The 2000–01 Irish League Cup (known as the

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League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the

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's secondary football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 24 April 2001 with the final. Linfield were the defending champions after their third consecutive and sixth overall League Cup win last season; a 4–0 victory over Coleraine in the previous final. This season they went out in the semi-finals to Glenavon, who condemned Linfield to their first defeat in the competition for four years.

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were the eventual winners, defeating Glenavon 1–0 in the final to lift the cup for the third time overall, and the first time since the

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competition 10 years earlier.

Preliminary round

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

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