2000–01 Irish League Cup
{{infobox football tournament season
| title = Irish League Cup
| other_titles = Coca-Cola League Cup
| year = 2000–01
| country = Northern Ireland
| num_teams = 20
| defending champions = Linfield
| champions = Glentoran (3rd win)
| runner-up = Glenavon
| matches = 19
| goals = 39
| prevseason = 1999–2000
| nextseason = 2001–02
}}
The 2000–01 Irish League Cup (known as the Coca-Cola League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the Irish League Cup, Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 24 April 2001 with the final.
Linfield were the defending champions after their third consecutive and sixth overall League Cup win last season; a 4–0 victory over Coleraine in the previous final. This season they went out in the semi-finals to Glenavon, who condemned Linfield to their first defeat in the competition for four years. Glentoran were the eventual winners, defeating Glenavon 1–0 in the final to lift the cup for the third time overall, and the first time since the 1990–91 competition 10 years earlier.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilleagcuphist.html|title=Northern Ireland - List of League Cup Finals|work=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|publisher=RSSSF|access-date=24 December 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilleagcup01.html|title=Northern Ireland League Cup 2000/01|work=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|publisher=RSSSF|access-date=24 December 2012}}
Preliminary round
{{OneLegStart}}
{{OneLegResult|Carrick Rangers||1–0|Ballyclare Comrades}}
{{OneLegResult|Dungannon Swifts||0–3|Limavady United}}
{{OneLegResult|Larne||2–0|Bangor}}
{{OneLegResult|Lisburn Distillery||0–2|Ards}}
|}
First round
{{OneLegStart}}
{{OneLegResult|Armagh City||0–0 (4–3 p)|Coleraine}}
{{OneLegResult|Ballymena United||1–2|Ards}}
{{OneLegResult|Carrick Rangers||0–2|Glenavon}}
{{OneLegResult|Cliftonville||2–3|Omagh Town}}
{{OneLegResult|Crusaders||1–2|Linfield}}
{{OneLegResult|Glentoran||2–1|Limavady United}}
{{OneLegResult|Institute||2–2 (1–3 p)|Newry Town}}
{{OneLegResult|Larne||0–1|Portadown}}
|}
Quarter-finals
{{OneLegStart}}
{{OneLegResult|Ards||0–2|Omagh Town}}
{{OneLegResult|Armagh City||0–1|Glentoran}}
{{OneLegResult|Glenavon||3–0|Portadown}}
{{OneLegResult|Newry Town||0–0 (3–4 p)|Linfield}}
|}
Semi-finals
{{OneLegStart}}
{{OneLegResult|Omagh Town||0–2|Glentoran}}
{{OneLegResult|Linfield||0–1|Glenavon}}
|}
Final
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|date=24 April 2001
|time=
|team1=Glenavon
|score=0 – 1
|aet=
|report=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/1295273.stm Report]
|team2=Glentoran
|goals1=
|goals2=Young {{goal|73|pen.}}
|stadium=Windsor Park, Belfast
|attendance=
|referee=
}}
References
{{reflist}}
{{Irish League Cup seasons}}
{{2000–01 in Northern Ireland association football}}
{{2000–01 in European Football (UEFA)}}
{{Football in Northern Ireland}}
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