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The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s, winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles. [51] [273] Arsenal won their first league and cup double in the 1970–71 season and twice repeated the feat, in 1997–98 and 2001–02, as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992–93. [274]
The cup has been won by the same team in two or more consecutive years on ten occasions, and four teams have won consecutive finals more than once: Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. [2] The cup has been won by a non-English team once: Cardiff City in 1927.
The 2020 FA Cup final, known officially as the Heads Up FA Cup final, was an association football match played behind closed doors between Arsenal and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, England on 1 August 2020; it was originally scheduled for 23 May, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the 139th FA Cup Final.
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup and for sponsorship purposes as Emirates FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season , it is the oldest national football competition in the world. [ 1 ]
The Double-winning side, however, was soon broken up and the following decade was characterised by a series of near misses: Arsenal lost three FA Cup finals (1971–72, 1977–78, and 1979–80) and the 1979–80 Cup Winners' Cup final on penalties. The club's only success during this time was an FA Cup win in 1978–79 against Manchester United.
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 ...
The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s, winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles. [10] [11] Arsenal won their first league and cup double in the 1970–71 season and twice repeated the feat, in 1997–98 and 2001–02, as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992–93. [12]
When Arsenal was founded in 1886 by munition workers' from Woolwich, the club resisted the lure of professionalism and remained an amateur side. [12] Success in local cup competitions soon followed, and a tie against Derby County in the FA Cup on 17 January 1891 led to the opposition approaching two of Arsenal's players, in view of offering them professional contracts. [12]
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