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2026–27 EFL Trophy

Football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The 2026–27 EFL Trophy, known as the Jersey Mike's Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is the 46th season in the history of the competition, and is a knock-out tournament for clubs in EFL League One and League Two, the third and fourth tiers of the English football league system, as well as the "academy teams" of 16 Premier League clubs.

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“2026–27 EFL Trophy” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trophy, Football and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Trophy, Football and tournament.
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This entry incorporates text from “2026–27 EFL Trophy” 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.