Football League confirms plans to introduce goalline technology in latter stages of this season's League Cup There are no such financial barriers for Premier League teams which stage League Cup ties, although technology has yet to be turned on in this season's competition because the Football League uses Mitre balls, not the Nike ones for which Hawk-Eye is currently calibrated. The Football League confirmed it was in talks with Mitre, the Premier League and Hawk-Eye about getting the technology up and running before the end of this season's League Cup, the fourth round of which begins this week, with the quarter-finals played in mid-December.