1964 Football League Cup final

April 2014 April 2014 1964 Football League Cup final LeagueCupTankard.jpg 300px Winners' tankard awarded to Graham Cross for winning the 1963–64 Football League Cup 1963–64 Football League Cup Stoke City 3 Leicester City 4 First Leg 1 1 15 April 1964 Victoria Ground Stoke-on-Trent Bill Clements 22,309 Second Leg 2 3 22 April 1964 Filbert Street Leicester A Jobling (Morecambe) 25,372 1963 1965 The 1964 Football League Cup final, the fourth to be staged since the competition's inception, was contested between Stoke City and Leicester City, both of the First Division, over two legs. Leicester City won 4–3 on aggregate.Matthews Tony The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City 1994 Lion Press 0-9524151-0-0 Match review First leg The First leg was played at Stoke City's Victoria Ground and was a very exciting encounter. Peter Dobing hit the post early on and John Ritchie had a shot brilliantly cleared off the line by John Sjoberg. After a goalless first half Keith Bebbington broke the deadlock putting Stoke ahead after 62 minutes after Bill Asprey's 30 yard shot was parried by the Leicester 'keeper Gordon Banks, but Bebbington was fastest to the loose ball. In front of a crowd of 22,309 Stoke went out for a second goal but Leicester's defence held firm and against the run of play they got an equaliser. A poor clearance from Eric Skeels rebounded off Terry Heath into the path of Dave Gibson who lobbed the ball over Lawrie Leslie and into the unguarded net to set up a winner takes all 2nd leg. Second leg For the Second leg at Filbert Street Stoke manager Tony Waddington had to change his goalkeeper with Leslie out with an ankle injury Bobby Irvine taking his place. He was unable to prevent Mike Stringfellow from scoring after six minutes following a defensive error. Stoke hit back and a perfect pass from Jimmy McIlroy cut through the Foxes’ defence and Dennis Viollet levelled the scores. This put Stoke into the ascendency but then a nasty leg injury to Calvin Palmer saw him stretchered off and thus put Stoke down to 10 men. Leicester capitalised on the situation and before Palmer was able to get back on the pitch Gibson headed in a Howard Riley corner. With not long left Stoke pushed forward and left a too big a gap in defence and Dave Gibson made it 3–1. Stoke to their credit fought on and pulled one back through George Kinnell but it was too late as Leicester won the tie 3–2 giving them a 4–3 aggregate win and with it the League Cup. Players and officials First leg 15 April 1964 Stoke City 1–1 http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamHist/TrivEngPlysLC.html Leicester City Bebbington 62 Gibson 79 Victoria Ground, Stoke-on-Trent 22,309 W.Clements 1SCO Lawrie Leslie 2ENG Bill Asprey3ENG Tony Allen 4ENG Calvin Palmer5SCO George Kinnell6ENG Eric Skeels (c)7ENG Peter Dobing 8ENG Dennis Viollet9ENG John Ritchie10NIR Jimmy McIlroy 11ENG Keith BebbingtonManager:ENG Tony Waddington 1ENG Gordon Banks2SCO John Sjoberg3ENG Colin Appleton 4SCO Max Dougan5ENG Ian King6ENG Graham Cross7ENG Howard Riley8ENG Terry Heath9ENG Ken Keyworth 10SCO Dave Gibson 11ENG Mike Stringfellow (c)Manager:SCO Matt Gillies Second leg 22 April 1964https://www.lcfc.com/news/430739 Former Player Remembers: Howard Riley www.lcfc.com Leicester City 3–2 http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamHist/TrivEngPlysLC.html Stoke City Stringfellow 6Gibson 70 Riley 83 Viollet 46Kinnell 90 Filbert Street, Leicester 25,372 A. Jobling 1ENG Gordon Banks2SCO John Sjoberg3ENG Colin Appleton 4SCO Max Dougan5ENG Ian King6ENG Graham Cross7ENG Howard Riley8ENG Richie Norman9ENG Ken Keyworth 10SCO Dave Gibson 11ENG Mike Stringfellow (c)Manager:SCO Matt Gillies 1NIR Bobby Irvine 2ENG Bill Asprey3ENG Tony Allen 4ENG Calvin Palmer5SCO George Kinnell6ENG Eric Skeels (c)7ENG Peter Dobing 8ENG Dennis Viollet9ENG John Ritchie10NIR Jimmy McIlroy 11ENG Keith BebbingtonManagerENG Tony Waddington Road to the Final Home teams listed first. Stoke City Round 2: Scunthorpe United 2–2 Stoke City Replay Stoke City 3–3 Scunthorpe United Second Replay Scunthorpe United 0–1 Stoke City Round 3: Stoke City 3–0 Bolton Wanderers Round 4: Stoke City 2–1 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic Quarter final: Stoke City 3–2 Rotherham United Semifinal, 1st leg: Stoke City 2–0 Manchester City Semifinal, 2nd leg: Manchester City 1–0 Stoke City Stoke City won 2–1 on aggregateLeicester City Round 2: Leicester City 2–0 Aldershot Round 3: Tranmere Rovers 1–2 Leicester City Round 4: Leicester City 3–1 Gillingham Quarter final: Norwich City 1–1 Leicester City Replay Leicester City 2–1 (a.e.t) Norwich City Semifinal, 1st leg: Leicester City 4–3 West Ham United Semifinal, 2nd leg: West Ham United 0–2 Leicester City Leicester City won 6–3 on aggregate References External links League Cup 1964 at RSSSF League Cup final Category:1963–64 in English men's football cups Category:EFL Cup seasons Category:EFL Cup finals League Cup final 1964 League Cup final 1964 Football League Cup final