2000 Football League Trophy Final - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 2000 Football League Trophy Final (known as the Auto Windscreens Shields Trophy for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th final of the domestic football cup competition for teams from the Second

Football League Second Division

From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...

and Third Division

Football League Third Division

The Football League Third Division was the 3 tier of English Football from 1920 until 1992 when after the formation of the Football Association Premier League saw the league renamed The Football League Division Two...

of the Football League

The Football League

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. The match was played at Wembley on 16 April 2000, and was the last Football League Trophy final to be played there before the stadium closed for redevelopment. The match was contested by Bristol City

Bristol City F.C.

Bristol City Football Club is one of two football league clubs in Bristol, England . They play at Ashton Gate, located in the south-west of the City...

and Stoke City

Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...

. The match was won by Stoke City, with Graham Kavanagh

Graham Kavanagh

Graham Anthony Kavanagh is an Irish footballer. He is assistant manager for Carlisle United, having also played for Home Farm, Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Cardiff City, Wigan Athletic, Sunderland and two loan spells at Sheffield Wednesday...

and Peter Thorne scoring in the 2-1 victory.

Match details


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	BRISTOL CITY:
GK	2	Billy Mercer Billy Mercer Billy Mercer is the name of:* Billy Mercer , former Hull City, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool goalkeeper* Billy Mercer , former Preston North End, Blackpool, Lancaster Town and Boston Town player...
DF	6	Louis Carey Louis Carey Louis Anthony Carey is a central defender currently playing for Bristol City. Though born in England, Carey is eligible to play for Scotland at international level through his grandparents, and has played once for Scotland's under-21 team.-Bristol City:Carey is a self-proclaimed Bristol City...
DF	27	Andy Jordan Andy Jordan (footballer) Andrew Joseph Jordan is an English-born Scottish former professional footballer and Scotland under-21 international, who made 21 appearances in The Football League between 1997 and 2005...
DF	46	Keith Millen Keith Millen -External links:...
DF	3	Michael Bell Michael Bell (footballer) Michael "Mickey" Bell is an English former football defender, turned manager. In a seventeen year career as a professional in the Football League he made 599 league appearances with five different clubs....
MF	17	Aaron Brown Aaron Brown (footballer born 1980) Aaron Wesley Brown is an English professional footballer who plays for Darlington. His younger brother Marvin also played professionally and both were with Bristol City at the same time.-Bristol City:...
MF	26	Scott Murray Scott Murray (footballer born 1974) Scott George Murray is a Scottish footballer who plays as a right winger who plays for non-league side Bath City.-Club career:...
MF	10	Paul Holland Paul Holland Paul Holland is a former English footballer who made over 300 appearances in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Sheffield United, Chesterfield and Bristol City and was capped four times for the England U21s. He is a former manager of Mansfield Town.-Career:As a player, Holland was a combative...
MF	11	Brian Tinnion Brian Tinnion Brian Tinnion is a British former footballer and ex-manager. He made over 450 appearances for Bristol City, including a spell as player-manager...
FW	20	Peter Beadle Peter Beadle Peter Clifford William James Beadle is an English former football player and manager. A forward, he scored some 83 goals in 355 league games, mostly for the two Bristol clubs....
FW	21	Tony Thorpe Tony Thorpe Anthony "Tony" Thorpe is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Thurmaston Town. As a professional he notably played for Luton Town, Bristol City and Queens Park Rangers. He also played in the Football League for Reading, Rotherham United, Swindon Town, Colchester United and Grimsby Town...
Substitutes:
GK	15	Steve Phillips
DF	43	Kevin Amankwaah Kevin Amankwaah Kevin Kwaku Osei-Kuffour Amankwaah is a Ghanaian-English footballer, currently playing for Burton Albion. He has had many injuries including a car crash in 2002...
DF	32	Matt Hill
MF	33	Joe Burnell Joe Burnell Joe Burnell is an English professional footballer. He is currently playing for Bath City, having been released by Exeter City....
FW	34	Damian Spencer
Manager:
David Burnside David Burnside (footballer) David Gort Burnside was an English footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder. He played for various clubs, including West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Football League First Division, before becoming a youth trainer with England and then briefly manager at Bristol...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> STOKE CITY: GK 1

Gavin Ward

Gavin Ward (footballer)

Gavin John Ward is a former professional footballer and coach who played in the position of goalkeeper from 1987 until 2011. He is currently Goalkeeping Coach at Shrewsbury Town...

DF 5

Nicky Mohan

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DF 15

Mikael Hansson

Mikael Hansson is a retired footballer. He played in the Football League for Stoke City. He made seventy seven appearances for Stoke before returning to Sweden.- Career statistics :-Honours:With Stoke City...

DF 22 Clive Clarke

Clive Clarke

Clive Richard Luke Clarke is a former Irish footballer after leaving Sunderland for health reasons. He played primarily as a left back, but also as centre back, left midfielder or centre midfielder.-Stoke City:...

MF 2

Brynjar Gunnarsson

Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson is an Icelandic footballer who is currently playing his club football as a defensive midfielder for Reading in the N-Power Championship...

MF 8 Graham Kavanagh

Graham Kavanagh

MF 17 James O'Connor MF 25

Bjarni Guðjónsson

Bjarni Eggerts Guðjónsson is an Icelandic footballer who currently plays for KR Reykjavík. His position is midfielder. He has two brothers who have also played professional football, Þórður and Jóhannes. All three played together at Genk...

MF 36

Arnar Gunnlaugsson

Arnar Bergmann Gunnlaugsson is an Icelandic professional footballer playing for Fram Reykjavik. His position is forward. His twin brother is Bjarki Gunnlaugsson.-Club career:...

FW 9

Peter Thorne FW 12

Kyle Lightbourne

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Substitute: GK 14

Carl Muggleton

Carl David Muggleton is an English professional football goalkeeper who made over 550 appearances in the Football League and Scottish Premier League for a number of clubs, most notably Leicester City, Stoke City, Celtic, Chesterfield and Mansfield Town.-Playing career:Muggleton began his career ...

DF 32

Anders Jacobsen DF 34

Richard Dryden

Richard Dryden is an English former professional footballer.-Playing career:A very experienced defender, Richard started his career in 1986 as a trainee with Bristol Rovers, joining them as a professional in July 1987...

MF 35

Steve Melton

Steve Melton is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Grantham Town. Melton played as a professional in the Football League from 1996 until 2006, featuring for Nottingham Forest, Stoke City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Hull City and Boston United...

FW 31

Chris Iwelumo

Christopher Robert "Chris" Iwelumo is a Scottish footballer who plays for Watford as a striker.Iwelumo started his career with St Mirren before moving to Danish club Aarhus Fremad for two years. A move to Stoke City in 2000 saw him sent out on loan to several teams before a short-lived spell with...

Manager:

Guðjón Þórðarson

Guðjón Þórðarson is an Icelandic former footballer and the current manager of Grindavík....

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

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