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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 – Semi-Final
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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) Max Kinsey debut – Ben Starkie debut – Aidan Stone debut Wed 13 Aug Att. 1,906
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
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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
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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)
John Askey says he is seeing improvement in his Truro City side after their 3-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion Under-21s in the National League Cup. Seidou Sanogo, 25, gave the Tinners a 25th-minute lead before Dominic Johnson-Fisher doubled the tally 11 minutes into the second half. Sanogo wrapped the win up with a header in the fourth minute of stoppage time as the Cornish side secured a place in the next round with a game to spare. The win means Truro are unbeaten in five of their last seven matches in all competitions – one of those defeats being on penalties in the FA Cup last week. “The main thing is we’ve been playing well,” Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall. “You can see a difference from the start of the season to where we are. I think we are improving. There’s still plenty to improve on but it’s always nice to win and it keeps everybody buoyant and it was a good workout for the players who’ve not played many minutes.” Sanogo is one of those players, having made just one appearance for the Tinners this season after recovering from a broken leg. Askey hopes Sanogo’s goals will help him get a temporary move elsewhere to get him more match minutes. “He’s not been able to get into the team and we’ve been trying to get him out on loan,” he said. “He needs to play because he’s missed so much football. But his attitude’s fantastic and I thought tonight he did well.” BBC Sport
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4 – West Ham United U21 (H) L 0-3 Tue 25 Nov Att. 2,266
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)
Booked – Taylor, Kite, Janneh, Palfrey
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 – Braintree Town (H) D 1-1 (Charsley 78) Tue 27 Jan Att. 1,023
Team – Dan Lavercombe (GK), Billy Palfrey (70 mins), George Cooper, Ryan Law, Zac Bell, Lirak Hasani, Will Dean, Dominic Johnson-Fisher (70 mins), Max Kinsey, Luke Jephcott, Jack Stretton (89 mins)
Subs Used – Tyler Harvey (70 mins), Harry Charsley (70 mins), Shaun Donnellan (89 mins)
Assist – Harvey 78
Truro City won 3-0 on penalties
✅ Harvey
✅ Dean
✅ Jephcott
Truro City manager John Askey says he is pleased with how his side reacted after Braintree Town goalkeeper Mason Terry scored a stoppage-time equaliser in the National League Cup quarter-final. Terry went up for a corner in the fifth minute of stoppage time, and after getting his head to it, scored with a follow-up strike after a goalmouth scramble. It made the score 1-1 at the end of normal time, but Truro went on to win the penalty shootout 3-0 to progress to the semi-finals. “It’s unusual to actually come up and get their head on it,” Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall when asked about goalkeepers going up for corners. “Usually they go up and they never seem to get on the end of it. The only one I can remember is Jimmy Glass who scored for Carlisle and kept them up in league football. But it was a really good header by him and I think he followed the rebound in as well. You’re thinking when that happens that maybe it’s not going to be our night, but I thought the penalties that we took were excellent.” The last significant goalkeeper goal in a National League game was Lucas Covolan’s stoppage-time equaliser in the 2021 National League promotion final for Torquay United as the Gulls went on to lose that game on penalties. Having taken a 78th-minute lead through Harry Charsley, Truro seemed on course to make the last four before Terry struck. But the Tinners made no mistake in the shootout, as Tyler Harvey, Will Dean, and Luke Jephcott converted from the spot as Lewis Walker, James Vennings, and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas failed to convert for the Essex side. “I thought it was a good performance,” added Askey. “We got a team out there today, a lot of them have not had many minutes recently, and I was really pleased with the way that we performed. Obviously disappointed to concede the goal last kick of the game, but overall it was a really good run out for us.” BBC Sport
Semi-Final – Boreham Wood (A) L 0-2 Pyke sent off 60 mins Tue 17 Feb
Team – Dan Lavercombe (GK), Zac Bell (77 mins), Will Dean, Lirak Hasani, Caleb Roberts (63 mins), Freddie Issaka (63 mins), Rekeil Pyke, Ryan Law, Max Kinsey (90 + 2 mins), Harry Kite (77 mins), George Cooper
Subs Used – Tyler Harvey (63 mins), Dominic Johnson-Fisher (63 mins), Luke Jephcott (77 mins), Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain (77 mins), Jack Stretton (90 + 2 mins)
Truro City boss John Askey was left “bitterly disappointed” following his side’s National League Cup semi-final exit against Boreham Wood. City forward Rekeil Pyke was shown a straight red on the hour mark for a late challenge on defender Joe Newton with the game goalless as the Tinners bowed out of the competition, eventually losing 2-0. When asked whether he thought the red card was the correct decision, Askey told BBC Radio Cornwall: “At the time, no. So we’ll just have to have a look at it, whether it was or not. Obviously, that had a big influence on how the game panned out. But, having said that, even after the red card, we’ve probably had the better chances, and to concede the first goal was really unlucky – (I’m) bitterly disappointed.” Askey was later shown a red card for his protestations from the touchline about the decision. “Officiating and what gets you sent off, I don’t know anymore,” he said. “You cannot show any emotion. If you get sent off for throwing your gloves on the floor, then what do you say about it? Obviously, I was frustrated, angry, and that was the way I showed it and that warrants a sending off nowadays.” BBC Sport
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Most National League Cup Goals
2 – Luke Jephcott
2 – Dominic Johnson-Fisher
2 – Seidou Sanogo
1 – Harry Charsley
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-6 W-3 D-1 L-2 F-8 A-8 (50%)
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Appearances & Goals
Ben Adelsbury – 1 app (0 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Zac Bell – 6 apps (4 starts – 2 subs) – 0 goals
Harry Charsley – 1 app (0 starts – 1 sub) – 1 goal
George Cooper – 2 apps (2 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Will Dean – 5 apps (2 starts – 3 subs) – 0 goals
Cole Deeming – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Shaun Donnellan – 2 apps (1 start – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Yassine En-Neyah – 2 apps (2 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Tom Harrison – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Tyler Harvey – 2 apps (0 starts – 2 subs) – 0 goals
Lirak Hasani – 5 apps (4 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Freddie Issaka – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Saikou Janneh – 1 app (0 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Luke Jephcott – 6 apps (4 starts – 2 subs) – 2 goals
Dominic Johnson-Fisher – 5 apps (2 starts – 3 subs) – 2 goals
Max Kinsey – 5 apps (5 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Harry Kite – 4 apps (2 starts – 2 subs) – 0 goals
Dan Lavercombe (GK) – 3 apps (3 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals (1 clean sheet)
Ryan Law – 6 apps (5 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 – 5 apps (3 starts – 2 subs) – 0 goals
Billy Palfrey – 3 apps (2 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Rekeil Pyke – 2 apps (2 starts – 0 subs) – 0 goals
Connor Riley-Lowe – 3 apps (2 starts – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Caleb Roberts – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 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)
Jack Stretton – 2 apps (1 start – 1 sub) – 0 goals
Jake Taylor – 1 app (1 start – 0 subs) – 0 goals
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