Football tournament season
2018–19 FA Women's League Cup Tournament details Country England Dates 18 August 2018 – 23 February 2019 Teams 22 Defending champions Arsenal Final positions Champions Manchester City Runner-up Arsenal Tournament statistics Matches played 57 Goals scored 218 (3.82 per match) Top goal scorer(s) Vivianne Miedema (9)
Katie McCabe of Arsenal celebrating after the first goal in their semi-final victory against Manchester United. The 2018–19 FA Women's League Cup was the 8th edition of the FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship 's league cup competition. It is sponsored by Continental AG, who have sponsored the competition since its creation, and is officially known as the FA Continental Tyres League Cup . All 22 teams of the FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship contest the competition - the largest field in the history of the cup.
Arsenal are the defending champions. Before the competition, only Manchester City and Arsenal had won the cup in the previous seven seasons it was contested in.
Format changes Following the previous season's reversion to a group format in the initial stage, the 2018–19 WSL Cup will keep the same format but expand to accommodate the increase in teams in the top two divisions of women's football to 22. As a result, two of the four groups will contain six teams while the others remain at five, with only the top two going through to the quarter-finals from each.[1]
Group stage Group One North
Source: thefa.com Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
Attendance: 572
Referee: Jack Shepherd
Attendance: 294
Referee: Jamie O’Connor
Referee: Richard Lawrence
Attendance: 1,609
Referee: James Bell
Attendance: 331
Referee: Asaka Matsushita
Attendance: 451
Referee: Savvas Yianni
Attendance: 218
Referee: Stacey Pearson
Attendance: 364
Referee: Abigail Marriott
Attendance: 458
Referee: Robert Massey Ellis
Attendance: 363
Referee: Lucy Oliver
Attendance: 234
Referee: Melissa Burgin
Group Two North
Pos Team Pld W WPEN LPEN L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MNU REA EVE DUR LIV 1 Manchester United 4 3 0 0 1 5 2 +3 9 Advance to knock-out stage — 0–2 — 1–0 — 2 Reading 4 2 0 1 1 9 5 +4 7 — — — 4–1 1–1 3 Everton 4 2 0 0 2 6 7 −1 6 0–3 3–2 — — — 4 Durham 4 1 0 1 2 5 8 −3 4 — — 1–0 — 3–3 5 Liverpool 4 0 2 0 2 5 8 −3 4 0–1 — 1–3 — —
Source: thefa.com Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
Attendance: 829
Referee: Nat Cox
Attendance: 246
Referee: Alex Rayment
Attendance: 4,835
Referee: Anthony Tankard
Attendance: 284
Referee: Lewis Sandoe
Attendance: 352
Referee: Lucy Oliver
Attendance: 143
Referee: Rebecca Welch
Attendance: 686
Referee: Samuel Barrott
Attendance: 323
Referee: Lisa Benn
Attendance: 267
Referee: Rebecca Walsh
Attendance: 207
Referee: Jon Kenny
Group One South
Source: thefa.com Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
Attendance: 1,095
Referee: Jack Packman
Attendance: 372
Referee: James Simpson
Attendance: 246
Referee: Ian Stewart
Attendance: 144
Referee: Andreas Anastasiou
Attendance: 374
Referee: Neil Morrison
Attendance: 301
Referee: Scott Robertson
Attendance: 171
Referee: Stacey Pearson
Attendance: 476
Referee: David Spain
Attendance: 415
Referee: Matthew Russell
Attendance: 916
Referee: Lisa Benn
Attendance: 204
Referee: Alex Blake
Attendance: 146
Referee: Michael Begley
Attendance: 358
Referee: Abigail Marriott
Attendance: 224
Referee: James Robinson
Attendance: 146
Referee: Chris Myers
Group Two South
Source: thefa.com Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
Attendance: 834
Referee: Stephen Bates
Attendance: 205
Referee: Jamie Wells
Attendance: 204
Referee: Isaac Hearle
Attendance: 255
Referee: Jamie Pope
Attendance: 945
Referee: Alex Blake
Attendance: 557
Referee: Tom Bishop
Attendance: 143
Referee: Kirsty Dowle
Attendance: 463
Referee: Dean Skipper
Attendance: 202
Referee: Gerry Heron
Knock-out stage Quarter-finals The draw for this round was made on 18 December 2018.
9 January 2019 (2019-01-09 )
9 January 2019 (2019-01-09 )
9 January 2019 (2019-01-09 )
10 January 2019 (2019-01-10 )
Semi-finals The draw for the semi-finals was made on 12 January 2019.
6 February 2019 (2019-02-06 )
Attendance: 1,358
Referee: David Rock
7 February 2019 (2019-02-07 )
Final Attendance: 2,424
Referee: Lucy Oliver
See also References ^ "Continental Tyres League Cup fixtures". The FA . 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018 . External links National teams
League competitions
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 FA Women's National League Premier Division (North , South ) Level 4
Cup competitions Youth competitions
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Seasons
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