The 1966–67 Football League Cup was the seventh season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The competition started on 23 August 1966 and ended with the final on 4 March 1967. This was the first season during which Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, and Wolverhampton participated in the League Cup; Everton and Liverpool were the only League teams that did not compete.
Match dates and results were initially drawn from Soccerbase,[1] and they were later checked against Rothmans Football Yearbook 1970–71.[2]
Calendar
Of the 90 teams, 38 received a bye to the second round (teams ranked 1st–40th in the 1965–66 Football League, excluding 2 teams that did not compete) and the other 52 played in the first round. The semi-finals were two-legged.
Round
Main date
Fixtures
Clubs
New entries this round
Original
Replays
First Round
24 August 1966
26
10
90 → 64
52 (teams ranked 19th–22nd in Second Division; all Third and Fourth Division)
Second Round
14 September 1966
32
11
64 → 32
38 (all First Division, except those teams that did not enter; teams ranked 1st–18th in Second Division)
