1990–91 Football League Cup

1990–91 Football League Cup
League Cup, Rumbelows Cup
Tournament details
Country	England; Wales
Teams	92
Final positions
Champions	Sheffield Wednesday; (1st title)
Runner-up	Manchester United
Tournament statistics
Top goal scorer(s)	Paul Gascoigne; Mark Hughes; (6 goals)
	← 1989–90 1991–92 →

The 1990–91 Football League Cup (known as the Rumbelows Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 association football clubs.

The competition began on 27 August 1990, and ended with the final on 21 April 1991 at the Old Wembley Stadium. The cup was won by Sheffield Wednesday, who beat Manchester United 1–0 in the final. A single goal from John Sheridan gave Wednesday the title.

The 1990-91 League Cup remains the last time that one of English football's major honours was won by a team outside the top flight, as winners Sheffield Wednesday were in the second division at the time.

First round

First leg

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Birmingham City	0–1	Bournemouth	28 August 1990
Bradford City	2–0	Bury	29 August 1990
Brentford	2–0	Hereford United	28 August 1990
Brighton & Hove Albion	0–2	Northampton	29 August 1990
Bristol Rovers	1–2	Torquay United	29 August 1990
Carlisle United	1–0	Scunthorpe United	28 August 1990
Chesterfield	1–2	Hartlepool United	28 August 1990
Darlington	0–0	Blackpool	28 August 1990
Doncaster Rovers	2–6	Rotherham United	28 August 1990
Exeter City	1–1	Notts County	29 August 1990
Fulham	1–2	Peterborough United	28 August 1990
Gillingham	1–0	Shrewsbury Town	28 August 1990
Grimsby Town	2–1	Crewe Alexandra	28 August 1990
Halifax Town	2–0	Lincoln City	28 August 1990
Huddersfield Town	0–3	Bolton Wanderers	29 August 1990
Maidstone United	2–2	Leyton Orient	29 August 1990
Mansfield Town	1–1	Cardiff City	28 August 1990
Middlesbrough	1–1	Tranmere Rovers	28 August 1990
Preston North End	2–0	Chester City	28 August 1990
Reading	0–1	Oxford United	28 August 1990
Rochdale	4–0	Scarborough	28 August 1990
Southend United	2–1	Aldershot	28 August 1990
Stockport County	0–2	Burnley	27 August 1990
Stoke City	0–0	Swansea City	29 August 1990
Walsall	4–2	Cambridge United	28 August 1990
West Bromwich Albion	2–2	Bristol City	29 August 1990
Wigan Athletic	0–1	Barnsley	28 August 1990
York City	0–1	Wrexham	28 August 1990

Second leg

Home team	Score	Away team	Date	Agg
Aldershot	2–2	Southend United	4 September 1990	3–4
Barnsley	0–1^[1]^[2]	Wigan Athletic	4 September 1990	1–1
Blackpool	1–1^[1]^[3]	Darlington	4 September 1990	1–1
Bolton Wanderers	2–1	Huddersfield Town	4 September 1990	5–1
Bournemouth	1–1	Birmingham City	4 September 1990	2–1
Bristol City	1–0^[1]	West Bromwich Albion	5 September 1990	3–2
Burnley	0–1	Stockport County	4 September 1990	2–1
Bury	3–2^[1]	Bradford City	4 September 1990	3–4
Cambridge United	2–1	Walsall	4 September 1990	4–5
Cardiff City	3–0	Mansfield Town	4 September 1990	4–1
Chester City	5–1^[1]	Preston North End	4 September 1990	5–3
Crewe Alexandra	1–0^[1]^[4]	Grimsby Town	4 September 1990	2–2
Hartlepool United	2–2	Chesterfield	11 September 1990	4–3
Hereford United	1–0	Brentford	5 September 1990	1–2
Leyton Orient	4–1	Maidstone United	4 September 1990	6–3
Lincoln City	1–0	Halifax Town	5 September 1990	1–2
Northampton	1–1	Brighton & Hove Albion	4 September 1990	3–1
Notts County	1–0	Exeter City	4 September 1990	2–1
Oxford United	2–1	Reading	5 September 1990	3–1
Peterborough United	2–0	Fulham	4 September 1990	4–1
Rotherham United	2–1	Doncaster Rovers	4 September 1990	8–3
Scarborough	3–3	Rochdale	5 September 1990	3–7
Scunthorpe United	1–1	Carlisle United	4 September 1990	1–2
Shrewsbury Town	2–0	Gillingham	4 September 1990	2–1
Swansea City	0–1	Stoke City	4 September 1990	0–1
Torquay United	1–1	Bristol Rovers	4 September 1990	3–2
Tranmere Rovers	1–2	Middlesbrough	3 September 1990	2–3
Wrexham	2–0	York City	4 September 1990	3–0

Second round

First leg

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Aston Villa	1–0	Barnsley	26 September 1990
Bournemouth	0–0	Millwall	25 September 1990
Cardiff City	1–1	Portsmouth	25 September 1990
Carlisle United	1–1	Derby County	25 September 1990
Charlton Athletic	2–2	Leyton Orient	26 September 1990
Chester City	0–1	Arsenal	25 September 1990
Coventry City	4–2	Bolton Wanderers	26 September 1990
Crystal Palace	8–0	Southend United	25 September 1990
Darlington	3–0	Swindon Town	25 September 1990
Halifax Town	1–3	Manchester United	26 September 1990
Hull City	0–0	Wolverhampton Wanderers	25 September 1990
Leicester City	1–0	Leeds United	26 September 1990
Liverpool	5–1	Crewe Alexandra	25 September 1990
Luton Town	1–1	Bradford City	25 September 1990
Middlesbrough	2–0	Newcastle United	25 September 1990
Northampton	0–1	Sheffield United	25 September 1990
Norwich City	2–0	Watford	26 September 1990
Nottingham Forest	4–1	Burnley	26 September 1990
Notts County	1–0	Oldham Athletic	25 September 1990
Plymouth Argyle	1–0	Wimbledon	25 September 1990
Port Vale	0–2	Oxford United	24 September 1990
Queens Park Rangers	3–1	Peterborough United	26 September 1990
Rochdale	0–5	Southampton	25 September 1990
Rotherham United	1–1	Blackburn Rovers	25 September 1990
Sheffield Wednesday	2–1	Brentford	26 September 1990
Shrewsbury Town	1–1	Ipswich Town	25 September 1990
Sunderland	0–1	Bristol City	25 September 1990
Torquay United	0–4	Manchester City	26 September 1990
Tottenham Hotspur	5–0	Hartlepool United	26 September 1990
Walsall	0–5	Chelsea	26 September 1990
West Ham United	3–0	Stoke City	26 September 1990
Wrexham	0–5	Everton	25 September 1990

Second leg

Home team	Score	Away team	Date	Agg
Arsenal	5–0	Chester City	9 October 1990	6–0
Barnsley	0–1	Aston Villa	9 October 1990	0–2
Blackburn Rovers	1–0	Rotherham United	9 October 1990	2–1
Bolton Wanderers	2–3	Coventry City	9 October 1990	4–7
Bradford City	1–1^[1]^[5]	Luton Town	10 October 1990	2–2
Brentford	1–2	Sheffield Wednesday	9 October 1990	2–4
Bristol City	1–6	Sunderland	9 October 1990	2–6
Burnley	0–1	Nottingham Forest	10 October 1990	1–5
Chelsea	4–1	Walsall	10 October 1990	9–1
Crewe Alexandra	1–4	Liverpool	9 October 1990	2–9
Derby County	1–0	Carlisle United	10 October 1990	2–1
Everton	6–0	Wrexham	9 October 1990	11–0
Hartlepool United	1–2	Tottenham Hotspur	9 October 1990	1–7
Ipswich Town	3–0	Shrewsbury Town	9 October 1990	4–1
Leeds United	3–0	Leicester City	10 October 1990	3–1
Leyton Orient	1–0	Charlton Athletic	9 October 1990	3–2
Manchester City	0–0	Torquay United	10 October 1990	4–0
Manchester United	2–1	Halifax Town	10 October 1990	5–2
Millwall	2–1	Bournemouth	10 October 1990	2–1
Newcastle United	1–0	Middlesbrough	10 October 1990	1–2
Oldham Athletic	5–2^[1]	Notts County	10 October 1990	5–3
Oxford United	0–0	Port Vale	10 October 1990	2–0
Peterborough United	1–1	Queens Park Rangers	9 October 1990	2–4
Portsmouth	3–1^[1]	Cardiff City	9 October 1990	4–2
Sheffield United	2–1	Northampton	10 October 1990	3–1
Southampton	3–0	Rochdale	9 October 1990	8–0
Southend United	1–2	Crystal Palace	9 October 1990	1–10
Stoke City	1–2	West Ham United	10 October 1990	1–5
Swindon Town	4–0	Darlington	9 October 1990	4–3
Watford	0–3	Norwich City	9 October 1990	0–5
Wimbledon	0–2	Plymouth Argyle	10 October 1990	0–3
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–1^[1]^[6]	Hull City	9 October 1990	1–1

Third round

Ties

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Aston Villa	2–0	Millwall	31 October 1990
Chelsea	0–0	Portsmouth	31 October 1990
Coventry City	3–0	Hull City	31 October 1990
Crystal Palace	0–0	Leyton Orient	30 October 1990
Derby County	6–0	Sunderland	31 October 1990
Ipswich Town	0–2	Southampton	30 October 1990
Leeds United	2–0	Oldham Athletic	31 October 1990
Manchester City	1–2	Arsenal	30 October 1990
Manchester United	3–1	Liverpool	31 October 1990
Middlesbrough	2–0	Norwich City	30 October 1990
Oxford United	2–1	West Ham United	31 October 1990
Plymouth Argyle	1–2	Nottingham Forest	31 October 1990
Queens Park Rangers	2–1	Blackburn Rovers	31 October 1990
Sheffield United	2–1	Everton	30 October 1990
Sheffield Wednesday	0–0	Swindon Town	31 October 1990
Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	Bradford City	30 October 1990

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Leyton Orient	0–1	Crystal Palace	7 November 1990
Portsmouth	2–3	Chelsea	6 November 1990
Swindon Town	0–1	Sheffield Wednesday	6 November 1990

Fourth round

Ties

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Arsenal	2–6	Manchester United	28 November 1990
Aston Villa	3–2	Middlesbrough	28 November 1990
Coventry City	5–4	Nottingham Forest	28 November 1990
Oxford United	1–2	Chelsea	28 November 1990
Queens Park Rangers	0–3	Leeds United	27 November 1990
Sheffield United	0–2	Tottenham Hotspur	27 November 1990
Sheffield Wednesday	1–1	Derby County	28 November 1990
Southampton	2–0	Crystal Palace	27 November 1990

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Derby County	1–2	Sheffield Wednesday	12 December 1990

Fifth Round

Ties

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Chelsea	0–0	Tottenham Hotspur	16 January 1991
Coventry City	0–1	Sheffield Wednesday	23 January 1991
Leeds United	4–1	Aston Villa	16 January 1991
Southampton	1–1	Manchester United	16 January 1991

Replays

Home team	Score	Away team	Date
Manchester United	3–2	Southampton	23 January 1991
Tottenham Hotspur	0–3	Chelsea	23 January 1991

Semi-finals

Sheffield Wednesday moved closer to their first major trophy in more than 50 years with a comfortably victory over Chelsea, while Manchester United edged out Leeds United to book their place at Wembley for a clash against a side managed by their former boss Ron Atkinson.

First leg

10 February 1991

Manchester United	2–1	Leeds United
Sharpe 67' McClair 79'		Whyte 70'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Referee: John Martin (Alton, Hampshire)

24 February 1991

Chelsea	0–2	Sheffield Wednesday
		Shirtliff 52' Hirst 80'

Stamford Bridge, London

Referee: Ron Groves (Weston-Super-Mare)

Second leg

24 February 1991

Leeds United	0–1	Manchester United
		Sharpe 90'

Elland Road, Leeds

Referee: Vic Callow (Solihull)

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

27 February 1991

Sheffield Wednesday	3–1	Chelsea
Pearson 34' D. Wilson 42' Williams 88'		Stuart 62'

Hillsborough, Sheffield

Referee: Roger Milford (Bristol)

Sheffield Wednesday won 5–1 on aggregate.

Final

21 April 1991

15:00

Manchester United	0–1	Sheffield Wednesday
		Sheridan 38'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 77,612

Referee: Ray Lewis (Surrey)

References

General

"English League Cup 1990/1991". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
"England League Cup Full Results 1960–1996". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
"English League Cup 1990–1991 : Results". Statto. Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2012.

Specific

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j After Extra Time
^ Barnsley won 4–3 on penalties
^ Darlington won on the Away Goals Rule
^ Crewe Alexandra won on the Away Goals Rule
^ Bradford City won 5–4 on penalties
^ Hull City won on the Away Goals Rule

External links

Official Carling Cup website

[aet-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j After Extra Time

[bw4-3op-2] Barnsley won 4–3 on penalties

[dwtagr-3] Darlington won on the Away Goals Rule

[cawtagr-4] Crewe Alexandra won on the Away Goals Rule

[bc5-4op-5] Bradford City won 5–4 on penalties

[hcwtagr-6] Hull City won on the Away Goals Rule

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