Which team has won the Carabao Cup the most times in history?

Ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea’s 2024 Carabao Cup final clash at Wembley, we take a look at the EFL Cup’s most successful club.


In this weekend Carabao Cup final, Liverpool have the chance not only to win the first piece of silverware in a potential quadruple, but also further cement their position as the EFL Cup’s most decorated club. In the six decades since the inception of England’s secondary cup competition, which was originally known as the League Cup, the Reds have lifted the trophy a record nine times.

Can Liverpool win EFL Cup for 10th time?
In the teams’ second EFL Cup final meeting in three years, Liverpool take on Chelsea in the 2024 final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, with the opportunity to move two wins ahead of the tournament’s second-most successful club, Manchester City. In 2021, City drew level with the Merseysiders at the top of the leaderboard, when Pep Guardiola’s men clinched their fourth Carabao Cup in a row. The following year, however, Liverpool moved back in front of their Premier League rivals, thanks to a penalty shootout win over this weekend’s opposition from West London.

First four EFL Cups won successively
City weren’t the first team to lift a quartet of EFL Cups on the spin; that distinction also goes to Liverpool, whose first four triumphs in the competition came in consecutive seasons 40 years ago. Between 1981 and 1984, a team managed first by Bob Paisley, then by Joe Fagan, saw off West Ham, Tottenham, Manchester United and city rivals Everton in successive EFL Cup deciders. The run of wins, which included two replays and two extra-time victories, featured one of the great EFL Cup final goals - a sumptuous curler by Ronnie Whelan to beat United in the 1983 showpiece: