Burnley's League Cup record now on Clarets Mad

Last updated : 30 June 2014 By Tony Scholes

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.