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The 2010–11 FA Cup (known as The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON for sponsorship reasons) was the 130th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; the FA Cup.A total of 806 clubs applied to enter of which 759 were accepted, [1] a slight drop compared to the 762 clubs accepted into the 2009–10 competition.
The 2011 FA Cup final was the 130th final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest domestic football cup competition. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The final took place on 14 May 2011 at Wembley Stadium in London in front of 88,643 spectators and a British television audience of more than eight million.
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 2010 FA Cup final was the 129th final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest domestic football cup competition. The match took place on 15 May 2010, [ 2 ] at Wembley Stadium , London, in front of a crowd of over 88,000 and a British television audience of over 5 million. [ 3 ]
16 April 2011: Yaya Touré fires Manchester City to their first FA Cup final for 30 years by beating rivals Manchester United 1–0, who were reduced to 10 men after the dismissal of Paul Scholes. [129] 17 April 2011: Stoke City reach the FA Cup final for the first time in their history with a 5–0 win over Bolton Wanderers in the other semi ...
The 2010–11 season was Manchester City Football Club's 109th season of competitive football, 82nd season in the top flight of English football and 14th season in the Premier League. [2] As City finished fifth in previous season's league campaign , they qualified for the recently rebranded UEFA Europa League .
15.05.10: In their final game of the season, Chelsea face relegated Portsmouth in an entertaining 2010 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. Despite their stark difference in position in the end-of-season table and extended Chelsea pressure, with Chelsea hitting the woodwork five times in the first half, the two sides go in level at half-time.
United also reached the semi-final stage of the 2010–11 FA Cup but lost 1–0 at Wembley to local rivals Manchester City on 16 April 2011. Defeat in this game ended United's chances of becoming the first club to win the league and cup double four times.