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2019–20 EFL Trophy
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| Leasing.com Trophy | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Country | England Wales |
| Teams | Originally 64 (63 after walkover) |
| Defending champions | Portsmouth |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Salford City (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Portsmouth |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 124 |
| Goals scored | 376 (3.03 per match) |
| Top goal scorer(s) | Tristan Abrahams Kevin van Veen (5 goals each) |
The 2019–20 EFL Trophy, known as the Leasing.com Trophy[a] for sponsorship reasons, was the 39th season in the history of the competition, a knock-out tournament for English football clubs in League One and League Two of the English football system, and also including 16 Premier League and Championship "Academy teams" with Category One status. Due to their financial crisis, Bury were expelled from the EFL and automatically eliminated from the competition as well.[1]
Portsmouth were the defending champions, and reached the final once again. They were beaten on penalties by Salford City after a 0–0 draw. The final was held on March 13, 2021, having been delayed 11 months as the originally scheduled date of April 5, 2020 was just after suspension of English football due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participating clubs
- 48 clubs from League One and League Two.
- 16 invited Category One Academy teams.
- Expelled clubs were automatically eliminated from the tournament.
- Category One teams relegated to League One missed out on having academies participate in the following tournament.
Eligibility criteria for players
- For EFL clubs[3]
- Minimum of four qualifying outfield players in their starting XI. A qualifying outfield player will be one who meets any of the following requirements:
- Any player who started the previous or following first-team fixture.
- Any player who is in the top 10 players at the club, who have made the most starting appearances in league and domestic cup competitions that season.
- Any player with 40 or more first-team appearances in their career.
- Any player on loan from a Premier League club or any EFL Category One Academy club.
- A club can play any eligible goalkeeper in the competition
- For invited teams
- Minimum of six players in the starting line-up who played at under-21 level, as at 30 June 2019.
- Teams may only include two players on the team sheet who are over the age of 21 and have made forty or more senior appearances, as at 30 June 2019.
- A senior appearance will be defined as having played in a professional first-team fixture. A non-playing substitute does not count.
Competition format
- Group stage
- Sixteen groups of 4 teams would be organised on a regionalised basis.
- All groups would include one invited club.
- All clubs would play each other once, either home or away (Academies play all group matches away from home).
- Clubs would be awarded three points for a win and one point for a draw.
- In the event of a drawn game (after 90 minutes), a penalty shootout would be held with the winning team earning an additional point.
- Clubs expelled from the EFL will be knocked out of the tournament automatically.
- The top two teams would progress to the Knockout Stage.
- Knockout stage
- Round 2 and 3 of the competition will be drawn on a regionalised basis.
- In Round 2, the group winners shall be seeded and the group runners-up shall be unseeded in the draw.
- In Round 2, teams who played in the same group as each other in the Group Stage shall keep apart from each other.[4]
Group stage
Northern Section
Group A
| Pos | Div | Team | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ACA | Leicester City U21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 8 | Advance to Round 2 |
| 2 | L2 | Scunthorpe United | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 7 | |
| 3 | L1 | Sunderland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | L2 | Grimsby Town | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 0 |
Source: EFL.com
| 3 September 2019 | Grimsby Town | 1–2 | Scunthorpe United | Cleethorpes |
| 19:45 BST | Cardwell  49' |
Report | van Veen 28', 75' |
Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 1,302 |
| 24 September 2019 | Scunthorpe United | 1–1 (1–3 p) | Leicester City U21 | Scunthorpe |
| 19:45 BST | Colclough 88' |
Report | Dewsbury-Hall 87' |
Stadium: Glanford Park Attendance: 572 |
| Penalties | ||||
Colclough  Miller Dales  Sutton |
Dewsbury-Hall Muskwe Felix-Eppiah Thomas |
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| 8 October 2019 | Sunderland | 3–2 | Grimsby Town | Sunderland |
| 19:45 BST | Watmore 68' McNulty 79'Grigg 86' |
Report | Green 59' Whitehouse 81' |
Stadium: Stadium of Light Attendance: 6,952 |
| 29 October 2019 | Grimsby Town | 1–2 | Leicester City U21 | Cleethorpes |
| 19:45 GMT | Ogbu 31' |
Report | Felix-Eppiah 68', 90' |
Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 341 |
| 5 November 2019 | Sunderland | 1–2 | Leicester City U21 | Sunderland |
| 19:45 GMT | Maguire 14' |
Report | Hirst 50' (pen.) Dewsbury-Hall 53' |
Stadium: Stadium of Light Attendance: 7,649 |
| 12 November 2019 | Scunthorpe United | 3–0 | Sunderland | Scunthorpe |
| 19:45 GMT | Novak 66' (pen.), 90+1' Eisa 88' |
Report | O'Nien  65' |
Stadium: Glanford Park Attendance: 1,002 |
Group B
| Pos | Div | Team | Pld | W | PW | PL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L1 | Accrington Stanley | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | Advance to Round 2 |
| 2 | L1 | Fleetwood Town | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 | |
| 3 | L2 | Oldham Athletic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 3 | |
| 4 | ACA | Liverpool U21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 1 |
Source: EFL.com
| 7 August 2019 | Oldham Athletic | 3–2 | Liverpool U21 | Oldham |
| 19:00 BST | Segbé Azankpo 20' Iacovitti 29'Stott 81' |
Report | Williams 4' Elliott 44' |
Stadium: Boundary Park Attendance: 1,522 Referee: Paul Marsden |
| 3 September 2019 | Accrington Stanley | 2–1 | Fleetwood Town | Accrington |
| 19:45 BST | Carvalho 53' McConville 72' |
Report | Madden 90+4' (pen.) |
Stadium: Crown Ground Attendance: 923 |
| 25 September 2019 | Fleetwood Town | 1–1 (4–3 p) | Liverpool U21 | Fleetwood |
| 19:45 BST | Clarke 76' |
Report | Williams 78' |
Stadium: Highbury Stadium Attendance: 866 |
| Penalties | ||||
| Clarke Garner Morris Mooney Baggley |
Williams Stewart Cain Dixon-Bonner Clayton |
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| 8 October 2019 | Oldham Athletic | 0–3 | Accrington Stanley | Oldham |
| 19:45 BST | Fage 45+2' |
Report | Diallo 30' Zanzala 42' (pen.)Clark 86' |
Stadium: Boundary Park Referee: 1,107 |