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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), the governing body of the sport in England.
By 1893, professional teams had come to dominate the FA Cup, so The FA created the FA Amateur Cup for the 1893–94 season. [11] This competition was discontinued in 1974, with the abolition of official amateur status and the creation of its partial successor the FA Vase. [12] Sunday league football clubs play in the FA Sunday Cup, begun in ...
Preston North End in 1888–89, the first Football League champions. They completed the season undefeated and went on to complete the Double by winning the FA Cup. This article lists English association football clubs whose men's sides have won competitive honours run by official governing bodies.
In the past, if the FA Cup winning team also qualified for the following season's Champions League or Europa League through their league or European performance, then the losing FA Cup finalists were given the European berth of the League Cup winners and the League Cup winners would be given the league berth instead (in the Cup Winners' Cup era ...
This is a category for football teams that have won the Football Association Challenge Cup, the main domestic cup competition in England. Pages in category "FA Cup winners" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
In 1881 Canadian born Edward Hagarty Parry was captain (and goal-scorer) of the Old Carthusians team which won the FA Cup Final defeating Old Etonians 3–0. He was the first overseas-born captain of an FA Cup winning team,[4] and the last until Irishman Johnny Carey with Manchester United in 1948.
For the purposes of this article, "intercontinental competitions" are competitions organized between two or more confederations or by FIFA.Competitions organized between two or more national federations on different continents such as the Copa Iberoamericana are not included, nor are competitions that are only available to teams from part of each continent such as the Arab Club Champions Cup.
The Football Association Challenge Trophy, commonly known as the FA Trophy, is a knockout cup competition in English football, organised by and named after The Football Association (the FA). It was staged for the first time in the 1969–70 season, [1] and was initially open to all semi-professional teams, complementing the existing FA Amateur ...