Football tournament season
The Football League Trophy 2000–01 , known as the LDV Vans Trophy 2000–01 for sponsorship reasons, was the 20th staging of the Football League Trophy , a knock-out competition for English football clubs in Second and Third Division . The winners were Port Vale and the runners-up were Brentford .
The competition began on 28 November 2000 and ended with the final on 22 April 2001 at the Millennium Stadium .
In the first round, there were two sections: North and South. In the following rounds each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final for the honour of the trophy. In addition to the 48 league teams, 8 Conference teams were also invited.
First round [ edit ] Blackpool , Macclesfield Town , Shrewsbury Town and Walsall from the North section all received byes.
Leyton Orient , Reading , Swansea City and Swindon from the South section all received byes.
Northern Section [ edit ] Southern Section [ edit ]
Second round [ edit ] Northern Section [ edit ] Southern Section [ edit ]
Quarter-finals [ edit ] Northern Section [ edit ] Southern Section [ edit ]
Area semi-finals [ edit ] Northern Section [ edit ] Southern Section [ edit ]
Area finals [ edit ] Northern Area final [ edit ] Southern Area final [ edit ] MATCH RULES
90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of 3 substitutions.
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