Texaco Cup

For the Trinidadian cricket competition referred to as the Texaco Cup, see Beaumont Cup.

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.^[1][2]

Texaco Cup
Genre	Sporting event
Frequency	Annual
Country	England  Scotland  Northern Ireland  Ireland
Inaugurated	1970 (1970)
Most recent	1975 (1975)

Programme for the 1974–75 Texaco Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Birmingham City

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.^[3] Irish and Northern Irish clubs withdrew from the competition after 1971–72 due to political pressure,^[4] competing in a separate Texaco (All-Ireland) Cup in 1973–74 and 1974–75.^[5]

Crowds in the competition fell after the first few seasons,^[6] and it became the Anglo-Scottish Cup from 1975 to 1976 after Texaco's sponsorship ended.^[7]

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.^[8]

List of finals

Source:^[9]

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

1. Final was played as a single game.

Participants

1970–71

Burnley, Nottingham Forest, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers
Airdrieonians, Dunfermline Athletic, Dundee, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell
Ards, Derry City
Limerick, Shamrock Rovers

1971–72

Coventry City, Derby County, Huddersfield Town, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Stoke City
Airdrieonians, Dundee United, Falkirk, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell
Ballymena United, Coleraine
Shamrock Rovers, Waterford

1972–73

Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town, Leicester City, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Sheffield United, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers
Ayr United, Dundee, Dundee United, Hearts, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, St Johnstone

1973–74

Birmingham City, Burnley, Coventry City, Everton, Leicester City, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Sheffield United, Stoke City
Ayr United, Dundee United, East Fife, Hearts, Morton, Motherwell, St Johnstone

1974–75

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
Aberdeen, Ayr United, Hearts, Rangers