EFL Cup 2016/17

EFL Cup 2016/17 2016–17 EFL Cup
Cup winners	Manchester United (5th title)
Beginning	August 9, 2016
final	February 26, 2017
Final stadium	Wembley Stadium , London
Teams	92
Games	92
Gates	287  (ø 3.12 per game)
Top scorer	Zlatan Ibrahimovic Daniel Sturridge (4 goals each)
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The EFL Cup 2016/17 was the 57th edition of the tournament . The tournament started with 92 clubs. This year the competition had no sponsor and was named English Football League Cup , or EFL Cup for short .

The competition began on August 8, 2016 with the first round and ended with the final at Wembley Stadium in London on February 26, 2017.

First round

The draw for the first round took place on June 22, 2016. Newcastle United and Norwich City were the only teams from the English Football League that only entered the tournament in the second round, as they were the two best-ranked teams last season. The other 70 teams in the English Football League competed in the first round. The matches were held between August 9th and 11th, 2016.

	Result
Accrington Stanley (IV)	0: 0 a.d. (11:10 p.m.)	Bradford City (III)
FC Barnet (IV)	0: 4	Millwall FC (III)
Barnsley FC (II)	1: 2 a.d.	Northampton Town (III)
Birmingham City (II)	0: 1 a.d.	Oxford United (III)
Blackpool FC (IV)	4: 2 a.d.	Bolton Wanderers (III)
Brighton & Hove Albion (II)	4-0	Colchester United (IV)
Cambridge United (IV)	2: 1 a.d.	Sheffield Wednesday (II)
Carlisle United (IV)	2: 1	Port Vale (III)
Cheltenham Town (IV)	1-0	Charlton Athletic (III)
Coventry City (III)	3: 2 a.d.	Portsmouth FC (IV)
Derby County (II)	1-0	Grimsby Town (IV)
Doncaster Rovers (IV)	1: 2	Nottingham Forest (II)
Exeter City (IV)	1: 0 a.d.	Brentford FC (II)
Ipswich Town (II)	0: 1	Stevenage FC (IV)
Leyton Orient (IV)	2: 3	Fulham FC (II)
Mansfield Town (IV)	1: 3	Blackburn Rovers (II)
AFC Newport County (IV)	2: 3	Milton Keynes Dons (III)
Oldham Athletic (III)	2: 1	Wigan Athletic (II)
Peterborough United (III)	3: 2	AFC Wimbledon (III)
Preston North End (II)	1-0	Hartlepool United (IV)
Reading FC (II)	2-0	Plymouth Argyle (IV)
Rochdale AFC (III)	3: 1	Chesterfield FC (III)
Rotherham United (II)	4: 5 a.d.	Morecambe FC (IV)
Scunthorpe United (III)	2: 0 a.d.	Notts County (IV)
Sheffield United (III)	1: 2 a.d.	Crewe Alexandra (IV)
Shrewsbury Town (III)	2: 1	Huddersfield Town (II)
Southend United (III)	1: 3	Gillingham FC (III)
FC Walsall (III)	0: 2 a.d.	Yeovil Town (IV)
Wolverhampton Wanderers (II)	2: 1	Crawley Town (IV)
Wycombe Wanderers (IV)	0: 1	Bristol City (II)
Burton Albion (II)	3: 2 a.d.	Bury FC (III)
Fleetwood Town (III)	2: 2 n.V. (4: 5 in good.)	Leeds United (II)
Luton Town (IV)	3: 1	Aston Villa (II)
Queens Park Rangers (II)	2: 2 n.V. (4: 2 in good.)	Swindon Town (III)
Bristol Rovers (III)	1: 0 a.d.	Cardiff City (II)

Second round

In the second round, the 13 Premier League clubs that did not qualify for a European competition last season, as well as Newcastle United and Norwich City as the two top-ranked teams in the English Football League last season, entered . The draw took place on August 10, 2016. The matches were held on August 23 and 24, 2016.

	Result
Blackburn Rovers (II)	4: 3 a.d.	Crewe Alexandra (IV)
Burton Albion (II)	0: 5	Liverpool FC (I)
Chelsea FC (I)	3: 2	Bristol Rovers (III)
Crystal Palace (I)	2-0	Blackpool FC (IV)
Derby County (II)	1: 1 a.d. (14:13 i.E.)	Carlisle United (IV)
Everton FC (I)	4-0	Yeovil Town (IV)
Exeter City (IV)	1: 3	Hull City (I)
Luton Town (IV)	0: 1	Leeds United (II)
Millwall FC (III)	1: 2	Nottingham Forest (II)
Newcastle United (II)	2-0	Cheltenham Town (IV)
Northampton Town (III)	2: 2 n.v. (4: 3 in good condition)	West Bromwich Albion (I)
Norwich City (II)	6: 1	Coventry City (III)
Oxford United (III)	2: 4	Brighton & Hove Albion (II)
Peterborough United (III)	1: 3	Swansea City (I)
Preston North End (II)	2-0	Oldham Athletic (III)
Queens Park Rangers (II)	2: 1	Rochdale AFC (III)
Reading FC (II)	2: 2 n.V. (4: 2 in good.)	Milton Keynes Dons (III)
Scunthorpe United (III)	1: 2 a.d.	Bristol City (II)
Stevenage FC (IV)	0: 4	Stoke City (I)
Watford FC (I)	1: 2 a.d.	Gillingham FC (III)
Wolverhampton Wanderers (II)	2: 1	Cambridge United (IV)
Accrington Stanley (IV)	1: 0 a.d.	Burnley FC (I)
Fulham FC (II)	2: 1 a.d.	Middlesbrough FC (I)
Morecambe FC (IV)	1: 2	Bournemouth AFC (I)
Sunderland AFC (I)	1-0	Shrewsbury Town (III)

Third round

From the third round, the seven clubs that had qualified for the European competitions for the current season also started. The draw took place on August 24, 2016. The matches took place on September 20 and 21, 2016.

	Result
Bournemouth AFC (I)	2: 3 a.d.	Preston North End (II)
Brighton & Hove Albion (II)	1: 2	Reading FC (II)
Derby County (II)	0: 3	Liverpool FC (I)
Everton FC (I)	0: 2	Norwich City (II)
Leeds United (II)	1-0	Blackburn Rovers (II)
Leicester City (I)	2: 4 a.d.	Chelsea FC (I)
Newcastle United (II)	2-0	Wolverhampton Wanderers (II)
Nottingham Forest (II)	0: 4	Arsenal FC (I)
Fulham FC (II)	1: 2	Bristol City (II)
Northampton Town (III)	1: 3	Manchester United (I)
Queens Park Rangers (II)	1: 2	Sunderland AFC (I)
Southampton FC (I)	2-0	Crystal Palace (I)
Stoke City (I)	1: 2	Hull City (I)
Swansea City (I)	1: 2	Manchester City (I)
Tottenham Hotspur (I)	5-0	Gillingham FC (III)
West Ham United (I)	1-0	Accrington Stanley (IV)

Round of 16

The draw took place on September 21, 2016. The matches will take place on October 25th and 26th, 2016.

	Result
Arsenal FC (I)	2-0	Reading FC (II)
Bristol City (II)	1: 2	Hull City (I)
Leeds United (II)	2: 2 n.V. (3: 2 in good.)	Norwich City (II)
Liverpool FC (I)	2: 1	Tottenham Hotspur (I)
Newcastle United (II)	6-0	Preston North End (II)
Manchester United (I)	1-0	Manchester City (I)
Southampton FC (I)	1-0	Sunderland AFC (I)
West Ham United (I)	2: 1	Chelsea FC (I)

Quarter finals

The draw took place on October 26, 2016. The matches were held on November 29th and 30th, 2016.

	Result
Hull City (I)	1: 1 n.V. (3: 1 i.E.)	Newcastle United (II)
Liverpool FC (I)	2-0	Leeds United (II)
Arsenal FC (I)	0: 2	Southampton FC (I)
Manchester United (I)	4: 1	West Ham United (I)

Semifinals

The draw took place on November 30, 2016. The first legs were held on January 10 and 11, 2017. The second legs were played on January 25 and 26, 2017.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Manchester United (I)	3: 2	Hull City (I)	2-0	1: 2
Southampton FC (I)	2-0	Liverpool FC (I)	1-0	1-0

final

Manchester United		Southampton FC		Lineup
	February 26, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. ( GMT ) in London ( Wembley Stadium ) Result: 3: 2 (2: 1) Spectators: 85,264 Referee: Andre Marriner ( West Midlands ) Match report
	David de Gea - Antonio Valencia , Eric Bailly , Chris Smalling , Marcos Rojo - Ander Herrera , Paul Pogba - Jesse Lingard (77th Marcus Rashford ), Juan Mata (46th Michael Carrick ), Anthony Martial (90th Marouane Fellaini ) - Zlatan Ibrahimović Coach: José Mourinho ( Portugal )	Fraser Forster - Cédric Soares , Maya Yoshida , Jack Stephens , Ryan Bertrand - Oriol Romeu , Steven Davis (90th Jay Rodriguez ) - James Ward-Prowse , Dušan Tadić (77th Sofiane Boufal ), Nathan Redmond - Manolo Gabbiadini (83rd Shane Long ) Trainer: Claude Puel ( France )
	1-0 Zlatan Ibrahimović (19th) 2-0 Jesse Lingard (38th) 3-2 Zlatan Ibrahimović (87th)	2: 1 Manolo Gabbiadini (45th + 1 ') 2: 2 Manolo Gabbiadini (48th)
	Ander Herrera (24th), Jesse Lingard (41st)	Oriol Romeu (18th), Jack Stephens (40th), Nathan Redmond (56th)
	Player of the Match: Zlatan Ibrahimović

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EFL CUP: ROUND ONE DRAW. cup.efl.com, June 22, 2016, accessed June 26, 2016 . 
2. ↑ KEY DATES. efl.com, June 20, 2016, accessed June 26, 2016 . 
3. ↑ DRAW: EFL CUP ROUND TWO DRAW. cup.efl.com, August 10, 2016, accessed on August 11, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ROUND TWO: MATCH DATES CONFIRMED FOR SECOND ROUND. (No longer available online.) Efl.com, August 15, 2016, archived from the original on August 19, 2016 ; accessed on August 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ DRAW: EFL CUP ROUND THREE DRAW. cup.efl.com, August 24, 2016, accessed August 25, 2016 . 
6. ↑ DRAW: EFL CUP ROUND FOUR. cup.efl.com, September 21, 2016, accessed on September 22, 2016 . 
7. ↑ EFL CUP ROUND FOUR DETAILS CONFIRMED. (No longer available online.) Cup.efl.com, September 23, 2016, archived from the original on September 28, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ DRAW: EFL CUP QUARTER-FINAL DRAW. (No longer available online.) Cup.efl.com, October 26, 2016, archived from the original on October 29, 2016 ; accessed on October 29, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ DRAW: EFL CUP SEMI-FINAL DRAW. (No longer available online.) Cup.efl.com, November 30, 2016, archived from the original on November 29, 2016 ; accessed on November 30, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.