The 2024–25 Premier League Cup was the eleventh edition of the competition.
This year's competition expands to 36 academies with a group stage featuring nine groups of four clubs. Teams face each other twice in the group stage, home and away. All knockout games were one-legged ties. The 9 group winners and the 7 best runners up from the group stages advanced to Knockout Stage of the competition.Fulham were the defending champions beating 4–0 Tottenham Hotspur in last year's final. However, there was a new champion because Fulham did not enter the competition this year after 5 straight seasons in the competition. The runners up from last competition Tottenham Hotspur did not return as well after 1 competition. It was the first time the champions and runners up did not participate in the competition the very next year. Other teams not returning from last year include Aston Villa after 1 season, Crystal Palace after 2 straight seasons, Middlesbrough after 4 straight seasons, Newcastle United 10 straight seasons as a inaugural competitor, and Peterborough United after 2 consecutive seasons. In total, 7 teams from last year's competition did not be play in this season.
Nine teams returned to the competition including Coventry City who did not participate since the inaugural tournament in 2014–15, Preston North End returned for the first time in the group stage portion of the competition since the competition was a single knockout round tournament in 2015–16, Exeter City who returned to the competition for the first time since 2021–22, while Cardiff City, Derby County, Everton, Queens Park Rangers, Southampton, and Watford all return after having missed out on last years competition. Two teams competed for the first time; Bromley and Stockport County.
Participants
Category 1 Blackburn Rovers Brighton & Hove Albion Chelsea Derby County Everton Leeds United Leicester City Norwich City Nottingham Forest Reading Southampton Sunderland West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers
Category 2 AFC Bournemouth Birmingham City Brentford Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Coventry City Colchester United Fleetwood Town Hull City Ipswich Town Queens Park Rangers Sheffield United Swansea City Watford
Category 3 Exeter City Huddersfield Town Luton Town Preston North End Stockport County
Category 4 Bromley
Group stage Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Group I
Ranking of Group Runners-Up
Knockout stages Round of 16
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
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|colspan=4|Coach: Paul Furlong
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References