List of FA Cup finals

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A group of men, most of whom are wearing shorts and football shirts, holding two trophies, one of which is the FA Cup
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. It is the oldest existing football competition in the world,[1] having commenced in the 1871–72 season.[2] The tournament is open to all clubs in the top 10 levels of the English football league system, although a club's home stadium must meet certain requirements prior to entering the tournament.[3] The competition culminates at the end of the league season (usually in May) with the FA Cup Final, officially named The Football Association Challenge Cup Final Tie, which has traditionally been regarded as the showpiece finale of the English football season.[4]

The vast majority of FA Cup final matches have been in London: most of these were played at the original Wembley Stadium, which was used from 1923 until the stadium closed in 2000. The other venues used for the final before 1923 were Kennington Oval, Crystal Palace, Stamford Bridge and Lillie Bridge, all in London, Goodison Park in Liverpool and Fallowfield Stadium and Old Trafford in Manchester. The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff hosted the final for six years (2001–2006), while the new Wembley Stadium was under construction. Other grounds have been used for replays, which until 1999 took place if the initial match ended in a draw. The new Wembley Stadium has been the permanent venue of the final since 2007.

As of 2025, 45 clubs have won the FA Cup. The record for the most wins is held by Arsenal, with 14 victories.[2] Only one surviving club, Blackburn Rovers, have won the cup in three consecutive years, a feat that was also achieved by the now dissolved Wanderers. 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 current holders are Crystal Palace, who defeated Manchester City in the 2025 final for their first win.

History

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An elderly man holding the FA Cup
Tottenham Hotspur captain Arthur Grimsdell displays the cup to fans on the Tottenham High Road after Spurs' victory in the 1921 final, the first win by a London-based team since the same club's win 20 years earlier.

The winners of the first tournament were Wanderers, a team of former public schoolboys based in London, who went on to win the competition five times in its first seven seasons. The early winners of the competition were all teams of wealthy amateurs from the south of England,[5] but in 1883, Blackburn Olympic became the first team from the north to win the cup, defeating Old Etonians. Upon his team's return to Blackburn, Olympic captain Albert Warburton proclaimed: "The Cup is very welcome to Lancashire. It'll have a good home and it'll never go back to London".[6]

With the advent of professionalism at around the same time, the amateur teams quickly faded from prominence in the competition.[5] The leading professional clubs formed The Football League in 1888.[7] Since then, one non-league team has won the cup. Tottenham Hotspur, then of the Southern League, defeated Sheffield United of The Football League to win the 1901 final.[8] A year later Sheffield United returned to the final and won the cup, which then remained in the hands of Northern and Midland clubs until Tottenham won it again in 1921.[2] In 1927, Cardiff City, a team which plays in the English football league system despite being based in Wales, won the cup, the only non-English club to do so.[9] Scottish club Queen's Park reached the final twice in the early years of the competition.[2]

The competition was not held during the First and Second World Wars, except in the 1914–15 season, when it was completed, and the 1939–40 season, when it was abandoned during the qualifying rounds.[2]

Newcastle United enjoyed a brief spell of FA Cup dominance in the 1950s, winning the trophy three times in five years,[2] and in the 1960s, Tottenham Hotspur enjoyed a similar spell of success, with three wins in seven seasons. This marked the start of a successful period for London-based clubs, with 11 wins in 22 seasons.[10] Teams from the second tier of English football, at the time called the Second Division, experienced an unprecedented run of cup success between 1973 and 1980.[10] Sunderland won the cup in 1973, Southampton repeated the feat in 1976, and West Ham United won in 1980, the most recent victory by a team from outside the top division.[2][8]

Until 1999, a draw in the final would result in the match being replayed at a later date;[11] since then the final has always been decided on the day, with a penalty shoot-out as required.[12] As of 2022 a penalty shoot-out has been required on only three occasions, in the 2005, 2006 and 2022 finals. Arsenal hold the record for the highest number of FA Cup wins, having claimed the trophy 14 times, most recently in 2020.[13]

Results

Key to list of winners
(R) Replay
* Match went to extra time
Template:Dagger Match decided via a penalty shoot-out after extra time
Template:Double dagger Winning team won the Double (League title and FA Cup)
§ Winning team won the Domestic Treble (League title, FA Cup and League Cup)
# Winning team won the Continental Treble (League title, FA Cup and European Cup/Champions League)
Italics Team from outside the top tier of English league football (since the formation of The Football League in 1888)
(#) Number of trophy won by club
  • The "Season" column refers to the season the competition was held, and wikilinks to the article about that season.
  • The wikilinks in the "Score" column point to the article about that season's final game.

All teams are English, except where marked Template:Flagicon (Scottish) or Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon (Welsh).

FA Cup finals
Season Winners[2] Score[2] Runners-up[2] Venue[14] Attendance[14]
Script error: No such module "sort". Wanderers (1) 1–0 Royal Engineers Kennington Oval 2,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Wanderers (2) 2–0 Oxford University Lillie Bridge 3,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Oxford University (1) 2–0 Royal Engineers Kennington Oval 2,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Royal Engineers (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Old Etonians 2,000
2–0 (R) 3,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Wanderers (3) Script error: No such module "sort". Old Etonians 3,500
3–0 (R) 1,500
Script error: No such module "sort". Wanderers (4) Script error: No such module "sort". Oxford University 3,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Wanderers (5) 3–1 Royal Engineers 4,500
Script error: No such module "sort". Old Etonians (1) 1–0 Clapham Rovers 5,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Clapham Rovers (1) 1–0 Oxford University 6,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Old Carthusians (1) 3–0 Old Etonians 4,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Old Etonians (2) 1–0 Blackburn Rovers 6,500
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Olympic (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Old Etonians 8,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Rovers (1) 2–1 Template:Flagicon Queen's Park 4,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Rovers (2) 2–0 Template:Flagicon Queen's Park 12,500
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Rovers (3) 0–0 West Bromwich Albion 15,000
2–0 (R) Script error: No such module "sort". 12,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa (1) 2–0 West Bromwich Albion Kennington Oval 15,500
Script error: No such module "sort". West Bromwich Albion (1) 2–1 Preston North End 19,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Preston North End Template:Double dagger (1) 3–0 Wolverhampton Wanderers 22,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Rovers (4) 6–1 The Wednesday 20,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Rovers (5) 3–1 Notts County 23,000
Script error: No such module "sort". West Bromwich Albion (2) 3–0 Aston Villa 32,810
Script error: No such module "sort". Wolverhampton Wanderers (1) 1–0 Everton Fallowfield Stadium 45,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Notts County (1) 4–1 Bolton Wanderers Goodison Park 37,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa (2) 1–0 West Bromwich Albion Crystal Palace 42,560
Script error: No such module "sort". The Wednesday (1) 2–1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 48,836
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa Template:Double dagger (3) 3–2 Everton 65,891
Script error: No such module "sort". Nottingham Forest (1) 3–1 Derby County 62,017
Script error: No such module "sort". Sheffield United (1) 4–1 Derby County 73,833
Script error: No such module "sort". Bury (1) 4–0 Southampton 68,945
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (1) 2–2 Sheffield United 110,820
3–1 (R) Burnden Park 20,470
Script error: No such module "sort". Sheffield United (2) 1–1 Southampton Crystal Palace 76,914
2–1 (R) 33,068
Script error: No such module "sort". Bury (2) 6–0 Derby County 63,102
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City (1) 1–0 Bolton Wanderers 61,374
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa (4) 2–0 Newcastle United 101,117
Script error: No such module "sort". Everton (1) 1–0 Newcastle United 75,609
Script error: No such module "sort". The Wednesday (2) 2–1 Everton 84,594
Script error: No such module "sort". Wolverhampton Wanderers (2) 3–1 Newcastle United 74,697
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (1) 1–0 Bristol City 71,401
Script error: No such module "sort". Newcastle United (1) 1–1 Barnsley 77,747
2–0 (R) Goodison Park 69,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Bradford City (1) 0–0 Newcastle United Crystal Palace 69,068
1–0 (R) Old Trafford 58,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Barnsley (1) 0–0 West Bromwich Albion Crystal Palace 54,556
Script error: No such module "sort". (R) Bramall Lane 38,555
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa (5) 1–0 Sunderland Crystal Palace 121,919
Script error: No such module "sort". Burnley (1) 1–0 Liverpool 72,778
Script error: No such module "sort". Sheffield United (3) 3–0 Chelsea Old Trafford 49,557
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa (6) Script error: No such module "sort". Huddersfield Town Stamford Bridge 50,018
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (2) 1–0 Wolverhampton Wanderers 72,805
Script error: No such module "sort". Huddersfield Town (1) 1–0 Preston North End 53,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Bolton Wanderers (1) 2–0 West Ham United Wembley Stadium (original) 126,047Template:Efn
Script error: No such module "sort". Newcastle United (2) 2–0 Aston Villa 91,695
Script error: No such module "sort". Sheffield United (4) 1–0 Template:Flagicon Cardiff City 91,763
Script error: No such module "sort". Bolton Wanderers (2) 1–0 Manchester City 91,447
Script error: No such module "sort". Template:Flagicon Cardiff City (1) 1–0 Arsenal 91,206
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackburn Rovers (6) 3–1 Huddersfield Town 92,041
Script error: No such module "sort". Bolton Wanderers (3) 2–0 Portsmouth 92,576
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (1) 2–0 Huddersfield Town 92,488
Script error: No such module "sort". West Bromwich Albion (3) 2–1 Birmingham 92,406
Script error: No such module "sort". Newcastle United (3) 2–1 Arsenal 92,298
Script error: No such module "sort". Everton (2) 3–0 Manchester City 92,950
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City (2) 2–1 Portsmouth 93,258
Script error: No such module "sort". Sheffield Wednesday (3) 4–2 West Bromwich Albion 93,204
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (2) 1–0 Sheffield United 93,384
Script error: No such module "sort". Sunderland (1) 3–1 Preston North End 93,495
Script error: No such module "sort". Preston North End (2) Script error: No such module "sort". Huddersfield Town 93,497
Script error: No such module "sort". Portsmouth (1) 4–1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 99,370
Script error: No such module "sort". Derby County (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Charlton Athletic 98,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Charlton Athletic (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Burnley 99,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (2) 4–2 Blackpool 99,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Wolverhampton Wanderers (3) 3–1 Leicester City
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (3) 2–0 Liverpool 100,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Newcastle United (4) 2–0 Blackpool
Script error: No such module "sort". Newcastle United (5) 1–0 Arsenal
Script error: No such module "sort". Blackpool (1) 4–3 Bolton Wanderers
Script error: No such module "sort". West Bromwich Albion (4) 3–2 Preston North End
Script error: No such module "sort". Newcastle United (6) 3–1 Manchester City
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City (3) 3–1 Birmingham City
Script error: No such module "sort". Aston Villa (7) 2–1 Manchester United
Script error: No such module "sort". Bolton Wanderers (4) 2–0 Manchester United
Script error: No such module "sort". Nottingham Forest (2) 2–1 Luton Town
Script error: No such module "sort". Wolverhampton Wanderers (4) 3–0 Blackburn Rovers
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur Template:Double dagger (3) 2–0 Leicester City
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (4) 3–1 Burnley
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (3) 3–1 Leicester City
Script error: No such module "sort". West Ham United (1) 3–2 Preston North End
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Leeds United
Script error: No such module "sort". Everton (3) 3–2 Sheffield Wednesday
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (5) 2–1 Chelsea
Script error: No such module "sort". West Bromwich Albion (5) Script error: No such module "sort". Everton
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City (4) 1–0 Leicester City
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Leeds United
Script error: No such module "sort". (R) Old Trafford 62,078
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal Template:Double dagger (4) Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool Wembley Stadium (original) 100,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Leeds United (1) 1–0 Arsenal
Script error: No such module "sort". Sunderland (2) 1–0 Leeds United
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (2) 3–0 Newcastle United
Script error: No such module "sort". West Ham United (2) 2–0 Fulham
Script error: No such module "sort". Southampton (1) 1–0 Manchester United
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (4) 2–1 Liverpool
Script error: No such module "sort". Ipswich Town (1) 1–0 Arsenal
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (5) 3–2 Manchester United
Script error: No such module "sort". West Ham United (3) 1–0 Arsenal
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (6) Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City
3–2 (R) 92,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (7) Script error: No such module "sort". Queens Park Rangers 100,000
1–0 (R) 90,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (5) Script error: No such module "sort". Brighton & Hove Albion 100,000
4–0 (R)
Script error: No such module "sort". Everton (4) 2–0 Watford
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (6) Script error: No such module "sort". Everton
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool Template:Double dagger (3) 3–1 Everton 98,000
Script error: No such module "sort". Coventry City (1) Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur
Script error: No such module "sort". Wimbledon (1) 1–0 Liverpool 98,203
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (4) Script error: No such module "sort". Everton 82,500
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (7) Script error: No such module "sort". Crystal Palace 80,000
1–0 (R)
Script error: No such module "sort". Tottenham Hotspur (8) Script error: No such module "sort". Nottingham Forest
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (5) 2–0 Sunderland
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (6) Script error: No such module "sort". Sheffield Wednesday 79,347
Script error: No such module "sort". (R) 62,267
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United Template:Double dagger (8) 4–0 Chelsea 79,634
Script error: No such module "sort". Everton (5) 1–0 Manchester United 79,592
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United Template:Double dagger (9) 1–0 Liverpool 79,007
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (2) 2–0 Middlesbrough 79,160
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal Template:Double dagger (7) 2–0 Newcastle United 79,183
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United # (10) 2–0 Newcastle United 79,101
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (3) 1–0 Aston Villa 78,217
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (6) 2–1 Arsenal Millennium Stadium 72,500
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal Template:Double dagger (8) 2–0 Chelsea 73,963
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (9) 1–0 Southampton 73,726
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (11) 3–0 Millwall 71,350
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (10) Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn Manchester United 71,876
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (7) Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn West Ham United 71,140
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (4) Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United Wembley Stadium 89,826
Script error: No such module "sort". Portsmouth (2) 1–0 Template:Flagicon Cardiff City 89,874
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (5) 2–1 Everton 89,391[15]
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea Template:Double dagger (6) 1–0 Portsmouth 88,335[16]
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City (5) 1–0 Stoke City 88,643[17]
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (7) 2–1 Liverpool 89,041[18]
Script error: No such module "sort". Wigan Athletic (1) 1–0 Manchester City 86,254[19]
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (11) Script error: No such module "sort". Hull City 89,345[20]
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (12) 4–0 Aston Villa 89,283[21]
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester United (12) Script error: No such module "sort". Crystal Palace 88,619[22]
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (13) 2–1 Chelsea 89,472[23]
Script error: No such module "sort". Chelsea (8) 1–0 Manchester United 87,647[24]
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City § (6) 6–0 Watford 85,854[25]
Script error: No such module "sort". Arsenal (14) 2–1 Chelsea 0Template:Efn[26]
Script error: No such module "sort". Leicester City (1) 1–0 Chelsea 20,000Template:Efn[27]
Script error: No such module "sort". Liverpool (8) Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn Chelsea 84,897[28]
Script error: No such module "sort". Manchester City # (7) 2–1 Manchester United 83,179[29]
2023–24 Manchester United (13) 2–1 Manchester City 84,814[30]
2024–25 Crystal Palace (1) 1–0 Manchester City 84,163[31]

Results by team

Teams shown in italics are no longer in existence. Additionally, Queen's Park ceased to be eligible to enter the FA Cup after a Scottish Football Association ruling in 1887.[32]

Results by team
Club Wins First final won Last final won Runners-up Last final lost Total final
appearances
Arsenal 14 1930 2020 7 2001 21
Manchester United 13 1909 2024 9 2023 22
Chelsea 8 1970 2018 8 2022 16
Liverpool 8 1965 2022 7 2012 15
Tottenham Hotspur 8 1901 1991 1 1987 9
Manchester City 7 1904 2023 7 2025 14
Aston Villa 7 1887 1957 4 2015 11
Newcastle United 6 1910 1955 7 1999 13
Blackburn Rovers 6 1884 1928 2 1960 8
Everton 5 1906 1995 8 2009 13
West Bromwich Albion 5 1888 1968 5 1935 10
Wanderers 5 1872 1878 0 — 5
Wolverhampton Wanderers 4 1893 1960 4 1939 8
Bolton Wanderers 4 1923 1958 3 1953 7
Sheffield United 4 1899 1925 2 1936 6
Sheffield WednesdayTemplate:Efn-ua 3 1896 1935 3 1993 6
West Ham United 3 1964 1980 2 2006 5
Preston North End 2 1889 1938 5 1964 7
Old Etonians 2 1879 1882 4 1883 6
Portsmouth 2 1939 2008 3 2010 5
Sunderland 2 1937 1973 2 1992 4
Nottingham Forest 2 1898 1959 1 1991 3
BuryTemplate:Efn-ua 2 1900 1903 0 — 2
Huddersfield Town 1 1922 4 1938 5
Leicester City 1 2021 4 1969 5
Oxford University 1 1874 3 1880 4
Royal Engineers 1 1875 3 1878 4
Derby County 1 1946 3 1903 4
Leeds United 1 1972 3 1973 4
Southampton 1 1976 3 2003 4
Burnley 1 1914 2 1962 3
Cardiff City 1 1927 2 2008 3
Blackpool 1 1953 2 1951 3
Crystal Palace 1 2025 2 2016 3
Clapham Rovers 1 1880 1 1879 2
Notts County 1 1894 1 1891 2
Barnsley 1 1912 1 1910 2
Charlton Athletic 1 1947 1 1946 2
Old Carthusians 1 1881 0 — 1
Blackburn Olympic 1 1883 0 — 1
Bradford City 1 1911 0 — 1
Ipswich Town 1 1978 0 — 1
Coventry City 1 1987 0 — 1
WimbledonTemplate:Efn-ua 1 1988 0 — 1
Wigan Athletic 1 2013 0 — 1
Queen's Park 0 — 2 1885 2
Birmingham City 0 — 2 1956 2
Watford 0 — 2 2019 2
Bristol City 0 — 1 1909 1
Luton Town 0 — 1 1959 1
Fulham 0 — 1 1975 1
Queens Park Rangers 0 — 1 1982 1
Brighton & Hove Albion 0 — 1 1983 1
Middlesbrough 0 — 1 1997 1
Millwall 0 — 1 2004 1
Stoke City 0 — 1 2011 1
Hull City 0 — 1 2014 1

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See also

Notes

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References

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