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1973 Football League Cup final

association football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4575559 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1973 Football League Cup final was held on 3 March 1973 and was won by Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs beat Norwich City 1–0 at the old Wembley. After 12 different teams had won the League Cup in its first 12 seasons, Spurs became the first team to win the competition for a second time.

Match

Summary

The only goal of the game was scored by substitute Ralph Coates in the 72nd minute with a low right foot shot to the left corner of the net from just outside the penalty area.

Details

Road to Wembley

Home teams listed first.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1973 Football League Cup final” as association football match. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Football, League and final.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Football, League and final providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4575559. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “1973 Football League Cup final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.