2006–07 Football League Trophy

2006–07 Football League Trophy

Johnstone's Paint Trophy
Tournament details
Country	England  Wales
Teams	48
Defending champions	Swansea City
Final positions
Champions	Doncaster Rovers
Runner-up	Bristol Rovers
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The 2006–07 Football League Trophy, known as the 2006–07 Johnstone's Paint Trophy for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th staging of the Football League Trophy, a knockout competition for English football clubs in Leagues One and Two. The winners were Doncaster Rovers from League One and the runners-up were Bristol Rovers from League Two.

The competition began on 17 October 2006 and ended with the final on 1 April 2007. The final was the last to take place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. In the first round, there are four sections: Northern Section–West, Northern Section–East, Southern Section–West and Southern Section–East. In the second round this narrows to simply a Northern and a Southern section, whereupon each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final for the honour of the trophy.

Swansea City were the defending champions, but lost to Peterborough United in the second round.

Doncaster Rovers won the final, beating Bristol Rovers 3–2 after extra time, having been 2–0 up after just 5 minutes before Bristol Rovers scored twice in the second half to make the score 2–2 after 90 minutes.

First round

Sixteen teams received byes to the second round. The other remaining teams start in a single-legged knockout. Should the scores be level after 90 minutes, the match entered a penalty shootout phase, with no extra-time being played.

Second round

In the second round, the sixteen winning teams from the first round were joined by the teams with byes. Again, there were eight one-legged matches in each section (North and South), with a penalty shootout if a draw occurred after 90 minutes.

Area quarter-finals

In the third round, the winning teams from the second round play in eight one-legged matches, four in each section (North and South). Again, a penalty shootout followed if the match was drawn after 90 minutes. Matches were played on 28 November and 29 November 2006.

Area semi-finals

Matches were played on 8 January 2007.

Area finals

Northern Area final

30 January 2007

19:45

Crewe Alexandra	3 – 3	Doncaster Rovers
Moss 51' Lowe 63' Varney 86'		Heffernan 29' (pen.) Stock 40' Heffernan 74'

Alexandra Stadium, Crewe

Attendance: 4,631

Referee: Clive Oliver (Northumberland)

12 February 2007

19:45

Doncaster Rovers	3 – 2	Crewe Alexandra
Heffernan 63' Heffernan 83' (pen.) Price 89'		Varney 32' Lowe 36'

Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster

Attendance: 12,561

Referee: Trevor Kettle (Berkshire)

• Doncaster Rovers won 6–5 on aggregate and progressed to the final.

Southern Area final

The Southern Area final produced the first Bristol derby played in over five years.^[1]

27 February 2007

19:45

Bristol Rovers	1 – 0	Bristol City
Lambert 65'

Memorial Stadium, Bristol

Attendance: 11,530

Referee: Andy D'Urso (Essex)

• Bristol Rovers won 1–0 on aggregate and progressed to the final.

Final

The 2007 final was the last major Football Association or Football League final to be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. All subsequent finals were held at Wembley Stadium in London.

1 April 2007

13:00

Bristol Rovers	2 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Doncaster Rovers
Walker 49' (pen.) Igoe 62'	Report	Forte 1' Heffernan 5' Lee 110'

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 59,024

Referee: Graham Laws (Northumberland)

References

Sources

• Rollin, Glenda; Rollin, Jack, eds. (2007). Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2007–2008. London: Headline. pp. 605–608. ISBN 978-0-7553-1664-9.
• "Football League Trophy 2006/2007". Soccerbase. Racing Post. Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2010.