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The Football League Trophy 1998–99, known as the Auto Windscreens Shield 1998–99 for sponsorship reasons, was the 16th staging of the Football League Trophy

Football League Trophy

The Football League Trophy, currently known as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is an annual English association football knock-out competition open to the 48 clubs in Football League One and Football League Two, the bottom two divisions in the four fully professional top...

, a knock-out competition for English football clubs in Second

Football League Second Division

From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...

and Third Division

Football League Third Division

The Football League Third Division was the 3 tier of English Football from 1920 until 1992 when after the formation of the Football Association Premier League saw the league renamed The Football League Division Two...

. The winners were Wigan Athletic

Wigan Athletic F.C.

Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...

who beat Millwall

Millwall F.C.

Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Bermondsey, south east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the...

1–0 in the final.

The competition began on 8 December 1998 and ended with the final on 18 April 1999 at the Wembley Stadium.

In the first round, there were two sections: North and South. In the following rounds each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final to determine the winners of the Football League Trophy.

Northern Area final

Wigan Athletic beat Wrexham 5-2 on aggregate.

Southern Area final

Millwall beat Walsall 2–1 on aggregate.

Final


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	MILLWALL:
GK		Ben Roberts Ben Roberts (footballer) Ben James Roberts is a former English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently goalkeeper coach at Charlton Athletic....
DF		Gerard Lavin Gerard Lavin Gerard Lavin is a Scottish former footballer who played as a right back. He played in the English Football League for Watford, Millwall, Bristol City, Wycombe Wanderers and Northampton Town, before finishing his playing career at Southern League side Farnborough...
DF		Jamie Stuart Jamie Stuart Jamie Christopher Stuart is an English footballer who plays for AFC Wimbledon as a defender and team captain. He started his career in the Football League with Charlton Athletic, Millwall, Bury and Southend United, before dropping into non-League football with Hornchurch, Grays Athletic and...
DF		Stuart Nethercott Stuart Nethercott Stuart Nethercott is a former English professional football player currently manager of Ware F.C.Nethercott grew up through the ranks at Tottenham Hotspur and made his debut on 20 March 1993 in a 1-1 draw at Chelsea....
DF		Joe Dolan Joe Dolan (footballer) Joe Dolan is an English semi-professional footballer, currently playing as a defender for Conference South side Bromley....
MF		Tim Cahill Tim Cahill Timothy Filiga "Tim" Cahill is an football player of Australian nationality who plays for Everton and the Australian national football team...
MF		Paul Ifill Paul Ifill Paul Everton Ifill is a Barbadian British footballer who plays for Wellington Phoenix in the Australian A-League.-Club career:...
MF		Ricky Newman Ricky Newman Richard Bryan "Ricky" Newman is an English former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.His career has spanned over 13 years, having started with Crystal Palace in 1992. He played for Palace until 1995 when he joined Millwall where he stayed until 1999 when he left for Reading...
MF		Steven Reid Steven Reid Steven John Reid is an English-born Irish footballer who plays for West Bromwich Albion as a defender, but played most of his career in midfield...
FW		Neil Harris
FW		Richard Sadlier Richard Sadlier Richard Sadlier is an Irish former professional footballer and former CEO of St Patrick's Athletic F.C.. Since retirement from the professional game he has worked as a pundit with RTÉ, earning comparisons with Mark Lawrenson and Jim Beglin who also began to work in punditry after their careers...
Substitutes:
MF		Paul Shaw Paul Shaw Paul Shaw is an English footballer who is currently a player-coach for F.C. New York in the USL Professional Division.-Career:...
MF		Bobby Bowry Bobby Bowry Robert Bowry is a professional English born Kittian footballer who most recenty played for Conference South side Bromley as a midfielder and is also a coach.-External links:...
MF		Marc Bircham Marc Bircham Marc Stephen John Bircham is an English-born Canadian international retired defensive midfield footballer, who currently works as Youth Manager at Queens Park Rangers F.C.-Club career:...
Manager:
Keith Stevens Keith Stevens Keith Henry "Rhino" Stevens is an English former professional footballer.He spent his entire first-class playing career with Millwall, making his debut in a Third Division fixture against Oxford United in April 1981, when still only 16 years old...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> WIGAN ATHLETIC: GK

Roy Carroll

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Carl Bradshaw

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Pat McGibbon

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Stuart Balmer

Stuart Murray Balmer is a former Scottish professional football defender who is currently assistant manager at Ross County in the Scottish First Division.-Career:...

Kevin Sharp

Kevin Sharp (footballer)

Kevin Philip Sharp is a Canadian-born footballer who plays as a left-back for Harrogate Town.-Career:...

Colin Greenall

Colin Greenall is an English former professional footballer who made over 600 Football League appearances between 1980 and 1999...

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers (footballer)

For people of a similar name see Paul RogersFor the English footballer born 1989 see Paul Rodgers Paul Rogers is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder....

Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neill (footballer)

Michael Andrew Martin O'Neill is a former Northern Irish international association football player, who is now the manager of Shamrock Rovers.-Playing career:...

Andy Liddell

Andrew Mark "Andy" Liddell is a former Scottish football midfielder who is currently fitness coach of Ipswich Town. He previously played with Barnsley, Sheffield United, Wigan Athletic and Oldham Athletic and Rotherham United.-Early career:Liddell started his league career at Barnsley, making his...

Simon Haworth

Simon Owen Haworth is a Welsh former footballer. He won five caps for the Wales national football team during his career.-Club career:...

Stuart Barlow

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Substitute: DF

Scott Green

Scott Green (footballer)

Scott Paul Green is a retired English football defender. He is currently running the Yeovil Town Centre of Excellence....

David Lee

David Lee (footballer born 1967)

David Mark Lee is an English former professional footballer.-Playing career:Lee, a right-winger, began his career with Bury in 1986. In five years at Gigg Lane, he made just over 200 league appearances and scored 35 goals.Southampton came in for his services in 1991 with a successful £350,000 bid...

Graeme Jones

Graeme Anthony Jones , is a former English footballer. He is currently assistant manager at Wigan Athletic.-Career:...

Manager:

Ray Mathias

Raymond "Ray" Mathias is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. He was appointed Interim Manager of Stockport County on the 9th March 2011 until the end of the season, when County were relegated from the Football...

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Maximum of 3 substitutions.

External links

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