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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 winners also qualify for the following season's single-match FA Community Shield, the traditional season opener played against the previous season's Premier League champions (or the Premier League runners-up if the FA Cup winners also won the league – the double).
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.
The winners of the men's FA Cup in the same year received £1.8 million, with teams not even reaching the first round proper getting more than the women's winners. [33] In September 2020, the FA announced that health and life insurance and investment company VitalityHealth had signed a deal to become the sponsor of the competition until July 2023.
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 1984–85 FA Cup was the 104th staging of the world's oldest football knockout competition, The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup.The competition was won by Manchester United, who defeated Everton 1–0 at Wembley, thus denying Everton the double just 3 days after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup.
They were promoted out of the Second Division in 1919–20 and went on to win the FA Cup in 1922, having been beaten finalists in 1920. Under the management of Herbert Chapman , Huddersfield were crowned league champions in three successive seasons: 1923–24, 1924–25 and 1925–26.
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]