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Thai League Cup

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Country
  
Thailand

TV partners
  
TrueVisions

Folded
  
1994 (1st era)

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Founded
  
1987 (1st era) 2010 (2nd era)

Last champions
  
Buriram United Muangthong United (Title Shared)

Most championships
  
Buriram United (5th title)

Current champions
  
Buriram United F.C., Muangthong United F.C. (Title Shared)

The League Cup (Thai: ไทยลีกคัพ) is a football cup competition in Thailand. It is also known as Toyota League Cup because Toyota company have sponsored the competition.

It was re-formed during the 2010 domestic football league season in Thailand and runs along the same lines as the Thai FA Cup except that the earlier rounds would be regional rather than an open draw.

Format

Thai League Cup is open to all members of the Football Association of Thailand and Thai League 1 and is divided into eight rounds,; the remaining Thai League teams enter at the first round,Matches in all rounds are single-legged, except for the semi-finals, which have been two-legged since the competition began.In single-legged top division teams will plays as away team.The semi-finals were the exception to this,which the away goals rule and penalties were introduced.

For finals match that have finished level after extra time have been decided by penalty shoot-out.The winner also qualify for Mekong Club Championship and Toyota Premier Cup.

References

Thai League Cup Wikipedia