2010 Football League Cup Final

Template:ImportTemplate:Infobox football match The 2010 Football League Cup Final was the final match of the 2009–10 Football League Cup, the 50th season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and The Football League. The match will be played at Wembley Stadium on 28 February 2010. The final and both semi-finals will be broadcast live on the BBC and on Sky Sports. The winner will be guaranteed a UEFA Europa League place for the 2010–11 season. It will be contested by Aston Villa and the holders, Manchester United.

Background

Out of the 172 previous meetings between the two sides, Manchester United had won 87 and Aston Villa had won 49, with the remaining 36 games finishing as draws; however, Villa's record in the League Cup against United was markedly better, with four wins in six matches between them. United's only League Cup win over Aston Villa came in October 1975, when they won 2–1 at Villa Park in the third round. The only previous meeting between the two teams in the final of the competition came in 1994, when Villa won 3–1 and United winger Andrei Kanchelskis became the first player to be sent off in a League Cup final.

Both Manchester United and Aston Villa have played in seven Football League Cup finals, but Manchester United have only won three compared to Villa's five. However, United's most recent victory came in 2009 – when they beat Tottenham Hotspur on penalties – whereas Villa's last League Cup title came in 1996, when they beat Leeds United 3–0.

Pre-match

Ticketing

Since 2008, the final of the Football League Cup has been played at Wembley Stadium in London. The stadium has a capacity of 90,000 spectators, Both clubs chose to limit their initial applications to season ticket holders, with priority given to those supporters who had attended more cup games during the season so far.

Officials

Staffordshire-based referee Phil Dowd was named as the referee for the 2010 League Cup final on 1 February 2010. His only previous cup final experience came in 2006, when he was the fourth official for the 2006 FA Cup Final. His assistants for the match will be Shaun Procter-Green from Lincolnshire and David Richardson from West Yorkshire, with Lee Mason from Lancashire acting as fourth official.

Match

Details

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ASTON VILLA: GK 1 Template:Flagicon Brad Friedel RB 24 Template:Flagicon Carlos Cuéllar Template:Suboff CB 5 Template:Flagicon Richard Dunne CB 29 Template:Flagicon James Collins Template:Yel LB 25 Template:Flagicon Stephen Warnock RM 7 Template:Flagicon Ashley Young CM 8 Template:Flagicon James Milner CM 19 Template:Flagicon Stiliyan Petrov LM 6 Template:Flagicon Stewart Downing Template:Yel CF 18 Template:Flagicon Emile Heskey CF 11 Template:Flagicon Gabriel Agbonlahor Substitutes: GK 22 Template:Flagicon Brad Guzan DF 2 Template:Flagicon Luke Young DF 23 Template:Flagicon Habib Beye MF 4 Template:Flagicon Steve Sidwell MF 16 Template:Flagicon Fabian Delph FW 10 Template:Flagicon John Carew Template:Subon FW 14 Template:Flagicon Nathan Delfouneso Manager: Template:Flagicon Martin O'Neill

MANCHESTER UNITED: GK 1 Template:Flagicon Tomasz Kuszczak RB 21 Template:Flagicon Rafael Template:Suboff CB 23 Template:Flagicon Jonny Evans CB 15 Template:Flagicon Nemanja Vidić Template:Yel LB 3 Template:Flagicon Patrice Evra Template:Yel RM 25 Template:Flagicon Antonio Valencia CM 24 Template:Flagicon Darren Fletcher CM 16 Template:Flagicon Michael Carrick LM 13 Template:Flagicon Park Ji-Sung Template:Suboff CF 9 Template:Flagicon Dimitar Berbatov CF 7 Template:Flagicon Michael Owen Template:Suboff Substitutes: GK 12 Template:Flagicon Ben Foster DF 2 Template:Flagicon Gary Neville Template:Subon DF 6 Template:Flagicon Wes Brown MF 18 Template:Flagicon Paul Scholes MF 28 Template:Flagicon Darron Gibson Template:Subon FW 10 Template:Flagicon Wayne Rooney Template:Subon FW 32 Template:Flagicon Mame Biram Diouf Manager: Template:Flagicon Sir Alex Ferguson

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Shaun Procter-Green (Lincolnshire) David Richardson (West Yorkshire) Fourth official: Lee Mason (Lancashire) MAN OF THE MATCH Antonio Valencia (Manchester United)

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shootout if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

Road to Wembley

-See also - Football League Cup 2009-10

Manchester United			Round	Aston Villa
Manchester United	1–0	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Round 3	Aston Villa	1–0	Cardiff City
Barnsley	0–2	Manchester United	Round 4	Sunderland	0–0 (1–3p)	Aston Villa
Manchester United	2–0	Tottenham Hotspur	Round 5	Portsmouth	2–4	Aston Villa
Manchester City	2–1	Manchester United	Semi-final	Blackburn Rovers	0–1	Aston Villa
Manchester United	3–1	Manchester City		Aston Villa	6–4	Blackburn Rovers
Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate				Aston Villa won 7–4 on aggregate

See also

• 2009–10 Football League Cup
• 2010 FA Cup Final

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