Texaco Cup

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title: "Texaco Cup" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["texaco", "defunct-association-football-club-competitions-in-europe", "1970-establishments-in-europe", "1975-disestablishments-in-europe", "recurring-sporting-events-established-in-1970", "recurring-sporting-events-disestablished-in-1975"] description: "Association football competition" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texaco_Cup" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Texaco Cup
genre	Sporting event
frequency	Annual
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The Texaco Cup, officially known as the International League Board Competition, was an association football competition started in 1970, involving sides from England, Scotland, and Ireland that had not qualified for European competitions.

It was one of the first football competitions to receive sponsorship, taking the name of American petroleum company Texaco for £100,000, and was instituted to help promote Texaco's recent purchase of the Regent filling station chain. Irish and Northern Irish clubs withdrew from the competition after 1971–72 due to political pressure, competing in a separate Texaco (All-Ireland) Cup in 1973–74 and 1974–75.

Crowds in the competition fell after the first few seasons, and it became the Anglo-Scottish Cup from 1975 to 1976 after Texaco's sponsorship ended.

Format

For the first four seasons it was played as a straight knockout tournament, with sixteen clubs entered, all ties being two-legged. For the final season of the competition, 16 English clubs played in groups before being joined in the knockout stages by four Scottish sides.

List of finals

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Season	Winners	Runners-up	Aggregate score
1970–71	England Wolverhampton Wanderers	Scotland Heart of Midlothian	3–2
1971–72	England Derby County	Scotland Airdrieonians	2–1
1972–73	England Ipswich Town	England Norwich City	4–2
1973–74	England Newcastle United	England Burnley	2–1
1974–75	England Newcastle United	England Southampton	3–1
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Participants

1970–71

ENG Burnley, Nottingham Forest, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers

SCO Airdrieonians, Dunfermline Athletic, Dundee, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell

NIR Ards, Derry City

IRE Limerick, Shamrock Rovers

1971–72

ENG Coventry City, Derby County, Huddersfield Town, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Stoke City

SCO Airdrieonians, Dundee United, Falkirk, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell

NIR Ballymena United, Coleraine

IRE Shamrock Rovers, Waterford

1972–73

ENG Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town, Leicester City, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Sheffield United, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers

SCO Ayr United, Dundee, Dundee United, Hearts, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, St Johnstone

1973–74

ENG Birmingham City, Burnley, Coventry City, Everton, Leicester City, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Sheffield United, Stoke City

SCO Ayr United, Dundee United, East Fife, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell, St Johnstone

1974–75

ENG Birmingham City, Blackpool, Carlisle United, Leyton Orient, Luton Town, Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Oldham Athletic, Peterborough United, Sheffield United, Southampton, Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United

SCO Aberdeen, Ayr United, Hearts, Rangers

References

References

1. "Texaco Cup".
2. James Ross. (20 December 2007). "Texaco Cup & Anglo-Scottish Cup 1971–81".
3. Jim Heath. (July 2001). "Best of British oils". When Saturday Comes.
4. [http://sfha.sqweebs.com/texacocup.htm Withdrawal of Irish clubs] {{dead link. (August 2013)
5. "All-Ireland Cross-Border Cup Competitions, (C) Copyright Sean DeLoughry, Julian Canny and RSSSF 2003/08".
6. Scott Murray. (26 June 2009). "The Joy of Six: Extinct football competitions". The Guardian.
7. "Anglo-Scottish Cup: Intro".
8. Tom Lewis. (20 December 2007). "Anglo-Scottish Cup & Texaco Cup – Full Results".
9. James M. Ross. (20 December 2007). "Texaco Cup Finals 1971–75". RSSSF.

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