The Full Members' Cup was an association football cup competition held in English football from 1985 to 1992. It was also known under its sponsored names of the Simod Cup from 1987 to 1989 and the Zenith Data Systems Cup from 1989 to 1992.
The competition was created after the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, when English clubs were banned from European competition, as an additional competition for clubs in the top two English League divisions. The competition's name refers to the clubs that were Full Members of the Football League, with full voting rights; teams from the lower two divisions were Associate Members and were only eligible for the Associate Members' Cup (now known as the EFL Trophy). The initial Full Members' Cup did not include the six teams that had qualified for 1985–86 European competitions, as these played in the Super Cup instead.
Some eligible teams chose not to compete in the tournament in a particular year, while four teams in the First Division throughout the seven seasons of the tournament never entered the competition – Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
Details of numbers of teams competing in each of the seasons:
- 1985–86: 21 teams – 5 (of 16, with 6 in Super Cup) from Division 1 and 16 (of 22) from Division 2
- 1986–87: 36 teams – 14 (of 22) from Division 1 and all 22 from Division 2
- 1987–88: 40 teams – 17 (of 21) from Division 1 and all 23 from Division 2
- 1988–89: 40 teams – 16 (of 20) from Division 1 and all 24 from Division 2
- 1989–90: 37 teams – 13 (of 20) from Division 1 and all 24 from Division 2
- 1990–91: 39 teams – 15 (of 20) from Division 1 and all 24 from Division 2
- 1991–92: 41 teams – 18 (of 22) from Division 1 and 23 (all but Sunderland) from Division 2
Finals
Second Division members are in italics.