2020–21 EFL Trophy
The 2020–21 EFL Trophy, known as the Leasing.com Trophy for sponsorship reasons, will be the 37th 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.
| Country | England Wales |
|---|---|
| Teams | 64 |
| Defending champions | undetermined |
← 2019–20 2021–22 →
All statistics correct as of 14 August 2020. | |
Participating clubs
- Forty-eight clubs from League One and League Two.
- Sixteen invited Category One Academy teams.
- Expelled clubs will be automatically eliminated from the tournament.
- Category One teams Relegated to League One will miss out on having academies participating in the following tournament.
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.
- Academy teams from Round 2 to the semi-finals keep apart.
Group stage
Northern Section
Southern Section
References
Category:EFL Trophy Category:English Football League England, EFL Trophy Category:2020–21 European domestic association football cups Category:2020–21 English Football League
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