2001 Football League Cup Final

2001 Football League Cup Final
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The 2001 Worthington Cup Final was a football match played between Liverpool and Birmingham City at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on Sunday 25 February 2001. Liverpool won the match 5-4 on penalties after 90 minutes of normal time and 30 minutes of extra time could not split the two sides.

Liverpool opened the scoring with a goal from Robbie Fowler in the 30th minute and appeared to be heading for a win in normal time until Birmingham equalised in injury-time with a penalty from Darren Purse, after Martin O'Connor was brought down by Stéphane Henchoz.

The victory was Liverpool's first major trophy in 6 years, since winning the same competition in 1995.

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1 Match details
2 Road to the final
3 References
4 External links

Match details

2001-02-25 15:00	Liverpool	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Birmingham City	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 73,500 Referee: David Elleray (London)
	Fowler 30'	(Report)	Purse 90' (pen.)

		Penalties
	McAllister Barmby Ziege Hamann Fowler Carragher	5 – 4	Grainger Purse Marcelo Lazaridis Hughes A. Johnson




Liverpool




Birmingham City


LIVERPOOL:
GK	1	Sander Westerveld
RB	6	Markus Babbel
CB	2	Stéphane Henchoz	109'
CB	12	Sami Hyypiä
LB	23	Jamie Carragher
RM	25	Igor Bišćan		96'
CM	16	Dietmar Hamann	108'
CM	17	Steven Gerrard		78'
LM	7	Vladimír Šmicer		83'
CF	8	Emile Heskey
CF	9	Robbie Fowler
Substitutes:
GK	19	Pegguy Arphexad
DF	3	Christian Ziege		96'
MF	21	Gary McAllister		78'
MF	20	Nick Barmby		83'
FW	10	Michael Owen
Manager:
Gérard Houllier


BIRMINGHAM CITY:
GK	1	Ian Bennett
RB	2	Nicky Eaden
CB	5	Darren Purse
CB	17	Michael Johnson
LB	3	Martin Grainger
RM	7	Jon McCarthy
CM	32	Danny Sonner	71'
CM	12	Martyn O'Connor
LM	11	Stan Lazaridis
CF	9	Geoff Horsfield	80'
CF	24	Dele Adebola	45'
Substitutes:
GK	13	Kevin Poole
DF	6	David Holdsworth
MF	10	Bryan Hughes	71'
FW	8	Marcelo	80'
FW	19	Andrew Johnson	45'
Manager:
Trevor Francis

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shootout if scores still level.
Five named substitutes
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Road to the final

Liverpool

Round 3¹	Liverpool	2–1	Chelsea
Round 4	Stoke City	0–8	Liverpool
Quarter-final	Liverpool	3–0	Fulham
Semi-final (1st leg)	Crystal Palace	2–1	Liverpool
Semi-final (2nd leg)	Liverpool	5–0	Crystal Palace
Semi-final (2nd leg)	(Liverpool won 6–2 on aggregate)

Birmingham City

Round 1 (1st leg)	Southend United	0–5	Birmingham City
Round 1 (2nd leg)	Birmingham City	0–0	Southend United
Round 1 (2nd leg)	(Birmingham City won 5–0 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Wycombe Wanderers	3–4	Birmingham City
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Birmingham City	1–0	Wycombe Wanderers
Round 2 (2nd leg)	(Birmingham City won 5–3 on aggregate)
Round 3	Tottenham Hotspur	1–3	Birmingham City
Round 4	Birmingham City	2–1	Newcastle United
Quarter-final	Birmingham City	2–0	Sheffield Wednesday
Semi-final (1st leg)	Ipswich Town	1–0	Birmingham City
Semi-final (2nd leg)	Birmingham City	4–1	Ipswich Town
Semi-final (2nd leg)	(Birmingham City won 4–2 on aggregate)

References

^ Clubs in the Premier League receive a bye to the second or third round, depending on whether or not they had qualified for European competition or not

External links

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Contents

Match details

Road to the final

References

External links