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Nottingham Forest Carabao Cup fixtures and results 2026/27

Forest's 1978 League Cup success combined a high-scoring route to the final with a narrow replay victory. Find the current Forest matches above and the details behind that first winning campaign below.

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Nottingham Forest: cup campaign

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Nottingham Forest 0–2 Leeds United. Full time. Leeds United go through. Nottingham Forest are out of this season’s Carabao Cup.

Nottingham Forest fixtures, results and UK TV

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Forest's emphatic route to the 1978 final

Nottingham Forest beat West Ham 5–0, Notts County 4–0 and Aston Villa 4–2 at home in their 1977/78 League Cup campaign. A 3–0 quarter-final win away to Bury followed. Against Leeds in the semi-finals, Forest won 3–1 away and 4–2 at home to progress 7–3 on aggregate.

The final against Liverpool was a much tighter contest. A goalless draw at Wembley led to a replay, which Forest won 1–0. The contrast is striking without needing to invent an explanation: the earlier rounds contain a succession of multi-goal victories, while the trophy was eventually decided by a single goal after an initial draw.

Robertson's penalty and Woods in goal

The replay took place at Old Trafford on 22 March 1978. John Robertson scored a penalty in the 53rd minute, supplying the only goal of the match. The LFChistory archive also records Chris Woods in Forest's goal, aged 18, because Peter Shilton was cup-tied after appearing for Stoke earlier in the competition.

That goalkeeper detail is easy to miss when looking only at Forest's celebrated league side from the same era. A club's best-known line-up is not automatically the line-up that played in every cup match. The replay's team sheet and timeline provide a more precise picture: Woods kept goal and Robertson supplied the decisive finish for Brian Clough's side.

Two pairs of League Cup-winning seasons

Forest's historical record lists League Cup wins in 1977/78, 1978/79, 1988/89 and 1989/90. The dates form two pairs of consecutive winning seasons, separated by a decade. Their European Cup honours appear separately and should not be counted as additional League Cup wins.

For a current Forest game, the fixture tool above is the relevant starting point. For the 1978 replay, use the Old Trafford date to distinguish it from the original Wembley final and from other Forest–Liverpool meetings. The source links retain that match identity, while the current cards provide their own date, round and viewing details. This keeps the history useful without allowing a famous old result to stand in for a new fixture.

Forest League Cup questions

Where was Forest's 1978 League Cup win decided?

At Old Trafford in the replay on 22 March. The original Wembley final had finished 0–0, so the deciding match took place at a different neutral venue.

Why was Chris Woods in goal rather than Peter Shilton?

Shilton was cup-tied after playing for Stoke earlier in the competition. The replay archive records the 18-year-old Woods as Forest's goalkeeper.

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