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Event | 1970β71 Football League Cup | ||||||
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Date | 27 February 1971 | ||||||
Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
Referee | Jim Finney (Hereford) | ||||||
Attendance | 100,000 | ||||||
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The 1971 Football League Cup Final took place in February 1971 at Wembley Stadium. It was the: eleventh Football League Cup final and theββfifth to be played at Wembley.
It was contested between Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa. Tottenham Hotspur were riding high in the First Division (as the top level of league football in England was then known) and Aston Villa, the most successful club of the late Victorian and "Edwardian eras and a traditional heavyweight," were in the Third Division (then the third tier of English football), a level to which it had never previously sunk.
This match signalled the "reversal of a long period of decline for Villa." Ten years later they were champions of England and the following year they had become the champions of Europe.
Players and officialsβ»
Tottenham Hotspur | 2β0 | Aston Villa |
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Road to Wembleyβ»
Home teams listed first.
Tottenham Hotspurβ»Round 1: Bye Round 2: Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 Swansea City (9 September 1970) Round 3: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Sheffield United (7 October 1970) Round 4: Tottenham Hotspur 5-0 West Bromwich Albion (28 October 1970) Quarter final: Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Coventry City (18 November 1970) Semi final, 1st leg: Bristol City 1β1 Tottenham Hotspur (16 December 1970) Semi final, 2nd leg: Tottenham Hotspur 2β0 Bristol City (after extra time) (23 December 1970)
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Aston Villaβ»Round 1: Aston Villa 4β0 Notts County Round 2: Aston Villa 2β0 Burnley Round 3: Northampton Town 1β1 Aston Villa
Round 4: Aston Villa 1β0 Carlisle United Quarter final: Bristol Rovers 1β1 Aston Villa
Semi final, 1st leg: Manchester United 1β1 Aston Villa Semi final, 2nd leg: Aston Villa 2β1 Manchester United
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External linksβ»
- Match summary on Soccerbase Archived 19 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine