2019-20 EFL Trophy
The 2019-20 English Football League Trophy, currently without a sponsor, is the fourth season that the competition has invited Category One development teams to participate following a successful trial period. Sixteen development teams will join the 48 club sides from League One and League Two, split into sixteen regionalised groups of four. Development teams are required to field a minimum of six Under-21 players in their starting eleven, while Football League clubs must field a certain number of first team players.
In the event of a group game ending in a draw, there will be a penalty shootout whereby the victors can earn an additional point. Each team will face each other once, either at home or away. Development teams will play all group games away from home. The top two from each group then progress to Round 2, a last-32 knockout round, which remains regionalised with group winners and runners-up meeting. Round 3 is also regionalised before the quarter-final becomes a 'free draw'. The final is due to take place at Wembley Stadium in April 2020.
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Teams
There is a minimum of one development team, one club side from League One and one club side from League Two in each group.
Development teams
There are sixteen Category One development teams participating in this season's competition: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham, Wolves
League One teams
Accrington Stanley, AFC Wimbledon, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol Rovers, Burton Albion, Bury, Coventry City, Doncaster Rovers, Fleetwood Town, Gillingham, Ipswich Town, Lincoln City, Milton Keynes, Oxford United, Peterborough United, Portsmouth, Rochdale, Rotherham United, Shrewsbury Town, Southend United, Sunderland, Walsall, Tranmere Rovers, Wycombe Wanderers
League Two teams
Bradford City, Cambridge United, Carlisle United, Cheltenham Town, Colchester United, Crawley Town, Crewe Alexandra, Exeter City, Forest Green Rovers, Grimsby Town, Leyton Orient, Macclesfield Town, Mansfield Town, Morecambe, Newport County, Northampton Town, Oldham Athletic, Plymouth Argyle, Port Vale, Salford City, Scunthorpe United, Stevenage, Swindon Town, Walsall
Group Stage
North
Group A
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Grimsby Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Scunthorpe United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Sunderland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Leicester City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 September 2019
19:45 |
Grimsby Town | 1–2 | Scunthorpe United |
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Cardwell '49 | Report | van Veen '28, '75 |
Blundell Park
Attendance: 1,302 |
24 September 2019
19:45 |
Scunthorpe United | 1-1 | Leicester City |
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Colclough '88 | Report | Dewsbury-Hall '87 |
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Colclough Miller Dales Sutton |
1–3 | Dewsbury-Hall Muskwe Eppiah Thomas |
Glanford Park
Attendance: 572 |
8 October 2019
19:45 |
Sunderland | 3–2 | Grimsby Town |
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Watmore '68 McNult] '79 Grigg '86 |
Report | Gree '59 Whitehouse '81 |
Stadium of Light
Attendance: 6,952 |
29 October 2019
19:45 |
Grimsby Town | 1-2 | Leicester City |
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Ogbu '31 | Report | Eppiah '68, '90 |
Blundell Park
Attendance: 341 |
5 November 2019
19:45 |
Sunderland | 1-2 | Leicester City |
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Maguire '14 | Report | Hirst '50 (pen) Dewsbury-Hall '53 |
Stadium of Light
Attendance: 7,649 |
12 November 2019
19:45 |
Scunthorpe United | 3–0 | Sunderland |
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Novak '66 (pen), '90+1 Eisa '88 |
Report |
Glanford Park
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Group B
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Accrington Stanley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Oldham Athletic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Fleetwood Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Liverpool | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
7 August 2019
19:00 |
Oldham Athletic | 3–2 | Liverpool |
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Segbé Azankpo '20 Iacovitti '29 Stott '81 |
Report | Williams '4 Elliott '44 |
Boundary Park
Attendance: 1,522 Referee: Paul Marsden |
3 September 2019
19:45 |
Accrington Stanley | 2–1 | Fleetwood Town |
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Carvalho '53 McConville '72 |
Report | Madden '90+4 (pen) |
Crown Ground
Attendance: 923 |
25 September 2019
19:45 |
Fleetwood Town | 1–1 | Liverpool |
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Clarke '76 | Report | Williams '78 |
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Clarke [Garner Morris Mooney Baggley |
4–3 | Williams Stewart Cain Dixon-Bonner Clayton |
Highbury Stadium
Attendance: 866 |
8 October 2019
19:45 |
Oldham Athletic | 0–3 | Accrington Stanley |
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Report | Diallo '30 Zanzala '42 (pen) Clark '86 |
Boundary Park
Attendance: 1,107 |
29 October 2019
19:45 |
Accrington Stanley | 5–2 | Liverpool |
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Sykes '30 Baker-Richardson '45+1 Charles '52 Clark '62 Simpson '74 |
Report | Dixon-Bonner '8 Stewart '77 |
Crown Ground
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13 November 2019
19:45 |
Fleetwood Town | 5–2 | Oldham Athletic |
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Clarke '9 Morris '11 Sowerby '14 Burns '40 Madden '51 |
Smith '25 Segbé Azankpo '78 |
Highbury Stadium
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Group C
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Bury | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Salford City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Tranmere Rovers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Aston Villa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group D
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Port Vale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Shrewsbury Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Macclesfield Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Newcastle United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group E
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Crewe Alexandra | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Burton Albion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Mansfield Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Everton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group F
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Bolton Wanderers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Bradford City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Rochdale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Manchester City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group G
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Blackpool | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Carlisle United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Morecambe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Wolves | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group H
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Doncaster Rovers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Rotherham United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Lincoln City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Manchester United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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South
Group A
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Gillingham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Colchester United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Ipswich Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group B
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Crawley Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Portsmouth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Oxford United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Norwich City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group C
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Leyton Orient | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Wimbledon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Southend | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Brighton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group D
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Coventry City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Forest Green Rovers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Walsall | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Southampton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group E
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Exeter City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Cheltenham Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Newport County | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | West Ham United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group F
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Swindon Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Bristol Rovers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Plymouth Argyle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Chelsea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group G
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Stevenage | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Milton Keynes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Wycombe Wanderers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Fulham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group H
Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
1 | Peterborough United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Cambridge United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Northampton Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Arsenal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Round Two
The last-32 knockout round remains regionalised and pits group winners against runners-up in a one-off tie, with the group winners afforded home advantage. In the event of a draw after 90 minutes, a penalty shootout determines the winner.
Round Three
The 16 winners from the previous knockout round advance to the final regionalised round of the competition.
Quarter-Finals
The eight winners from Round 3 advance to this stage of the competition, where the draw is non-regionalised for the first time.
Semi-Finals
Final
Top Goalscorers
Player | Club | Goals |