2006–07 Football League Trophy

The 2006–07 Football League Trophy, known as the 2006–07 Johnstone's Paint Trophy for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th staging of the Football League Trophy, a knockout competition for English football clubs in Leagues One and Two. The winners were Doncaster Rovers from League One and the runners-up were Bristol Rovers from League Two.

2006–07 Football League Trophy
Johnstone's Paint Trophy
Country England
 Wales
Teams48
Defending championsSwansea City
ChampionsDoncaster Rovers
Runners-upBristol Rovers

The competition began on 17 October 2006 and ended with the final on 1 April 2007. The final was the last to take place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. In the first round, there are four sections: Northern Section–West, Northern Section–East, Southern Section–West and Southern Section–East. In the second round this narrows to simply a Northern and a Southern section, whereupon each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final for the honour of the trophy.

Swansea City were the defending champions, but lost to Peterborough United in the second round.

Doncaster Rovers won the final, beating Bristol Rovers 3–2 after extra time, having been 2–0 up after just 5 minutes before Bristol Rovers scored twice in the second half to make the score 2–2 after 90 minutes.

First round

Sixteen teams received byes to the second round. The other remaining teams start in a single-legged knockout. Should the scores be level after 90 minutes, the match entered a penalty shootout phase, with no extra-time being played.

Second round

In the second round, the sixteen winning teams from the first round were joined by the teams with byes. Again, there were eight one-legged matches in each section (North and South), with a penalty shootout if a draw occurred after 90 minutes.

Area quarter-finals

In the third round, the winning teams from the second round play in eight one-legged matches, four in each section (North and South). Again, a penalty shootout followed if the match was drawn after 90 minutes. Matches were played on 28 November and 29 November 2006.

Area semi-finals

Matches were played on 8 January 2007.

Area finals

Northern Area final
Crewe Alexandra3 – 3Doncaster Rovers
Moss 51'
Lowe 63'
Varney 86'		 Heffernan 29' (pen.)
Stock 40'
Heffernan 74'
Attendance: 4,631
Referee: Clive Oliver (Northumberland)
Doncaster Rovers3 – 2Crewe Alexandra
Heffernan 63'
Heffernan 83' (pen.)
Price 89'		 Varney 32'
Lowe 36'
Attendance: 12,561
Referee: Trevor Kettle (Berkshire)
  • Doncaster Rovers won 6–5 on aggregate and progressed to the final.

Southern Area final

The Southern Area final produced the first Bristol derby played in over five years.[1]

Bristol City0 – 0Bristol Rovers
Attendance: 18,730
Referee: Kevin Wright (Cambridgeshire)
Bristol Rovers1 – 0Bristol City
Lambert 65'
Attendance: 11,530
Referee: Andy D'Urso (Essex)
  • Bristol Rovers won 1–0 on aggregate and progressed to the final.

Final

The 2007 final was the last major Football Association or Football League final to be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. All subsequent finals were held at Wembley Stadium in London.

Bristol Rovers2 – 3 (a.e.t.)Doncaster Rovers
Walker 49' (pen.)
Igoe 62'		 Report Forte 1'
Heffernan 5'
Lee 110'
Attendance: 59,024

References
  1. "Head to Head - Bristol Rovers FC". Bristol Rovers Mad. Footy Mad. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 11 February 2010.

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