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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.
The FA Cup is an association football competition contested between English clubs since 1872 and is the oldest football competition in the world. [1] Winning the competition was seen as an equal achievement to winning the league championship, [2] but the growing importance of the Premier League and UEFA Champions League has seen its importance diminish. [3]
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. [42] In 1997, Ruud Gullit became the first overseas manager to win the FA Cup, as his Chelsea side beat Middlesbrough 2–0.
The longest-serving captain is Bryan Robson, who was club captain from 1982 to 1994, although he held the position jointly with Steve Bruce for the last two years of his tenure. [1] Roy Keane , who was captain from 1997 to 2005, has the distinction of having won the most trophies as captain; he won four Premier League titles, two FA Cups , one ...
Rodrigues' first season at The Dell could not have been better, with the side winning their first and only FA Cup. [1] Rodrigues played at right-back in the Wembley final, and captained the team, as Southampton beat Manchester United 1–0. [1] Rodrigues was the last captain to be presented the FA Cup by Queen Elizabeth II. [6]
Bobby Moore, who remains England's youngest men's captain and the only England captain to have lifted the World Cup, reached 90 captaincies in 1973, sharing the record with Wright. Steph Houghton has the record for captaincies of the women's team, and outright fourth-most caps as captain (72) behind Wright and Moore, and Kane. Seven male ...
Player-Manager, first club captain: No competitive football took place between 1914 and 1918 due to World War I. 1920–1922 England: Charlie Brittan: First captain in The Football League: 1922–1931 Wales: Fred Keenor: 1927 FA Cup winning captain: 1934–1938 Wales: Arthur Granville: No competitive football took place between 1939 and 1945 ...
[4] [5] The final also featured the first ever penalty save in an FA Cup final, by Dave Beasant from John Aldridge. [6] Beasant is often mistakenly believed to have been the first goalkeeper to captain a winning side in an FA Cup Final but this honour falls to Major William Merriman of the Royal Engineers who captained his side to victory in ...