The NFL Cup was the

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

cup competition of the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

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. It was established in 1959 and disbanded in 1977. The competition and only eligible to teams made up of

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. It was widely known as the Castle Cup due to its sponsorship from Castle Breweries.

Previous winners

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