2002 Football League Cup final

The 2002 Worthington Cup Final was played between Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on Sunday, 24th February 2002. Blackburn won the match 2-1.

Blackburn opened the scoring with a goal from Matt Jansen but Christian Ziege soon equalised for Spurs. Andrew Cole scored the winner in the 69th minute with a typical instinctive strike after mistakes in the Spurs defence.

Match details

February 24 2002
14:00

Blackburn Rovers	2 – 1	Tottenham Hotspur
Jansen 25' Cole 69'	(Report)	Ziege 33'

Millenium Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 72,500

Referee: Graham Poll


BLACKBURN ROVERS:
GK	1	Brad Friedel
DF	'	Martin Taylor
DF	'	Stig Inge Bjørnebye
DF	'	Henning Berg
DF	'	Nils-Eric Johansson
MF	'	Keith Gillespie	75'
MF	'	Mark Hughes
MF	'	David Dunn
MF	11	Damien Duff
FW	'	Matt Jansen	74'
FW	'	Andrew Cole
Substitutes:
GK	'	Alan Kelly
DF	'	John Curtis
MF	'	Yordi	74'
MF	'	Craig Hignett	75'
FW	5	Alan Mahon
Manager:
Graeme Souness


TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR:
GK	1	Neil Sullivan
DF	'	Chris Perry
DF	26	Ledley King
DF	'	Ben Thatcher
DF	'	Mauricio Taricco	79'
MF	7	Darren Anderton
MF	4	Tim Sherwood
MF	'	Gustavo Poyet	84'
MF	'	Christian Ziege
FW	9	Les Ferdinand
FW	10	Teddy Sheringham
Substitutes:
GK	'	Kasey Keller
DF	31	Anthony Gardner
MF	'	Simon Davies	79'
MF	'	Steffen Iversen	84'
FW	'	Serhiy Rebrov
Manager:
Glenn Hoddle

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