The 2017–18
FA WSL Cup
The Women's League Cup, also known as the Subway Women's League Cup due to sponsorship reasons, is a league cup competition in English women's association football. The competition was originally open to the eight teams in the FA WSL, but since t ...
was the seventh edition of the
FA WSL
The Women's Super League (WSL), also known as the Barclays Women's Super League for sponsorship reasons, and formerly the FA WSL, is a professional association football league and the highest level of women's football in England. Currently oper ...
's league cup competition. It was sponsored by
Continental AG
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, who sponsored the competition from its creation, and was officially known as the FA WSL Continental Tyres Cup. All 20 teams of the two divisions of the WSL took part in the competition - the largest field in its history.
Manchester City
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were the defending champions; only they and
Arsenal
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had won the cup in the previous six seasons it was contested in.
Format changes
After a one-year experiment with a pure knockout formula, the WSL Cup returned to a format featuring a group stage. Four groups of five teams each, with an approximately even split between the two divisions, competed for two qualification spots for the knock-out round in each group, with each team playing every other team only once. Similarly to previous iterations, the groups had a geographical split, with two "Northern" groups and two "Southern". Another new implementation for the season was an automatic penalty shoot-out for all games tied after 90 minutes, with a bonus point awarded for the team who emerged victorious afterwards.
After the group stage, the remaining eight teams contested a non-seeded standard knock-out format as in the 2015 season.
Group stage
Group One North
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Group Two North
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Group One South
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Group Two South
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Knock-out stage
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Final
Top goalscorers
See also
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2017–18 FA WSL
The 2017–18 FA WSL 1 was the seventh edition of the FA WSL since it was formed in 2010. It was the first season of WSL which ran as a winter league. It started in September 2017 and ended in May 2018, with ten teams competing in both leagues.
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References
External links
Official website
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FA Women's League Cup seasons
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2017–18 in English football cups