2019–20 EFL Trophy

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2019–20 EFL Trophy
Country  England
 Wales
Teams Originally 64
(63 after walkover)
Champions Salford City (1st title)
Runners-up Portsmouth
Matches played 124
Goals scored 376 (3.03 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Tristan Abrahams
Kevin van Veen
(5 goals each)
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

The 2019–20 EFL Trophy, known as the Leasing.com Trophy[lower-alpha 1] for sponsorship reasons, was the 38th season in the history of the competition, a knock-out tournament for English football clubs in League One and League Two of the English football system, and also including 16 Premier League and Championship "Academy teams" with Category One status. Due to their financial crisis, Bury were expelled from the EFL and automatically eliminated from the competition as well.[1]

Portsmouth were the defending champions, and reached the final once again. They were beaten on penalties by Salford City after a 0–0 draw. The final was held on March 13, 2021, having been delayed 11 months as the originally scheduled date of April 5, 2020 was just after suspension of English football due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participating clubs

  • 48 clubs from League One and League Two.
  • 16 invited Category One Academy teams.
  • Expelled clubs were automatically eliminated from the tournament.
  • Category One teams relegated to League One missed out on having academies participate in the following tournament.
League One League Two Academies[2]
Clubs
Total 23 24 16

Eligibility criteria for players

For EFL clubs[3]
  • Minimum of four qualifying outfield players in their starting XI. A qualifying outfield player will be one who meets any of the following requirements:
    • Any player who started the previous or following first-team fixture.
    • Any player who is in the top 10 players at the club, who have made the most starting appearances in league and domestic cup competitions that season.
    • Any player with 40 or more first-team appearances in their career.
    • Any player on loan from a Premier League club or any EFL Category One Academy club.
  • A club can play any eligible goalkeeper in the competition
For invited teams
  • Minimum of six players in the starting line-up who played at under-21 level, as at 30 June 2019.
  • Teams may only include two players on the team sheet who are over the age of 21 and have made forty or more senior appearances, as at 30 June 2019.
    • A senior appearance will be defined as having played in a professional first-team fixture. A non-playing substitute does not count.

Competition format

Group stage
  • Sixteen groups of 4 teams would be organised on a regionalised basis.
  • All groups would include one invited club.
  • All clubs would play each other once, either home or away (Academies play all group matches away from home).
  • Clubs would be awarded three points for a win and one point for a draw.
  • In the event of a drawn game (after 90 minutes), a penalty shootout would be held with the winning team earning an additional point.
  • Clubs expelled from the EFL will be knocked out of the tournament automatically.
  • The top two teams would progress to the Knockout Stage.
Knockout stage
  • Round 2 and 3 of the competition will be drawn on a regionalised basis.
  • In Round 2, the group winners shall be seeded and the group runners-up shall be unseeded in the draw.
  • In Round 2, teams who played in the same group as each other in the Group Stage shall keep apart from each other.[4]

Group stage

Northern Section

Group A

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 ACA Leicester City U21 3 2 1 0 0 5 3 +2 8 Advance to Round 2
2 L2 Scunthorpe United 3 2 0 1 0 6 2 +4 7
3 L1 Sunderland 3 1 0 0 2 4 7 −3 3
4 L2 Grimsby Town 3 0 0 0 3 4 7 −3 0
Source: EFL.com

Group B

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L1 Accrington Stanley 3 3 0 0 0 10 3 +7 9 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Fleetwood Town 3 1 1 0 1 7 5 +2 5
3 L2 Oldham Athletic 3 1 0 0 2 5 10 −5 3
4 ACA Liverpool U21 3 0 0 1 2 5 9 −4 1
Source: EFL.com

Group C

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L2 Salford City 2 2 0 0 0 4 0 +4 6 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Tranmere Rovers 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 −1 3
3 ACA Aston Villa U21 2 0 0 0 2 1 4 −3 0
4 — Bury[lower-alpha 2] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Automatically eliminated from competition
Source: EFL.com
Notes:
  1. ↑ It was known as the Papa John's Trophy for the Final due to the sponsorship changing for the 2020–21 season, with the 2020 Final having been delayed by a year. Leasing.com no longer sponsor the competition in 2021.
  2. ↑ This group originally included the expelled Bury.

Group D

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L2 Port Vale 3 3 0 0 0 7 4 +3 9 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Shrewsbury Town 3 2 0 0 1 7 3 +4 6
3 L2 Macclesfield Town 3 1 0 0 2 5 7 −2 3
4 ACA Newcastle United U21 3 0 0 0 3 2 7 −5 0
Source: EFL.com

Group E

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 ACA Everton U21 3 1 1 1 0 5 3 +2 6 Advance to Round 2
2 L2 Mansfield Town 3 1 0 2 0 4 3 +1 5
3 L2 Crewe Alexandra 3 0 2 0 1 4 6 −2 4
4 L1 Burton Albion 3 1 0 0 2 4 5 −1 3
Source: EFL.com

Group F

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 ACA Manchester City U21 3 2 0 0 1 5 4 +1 6 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Bolton Wanderers 3 1 0 2 0 5 3 +2 5
3 L1 Rochdale 3 1 1 0 1 3 4 −1 5
4 L2 Bradford City 3 0 1 0 2 3 5 −2 2
Source: EFL.com

Group G

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L1 Blackpool 3 2 0 0 1 7 3 +4 6 Advance to Round 2
2 ACA Wolverhampton Wanderers U21 3 1 1 0 1 6 5 +1 5
3 L2 Morecambe 3 1 0 1 1 6 8 −2 4
4 L2 Carlisle United 3 1 0 0 2 5 8 −3 3
Source: EFL.com

Group H

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 ACA Manchester United U21 3 3 0 0 0 5 1 +4 9 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Doncaster Rovers 3 1 0 0 2 6 6 0 3
3 L1 Lincoln City 3 1 0 0 2 4 4 0 3
4 L1 Rotherham United 3 1 0 0 2 3 7 −4 3
Source: EFL.com

Southern Section

Group A

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L2 Colchester United 3 2 0 1 0 5 3 +2 7 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Ipswich Town 3 2 0 0 1 6 2 +4 6
3 L1 Gillingham 3 1 0 0 2 4 7 −3 3
4 ACA Tottenham Hotspur U21 3 0 1 0 2 2 5 −3 2
Source: EFL.com

Group B

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L1 Portsmouth 3 2 1 0 0 6 3 +3 8 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Oxford United 3 2 0 1 0 8 4 +4 7
3 ACA Norwich City U21 3 1 0 0 2 4 6 −2 3
4 L2 Crawley Town 3 0 0 0 3 2 7 −5 0
Source: EFL.com

Group C

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 ACA Brighton & Hove Albion U21 3 2 0 1 0 5 1 +4 7 Advance to Round 2
2 L2 Leyton Orient 3 1 1 0 1 3 4 −1 5
3 L1 AFC Wimbledon 3 1 0 0 2 4 5 −1 3
4 L1 Southend United 3 1 0 0 2 3 5 −2 3
Source: EFL.com

Group D

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L2 Walsall 3 2 0 1 0 7 0 +7 7 Advance to Round 2
2 L1 Coventry City 3 1 1 1 0 3 2 +1 6
3 L2 Forest Green Rovers 3 1 1 0 1 3 8 −5 5
4 ACA Southampton U21 3 0 0 0 3 4 7 −3 0
Source: EFL.com

Group E

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L2 Exeter City 3 3 0 0 0 6 1 +5 9 Advance to Round 2
2 L2 Newport County 3 1 0 0 2 11 11 0 3
3 ACA West Ham United U21 3 1 0 0 2 9 11 −2 3
4 L2 Cheltenham Town 3 1 0 0 2 8 11 −3 3
Source: EFL.com

Group F

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L1 Bristol Rovers 3 2 0 1 0 4 2 +2 7 Advance to Round 2
2 ACA Chelsea U21 3 2 0 0 1 5 4 +1 6
3 L2 Plymouth Argyle 3 1 1 0 1 4 2 +2 5
4 L2 Swindon Town 3 0 0 0 3 2 7 −5 0
Source: EFL.com

Group G

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L1 Milton Keynes Dons 3 2 0 0 1 5 2 +3 6 Advance to Round 2
2 L2 Stevenage 3 1 1 0 1 2 4 −2 5
3 ACA Fulham U21 3 1 0 1 1 3 3 0 4
4 L1 Wycombe Wanderers 3 1 0 0 2 3 4 −1 3
Source: EFL.com

Group H

Pos Div Team Pld W PW PL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 L1 Peterborough United 3 3 0 0 0 5 1 +4 9 Advance to Round 2
2 L2 Northampton Town 3 1 1 0 1 2 3 −1 5
3 ACA Arsenal U21 3 0 1 1 1 2 3 −1 3
4 L2 Cambridge United 3 0 0 1 2 2 4 −2 1
Source: EFL.com

Round 2

Northern Section

Southern Section

Round 3

Northern Section

Southern Section

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

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Main article: 2020 EFL Trophy Final

2020 EFL Trophy Final

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