Memories of our all-time favourite FA Cup games
143
– This season’s FA Cup is the 143rd season of the competition.
732
– Number of clubs who entered this season’s FA
Cup.
4
– Chelsea’s Didier Drogba is the only player to score in four FA Cup finals (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012).
33
– Years between George
Ramsey’s first win as Aston
Villa boss (1887) and his last (1920).
3
– Only one player has scored an FA Cup final hat-trick,
Blackpool’s Stan Mortensen (pictured), against
Bolton in 1953.
2
– Managers who have won the FA Cup with different clubs – Billy Walker (Sheffield Wednesday 1935,
Nottingham Forest 1959) and Herbert Chapman (Huddersfield Town 1922,
Arsenal 1930).
15
– Clubs who entered the first FA Cup in 1871/72, though three – Reigate
Priory, Harrow Chequers and
Donington School – withdrew without playing a game.
Queen’s Park withdrew after a 1-1 semi-final draw against
Wanderers at The Oval, claiming they could not afford to travel from Scotland back to London for a replay.
4
– Only four clubs since 1911 have only lifted the FA
Cup once – Ipswich,
Coventry, Wimbledon and Wigan.
6
– Players sent off in an FA
Cup final – Kevin Moran (Man
Utd, 1985), José Antonio
Reyes (Arsenal, 2005), Pablo
Zabaleta (Man City, 2013),
Chris Smalling (Man United, 2016), Victor Moses (Chelsea, 2017) and Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea, 2020).
1915
– The last time the FA Cup final was not held in London.
Instead, Sheffield United beat
Chelsea 3-0 at Old Trafford.
Manchester United’s ground also staged the 1970 replay when Chelsea beat
Leeds.
22
– This year’s appearance is
Manchester United’s 22nd
– They’ve won 12 finals and lost 9.
32
– Manchester United’s FA
Cup semi-final appearances, another record.
3
– Number of FA Cup finals decided by penalties – Arsenal beating Manchester
United in 2005,
Liverpool beating
West Ham in 2006 and Liverpool beating
Chelsea in 2022.
2023-24 FA Cup final – Manchester City v Manchester United, Wembley, May 25 (3pm)
147
– Matches that have taken place in this season’s FA Cup.
14
– Arsenal have won the FA
Cup the most times.
12
– Seconds it took for Manchester
City’s Ilkay Gundogan to score in last year’s final, the quickest FA
Cup final goal.
6
– Goals scored in the final by Bury (v
Derby County, 1903) and
Manchester
City (v
Watford, 2019).
7
– Arsenal’s
Arsene Wenger is the manager with most FA Cup wins, one more than Aston Villa’s
George Ramsey.
4
– Clubs have played in two finals and lost them both –
Queen’s Park,
Birmingham
City, Watford and Crystal
Palace.
912
– The most goals scored by a club in FA Cup history, a record belonging to nonleaguers Kettering.
1997
– Year that Ruud Gullit (Chelsea) became the first non-british winning FA Cup final manager.
2008
– Last year that a British manager won the FA Cup
– Harry Redknapp with
Portsmouth.
£2m
– Amount this season’s winners will bank.
5
– Number of goals scored in an FA Cup final – by
Liverpool’s Ian Rush (2 v
Everton 1986, 2 v Everton 1989, 1 v Sunderland 1992).
1980
– The last year a non top flight club, West Ham, lifted the FA Cup. Since then, only four second tier clubs have reached the final – QPR (1981/82), Sunderland (1991/92, pictured), Millwall (2003/04) and Cardiff (2007/08).
£1,125
– Amount all Extra
Preliminary Qualifying
Round winners received.