Carling Cup
The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout (single elimination) basis. Unlike the FA Cup, only the professional clubs of The Football League (who organise the competition) and FA Premier League can enter. The winners qualify for the UEFA Cup, if they have not qualified for European competition in some other way.
Since 1982 the League Cup has been named after its sponsor, giving it the following names: Milk Cup (1982-1986), Littlewoods Challenge Cup (1986-1990), Rumbelows Cup (1990-1993), Coca-Cola Cup (1993-1998), Worthington Cup (1998-2003) and Carling Cup (2003-)
The League Cup usually has lower attendances than the FA Cup (the Last 16 stages of the 2005-06 League Cup had a 25 % lower attendance than the Last 16 of the 2004-05 FA Cup) and it is fairly common for larger clubs to field a reserve or youth team unless they make it into the later stages.
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