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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).
Clubs in italics are Double winners: they have won two or more of the top division, the FA Cup, and the EFL Cup in the same season. Trophies that were shared between two clubs are counted as honours for both teams. Clubs tied in total honours are listed chronologically by most recent honour won. Last updated on 10 August 2024.
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".
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 ...
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.
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 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 ).
Record FA Cup win: 9–1 v. Worksop Town, first round, 11 January 1908; Record League Cup win: 7–0 v. Doncaster Rovers, third round, 16 November 1960; Record European win: 13–0 v. Jeunesse Hautcharage, 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup, 29 September 1971 [120] [121] Record European win (away): 0–8 v.