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List of FA Cup finals. The Blackburn Rovers team which won the FA Cup in 1884. Team captain James Brown (front row, centre) holds the trophy. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout competition in English football, organised by and named after The Football Association (the FA).
Website. thefa.com. 2024–25 FA Cup. The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. [1] It is organised by and named after The Football ...
The Royal Engineers squad that played the first FA Cup final in 1872. On 20 July 1871, in the offices of The Sportsman newspaper, C. W. Alcock proposed to The Football Association committee that "it is desirable that a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association for which all clubs belonging to the Association should be invited to compete".
List of FA and league honours won by men's clubs. This page lists club winners of all men's association football honours run by the English national governing body The FA and its mostly self-governing subsidiary leagues the English Football League and Premier League. England's first competition organized by a national body, the FA Cup, began in ...
It was Rush's fifth goal in FA Cup finals at Wembley – a record. Liverpool continued to dominate for the rest of the game and Ray Houghton came close to scoring when he almost lobbed Norman from forty yards. Liverpool captain Mark Wright lifted the FA Cup for Liverpool. During the presentation, the winning team was mistakenly given the loser ...
The highest attendance for an FA Cup semi-final is 88,141 for Everton 's penalty win over Manchester United on 19 April 2009. [15] It was the fourth semi-final to be played at the new Wembley Stadium. The highest winning margin was Newcastle United's 6–0 victory over Fulham in the 1908 Anfield semi-final.
The FA Cup Final is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup. It has regularly been one of the most attended domestic football events in the world, with an official attendance of 89,472 at the 2017 final (the 2020 event has been the exception, due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The Final is the culmination of a knockout competition ...
The 1953 FA Cup final, also known as the Matthews Final, [1] was the eighth to be held at Wembley Stadium after the Second World War. The football match was contested between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers , with Blackpool winning 4–3, equalling the record for the highest scoring FA Cup Final which had been set in the final of 1890 . [ 2 ]