2009 Football League Cup Final

The 2009 Football League Cup Final was the final match of the 2008–09 Football League Cup, the 49th season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and The Football League. The match was played at Wembley Stadium on 1 March 2009, and was contested by Tottenham Hotspur, who won the competition in 2008, and Manchester United, who last won the competition in 2006. The two joint-top goalscorers played for each of the finalists. Roman Pavlyuchenko of Tottenham Hotspur, who scored in every match in which he played in the tournament up to the final, and Manchester United's Carlos Tévez; both players have six goals each.
Manchester United won 4–1 on penalties, after the match ended as a goalless draw in normal time. United converted all four of their penalties, while Tottenham missed two of their three. It was only the second time that the League Cup Final had been decided by a penalty shootout.
The man of the match was Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster, who became the first goalkeeper since Jerzy Dudek in 2003 to win the Alan Hardaker Award.
==Match details==
{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"	MANCHESTER UNITED:	MANCHESTER UNITED:	MANCHESTER UNITED:	MANCHESTER UNITED:
 	 	 	 	
GK 	12 	Ben Foster 	 	
RB 	22 	John O'Shea 	 	
CB 	23 	Jonny Evans 	 	
CB 	5 	Rio Ferdinand (c) 	 	
LB 	3 	Patrice Evra 	 	
RM 	7 	Cristiano Ronaldo 	 	
CM 	18 	Paul Scholes 	 	
CM 	28 	Darron Gibson 	 	
LM 	17 	Nani 	 	
CF 	32 	Carlos Tévez 	 	
CF 	19 	Danny Welbeck 	 	
Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	 	
GK 	29 	Tomasz Kuszczak 	 	
DF 	15 	Nemanja Vidić 	 	
DF 	42 	Richard Eckersley 	 	
MF 	8 	Anderson 	 	
MF 	11 	Ryan Giggs 	 	
MF 	13 	Park Ji-Sung 	 	
MF 	34 	Rodrigo Possebon 	 	
Manager: 	Manager: 	Manager: 	Manager: 	
Sir Alex Ferguson	Sir Alex Ferguson 	Sir Alex Ferguson 	Sir Alex Ferguson 	
MATCH OFFICIALS
*Assistant referees:
**Peter Kirkup (Northamptonshire)
**Andy Butler (Lancashire)
*Fourth official: Andre Marriner (West Midlands)
*Reserve assistant referee: Robert Pollock (Merseyside)
MAN OF THE MATCH
*Ben Foster (Manchester United)	
MATCH RULES
*90 minutes.
*30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
*Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
*Seven named substitutes.
*Maximum of three substitutions.
==Road to Wembley==
*See also- Football League Cup 2008-09
===Manchester United===
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Round 3Clubs competing in UEFA competitions receive a bye to the third round	Manchester United 	3–1 	Middlesbrough
Round 4 	Manchester United 	1–0 	Queens Park Rangers
Round 5 	Manchester United 	5–3 	Blackburn Rovers
Semi-final (1st leg) 	Derby County 	1–0 	Manchester United
Semi-final (2nd leg) 	Manchester United 	4–2 	Derby County
Semi-final (2nd leg) 	(Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate)	(Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate)	(Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate)
===Tottenham Hotspur===
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Round 3 	Newcastle United 	1–2 	Tottenham Hotspur
Round 4 	Tottenham Hotspur 	4–2 	Liverpool
Round 5 	Watford 	1–2 	Tottenham Hotspur
Semi-final (1st leg)	Tottenham Hotspur 	4–1 	Burnley
Semi-final (2nd leg)	Burnley 	3–2 	Tottenham Hotspur
Semi-final (2nd leg)	(Tottenham won 6–4 on aggregate)	(Tottenham won 6–4 on aggregate)	(Tottenham won 6–4 on aggregate)
==References==
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