1965 Football League Cup Final

The 1965 Football League Cup Final, the fifth to be staged since the competition's inception, was contested between Leicester City and Chelsea over two legs. Leicester, the holders, were aiming to become the first side to retain the trophy while Chelsea were seeking to become the first London side to win it. Chelsea won 3–2 on aggregate, with all the goals coming in the first leg.

Match review

The first leg took place on March 15th 1965 at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's home ground. Chelsea took the lead in the match twice, first through Bobby Tambling and then a Terry Venables penalty, but Leicester equalised on both occasions via Colin Appleton and Jimmy Goodfellow. With ten minutes left, Chelsea's Eddie McCreadie received the ball on the edge of his own penalty area and went on a sixty-yard run, dribbling past several Leicester players before slotting the ball past goalkeeper Gordon Banks.

McCreadie's goal proved to be the difference between the sides as, despite strong pressure, Leicester were unable to make a breakthrough in the second leg at Filbert Street on April 15th and the game ended 0–0, giving Chelsea a 3–2 aggregate win.

Players and officials

First leg

15 March 196519.30

Chelsea	3–2	Leicester City
Tambling  33' Venables  70' (p) McCreadie  81'		Appleton  46' Goodfellow  75'

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 20,690

Referee: Jim Finney (Hereford)

1 Peter Bonetti 2 Marvin Hinton 3 Ron Harris 4 John Hollins 5 Allan Young 6 John Boyle 7 Bert Murray 8 George Graham 9 Eddie McCreadie 10 Terry Venables (c) 11 Bobby Tambling Manager: Tommy Docherty

1 Gordon Banks 2 John Sjoberg 3 Richard Norman 4 Len Chalmers 5 Ian King 6 Colin Appleton (c) 7 Billy Hodgson 8 Graham Cross 9 Jimmy Goodfellow 10 David Gibson 11 Tom Sweenie Manager: Matt Gillies

Route to the final

External links

• League Cup 1965 at The English Football Archive
• First leg facts at soccerbase.com
• Second leg facts at soccerbase.com
• Final line-ups at Football Focus