Country England & Wales Runners-up Liverpool Champion Arsenal F.C. | Champions Arsenal Dates 25 Aug 1986 – 5 Apr 1987 Teams 92 | |
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The 1986–87 Football League Cup, known as the Littlewoods Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 27th season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs.
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The competition began on 25 August 1986, and ended with the final on 5 April 1987 at the Wembley Stadium. The final was played between Arsenal and Liverpool. The match, played in front of 96,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium, was won by Arsenal 2–1.
Luton Town were thrown out of the competition when they refused to allow Cardiff City fans to attend the match at Kenilworth Road. This was at the moment when club's then chairman, Conservative MP David Evans, to introduce a scheme effective from the start of 1986–87 banning all visiting supporters from the ground, and requiring home fans to carry identity cards when attending matches.
Luton Town v Cardiff City
Luton Town were thrown out of the competition when they refused to allow Cardiff City fans to attend the match at Kenilworth Road.
This allowed Cardiff City a bye into the Third Round.
Semi-finals
North London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur were both in the league title race this season and the League Cup semi-final paired them together, where the scores were equal over two legs before Arsenal won the replay. Liverpool, four time winners earlier in the decade, were held to a 0–0 draw at Southampton in the first leg of the other semi-final before triumphing 3–0 at Anfield.