2024–25 FA Women's League Cup
Tournament details | |
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Country | England |
Dates | 2 October 2024 – 15 March 2025 |
Teams | 24 |
Defending champions | Arsenal |
The 2024–25 FA Women's League Cup is the fourteenth edition of the Women's Super League and Women's Championship's league cup competition. All 24 teams from the WSL and Championship contested the competition. Arsenal are the defending champions.[1]
Format
[edit]The competition kept the same format as the previous season, starting with a group stage split regionally. Teams competing in the UEFA Women's Champions League group stage are exempt from the League Cup group stage, earning a provisional bye to the quarter-finals. As a result, the initial group stage draw made on 19 August 2024 featured 21 of the 24 teams, with all groups featuring four teams each. The three teams excluded from the draw were Chelsea, who automatically entered the Champions League group stage and therefore joined the League Cup at the quarter-final stage, and Manchester City and Arsenal who took part in the Champions League qualifying rounds. If either team were eliminated during qualification, they would enter the League Cup group stage and be drawn into an existing group of four in their geographical region.[2]
The first place team in each of the five groups automatically qualifies for the knock-out stage.
Group stage
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Arsenal beat Chelsea to win Women's League Cup - as it happened". BBC. 31 March 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ "Women's League Cup group stage draw confirmed". womenscompetitions.thefa.com. 17 August 2024.