Carling Cup / FA Cup

KJS · #1 10-26-2005, 02:05 PM

What are the differences in the participants in the English FA Cup and the Carling Cup?

I am pretty sure that the FA Cup is open to any English club but the Carling Cup is more restricted. But I can't find the answer as to who exactly is in the Carling Cup.

Can any UKers help a Yankee out? Thanks.

KJS

Wyrm2 · #2 10-27-2005, 05:47 PM

Carling Cup is only for the teams in the first 4 levels of English football. That would be the Premiership, Championship and 1st and 2nd Division.

KDawgCometh · #3 10-27-2005, 06:12 PM

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Carling Cup is only for the teams in the first 4 levels of English football. That would be the Premiership, Championship and 1st and 2nd Division.

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its also of note that the FA Cup means a ton more then the carling cup

jstnrgrs · #4 10-27-2005, 06:24 PM

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Carling Cup is only for the teams in the first 4 levels of English football. That would be the Premiership, Championship and 1st and 2nd Division.

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How many divisions are there?

Voltron87 · #5 10-27-2005, 06:37 PM

i think there are called "nationwide conference" divisons or something, theyre pretty amateur. think single-a ball.

KDawgCometh · #6 10-28-2005, 03:01 AM

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Carling Cup is only for the teams in the first 4 levels of English football. That would be the Premiership, Championship and 1st and 2nd Division.

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How many divisions are there?

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there are 4 fully professional divisions, The Premier Legue, the Football league championship, league 1, and league 2. There are also tiers of football below league 2 that you can get promoted up from. I think in all total, there are 11 divisions of both professional and amateur football. Theoretcially you can climb the ladder all the way up(though I don't know of any team that has done that off hand)

daveymck · #7 10-28-2005, 09:02 AM

The FA cup is open to any team with membership of the english FA so my local village team that gets 1 man and his dog there usually can enter the preliminary rounds. Round 1 proper comes after I think 6 preliminary rounds so the non league teams then get a shot at the 3rd and 4 th division teams.

Carling cup is for the 4 football league division teams.