The 2016–17 FA Women's Premier League Cup is the 26th running of the competition, which began in 1991. It is the major League Cup competition run by the

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, and for the third season it is being run alongside their secondary League Cup competition, the Premier League Plate. All 72 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. Going into the tournament,

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is the reigning champions, having defeated

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2–1 after extra time the previous season.

Results

All results listed are published by

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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.

Determining round

The competition begins with a Determining Round, which consisted of all 72 teams in the

being drawn in pairs. The winners of these 36 games progressed to the next stage of the competition, while the losers qualified for the

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First round

With 36 teams progressing from the determining round, four needed 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 second round, with eight teams being drawn against each other in first round ties.

Second round

Third round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

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