2017–18 FA WSL Cup

2017–18 FA WSL Cup

Tournament details
Country	England
Dates	11 October 2017 – 14 March 2018
Teams	20
Defending champions	Manchester City
Final positions
Champions	Arsenal
Runner-up	Manchester City
Tournament statistics
Matches played	47
Goals scored	180 (3.83 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Fran Kirby (7)
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The 2017–18 FA WSL Cup was the 7th edition of the FA WSL's league cup competition. It was sponsored by Continental AG, who have sponsored the competition since its creation, and is officially known as the FA WSL Continental Tyres Cup. All 20 teams of the two divisions of the WSL contest the competition - the largest field in the history of the cup.

Manchester City were the defending champions. Before the competition, only Manchester City and Arsenal 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, compete for two qualification spots for the knock-out round per group with each team playing every other team only once. Similarly to previous iterations of the cup, the groups have 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.^[1]

After the group stage, the remaining eight teams will contest a non-seeded standard knock-out format as in the 2015 season.^[1]

Group stage

Group One North

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WPEN	LPEN	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SUN	LIV	SHE	AST	DUR
1	Sunderland	4	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3	10	Advance to knock-out stage		—	1–0	—	3–1	—
2	Liverpool	4	2	1	0	1	11	2	+9	8			—	—	6–0	5–1	—
3	Sheffield	4	1	0	2	1	8	10	−2	5			1–1	—	—	—	5–1
4	Aston Villa	4	1	1	0	2	7	12	−5	5			—	—	2–2	—	3–2
5	Durham	4	0	0	2	2	3	8	−5	2			0–0	0–0	—	—	—

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Group Two North

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WPEN	LPEN	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MCI	EVE	BIR	DON	OXF
1	Manchester City	4	4	0	0	0	13	3	+10	12	Advance to knock-out stage		—	2–1	2–0	—	—
2	Everton	4	3	0	0	1	9	2	+7	9			—	—	1–0	—	4–0
3	Birmingham City	4	2	0	0	2	7	5	+2	6			—	—	—	3–2	4–0
4	Doncaster Rovers Belles	4	1	0	0	3	9	10	−1	3			2–3	0–3	—	—	—
5	Oxford United	4	0	0	0	4	1	19	−18	0			0–6	—	—	1–5	—

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Group One South

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WPEN	LPEN	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		REA	ARS	WAT	MIL	LON
1	Reading	4	4	0	0	0	15	1	+14	12	Advance to knock-out stage		—	—	4–0	—	4–0
2	Arsenal	4	3	0	0	1	19	4	+15	9			1–2	—	—	—	7–0
3	Watford	4	1	0	1	2	2	11	−9	4			—	0–6	—	1–0	—
4	Millwall Lionesses	4	1	0	0	3	6	14	−8	3			0–5	2–5	—	—	—
5	London Bees	4	0	1	0	3	4	16	−12	2			—	—	1–1	3–4	—

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Group Two South

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WPEN	LPEN	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	BRI	BHA	TOT	YEO
1	Chelsea	4	4	0	0	0	17	2	+15	12	Advance to knock-out stage		—	—	—	4–1	8–0
2	Bristol City	4	2	0	0	2	6	4	+2	6			1–2	—	3–0	—	—
3	Brighton & Hove Albion	4	2	0	0	2	8	9	−1	6			0–3	—	—	—	4–2
4	Tottenham Hotspur	4	2	0	0	2	6	9	−3	6			—	2–0	1–4	—	—
5	Yeovil Town	4	0	0	0	4	3	16	−13	0			—	0–2	—	1–2	—

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Knock-out stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Top goalscorers

As of 18 December 2017.^[10]

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Fran Kirby	Chelsea	7
2	Chloe Kelly	Everton	5
3	Melissa Johnson	Sheffield	4
	Christie Murray	Doncaster Rovers Belles

See also

• 2017–18 FA WSL

References

External links

• Official website