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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.
Oxfordshire County FA: Founded: 1884; 141 ... Oxford City (36 titles) The Oxfordshire Senior Cup is the senior county cup of the ... Winners Last Win Notes Oxford ...
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".
The club played their first recorded match on 15 March 1884 at Thame Grammar School, losing 4–2. Fixtures were irregular for over a decade, with none at all played between 1886 and 1893, but the club was reorganized and reconstituted in 1897 and soon became the leading club in Oxfordshire, winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1906, before joining the Isthmian League the following year.
Ron Atkinson holds the club record for appearances, having made 560 between 1959 and 1971. Oxford United is an English professional association football club based in Oxford, Oxfordshire. They play in The Championship, the second level of the English football league system, as of the 2024–25 season. The club was formed in 1893 as Headington United, before changing its name (to Oxford United ...
Oxford's largest-ever scoreline was a 9–1 win in the FA Cup first round versus Dorchester Town on 11 November 1995. In the league, their largest win was 7–0 versus Barrow in Division Four . Their largest defeat is 7–0 away to Sunderland in 1998 and to Wigan Athletic in 2017.
In the first round proper, Ted MacDougall's nine goals for AFC Bournemouth as they beat Margate 11–0 remains the record for goals scored in a match in the FA Cup proper. [3] The fourth qualifying round tie between Alvechurch and Oxford City became the longest FA Cup tie ever, lasting a total of eleven hours before Alvechurch won the fifth ...
FA Amateur Cup (discontinued). [33] [11] Held from 1893 until 1974, when The FA abolished official amateur status. The FA Vase, above, absorbed most of the clubs that participated in the FA Amateur Cup. (below professional football as defined by FA) FASC FA Sunday Cup. [13] Since 1964.(lower than level 11) Winners of each competition are ...