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The National League Cup is an annual association football competition in England. It is open to clubs playing in the National League, and since its revival in 2024, professional under-21 teams playing in the Premier League 2.
Throughout the years it has been called many different names such as, The Bob Lord Challenge Trophy, The Conference Cup, The Setanta Shield and now The National League Cup.
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Truro City’s complete National League Cup record
2025/2026 – Group C *
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2025-2026
All group games will be played at home at the TCS, Threemilestone – Truro City will get to keep all the gate receipts from each group game
Group C
1 – Southampton U21 (H) W 3-2 (Love-Holmes 7, Jephcott 38, Johnson-Fisher 85) Wed 13 Aug Att. 1,906 Max Kinsey debut – Ben Starkie debut – Aidan Stone debut
Team – Aidan Stone (GK), Connor Riley-Lowe, Sam Sanders, Billy Palfrey, Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain (63 mins), Lirak Hasani (78 mins), Luke Jephcott (74 mins), Tylor Love-Holmes (78 mins), Jake Taylor, Max Kinsey (90 + 8 mins), Ben Starkie
Subs Used – Ryan Law (63 mins), Dominic Johnson-Fisher (74 mins), Seidou Sanogo (78 mins), Zac Bell (78 mins), Ben Adelsbury (90 + 8 mins)
Booked – Taylor, Oxlade-Chamberlain
Truro City manager John Askey says the 3-2 win over Southampton’s academy side in the National League Cup has given his side a boost. Tylor Love-Holmes gave Truro a seventh-minute lead before the defender scored an own goal 13 minutes later. Luke Jephcott put the Tinners ahead again shortly before half time, but Will Armitage levelled with 20 minutes to go, only for Dominic Johnson-Fisher to get the winner. The match was a first competitive game at home this season for Truro, who will host York City in their first National League game at the Truro Community Stadium on Saturday. “I’m really pleased that we’ve entered the competition,” Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall. “It’s a little bit of history for the football club, playing the likes of Southampton, and it couldn’t have gone any better really. It’s been a really good run-out for players that had not played, and to come away with a win is really pleasing because every time you play obviously you want to win and I think we deserved to get the win as well.” BBC Sport
P-1 W-1 D-0 L-0 F-3 A-2 PTS-3 POS-3rd
2 – Fulham U21 (H) W 1-0 (Jephcott 71) Tue 16 Sep Att. 1,114
Team – Dan Lavercombe (GK), Connor Riley-Lowe, Dan Rooney, Dominic Johnson-Fisher (46 mins), Lirak Hasani, Luke Jephcott, Seidou Sanogo (66 mins), Ryan Law (57 mins), Max Kinsey (66 mins), Ben Starkie, Shaun Donnellan (57 mins)
Subs Used – Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain (46 mins), Sam Sanders (57 mins), Will Dean (57 mins), Zac Bell (66 mins), Harry Kite (66 mins)
Assist – Riley-Lowe (71 mins)
Booked – Kinsey (6 mins), Starkie (23 mins), Riley-Lowe (82 mins)
Truro City should have “scored more goals”, said manager John Askey after they beat Fulham under-21s 1-0 in the National League Cup. Truro remain unbeaten in the competition, after a second win in two group games, sitting second in the Group C table and level on points with Brighton under-21s above them. The Tinners had eight shots to Fulham’s two, with Luke Jephcott scoring the only goal to give the hosts the win on 71 minutes. “We should have scored more – that was the only disappointment,” Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall. “It was a really good goal, (we) got the ball wide and Connor (Riley-Lowe) provided a bit of quality for which Luke was in the right place at the right time. As the game went on, you could see it coming and lucky enough it came because we were all thinking ‘oh no, not another game where we don’t score and have chances’.” The win was Truro’s first in four matches, with the club currently 23rd in the National League table after only one victory in nine league games in their first season at this level. Askey made eight changes to the starting line-up from the team that was beaten in their last outing against Rochdale. “When you’re not winning, positions are up for grabs and I thought the majority of the lads who played tonight who have not been playing did really well,” Askey said. “These games are a really good workout for us, it’s what we need and it enables lads who have not been playing to get 90 minutes under the belt and show what they can do.” BBC Sport
P-2 W-2 D-0 L-0 F-4 A-2 PTS-6 POS-2nd
3 – Brighton & Hove Albion U21 (H) W 3-0 (Sanogo 26, 90 + 5, Johnson-Fisher 56) Tue 21 Oct Att. 1,297
Team – Aidan Stone (GK), Zac Bell (80 mins), Yassine En-Neyah (46 mins), Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain (46 mins), Tylor Love-Holmes, Seidou Sanogo, Rekeil Pyke (71 mins), Ryan Law, Max Kinsey, Aiden Marsh (7 mins), Harry Kite
Subs Used – Dominic Johnson-Fisher (7 mins), Will Dean (46 mins), Lirak Hasani (46 mins), Luke Jephcott (71 mins), Connor Riley-Lowe (80 mins)
Booked – Kinsey (40 mins)
P-3 W-3 D-0 L-0 F-7 A-2 PTS-9 POS-1st
4 – West Ham United U21 (H) L 0-3 Tue 25 Nov
Team – Aidan Stone (GK), Zac Bell, Tom Harrison, Yassine En-Neyah, Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain (46 mins), Luke Jephcott (46 mins), Tylor Love-Holmes, Taylor (72 mins), Ryan Law, Aiden Marsh, Cole Deeming (46 mins)
Subs Used – Harry Kite (46 mins), Will Dean (46 mins), Saikou Janneh (46 mins), Billy Palfrey (72 mins)
Group C Table
1 – West Ham United U21 – 4 – 3 – 1 – 0 – 13 – 4 – 11 (Q)
2 – TRURO CITY – 4 – 3 – 0 – 1 – 7 – 5 – 9 (Q)
3 – Woking – 4 – 2 – 1 – 1 – 5 – 4 – 8
4 – Brighton & Hove Albion U21 – 4 – 2 – 1 – 1 – 5 – 6 – 7
5 – Aldershot Town – 4 – 1 – 1 – 2 – 7 – 11 – 4
6 – Sutton United – 4 – 1 – 1 – 2 – 8 – 13 – 4
7 – Fulham U21 – 4 – 1 – 0 – 3 – 8 – 5 – 3
8 – Southampton U21 – 4 – 0 – 1 – 3 – 7 – 12 – 2
(Q) – Qualifies for the knock-out stages
Quarter-Final – ???????? (?)
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Most National League Cup Goals
2 – Luke Jephcott
2 – Dominic Johnson-Fisher
2 – Seidou Sanogo
1 – Tylor Love-Holmes
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Most National League Cup Clean Sheets
1 – Dan Lavercombe
1 – Aidan Stone
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Managerial Stats
1st – John Askey – P-4 W-3 D-0 L-1 F-7 A-5 (75%)
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Appearances & Goals
Ben Adelsbury – 1 app (0 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Zac Bell – 4 apps (2 starts – 2 subs) – 0 goals
Will Dean – 3 apps (0 starts – 3 subs) – 0 goals
Cole Deeming – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Shaun Donnellan – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Yassine En-Neyah – 2 apps (2 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Tom Harrison – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Lirak Hasani – 3 apps (2 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Saikou Janneh – 1 app (0 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Luke Jephcott – 4 apps (3 starts – 1 sub) – 2 goals
Dominic Johnson-Fisher – 3 apps (1 start – 2 subs) – 2 goals
Max Kinsey – 3 apps (3 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Harry Kite – 3 apps (1 start – 2 subs) – 0 goals
Dan Lavercombe (GK) – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals (1 clean sheet)
Ryan Law – 4 apps (3 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Tylor Love-Holmes – 3 apps (3 starts – 0 subs) – 1 goal
Aiden Marsh – 2 apps (2 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain – 4 apps (3 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Billy Palfrey – 2 apps (1 start – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Rekeil Pyke – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Connor Riley-Lowe – 3 apps (2 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Dan Rooney – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Sam Sanders – 2 apps (1 start – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Seidou Sanogo – 3 apps (2 starts – 1 sub) – 2 goals
Ben Starkie – 2 apps (2 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Aidan Stone (GK) – 3 apps (3 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals (1 clean sheet)
Jake Taylor – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
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