Football League Trophy
The Football League Trophy is the generic name of an English football competition for clubs in the two lower divisions of the Football League, the official name of which is frequently changed to match changes in sponsors, and which is presently called the LDV Vans Trophy. It is frequently referred to as the Associate Members' Cup, though that name is now an anachronism as there is no longer a distinction between full and associate membership of the League.
The Trophy is currently contested by all Football League One and Football League Two clubs and a number of invited teams from the Nationwide Conference, and is played in a knockout (single elimination) format in North and South regional sections. The sectional winners play each other in the final at the Millennium Stadium due to the redevelopment of Wembley.
The competition for Third and Fourth (as they were before 1992) Division clubs dates back to the 1983/4 season. Prior to that there had been a couple of different attempts to fill the gap in the calendar left by the collapse of the
Football in England
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Football League Trophy
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