2000–01 Irish League Cup

Irish League Cup Coca-Cola League Cup 2000–01 Northern Ireland 20 Glentoran (3rd win) Glenavon 19 39 1999–2000 2001–02 The 2000–01 Irish League Cup (known as the Coca-Cola League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 24 April 2001 with the final. Linfield were the defending champions after their third consecutive and sixth overall League Cup win last season; a 4–0 victory over Coleraine in the previous final. This season they went out in the semi-finals to Glenavon, who condemned Linfield to their first defeat in the competition for four years. Glentoran were the eventual winners, defeating Glenavon 1–0 in the final to lift the cup for the third time overall, and the first time since the 1990–91 competition 10 years earlier.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilleagcuphist.html Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation RSSSF 24 December 2012https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilleagcup01.html Northern Ireland League Cup 2000/01 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation RSSSF 24 December 2012 Preliminary round Carrick Rangers 1–0 Ballyclare Comrades Dungannon Swifts 0–3 Limavady United Larne 2–0 Bangor Lisburn Distillery 0–2 Ards |} First round Armagh City 0–0 (4–3 p) Coleraine Ballymena United 1–2 Ards Carrick Rangers 0–2 Glenavon Cliftonville 2–3 Omagh Town Crusaders 1–2 Linfield Glentoran 2–1 Limavady United Institute 2–2 (1–3 p) Newry Town Larne 0–1 Portadown |} Quarter-finals Ards 0–2 Omagh Town Armagh City 0–1 Glentoran Glenavon 3–0 Portadown Newry Town 0–0 (3–4 p) Linfield |} Semi-finals Omagh Town 0–2 Glentoran Linfield 0–1 Glenavon |} Final 24 April 2001 Glenavon 0 – 1 Report Glentoran Young 73 pen. Windsor Park, Belfast References Category:Irish League Cup seasons League Cup