The 2024–25 Premier League Cup is the eleventh edition of the competition.
The 9 group winners and the 7 best runners up from the group stages will advance to Knockout Stage of the competition.Fulham are the defending champions beating 4–0 Tottenham Hotspur in last year's final.
It is the first time the Champion and runners up did not participate in the competition the very next year.
In total, 7 teams from last year's competition will not be playing this time around.
9 teams returned to the competition including Coventry City who did not participate since the inaugural tournament in 2014–15, Preston North End returned for the first time in the group stage portion of the competition since the competition was a single knockout round tournament in 2015–16, Exeter City[1] who returned to the competition for the first time since 2021–22, while Cardiff City, Derby County, Everton, Queens Park Rangers, Southampton, and Watford all return after having missed out on last years competition.