The 2017–18 FA Women's Premier League Cup is the 27th running of the competition, which began in 1991. It is the major

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competition run by the

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, and for the fourth season it is being run alongside their secondary League Cup competition, the Premier League Plate. All 71 Premier League clubs entered at the Determining round, with the winners continuing in the competition and the losers going into the Premier League Plate tournament.

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is the reigning champions, having defeated

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4–3 on

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the previous season, but will not be defending their title after their promotion to the

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Results

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. Games are listed by round in chronological order, and then in alphabetical order of the home team where matches were played simultaneously. The division each team play in is indicated in brackets after their name: (S)=Southern Division; (N)=Northern Division; (SW1)=South West Division One; (SE1)=South East Division One; (M1)=Midlands Division One; (N1)=Northern Division One.

Qualifying rounds

Determining round

The competition begins with a Determining Round, which consisted of 70 teams in the

being drawn in pairs, with

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being given a bye. The winners of these 35 games and Plymouth Argyle progress to the next stage of the competition, while the losers qualify for the

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Preliminary round

With 36 teams progressing from the determining round, four needs to be eliminated to allow a

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knockout tournament to take place. Twenty eight of the winners from the determining round were given byes to the first round, with eight teams being drawn against each other in preliminary round ties.

Competition proper

First round

Second round

The eight second round matches were originally scheduled to be played on Sunday 10 December 2017 before they were all

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due to severe weather throughout the country.

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

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