1961–62 Football League Cup

1961–62 League Cup
Tournament details
Country	England & Wales
Defending champions	Aston Villa
Final positions
Champions	Norwich City
Runner-up	Rochdale
	← 1960–61 1962–63 →

The 1961–62 Football League Cup was the second season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The competition began on 11 September 1961, and ended with the two-legged final on 26 April and 1 May 1961.

The tournament was won by Norwich City, who beat Rochdale 4–0 on aggregate over two legs. Norwich won the first leg 3–0 away at Spotland, thanks to goals from Derrick Lythgoe (2) and Punton. In the second leg at Carrow Road, Jimmy Hill scored to give Norwich a 1–0 win on the night and a 4–0 aggregate victory.

Match dates and results were initially drawn from Soccerbase,^[1] and they were later checked against Rothmans Football Yearbook 1970–71.^[2]

First Round

Ties

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Barnsley	3–2	Southport	13-09-1961
Barrow	0–2	Portsmouth	13-09-1961
Birmingham City	1–1	Swindon Town	13-09-1961
Blackpool	2–1	Port Vale	13-09-1961
Bolton Wanderers	1–1	Sunderland	13-09-1961
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	2–2	Torquay United	13-09-1961
Bradford City	3–4	Aston Villa	13-09-1961
Bristol Rovers	2–1	Hartlepools United	11-09-1961
Bury	5–1	Brighton & Hove Albion	12-09-1961
Cardiff City	2–0	Wrexham	13-09-1961
Carlisle United	1–1	Huddersfield Town	12-09-1961
Chesterfield	2–3	Norwich City	13-09-1961
Colchester United	1–2	Crewe Alexandra	13-09-1961
Darlington	0–1	Rotherham United	11-09-1961
Doncaster Rovers	3–2	Grimsby Town	13-09-1961
Fulham	1–1	Sheffield United	13-09-1961
Hull City	4–2	Bradford Park Avenue	11-09-1961
Ipswich Town	4–2	Manchester City	11-09-1961
Leeds United	4–1	Brentford	13-09-1961
Lincoln City	1–0	Accrington Stanley	13-09-1961
Luton Town	2–1	Northampton Town	13-09-1961
Mansfield Town	5–2	Exeter City	11-09-1961
Millwall	1–2	Walsall	13-09-1961
Newcastle United	2–0	Scunthorpe United	13-09-1961
Newport County	0–0	Shrewsbury Town	11-09-1961
Nottingham Forest	4–1	Gillingham	11-09-1961
Notts County	2–2	Derby County	14-09-1961
Oldham Athletic	1–4	Charlton Athletic	12-09-1961
Peterborough United	1–3	Blackburn Rovers	11-09-1961
Preston North End	3–1	Aldershot	13-09-1961
Queens Park Rangers	5–2	Crystal Palace	13-09-1961
Reading	4–2	Chester	13-09-1961
Southampton	0–0	Rochdale	13-09-1961
Southend United	0–1	Stoke City	13-09-1961
Stockport County	0–1	Leyton Orient	11-09-1961
Tranmere Rovers	3–6	Middlesbrough	13-09-1961
Watford	3–0	Halifax Town	11-09-1961
West Ham United	3–2	Plymouth Argyle	11-09-1961
Workington	3–0	Coventry City	13-09-1961
York City	3–0	Bristol City	13-09-1961

Replays

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Derby County	3–2	Notts County	27-09-1961
Huddersfield Town	3–0	Carlisle United	25-09-1961
Rochdale	2–1	Southampton	27-09-1961
Sheffield United	4–0	Fulham	25-09-1961
Shrewsbury Town	3–1	Newport County	28-09-1961
Sunderland	1–0	Bolton Wanderers	25-09-1961
Swindon Town	2–0	Birmingham City	25-09-1961
Torquay United	0–1	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	25-09-1961

Byes

Team
Leicester City
Swansea Town

Second Round

Ties

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Barnsley	1–3	Workington	09-10-1961
Bristol Rovers	1–1	Blackburn Rovers	02-10-1961
Bury	3–4	Hull City	03-10-1961
Charlton Athletic	4–1	Stoke City	04-10-1961
Leeds United	3–2	Huddersfield Town	04-10-1961
Leyton Orient	1–1	Blackpool	04-10-1961
Luton Town	0–0	Rotherham United	04-10-1961
Mansfield Town	1–1	Cardiff City	05-10-1961
Middlesbrough	3–1	Crewe Alexandra	04-10-1961
Norwich City	3–2	Lincoln City	04-10-1961
Portsmouth	1–1	Derby County	04-10-1961
Preston North End	3–1	Swindon Town	09-10-1961
Queens Park Rangers	1–2	Nottingham Forest	11-10-1961
Rochdale	4–0	Doncaster Rovers	04-10-1961
Sheffield United	2–2	Newcastle United	02-10-1961
Shrewsbury Town	1–3	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	09-10-1961
Sunderland	5–2	Walsall	04-10-1961
Swansea Town	3–3	Ipswich Town	03-10-1961
Watford	3–1	Reading	16-10-1961
West Ham United	1–3	Aston Villa	09-10-1961
York City	2–1	Leicester City	09-10-1961

Replays

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Blackburn Rovers	4–0	Bristol Rovers	16-10-1961
Blackpool	5–1	Leyton Orient	30-10-1961
Cardiff City	2–1	Mansfield Town	23-10-1961
Derby County	2–4	Portsmouth	01-11-1961
Ipswich Town	3–2	Swansea Town	24-10-1961
Newcastle United	0–2	Sheffield United	11-10-1961
Rotherham United	2–0	Luton Town	10-10-1961

Third Round

Ties

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Aston Villa	2–3	Ipswich Town	21-11-1961
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	3–0	Cardiff City	15-11-1961
Norwich City	3–2	Middlesbrough	15-11-1961
Nottingham Forest	1–2	Blackburn Rovers	14-11-1961
Preston North End	0–0	Rotherham United	14-11-1961
Rochdale	1–0	Charlton Athletic	14-11-1961
Sheffield United	1–0	Portsmouth	13-11-1961
Sunderland	2–1	Hull City	15-11-1961
Workington	0–1	Blackpool	15-11-1961
York City	1–1	Watford	15-11-1961

Replays

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Rotherham United	3–0	Preston North End	28-11-1961
Watford	2–2^[3]	York City	21-11-1961

2nd Replay

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
York City	3–2	Watford	04-12-1961

Bye

Team
Leeds United

Fourth Round

Ties

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Blackburn Rovers	4–1	Ipswich Town	11-12-1961
Rotherham United	1–1	Leeds United	12-12-1961
York City	1–0	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	13-12-1961

Replay

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Leeds United	1–2	Rotherham United	15-01-1962

Byes

Team
Blackpool
Norwich City
Rochdale
Sheffield United
Sunderland

Fifth Round

Ties

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Blackpool	0–0	Sheffield United	06-02-1962
Rochdale	2–1	York City	07-02-1962
Rotherham United	0–1	Blackburn Rovers	06-02-1962
Sunderland	1–4	Norwich City	07-02-1962

Replay

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Sheffield United	0–2	Blackpool	27-03-1962

Semi-Finals

First Leg

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date
Rochdale	3–1	Blackburn Rovers	19-03-1962
Norwich City	4–1	Blackpool	11-04-1962

Second Leg

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Date	Agg
Blackburn Rovers	2–1	Rochdale	04-04-1962	3–4
Blackpool	2–0	Norwich City	16-04-1962	3–4

Final

The final was played over two legs. The first leg was held at Spotland, Rochdale on 26 April 1962, and the second leg was held at Carrow Road, Norwich, on 1 May 1962.^[4]

Rochdale v Norwich City

26 April 1962

Rochdale	0 – 3	Norwich City
	Summary	Lythgoe Punton

Spotland, Rochdale
Attendance: 11,123
Referee: A. Holland

Rochdale: Burgin — Milburn, Winton, Bodell, Aspden, James Thompson, Wragg, Hepton, Bimpson, Cairns, Whitaker.

Norwich City: Kennon — McCrohan, Ashman, Burton, Barry Butler, Mullett, Mannion, Lythgoe, Scott, James Hill, Punton.

Norwich City v Rochdale

1 May 1962

Norwich City	1 – 0	Rochdale
Hill	Summary

Carrow Road, Norwich City
Attendance: 19,708
Referee: R.H. Mann

Norwich City: Kennon — McCrohan, Ashman, Burton, Barry Butler, Mullett, Mannion, Lythgoe, Scott, James Hill, Punton.

Rochdale: Burgin — Milburn, Winton, Bodell, Aspden, James Thompson, Whyke, Joe Richardson, Bimpson, Cairns, Whitaker.

Norwich City won the League Cup final 4–0 on aggregate.

References

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1961–62 Football League Cup

Contents

First Round

Ties

Replays

Byes

Second Round

Ties

Replays

Third Round

Ties

Replays

2nd Replay

Bye

Fourth Round

Ties

Replay

Byes

Fifth Round

Ties

Replay

Semi-Finals

First Leg

Second Leg

Final

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