Second Round. The draw for the Third Round took place on 28 August 2010, after the Second Round games had been played. The matches will be played in the week beginning 20 September 2010. Northampton Town are the only remaining League Two side left in the competition. 
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!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Attendance
!Comments
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|1||Brentford||1 – 1||Everton||8,960||1 – 1 after extra time – Brentford won 4 – 3 on penalties
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|2||Portsmouth||1 – 2||Leicester City||8,327
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|3||Stoke City||2 – 0||Fulham||12,778
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|4||Chelsea||3 – 4||Newcastle United||41,511
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|5||Aston Villa||3 – 1||Blackburn Rovers||18,753
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|6||Tottenham Hotspur||1 – 1||Arsenal||35,883||Arsenal won 4 – 1 after extra time
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|7||Millwall||1 – 2||Ipswich Town||5,070
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|8||Wolverhampton Wanderers||1 – 1||Notts County||11,516||Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4 – 2 after extra time
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|9||Burnley||1 – 0||Bolton Wanderers||17,602
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|10||Birmingham City||3 – 1||Milton Keynes Dons||9,450
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|11||Liverpool||2 – 2||Northampton Town||22,577||Northampton won 4 – 2 on penalties
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|12||Scunthorpe United||2 – 5||Manchester United||9,077
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|13||West Bromwich Albion||2 – 1||Manchester City||10,418
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|14||Sunderland||1 – 2||West Ham United||21,907
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|15||Peterborough United||1 – 3||Swansea City||4,164
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|16||Wigan Athletic||2 – 1||Preston North End||6,987
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1 Score after 90 minutes
==Fourth round==
The draw for the Fourth Round will take place after the Third Round games had been played, on 25 September 2010, and the matches will be played on the week beginning on 25 October 2010.
==Fifth Round==
The Fifth Round draw will take place on 30 October 2010, with the matches to be played in the week commencing 29 November 2010.
==Semi-finals==
The semi-final draw will take place after the completion of the Fifth Round matches. The round consists of two-legged ties. The first leg matches will be played the week commencing 10 January 2011, with the second leg matches in the week commencing 24 January 2011.
==Final==
The final will be played at Wembley Stadium, London on 27 February 2011.
==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 will take home £25,000.
==External links==
* Official Carling Cup website
* Carling Cup News at football-league.co.uk
* Carling Cup at bbc.co.uk
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