1964 Football League Cup Final

Leicester City won 4–3 on aggregate.

1964 Football League Cup Final

Winners' tankard awarded to Graham Cross for winning the 1963–64 Football League Cup
Event	1963–64 Football League Cup
Stoke City Leicester City 3 4
First Leg
Stoke City Leicester City 1 1
Date	15 April 1964
Venue	Victoria Ground, Stoke-on-Trent
Referee	Bill Clements
Attendance	22,309
Second Leg
Leicester City Stoke City 3 2
Date	22 April 1964
Venue	Filbert Street, Leicester
Referee	A Jobling (Morecambe)
Attendance	25,372
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First leg

The First leg was played at Stoke City's Victoria Ground and was a very exciting encounter. Peter Dobing hit the post early on and John Ritchie had a shot brilliantly cleared off the line by John Sjoberg. After a goalless first half Keith Bebbington broke the deadlock putting Stoke ahead after 62 minutes after Bill Asprey's 30 yard shot was parried by the Leicester 'keeper Gordon Banks, but Bebbington was fastest to the loose ball. In front of a crowd of 22,309 Stoke went out for a second goal but Leicester's defence held firm and against the run of play they got an equaliser. A poor clearance from Eric Skeels rebounded off Terry Heath into the path of Dave Gibson who lobbed the ball over Lawrie Leslie and into the unguarded net to set up a winner takes all 2nd leg.

Second leg

For the Second leg at Filbert Street Stoke manager Tony Waddington had to change his goalkeeper with Leslie out with an ankle injury Bobby Irvine taking his place. He was unable to prevent Mike Stringfellow from scoring after six minutes following a defensive error. Stoke hit back and a perfect pass from Jimmy McIlroy cut through the Foxes’ defence and Dennis Viollet levelled the scores. This put Stoke into the ascendency but then a nasty leg injury to Calvin Palmer saw him stretchered off and thus put Stoke down to 10 men. Leicester capitalised on the situation and before Palmer was able to get back on the pitch Gibson headed in a Howard Riley corner. With not long left Stoke pushed forward and left a too big a gap in defence and Dave Gibson made it 3–1. Stoke to their credit fought on and pulled one back through George Kinnell but it was too late as Leicester won the tie 3–2 giving them a 4–3 aggregate win and with it the League Cup.

First leg

15 April 1964

Stoke City	1–1	Leicester City
Bebbington   62'	Report	Gibson   79'

Victoria Ground, Stoke-on-Trent

Attendance: 22,309

Referee: W.Clements

1   Lawrie Leslie 2   Bill Asprey 3   Tony Allen 4   Calvin Palmer 5   George Kinnell 6   Eric Skeels (c) 7   Peter Dobing 8   Dennis Viollet 9   John Ritchie 10   Jimmy McIlroy 11   Keith Bebbington Manager:   Tony Waddington

1   Gordon Banks 2   John Sjoberg 3   Colin Appleton 4   Max Dougan 5   Ian King 6   Graham Cross 7   Howard Riley 8   Terry Heath 9   Ken Keyworth 10   Dave Gibson 11   Mike Stringfellow (c) Manager:   Matt Gillies

Second leg

22 April 1964

Leicester City	3–2	Stoke City
Stringfellow   6' Gibson   70' Riley   83'	Report	Viollet   46' Kinnell   90'

Filbert Street, Leicester

Attendance: 25,372

Referee: A. Jobling

1   Gordon Banks 2   John Sjoberg 3   Colin Appleton 4   Max Dougan 5   Ian King 6   Graham Cross 7   Howard Riley 8   Richie Norman 9   Ken Keyworth 10   Dave Gibson 11   Mike Stringfellow (c) Manager:   Matt Gillies

1   Bobby Irvine 2   Bill Asprey 3   Tony Allen 4   Calvin Palmer 5   George Kinnell 6   Eric Skeels (c) 7   Peter Dobing 8   Dennis Viollet 9   John Ritchie 10   Jimmy McIlroy 11   Keith Bebbington Manager   Tony Waddington

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