Today, our record in the Football League Cup has been added. The League Cup, the brainchild of then league secretary Alan Hardacre, was introduced in the 1960/61 season. Many of the top clubs didn't enter, but league champions Burnley did and our first game in the competition was a 4-0 win at Cardiff which featured a Gordon Harris hat trick. It's one of two hat tricks we've had in the competition with Andy Lochhead getting the other in another 4-0 away win, this at Doncaster in 1965.
That first season saw us reach the semi-finals before going out to Aston Villa in and Old Trafford replay but we didn't enter the competition ourselves in any of the next four seasons.
Since 1965/66, like all clubs, we've played in the competition every season and our record can be found right up to our last game in the competition, last November's 2-0 home defeat against West Ham.
We've never won it; we've never played in the final, but we have made three more semi-final appearances since that in the inaugural season. The first of them came in 1968/69 when we lost to Swindon, again after a replay, and we've also gone out at that stage to Liverpool in 1982/83 and most recently Spurs in 2008/09.
The Cup Records feature can be found in the More Clarets drop down and in coming weeks our records in the European Cup, Fairs Cup, Associate Members Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup, Football League Group Cup, Watney Cup and FA Youth Cup will all be added.