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1993 Football League Trophy Final

1993 Football League Trophy Final
Event 1992–93 Football League Trophy
Date 22 May 1993
Venue Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match Bernie Slaven
Referee David Elleray (Harrow)
Attendance 35,885
Weather Sunny
1992
1994

The 1993 Football League Trophy Final (known as the Autoglass Trophy for sponsorship reasons) was the 10th final of the domestic football cup competition for teams from Football League Second and Third Division, the Football League Trophy. The final was played at the Wembley Stadium in London on 22 May 1993. The match was contested by Port Vale and . Port Vale won the match 2–1 with Paul Kerr and Bernie Slaven the scorers. The attendance was 35,885, all but 8,000 of which were Vale supporters.

The final was the third time these clubs had met in seven days. Vale had edged out Stockport 2–1 on aggregate in the Second Division play-off semi-finals. They had drawn 1–1 at Stockport's Edgeley Park, Glover the scorer for the "Valiants", before the return leg at Vale Park with Martin Foyle the only scorer. This meant that seven days later Vale would return to Wembley to take on West Bromwich Albion in the final.

However, earlier in the season Stockport had won their home league game with Vale 2–0, whereas the Vale Park fixture had finished goalless in the third game of the season.

The match was to be the second League Trophy final in two years to see Stockport line up against a Stoke-on-Trent team, having lost the previous year's final 1–0 to Stoke City.

At the time the tournament was split into two sections: North and South, County coming through the north section and Vale through the south.


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